10 More Sci-Fi Horror Movie Fates Worse Than Death

Individual autonomy - freedom to be our own person and make our own choices - is the driving force at the heart of what makes us human. The idea of being trapped in one's own body, utterly powerless over the decisions and actions that we - and we alone - were quite literally born to carry out is a truly desolate notion, infinitely worse than death.

Chillingly, this existence is precisely what awaits the victims of Get Out's insidious Armitage family. The process that the sickening clan have created essentially allows for minds to be transplanted between human subjects - the intrusive party then takes over the body of the host. Said unfortunate host's conscience is then left to rot in the dark and endless purgatory of the realm dubbed the Sunken Place.

This harrowing state of affairs means that those banished to this hellish limbo can see everything in their life playing out, as if they were watching a television screen from the bottom of a swimming pool. However, they have absolutely no free will or control over their own body, doomed to scream silently in the black abyss until their mortal body finally perishes.

While protagonist Chris manages to escape this hellish scenario, Get Out depicts three people who have undergone this nightmarish procedure, with the implication of many more. Thankfully, the film's conclusion sees the demise of hosts Georgina and Walter, death mercifully freeing their original selves from this blood-curdling fate.