15 Insufferable Horror Movie Characters You Secretly WANTED To Die

3. Frankie - Final Destination 3

Unfriended 2014
New Line Cinema

Final Destination is another slasher franchise and contains many jerk characters, but Frankie Cheeks (Sam Easton), who cheats death after being saved from a roller coaster crash, is the worst. Ironically, he shouldn't have been on that roller coaster; he should've been in jail.

Frankie is an incredibly creepy sleazeball pervert who spends his time in the film sexually harassing younger women, often with his video camera. Even when he's at a funeral, he still carries on and tries to kiss the protagonist's younger sister (Amanda Crew). The funeral in question is of two other survivors who died when their tanning beds caught fire... and he blames himself and claims that if it wasn't for him they wouldn't have felt under pressure to tan and look good.

It's likely that the choice to give Frankie the goriest death in the film (a car engine fan shreds the back of his head open) was designed to give viewers some catharsis.

In the alternative 'Choose Your Fate' edition (it's like an early, less sophisticated Black Mirror: Bandersnatch) you can save Frankie from the fan, but he later ends up in jail for sexual harassment, which is where, let's face it, he always belonged.

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Film Studies graduate, aspiring screenwriter and all-around nerd who, despite being a pretentious cinephile who loves art-house movies, also loves modern blockbusters and would rather watch superhero movies than classic Hollywood films. Once met Tommy Wiseau.