In horror, though, I think that saving the innocent had become such a trope that it's actually evolved to where killing the innocent one as a twist at the end is a bit of a trope now, like Nightmare on Elm Street etc. A big reason why I had respect for Game of Thrones. It's envokes a bit of admiration from me when a film is willing to kill those characters off. I think most horror directors like to throw the audience a bone by not killing off the beloved characters or the innocent ones. It's difficult to make an audience care for a character but everyone automatically loves a dog so it can be killed and provoke an easy and unearned emotion without the hard work of character development. It's why I think killing dogs is a super cheap method of gaining sympathy.

Horror directors usually make specific efforts to make you dislike or not care for the characters that die, and the ones we like are the ones that at least last until the end for the sake of suspense.

Well, yeah, most victims in horror films don't deserve their fates! This is why a lot of horror movies have over-the-top villain characters so we can enjoy a horror moment of them getting killed without feeling empathy for them, but in reality, being a douche is not worthy of a brutal execution yet we just accept it because we are there for the elements that make a horror movie a horror movie. Army of Darkness and Spider-Man 3.) You have to engage with it as 'here's some bad but entertainingly goofy shit that happens, have fun for 100 minutes.' It's like a Raimi demo reel. (Important detail: Sam co-wrote it with his brother Ivan, and their collaborations usually end up being absurdity above all else, e.g. But hell? Come on.īasically, you can't view the film through a moral framework. (3) She straight-up damns a woman to hell for the unforgivable crime of denying her a loan.Ĭhristine was selfish, no question she admits at the end of the film that she could've given Mrs. She could've pointed at Christine and called her 'greedy filth' or whatever, but she makes it about her own vanity. (2) She frames what happens in the bank as being shamed.

(1) The loan had already been extended twice, and she had a large extended family that could've helped her. Ganush is the most 'hell-worthy' character in the film. One of the curious things about the movie is that Mrs. Agreed, she didn't deserve what happened to her.

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