Who Dies Last in a Horror Movie?!

[Nukie 2]

I say it's usually the spoiled rich kid, who see's all their friends die, yet believes it can't happen to them because they feel environmentally predisposed to privilege, but when their friends die they've no one left to help them, and so they die-- plus the audience doesn't like them and wants them to be killed. Evidence the Friday the 13th remake... who do you say?

[feiyen]

The cocky sidekick barely makes it out alive thru the whole film and them BAM! Dead! Sorta a slap in the face "I thought the commit relief never dies?"  Example Cloverfield (although everyone wanted him to die)

[vukxfiles]

Any character that we are supposed to like.

[Jack]

The one with the most dialogue, almost always with some backstory involving a flashback or five, whoever we're "supposed" to like, the one who doesn't partake in the youthful indiscretions that everyone else is enjoying.

[JPickettIII]

The one with the most dialogue, almost always with some backstory involving a flashback or five, whoever we're "supposed" to like, the one who doesn't partake in the youthful indiscretions that everyone else is enjoying.

I agree with Jack, but I also think that the character that is the biggest antigonist of the killer or evil thinkg will last to the end or at least closest to the end besides our hero or heroin.

You could also argue that the killer or evil thing dies last.   

Later,

John

[Chainsawmidget]

The character who knows what's really going on, why the killer is targeting the hero, and/or how to stop the monster.  They're usually older than the main cast and will die when the hero really needs somebody to pull him or her out of a jam.

[AndyC]

Seems to me, it's usually somebody who's been asking for it the whole movie. Could be a genuine scumbag who finally gets his comeuppance, or just somebody who has been hindering the good guys, like the cop who won't believe them. In that case, it works as sort of a vindication for the hero, and a chance for the audience to enjoy the guy finally eating some crow, if only very briefly.

But it can also be the person closest to the hero, who is almost as well developed as a character. Either way, it's somebody the audience has invested in, and is intended to be either supremely satisfying or utterly devastating.

[SlyMuffin]

The "survivor girl" who dies in a sudden twist ending where the big-baddie ends up not being dead after all! (As seen in "Nightmare on Elm Street", "Friday the 13th", etc.)

[Criswell]

And this "survivor" or "final" as i like to call her is usually the best person in her group of friends and never does drugs or has sex with other members of the group. And her death will usually look like a sequel hook of sorts.

[BoyScoutKevin]

The virgin. For a number of reasons. If you are engaged in sex, then you are vulnerable to attack. And horror films are also quite conservative morally. Engage in sex outside of marriage, and you die.

This has happened enough in horror films, that it has become a cliche. But, with a cliche, there comes what I call the anti-cliche. If you are a virgin, you are vulnerable to attack. One example is "Lair of the White Worm," but there are others.

[Trevor]

Judging by all the terrible remakes of classic horror films made recently, I think it's me that dies last. From boredom.