8 Horror Movies That Tricked You Into Rooting For The Villain
5. Shutter
Don't you just hate it when you fall in love with a dude, promise to spend the rest of your life with him and then realise he's cursed to live the rest of his days haunted by the ghost of his dead high-school girlfriend? A true romantic buzz kill.
This tragic fate is exactly what befalls couple Jane and Tun in Shutter. The pair start receiving ghostly visits from a dead girl in their apartment, who they initially think is the spirit of a person they accidentally hit with their car one night on the road.
However, the reason for the haunting is far more sinister than a road traffic accident. It turns out back in school Tun and the girl had a little fling, something he was always too embarrassed to publicly admit because she wasn't exactly popular.
One day he walked in on his friends sexually assaulting her on campus, and instead of helping, or calling the police, he instead gave in to their demands to take pictures of the act.
She killed herself shortly after this, and now has vowed to not only haunt Tun for the remainder of his days (by literally sitting on his back, no less), but also to lead Jane to the truth about her boyfriend's past.
So, she wasn't really a villain at all, and was simply attempting to seek justice for a covered up crime involving our supposed hero.