10 Worst Fates Suffered By Heroes In Horror Movies

Michael Haneke's original, Austria-set Funny Games cooked up a major storm among critics and cinephiles in '97 owing to its seeming hatred for its own audience. A meditation on the brutality and sadism fans expect in slasher and torture-focused horror flicks, Haneke's twisted vision left over a third of its Cannes premiere audience walking out.

The film focuses on the Schobers, a holidaying family whose vacation home is invaded by Peter and Paul, a mysterious and sick-minded duo out to make their lives hell. The film only gets stranger by the scene, with Paul becoming the Deadpool of tasteless, post-modernist horror by constantly addressing the audience.

Over the course of the film, Anna Schober loses her son, her husband and then her life courtesy of the terrible two. While arguments can easily be made for her husband and son to be on this list as well, there's one scene that allows Anna to take the cake.

For a split-second, the viewer believes some measure of revenge has been taken when Anna manages to gun Peter down. In one of the more bizarre moments of Haneke's challenging filmography, Paul simply whips out a remote and rewinds the film, Adam Sandler in Click-style, to thwart the shooting before it ever happens. Paul then kills Anna's husband, drives her out on a boat with Peter, and dumps her bound body in the water.

Words can't really do justice to the sadism and despair on hand throughout this controversial entry in subversive horror cinema.