13. Kate Hudson – The Skeleton Key
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Technically, we don’t really see her death although we sure can guess it and might actually have been easier if we had. In this 2005 thriller, Hudson is the nurse and caregiver of a plantation owner and her stroke-afflicted husband. She discovers that the couple have been haunted by the spirits of a pair of servants who worked there 90 years before and whose reflections appear in mirrors. With help from her boyfriend, Hudson starts to believe in all this and soon goes to try and find a way to counter the evil magic. Eventually, she sets herself up into a protective circle as the elderly woman enters, smiling as she says that voodoo only works if a person believes in it and she needed Hudson to do so. She shows a mirror to Hudson as she recites a spell and Hudson blacks out. When she comes to, she’s now in the body of the elderly woman as the woman is in hers and her husband is in Hudson’s boyfriend. It turns out the “elderly couple” are in reality the two servants who used magic to switch bodies with the owners long ago and now have done it to this young couple, achieving immortality by stealing other’s lives. They’ve already arranged for “themselves” to inherit the mansion as Hudson had been given a stroke so she can’t tell what’s happened, watching as her own best friend hugs the servant, not able to see the switch. The movie ends with the newly young couple smiling as Hudson and Ben, trapped in these old and dying bodies, are taken to a hospice to live their few last days out. A sharp ending that gives new meaning to the term “fate worse than death.”
12. Jack Black – I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
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Before he took off as a major comedic star, Black was a struggling actor in bit roles. That included this 1998 sequel with Jennifer Love Hewitt and her friends winning an island vacation only to realize it’s a trap by a new killer. Black is the local weed-smoking fool who plays the island guide when he’s not hanging out with his bong in his own shed. He’s there alone when the killer arrives and buries his hook into Black’s hand, pinning him to the table. As Black screams, the killer goes through the various weapons inside the shed, Black groaning at each one in turn. Finally choosing a large pair of garden shears, the killer buries them into Black’s chest, killing him outright and leaving his body for the others to find. He’s known for funny stuff but Black gets a brutal end here and a highlight of the movie.
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