10 Most Unlucky Horror Movie Characters

Few are so unlucky as the poor unfortunate souls who populate horror movies. Whether it be a result of poor life decisions, circumstances outside of their own control - or simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time - horror movies are largely populated by innocent victims, relative innocents, caught up in a horrifying situation that they just want to escape from... preferably with their lives intact.

Pity those who have to go through the trauma of a horror film multiple times - the final girls, boys and survivors brought back for the sequel(s). If one time is unlucky, then more than that is a horrendous perversion of fate. And then there are those who had terrible lives long before the killing started - heroes and heroines who were already having a rough time of it, long before they ended up in the plot of a horror film.

Here we take a look at ten of the unluckiest horror characters out there - the stumbling, the bumbling; the down on their luck, the unfairly screwed over and the deer-in-headlights. The really lucky ones? They died first.

At first glance, Alice Harris (Catherine McCormack) would appear to be one of the lucky ones. Completely immune to the virus which brings the United Kingdom to its knees in Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later - and its subsequent sequel, 28 Weeks Later - Alice is one of the few people to survive a close-up encounter with the slathering, lethal infected.

Abandoned by her cowardly husband (Robert Carlyle) during an infected attack upon their home, asymptomatic carrier Alice survives - with only a bloodshot eye and a bite wound to show for it - only to be captured by the military.

Arguing over whether to execute her or use her to create vaccines, Alice's future already looks bleak. Matters get considerably worse when she is reunited with her husband; the germs in their reconciliatory kiss, infecting him with the virus. With Alice still strapped to a gurney and helpless, she is killed by her now rage-infected husband.