10 Movies Where The Hero Was Dead All Along
3. Point Blank
John Boorman's 1967 crime classic Point Blank revolves around anti-hero protagonist Walker (Lee Marvin), who in the film's opening sequence is betrayed in the middle of a heist, left for dead and deprived of his $93,000 share of the loot at the hands of his partner Reese (John Vernon).
But Walker appears to recover and spends the rest of the film on a roaring rampage of revenge.
That's if you ignore the popular fan theory that Walker actually died from his injuries in the opening scene, and the rest of the story was nothing more than the desperate, vengeance-fuelled dream of a dying man. It would certainly explain the film's radically non-linear storytelling.
But a fan theory is one thing and certainly wouldn't merit inclusion on this list by itself, if not for the fact that Boorman himself has since confirmed the theory to be completely true.
Suddenly the film's surreal aesthetic makes all the more sense - we're witnessing Walker's synapses firing off wildly as he shuffles off his mortal coil.