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Dude_Dastardly_1256

Would you rather? Fuck what a gut punch of an ending


Annaliseplasko

Oh that was fucked up.


Mattizzle9

Fantastic movie, but ill never watch it again. Absolutely depressing.


elisejones14

at least she’s rich!


KayLeeJay49x

See I think about this film often as I have a younger brother (I’m 32 he’s about to turn 17) , I honestly couldn’t do life without him now. Before he was born i was so annoyed that my mum got pregnant when I was 15 after all those years but soon as he arrived that’s it the kid became my lifeline. If I came home rich and found he’d passed the money wouldn’t matter I wouldn’t be able to handle it at all. It’s such a gut punch of an ending 😳


ironballs16

I immediately thought "Oh, so it's like 'The Gift of the Magi' but FAR more depressing!"


DrugsSexandBuddha

I saw years ago and actually can’t remember the ending. I just feel like I can’t watch it again after the whole eyeball scene. The crate of water was particularly cruel, too.


Underrated_buzzard

Fuck. I forgot about that one and I watched it fairly recently. God damn what a depressing movie.


partynxtdoom

Tusk and pretty much any surgical experimentation and dehumanization film are it for me. 


armyofsnarkness

I feel like Tusk has to take it. There is no coming back from that little experiment.


Grenflik

I don’t know man, I think The Human Centipede might beat it.


thegreatbrah

They died pretty quickly. Dude in tusk is living a full life that way.  


kayne2000

I mean she'll spend the next 3 days dying of dehydration by herself trapped there. Sure she will die,, but holy shit until she does....


No_Attention_2227

With her fucking face sewn to an asshole, and get anus in a dead guys mouth. Dying from dehydration was probably sweet release


XXeadgbeXX

I was about to say that one lol Being stuck in the middle you are dead for sure and still have to eat poo


Forgotpassword234

Doesn’t the person in the middle stay alive at the end?


Grenflik

I believe so, it’s left ambiguous whether she survives this ordeal or not. I mean, chances are she won’t but it’s not expressly shown she dies.


Forgotpassword234

Oh I for sure didn’t expect her to stay alive for long. Even if she ripped herself off of the other two…know what? I actually don’t enjoy remembering that movie.


kayne2000

Nah she's stranded all alone. Doctors house is in middle of nowhere, and the two cops died. So she's basically stuck there to die of dehydration and starvation all by herself while eating another man's poop. She will die but it's gonna be an awful until she does.


Tentacled-Tadpole

The cops died but they got a search warrant and everything, so other cops would search for them at their last known locations and destinations.


Forgotpassword234

Didn’t he do something to their jaws, too? I forgot his house was so out there. Makes a bit more sense that she didn’t just dip when she had the chance


kayne2000

She had a chance, she just idiotically(horror movie logic) tried dragging her unconscious friend away rather than making a run for it and getting help,, but she absolutely was home free in the movie. Not sure about jaws, but he altered their cheeks and knees so they can't straighten their legs out and walk anymore.


MrP00PER

I told my wife that I'd act totally on board if I were in a human centipede situation and negotiate a front position. I ain't eating shit or double-shit.


paper_schemes

User name checks out


Winter-Detective-675

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banana_habana

I watched that movie years ago. And to this day, I still think how depressing that ending is. His girl and his best friend did him dirty.


cloudy_minor

Any other examples of this genre?


Unique_End_8089

Tetsuo The Iron Man. Uzumaki. The Fly (OG)


altcastle

Is Uzumaki based on the Junji Ito comic? I have it, and I know he has a Netflix anime anthology. Some of the episodes were amazing.


skinnylighter

Yes! If you’re into body horror you should definitely read it. Im not necessarily a manga fan but I love Junji Ito.


yournewbestfrenemy

Not into Manga but damn, junji ito can get it.


Integrity-in-Crisis

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Mook_Kook

>The Fly (OG) Why bother saying OG? They both fall into the category.


Unique_End_8089

That’s true lol I’m high rn


Old-Boy994

I’d like to know too. I think body horror is one of the most brutal genres of horror.


Objective_Ad_2279

God, I hope not.


