10 Predictable Horror Movie Deaths We All Saw Coming

There's something to be said about horror movies opening with a scene where they kill off a character. It's a trick almost all of them pull, throwing you straight into the action with a bait and switch protagonist who is actually an expendable pawn; demonstrating some murderous evil and giving audiences an interesting hook outright.

Take a look at films like Drag Me To Hell, Polaroid, A Quiet Place, Cube, Ghost Ship, 28 Weeks Later, hell, any Hollywood horror, and you'll see it as a trend. But I've picked Lights Out here as it's smarter than your average bear with its horror trappings, even if it still does lay its chips on the table.

Delivering us with a remade version of the short film it's based on, Lights Out begins with a sequence we've seen before as Lotta Losten - the original woman killed in the short - closes up a factory for her boss. But where's the fun in killing her again, right? That would be so obvious it's almost unexpected. But her dismissive boss Paul? Oh, he fits the death bill very nicely.

And so, we get the punchy one-two of showing us something familiar and twisting it ever so slightly. Those that don't listen to warnings, like poor old Paul are always queued up for the slaughterhouse. Maybe next time listen to the lady that's already died once in this scenario...