10 Recent Horror Movie Fates Worse Than Death

Going where surprisingly few horror movies have gone before, Parker Finn's Smile succeeded last year in making happiness creepy. While it made some of its bones on jump scares and familiar plot twists, the film nonetheless managed to put an indelible new image into all of our memories: the bloody, fleshy, Momo-faced villain known simply (and so very fittingly) as the Monstrosity (Marti Matulis).

The largely invisible antagonist of the film, the Monstrosity's curse passes between individuals who have witnessed trauma, infecting their minds with hallucinations of manic, grinning friends, relatives and co-workers, and driving them to near-insanity before having them kill themselves. The next person in line is the one who witnesses the death, and so on.

Apart from Robert Talley (Rob Morgan).

Incarcerated for life, Talley managed to find a way out of the vicious cycle -- by brutally murdering someone else in front of a witness in order to pass it on to them. But did he think it through? Prison itself is no easy ride, but he has to live with the guilt and regret for what he did. On top of that, he'll never feel safe again. Gripped by the terror of having experienced the curse, fearful at every turn that it could come back to him again doesn't seem any way to live at all.