What unfortunate victims in horror movies do you really feel sympathetic for, regardless of if they die in the movie or not?

Melissa George in Turistas. It was a horrible movie and she was harvested for organs while still being alive. It was disgusting to watch.

Dawn in Terrifier

Scream 2



Not really a horror movie but Jurassic World

This one could also go in the "movies that make you feel dirty and ashamed" thread from years past, but if anyone dares to watch The Girl Next Door then you have my sympathies as well!

(Find me a character who matches this kind of torture!)

Ticks (1993)





The Miguel character in Day of the Dead also went through a lot of shit!

Poor girl just needed to pee.

Surprised The Mist hasn't been mentioned yet.

The one that's stuck with me my whole life is from the 1930's King Kong, when he reaches into an apartment tower and pulls a woman out of bed. When he sees it isn't Ann, he tosses her away, and she falls screaming a hundred stories to her death. She was asleep, having no idea what was going on; just that she was suddenly outside in the cold night, in the grip of some unimaginably enormous thing, and then falling. She must have thought she was dreaming, and urging herself to wake up the entire fall.

The Well (2023)

Gwyneth in Se7en.

I guess I’d argue Kong is the victim to have sympathy for in that film. Same with the Gillman in Creature From The Black Lagoon.

The girls in Martyrs (French version only).

The sweet Asian girl in Hostel.

Alison Lohman's character in Drag Me to Hell. Yes, she denied the Roma woman's mortgage extension because she wanted to show toughness for promotion but as she pointed out the mortgage had already been extended twice. Then the Roma woman made a scene, said she was shamed, then followed the young woman to her car, attacked her, and placed a curse upon her.

Furthermore, the Roma woman's house is full of family and friends for her wake -- where were these people before to help with the mortgage? Their indifference should have been cursed instead.

Pretty much all of them in the entire Final Destination franchise. Wouldn't wanna go like any of them.

I also felt sorry for Katie McGrath in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword. She barely gets any screentime as Elsa, Vortigern's wife, but

Precious in Silence of the Lambs.

Odd answer: the overweight hitchhiker in Friday the 13 Part 4. The morgue attendants, sure, Jason had to get out and leave no witnesses. The partying teenagers, of course, that's what Jason does. But no reason to kill that hitchhiker.

I can get where Jason is coming from, I also hate the smell of bananas.

The remakes do a better job of getting the audience on Kong's side than the original, even though the 1933 version is the best version overall. The original Kong was undoubtedly a rampaging monster patterned after whatever audiences notions of gorillas were at the time. Therefore, his death at the end doesn't really come across as tragic upon initial viewing. My understanding is that re-issues of the movie in later years actually removed a lot of Kong's acts of cruelty (eating people, squashing people, randomly murdering the woman) to make him more sympathetic.

While I didn't really care for the Urban Legend movies, the first two do have some pretty unnerving deaths. Tara Reid plays the typical lusty woman who gets killed, but rather than just having her bite it we get a shot of her crying and saying "I don't want to die!" to the killer. This makes her death a real tragedy as opposed to just another dumb girl. The second one had a girl who wakes up in a bath tub full of ice in a play on the kidney removal legend. She awakens , then reaches around to feel a wound and begins to sob as she realizes she's probably a goner whether or not the killer gets her. It gets even worse when she tries to escape through a cracked window with shards and her torn skin gets caught on it! When the killer does away with her, it comes across more like putting her out of her misery.

But Precious survives and goes to a loving home, with Catherine.

There is an outtake where Catherine has a flashback and eats Precious.

Probably why it was cut.

While I didn't see the movie, I immediately decided against seeing Saw 3 when I learned Dina Meyer's character was offed early in the movie in a very gruesome manner. If the reasoning behind it had seemed like something other than wanting to surprise the audience by killing off a series survivor and show lots of gore for the sake of gore, I may have been okay with it. Still disappointed, but at least it makes sense.

Under The Skin






Not a horror movie, but what happens to Archibald Buttle in Brazil is inexplicably and unfairly horrific.


Haunting as fuck.