10 More Unexpected Horror Movie Survivors
8. James Foster - Infinity Pool (2023)
Death fakeouts are an essential part of the movie industry, and this film is, in many ways, entirely based on that concept. James Foster - played by Alexander Skarsgard - goes through some major trauma in Infinity Pool, and the fact that he makes it out alive is something nobody could have predicted.
The film takes place in a fictional country named Li Tolqa. It follows a couple on vacation to the oppressive location who soon learn about a bizarre legal procedure after committing manslaughter in a hit-and-run.
The country allows people to pay a hefty fee that creates a double to incur the death penalty in their place. James, who is forced to witness his clone die, soon spirals into chaos as he befriends a group of rich tourists who use their wealth to exploit the system for their own hedonistic desires.
The movie is full of fakeout moments that make you think you're witnessing a character's death, only to realise it was one of the doubles. This already makes you convinced James is destined for death, but it gets even worse after you discover that the group is also torturing him for their own amusement.
Ultimately, it seems like James is doomed, as these folk can kill him with no consequences. But they don't, and he ends the film as a hollow, yet living, shell of himself.