10 Slasher Horror Movie Openings That Get Worse The More You Think About It

Four years before headlining Hostel: Part II as Beth - that sequel's sole surviving protagonist - Lauren German had an extremely brief but extremely memorable role in Marcus Nispel's Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake.

With her character not even receiving a name in the 2003 do-over, German played a traumatised hitchhiker who gets picked up by our core group in the film's opening moments. As said group travels across Texas on their way to a Lynyrd Skynyrd gig, they see German's stranger slowly staggering down an empty backroad.

Once aboard the van, this unnamed figure soon starts to panic when she realises which way the vehicle is heading. So much so, she pulls a gun from between her legs and fatally shoots herself through the back of the head.

This act in itself is a deeply troubling one, but the situation gets all the more chilling when you start to think of the motive behind this character taking their own life. What has this person seen and experienced, where they'd choose suicide over heading down a strip of road?

Clearly German's figure knows where the infamous house which Leatherface and his twisted family call home is, and it seems as if she herself has had her own harrowing run-in with the sinister clan. Did she lose family and friends during this encounter? What did she have to do in order to escape? So many questions, so many terrifying possibilities.