10 Horror Movie Characters You Trusted (But Shouldn't Have)
You were wrong to trust these horror movie characters.
Seasoned horror movie fans should know not to take any character, no matter how innocent they might seem, at face value, because there's always the chance they're actually the secret killer hidden in plain sight.
As a riposte to our recent article on horror movie characters you didn't trust (but absolutely should have), here's 10 characters we were all foolish enough to trust, even though we definitely should've known better.
These characters were all presented as meek, harmless, even affable or genuinely likeable, and yet each harboured a dark secret: they were a bad, bad apple.
The majority of these characters ultimately turned out to be the antagonists of these horror movies, or in the very least were eventually revealed to have done something that rendered them completely, irredeemably unworthy of our sympathy.
Again, there's a lesson here - no matter how charming, fragile, or just downright cute a character might seem on the surface, there's every possibility they're really a secret psychopath who's busily picking the rest of the movie's characters off.
Where the horror genre is concerned, you're better off trusting nobody until the end credits finally roll...
10. Lori Spengler - Happy Death Day
One of the few genuinely likeable characters in Happy Death Day is protagonist Tree's (Jessica Rothe) roommate Lori (Ruby Modine), who has only a small role in the bulk of the film but appears to be a genuinely kind person, even making Tree a cupcake for her birthday.
She couldn't be the killer, then, right? Killers don't make cupcakes.
And so, after Tree finally deduces that the killer trapping her in a time loop is serial killer John Tombs (Rob Mello), she kills him and seemingly breaks the cycle.
She celebrates by finally eating the cupcake Lori made for her - something she hadn't done in any previous loop - but to her surprise again wakes up at the start of the time loop.
This causes her to realise that Tombs was a red herring and the killer has been Lori all along, who gave her a poisoned cupcake. The reason for this? The doctor Lori was having an affair with was also having an affair with Tree, who he favoured, turning Lori jealously murderous.
In a fitting turnaround, though, Tree then "feeds" Lori the cupcake before kicking her out of a window to her death. Something something just desserts?