I’m back with part 5 of horror movie characters I wish didn’t die! Whether I really liked the characters, or I felt their stories shouldn’t have ended so abruptly, these characters deserved a lot better in my opinion. I hope you enjoy and let me know which horror movie characters you wish didn’t die! (MAJOR SPOILERS!!!)

Anna – Ilsa: She Wolf Of The SS

Anna (Marie Marx) was among other women prisoners who were sent to a death camp that performed deadly medical experiments. That camp was run by Ilsa (Dyanne Thorne), a Nazi warden whose main goal was to prove to the SS that woman would withstand excruciating pain more than men. She tortured many of the female prisoners with many harmful methods. Then she found the very woman she was looking for when Anna came along. When Ilsa overheard Anna talking about escaping, she singled her out and put her through many hours of gruesome torture. Anna didn’t scream once, she was tough to the very end. She was even able to escape and tried to kill Ilsa. She was so close to killing her! Unfortunately, she died right in front of Ilsa. After enduring everything she did, I hate that Anna succumbed to her injuries RIGHT before she was able to get revenge.

Alice Hardy – Friday The 13th Part 2

Poor Alice (Adrienne King) was the only survivor of the Camp Crystal Lake massacre. After her friends were brutally killed one by one, Alice was all alone against crazed killer, Pamela Voorhees (Betsy Palmer). Alice certainly didn’t give up. She ran every chance she could and she hit hard with anything she could grab. After one last brawl down by the lake, Alice grabbed a machete and chopped Pamela’s head clean off! That should’ve been the end of Alice’s story, but five months later, Pamela’s son, Jason (Warrington Gillette) tracked Alice down and killed her. I’ll be honest, it drives me nuts when a character fights so hard for their life in a horror film just to be killed in the very first scene in the sequel. It’s almost like their fight was for nothing. I get that Jason couldn’t let his mother’s killer get away, but Alice deserved peace after everything she was put through.

Jim Ogilvie – The Stepfather (1987)

A year after his sister and her family were brutally murdered, Jim Ogilvie (Stephen Shellen) began tracking down the man who killed her, Jerry Blake (Terry O’Quinn). He was definitely one of the smartest character in the horror genre. His first plan was to run Blake’s picture in the newspaper and it would’ve worked if the people behind the paper weren’t so stubborn! He was able to get farther in his investigation than any of the cops involved in the case. He figured out all of Blake’s patterns and he successfully tracked him down. He had a gun and he was ready to blow Blake’s head off, but he had the gun in his pocket! He did all of that tracking just to immediately get stabbed by Blake as soon as he entered the home. It is one of the most frustrating movie moments I ever watched. There wasn’t even a fight before he was killed. He should’ve been the one to kill Jerry Blake.

Nick Hardaway – Rose Red

Completely obsessed with a haunted mansion known as Rose Red, ridiculed professor, Joyce Reardon (Nancy Travis) hired a group of people with special psychic abilities to wake up the supposedly dead cell. Among the group was Nick Hardaway (Julian Sands), a British, no-nonsense mind reader. He was undoubtedly my favorite character in the whole story. He was the voice of reason and he had no problem calling everyone out on their BS. He was the smartest one in the group (no surprise considering he’s a mind reader) and I truly believed he would survive. He died protecting fellow psychic, Cathy (Judith Ivey), which was a selfless sacrifice, but it still bums me out.

Anna Valerious – Van Helsing

Anna Valerious (Kate Beckinsale) and her family were damned from the minute they were born. Her ancestor vowed that his family would not make it to Heaven if they couldn’t kill vampire lord, Dracula (Richard Roxburgh) before their own bloodline was severed. When Anna and her brother, Velkan (Will Kemp) were the last members of their family, the church sent skillful monster hunter, Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman) to help them. Anna’s brother was turned into a werewolf and when Van Helsing killed him, it wasn’t before Velkan bit him. Eventually, they concluded that not only did Dracula have a cure for the werewolf’s curse, but he had it because a werewolf was the only thing that could kill him. Van Helsing was able to successfully kill Dracula as a werewolf, but then he killed Anna immediately afterwords. It’s very frustrating that she had to be afraid her whole life and the second she finally has a chance at a peaceful life, she immediately dies. Yes, she got to be with her family, but come on! She seriously couldn’t enjoy her life for a little while longer?