When faced with a life and death situation, it’s important to have good friends by your side. The characters in this series are definitely not the friends who’d be on your side. A while back, I started a series honoring the most loyal friends in horror history. Today, I feel like ranting about the very worst friends. These characters were selfish, stupid, and manipulative. This series will showcase the worst of the worst. I hope you enjoy and let me know which characters you believe earned a spot in this series! (SPOILER ALERT!!!) (TRIGGER WARNING!!!)

Dodger The Deceiver – Cry Wolf

Ok, this isn’t about whether or not the teacher who Dodger (Lindy Booth) was fooling around with deserved his fate (because he definitely did), this is about Dodger dragging all of her friends into her little scheme to carry out her revenge. Dodger manipulated her friends into pretending there was a killer at their school and playing the ultimate prank on the new guy, Owen (Julian Morris). They all believed it was a harmless prank, but after Dodger’s puzzles all fit into place, Owen ended up believing the teacher was the real killer and shot him out of fear. Although it was a brilliant ploy, the fact that Dodger had no problem framing Owen for murder, absolutely traumatizing the rest of her friends, and making them possible accomplices was a really horrible thing to do.

L.J. The Lying Jerk – Resident Evil: Extinction

I don’t care who you are, if you are in the middle of a zombie apocalypse, you get bit by a zombie, and then you hide the bite from your group, you are a major scumbag. Seriously, when L.J. (Mike Epps) got bit by a zombie in this movie, what did he think was going to happen? Did he think if he ignored it, it was just going to go away? All he did was eventually make himself another threat when the group was already being attacked by a horde of zombies. If he told his group right after he got bit, he wouldn’t have turned at the absolute WORST time and bit his friend, Carlos (Oded Fehr). I’ll never forgive him for that.

Alice The A**hole – Contracted

Alice (Alice Macdonald) is undoubtedly one of the worst friends I’ve ever had the displeasure of seeing in a movie. So, Alice has had a crush on her friend, Samantha (Najarra Townsend) for who knows how long. However, Samantha has been trying to patch things up with her ex-girlfriend, Nikki (Katie Stegeman) and she had absolutely no interest in Alice. After learning that Samantha was drugged and raped at her party, Alice decided to make it about herself and lie to Nikki, saying that Samantha had consensual sex with a man. By how Nikki treated Samantha, it’s obvious there was no way Alice told her she was raped. It was straight-up victim blaming for personal gain. Way to kick a friend while she’s down, Alice.

Blaire The Backstabber – Unfriended

After a horrible video was posted online and after suffering countless bullying, Laura Barns (Heather Sossaman) took her own life and all her spirit asked for was one thing: confession – confession her supposedly best friend Blaire (Shelley Hennig), never provided. Blaire had to witness her other friends get picked off one by one and she still chose to act innocent in the matter. She started all of this by taking that horrible video of her friend and acting like they were so close. She even threw her boyfriend under the bus just to save her own skin, which of course was pointless because Laura knew the whole time that she took the video.

Diana And Rosa, The Dynamic Ditchers – Verónica

Never had I ever seen a movie character be abandoned by their friends so fast. During an eclipse, Verónica (Sandra Escacena) and her friends, Diana (Carla Campra) and Rosa (Ángela Fabián) decided to mess around with a ouija board in attempt to contact her deceased father. As usual, things went horribly wrong and Verónica was latched onto by an evil entity. Almost immediately after the séance, Rosa and Diana just completely abandoned her. They stopped coming over to her place, they stopped talking to her. Not only was she being haunted, the spirit LITERALLY told Rosa that Verónica was going to die in three days! Rosa decided to take this information and completely cut ties with her. When Verónica figured out how to save her life, she went to Diana and Rosa for help. They turned their backs on her and refused to help her. They were some of the most selfish “friends” I’ve ever seen.