10 Most Unlikeable Horror Movie Heroes

4. Annie - Dashcam

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Part of the aim of Rob Savage's Dashcam is, essentially, to get you to root for a hero who's pretty darn dislikeable.

That hero would be livestreamer Annie - played by Annie Hardy as a semi-fictionalised version of herself - who winds up in an eerie situation involving a creepy, supernatural-esque woman who has murderous desires where it pertains to Annie, her pal Stretch, and anyone else who happens to come into this lady's crosshairs.

The thing is, Annie is someone brimming with self-entitlement, berates anyone with opposing views, and constantly oversteps the line to let people know her thoughts on the pandemic restrictions, vaccinations, masks, the homeless, and her obnoxious way of championing MAGA. To have differing thoughts on those issues is fine, but it's the way Annie forces such opinions down people's throats that makes her absolutely unbearable.

Regardless of the horrors she goes through in Dashcam, you kinda just want someone - or something - to shut Annie up.

While, in one sense, Rob Savage achieved his aim in purposely delivering a central protagonist that's hard to root for, in another sense, that aim was way overachieved to the extent it becomes hard to truly invest in Annie and her story.

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