10 Predictable Horror Movie Deaths We All Saw Coming

Horror movie characters are almost always designed to die. Whether they pop their clogs in their first film outing as a lamb to the slaughter, or suffer at the hands of a lethal sequel that's come to finish what it started, there aren't many who can boast making it out unscathed.

With so much brutality and so many cliches to adhere to, predicting who's going to kick the bucket in horror movies is a pretty simple task. Just take a closer look at the most selfish, obnoxious assholes, the characters played by disliked actors, or the simply the ones sneaking away for a little hoo-hah, and you can see their countdown clock ticking away as some dastardly fate is set up to befall them.

And it should be stated that this doesn't make these titles any less enjoyable at all. Rather, we get a spectator sport where "I told you so!" can be cheered relentlessly, as the most satisfying fortunes are fulfilled in the goriest of ways.

So let's take a look at the horror films that barely concealed the targets on the backs of their poor victims then, as whilst death waits for no-one, that doesn't mean he isn't a little impatient sometimes...

A real d*ckhead character is always destined for the chopping block, and is there anyone quite as d*ck orientated as Steve? Both figuratively and literally in his boinking with Monica, he earns himself the d*ck crown. D*ck.

The 2004 iteration of Dawn of the Dead follows similar beats to the original film, depicting a group of survivors trapped in a shopping mall as a zombie apocalypse ravages the world outside. Amongst the small number is Steve, a sarcastic, lazy, uncooperative man who cares only about his own safety.

Really, he might as well paint the X on his own back with these traits coming together in a movie where teamwork is paramount and working together saves the day, and he essentially does by running out and leaving his peers in an attempt to save his own skin.

Unfortunately, he finds a hungry hungry zombie instead, and Steve's horrible reign is ended with one swift bite. Someone with quite this much immoral weight can't pull themselves out of a horror death trap without at least a hint of a redemption arc, and without one, Steve was doomed from the outset.