10 Movies Where An Actor Dies BEFORE Their Opening Credit!

2. Daniel Radcliffe - Swiss Army Man

Swiss Army Man
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It may be classed as a technicality, but Daniel Radcliffe's Manny was absolutely dead by the time the Harry Potter star's name appeared in Swiss Army Man's opening credits.

Of course, Swiss Army Man is a film which features Radcliffe as a corpse washed up on an island to become the best friend of Paul Dano's suicidal Hank Thompson.

Swiss Army Man is a bizarre, brilliant movie, and Manny remains dead for the entirety of Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert's 2016 offering - even if his, err, flatulence and undead boner at times make this corpse seem alive and well.

For those who have yet to check out Swiss Army Man, it's a moving story of a boy and his best friend. It's just that the best friend is dead and has such ass-wind that you can ride him like a horse or jet ski.

Yep, this is most definitely one of the more 'unique' films in recent memory, which is why Swiss Army Man hugely split critics and fans alike - to the point where people actually walked out of a screening of the movie at the 2016 edition of the Sundance Film Festival.

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