10 More Most Shocking Horror Movie Unmaskings

2. The Murderous Dwarf - Don't Look Now

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Not a physical unmasking, per se, but the big final reveal of Don't Look Now is the sort of slap around the chops that helps make horror so great. A bona fide classic of cinema, period, Nicolas Roeg's 1973 picture is famed for its style, score, sex scene and shocking conclusion.

If for some reason you've never seen this iconic picture, it revolves around Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie's John and Laura Baxter. Distraught by the death of their young daughter - poor Christine drowning in the film's opening - the Baxters move to Venice after John is hired to fix up an old church. There, Sutherland's character begins to see the figure of 'Christine' - all as the winding streets of Venice house several brutal murders.

Adorned in the same sort of red coat that Christine was wearing at the time of her death, this mystery figure is finally hunted down by a desperate John frantically trying to reconnect with his possibly-now-alive daughter. As Don't Look Now ends, it's revealed to John that the hooded, red coat-wearing person he think is Christine, is in fact a dwarf (Adelina Poerio) who's responsible for the killings of the film. With that, the Baxter family patriarch joins the numbers of those slayed, as this creepy old woman fatally stabs him.

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