10 Movies Where The Hero Was Dead All Along

Alejandro Amenábar's The Others is presented as a pretty typical - albeit terrifically crafted - haunted house story, with mother Grace (Nicole Kidman) and her two children living in a remote country house which appears to be occupied by malevolent supernatural forces.

But the film's big reveal is that Grace and her children were actually the dead ones the entire time, after a bereaved, despairing Grace smothered her kids to death with a pillow and then committed suicide.

And in an added, devilishly subversive twist, the "others" are actually the new, living occupants of the house.

On reflection it's certainly a stretch to call Grace a hero once we know the full extent of her actions, far away from the initial suggestion that she was a fiercely protective mother hell-bent on keeping her children safe from the ghosts inhabiting their home.