10 Slasher Movie Fates Worse Than Death
8. My Bloody Valentine - Trapped In A Mine Shaft And Forced To Eat Your Co-workers To Survive
Everyone has a little bit of claustrophobia in them, and the plot device of trapping a character underground has been prominent in the horror genre since the dawn of time: look no further than The Descent.
So when the movie My Bloody Valentine was made, based in a sleepy mining town, you knew it was going to capitalise on that primal fear.
The movie begins underground, telling the audience the story about the Valentine's Day miner tragedy that plagued the town twenty years before the film's events. On the night of the Valentine's dance, the foremen in charge of the town's mining shaft left their crew unsupervised so that they could attend the dance. The foremen forgot to check the methane gas levels and consequently there was an explosion that trapped five miners in the shaft.
By the time the town managed to recover the buried miners, only one of them had survived. The sole survivor, Harry Warden, managed to stay alive for the six weeks he was trapped by eating his fellow co-workers.
The poor kid was driven completely insane from being trapped in such a tight space, having to watch as his friends and colleagues die painfully and subsequently feasting on their rotting flesh to stay alive.
Harry is so damaged by the trauma, he has to spend the rest of his life in a mental institute, but not before going on a murder spree.