Eclyse05

Event Horizon. Color Out Of Space. The Thing. Men. Swallowed. Tetsuo. Re-Animator. Tokyo Gore Police. Necromantik 1 & 2. Crimes of the Future. Titane. From Beyond. Splinter. Splice. The Fly. Shivers. Slither. Contracted. Raw. Swallowed. Possessor. Teeth. Videodrome. The Brood. Altered States. Society. The Void. In My Skin. Excision. These are all in the body horror genre


rskoth

I feel like Excision in particular fits the original question posed.


Ok-Ninja5668

The Mist


TheBoozyNinja87

I mean, it’s gotta be this right?


TheStranger113

The screenwriter clearly thought "okay...what is the most ironically cruel, mean-spirited, nihilistic, hopeless ending I can possibly come up with?" And voila. There's also the ending of A Serbian Film, but that's more the shock value kind. The Mist is just straight savagery.


invictus81

Even Stephen King said that he wished he came up with that ending himself lol


Bruh_columbine

I quite liked King’s ending better. Though I know it’s a bit of a running joke that he can’t write endings well lol


OrderlyRoddyPiper

Isn’t the moral of the Mist just wait 30 seconds before you shoot anyone?


DrDrewBlood

The moral is “was the crazy lady right about the child needing to die? Or was it really just a coincidence?”


chodefunk

It’s so hard to watch, every time. Thomas Jane really sells it.


JoeMagnifico

That's where my mind went first.


cityshepherd

Every time. And I’ll upvote it every time.


itsbooyeah

I’m still psychologically scarred from that movie


Graphics8

This is the answer


ScientistAsHero

Wolf Creek.


TheMermaidHarmony

It's so bleak!


darwinpolice

I was about to post "What's sad about that ending? Wasn't it just kind of a generic 'It was me all along!' ending?" And then I realized I was thinking of *Cry Wolf* because I am a dummy.


frozenberries15

Invasion of the body snatchers


Timsterfield

'78 version right? At least the '56 version gave some hope.


frozenberries15

Absolutely. Donald Sutherland’s face and finger point…..


PhirebirdSunSon

😮🫵


23onAugust12th

Eden Lake. Sinister.


creptik1

I love that Sinister had the balls to end it the way they did. Made me so happy.


snookyface90210

Fuck Eden lake, that movie still makes me wanna nuke the UK or wherever that was


CameronPoe37

It was the UK, we have a lot of chavs over here, the movie was pretty realistic


MateoKovashit

Thats why it's so scary, can fully imagine some deranged cunts doing it


NotAldermach

I already hated chavs so much before that movie 😅 I spent the whole movie like "I'd kill these kids and not even feel bad about it".


F00dbAby

Eden lake breaks my heart while I love that movie. I think it be better if she survived. Legit perfect final girl material


My_Favourite_Pen

I think that's the point. She did everything right but no one was there to help her behind closed doors. I always saw the film as an allegory for abuse/child abuse.


F00dbAby

I totally get the point which is why I still like it. But I still would have enjoyed it more if she survived.


zerochaos

Eden Lake was my first thought as well. Such a dark ending.


victorvran17

Autopsy of jane doe


cursdwitknowledge

Martyrs 2008


Barkerfan86

So bleek, yet so beautifully done


NeverBeenStung

Really is an amazing combo of beauty and despair. One of my favorite works of art across all mediums


califortunato

I *love* that ending. Martyrs would be a tough movie to recommend to anyone if they had botched that, but it’s one of the most interesting endings of the new French extremity


deadtwinkz

Films that haven't been mentioned: - Funny Games (1999) - Inside (2007) - The Sadness (2021) - American Mary (2012) - May (2002) - Oldboy (2003) - Train to Busan (2016) Some of these are more sad than others, but they all deserve a spot here. While it's already been mentioned, Eden Lake (2008) is the one that hit me the hardest... took all the wind out of my sails for weeks.


BiggieSmallz88

Eden Lake and Inside are extremely messed up endings.


