10 Worst Fates Suffered By Final Girls In Horror Movies

2011's Absentia is a truly exemplary horror film. Mike Flanagan seamlessly combines some legitimately disturbing sequences with a story tailormade for invoking haunting introspection concerning the very nature of loss and grief. It's almost unbelievable that this film is an partial allegory of the classic fairy-tale, The Three Billy Goats Gruff.

While the goats face a troll under a bridge, Absentia's characters are haunted by a spectral insectoid creature inhabiting a bleak concrete tunnel - located in front of the house where sisters Tricia and Callie reside. This Faustian being "trades" with people who pass through the tunnel, fulfilling its end of the bargain in the most chilling manner conceivable.

Tricia's husband Daniel is claimed by the creature in one such trade, disappearing into the mysterious "underneath" for seven years. Pregnant with another man's child, Tricia is conflicted as to whether she should declare him dead. Despite reappearing briefly, Daniel is duly dragged back to his nightmarish existence.

Absentia culminates with the entity claiming Tricia herself, leading Callie to desperately offer herself up as a "trade" for her sister's life. The creature agrees to a swap, but in the most despicably morbid manner fathomable. Presenting Callie with her sister's unborn fetus, the creature claims its side of the bargain, sucking her into the tunnel wall despite her desperate attempts to flee.

Unable to even save Tricia, Callie is left trapped in this ghastly limbo with her malevolent captor as her sole companion.