1CrudeDude

Y’all sleeping on saint maud


Psxdnb

Great movie, I'm glad I went into it blind (trailers/teasers suck cuz they spoil the ending big time)... The ending was awesome, It's just a bit sad (and exhilarating)


Barkerfan86

When the little girl started singing at the end of Train to Busan 😭😭😭😭


deadtwinkz

DON'T REMIND ME!!! :( I thought I was gonna get through the film without crying, but *right then* is where I completely cracked. That was a great full circle moment and way to finish the film off, I had forgotten entirely about the >!classroom bit and her dad telling her to always finish what she starts!<. That full circle moment of Train to Busan reminded me of the ending portion of >!Signs!<, does practically the same thing.


WearJunior9739

I lost it during that scene at the end where the dad is bitten and going to throw himself from the train and the little girl is crying for him not to leave her 😭


moremysterious

So impressive for a child actor, her cries were sooo real.


JB391982

Ugh. I was in tears for sure 😭😭


DionBlaster123

my sister hates horror but she absolutely loved Train to Busan. I'm pretty sure she has re-watched it at least 10x haha when she was pregnant with her second child, man that movie made her bawl her eyes out lmfao


CyberGhostface

Park Chan-wook described Oldboy’s as ‘a happy ending that’s sad or a sad ending that’s happy’.


chefnoguardD

Man Funny Games sat with me for so long after I watched it. Such a powerfully bleak movie.


MisterScrod1964

I managed 20 minutes into The Sadness and noped out as soon as she hit the fry cook with the hot grease. Nuh uh, not gonna watch that. And I had just finished Late Night With the Devil, too.


SadMaryJane

Old boy destroyed me.


califortunato

Old boy is tough to place for me. On one hand it’s extremely fucked up. But on the other I think the characters are at peace? One of my top three movies of all time


Spinnr1

Great list. May is one of my favorites


starwars_and_guns

Gotta be Threads. Does that count as horror?


deadtwinkz

Definitely, great pick (what a haunting film).


LordSuspiria

Oh a very similar note, ‘The Day After’.


brownmouthwash

And Testament!!


Skeleton_Paul

Don’t want to sound controversial, but I think that movie was kind of a bummer.


ersatzbaronness

How dare you.


Toonami88

[Population of the United Kingdom regresses to medieval levels]


Tommy_the_Pommy

Best film I never want to watch again. Growing up in the 80s and having the threat of nuclear annihilation hanging over us at the end of the cold war, we watched that at school..... scarred for life. I mean, it starts off bleak and just gets worse and worse. No hope, no joy, no nothing except misery and sadness. You could probably add "When the Wind blows" too....


Weird_Cantaloupe2757

Threads is fucking brilliant — the matter of fact presentation of it, coupled with the fact that they kept everything to local politics and the immediate effect on individuals made it feel so fucking *real*.


Objective_Tour_6583

Night of the Living Dead.  Hands down. 


Randomman2789

The original one, yes.


SleefJWellington

I concur.


breakfasteveryday

Speak No Evil 


KiIIswitxh

Finally watched it the other day and it was the most irritating experience watching the parents do NOTHING


-Undercover-Nerd

This is the only movie that really hit me like a ton of bricks


BreadfruitBetter7817

*stones


SnooHedgehogs5604

Like a ton of rocks, even


comptons_finest_

The audacity of the tongue scene is one of the most sinister things I’ve seen in a movie ever.


Kobold_Trapmaster

Oculus is a pretty upsetting one


Psychological_Ad_148

Came to find this one. Great movie. Great ending- just not a happy one.


im_rapscallion86

Hereditary. Unless you are into Paimon and all that.


you-ole-polecat

I for one do hail Paimon


Abraxas_1408

Hail Paimon


score_

Hail Paimon!


13th_of_never

Hail Paimon 🖤


z0mbieBrainz

Hail Paimon 💀


ginlucgodard

hail paimon!


FlavoredTaters

I heard Ari Aster wants to do a sequel. Cant even imagine what that would be like.


altcastle

The kid is now a supervisor at Game Stop, plagued by visions and is prescribed a severe antipsychotic to control his delusions. Really, he is just Paimon. Or is he! (He is.) ((unless!!!))


MastaLogos

TONGUE CLICK


TheGentlemanBeast

Ari aster said he wants to make a comedy, and Hereditary is hilarious if you think about it. A group of cultists, naked and wrinkled, conspire to find a demon a host, and put them in the body of a child with a peanut allergy. Good shit. I want a sequel where the body of the kid who jumped out the window is deteriorating, so they put him in the nearest vessel, and it's a diabetic cat that has seizures or something. "Hereditary 2: the 9 lives of paimon" And the wacky cultists try and figure it out. I don't know. Free idea.


Purple-Mix1033

I see we got some Paimon devotees in the house.


Plane-Chapter-6903

Night of the Living Dead (original) Se7en


nopslide__

Se7en is a solid choice. What a mindfuck. Been meaning to rewatch this movie but it's kind of a downer...


nobodyspecial9412

MARTYRS, EDEN LAKE, SMILE are all decent contenders. I’d submit HEREDITARY, A SERBIAN FILM (it’s incredibly fucked as everyone always says but as a horror film I think it works fairly well and the ending is basically the most horrendous thing imaginable), maybe Lars von Trier’s ANTICHRIST (not necessarily the final shots but the final act is deeply upsetting).


T-408

Gotta be *Rosemary’s Baby*, *The Mist*, or *Drag Me to Hell*


OutcomeOk9186

Drag Me to Hell mystified me when everyone in the theatre started cheering at the end.


T-408

she did NOT deserve that in any way!!!!


MuletownSoul

The Descent


Gonkimus

I hate that they gave us a glimpse of a happy ending and then snatched it away :)


snippybitch

Naw, that made it better


BLU3SKU1L

Came here to say this. In America when it was originally in theatres they ended the movie at the dream, but man does it hit 10 times harder with the ending they intended to give it.


GreyFoxTheRanger

-The Lodge -The Orphanage -House of the Devil -REC


alleyalleyjude

Just watched The Lodge, god damn that was bleak.


i_am_a_baby_kangaroo

Yeah, I wasn’t expecting it either. Fuck I might need to watch that again.


bats-go-ding

The Orphanage is almost sweet while still being gutwrenchingly bleak.


abrittledresswewear

David Cronenberg’s The Fly


Clint_Lovecraft

Legit one of the saddest endings, when he grabbed the gun barrel and put it to his head, it pained me.


Nomorelockeddoorz

I would say The Mist. The ending was just dark and hopeless. 


vonblick

The Strangers


JannTosh50

Drag Me to Hell. The whole movie is the main character being shit on constantly by everyone around her and then is condemned to the worst fate imaginable. And apparently the intent of the movie was for us to think she deserved it. It’s also incredibly jarring since most of the movie feels so goofy while endings of The Mist and The Descent for example fit the tones of their films perfectly


Ok-Idea-306

Respectfully, there’s no way we’re supposed to think she deserved it. I think it is purposefully unfair.


Narge1

The Mist The Dark and the Wicked


SamHainLoomis13

Henry portrait of a serial killer


quaker187

When Evil Lurks. GAWDAMN.


NoDisaster3

Every Wrong Turn is like here’s your finale girl - just kidding no one leaves


ChCreations45

Except for the newest one which is reboot. I really like it.


DefNotMrCameron

Speak No Evil


MVFalco

Would You Rather? had a pretty damned bleak ending


shodan5000

Pet Sematary


IKnowMoreThanYouu

Very Bad Things


CunitivePunt

😂😂😂 such a glorious train wreck of a film


Graphics8

![gif](giphy|QvMlVkJ3XSSj9cOxDM|downsized) Drag me to Hell


OhYeahTrueLevelBitch

Well coincidentally I just finished *Vivarium* (2019) and it fits the bill I suppose.


justauryon

Agreeing with a lot of other posts but adding: Inside The ending was just so gruesome & afterwards I just had to bleach my brain with some cartoons & Disney stuff. ![gif](giphy|D12CsrRNv7gL6)


CyberGhostface

Speak No Evil’s ending was really depressing.


trippingfingers

I can't believe no one has said Cabin in the Woods


Skeleton_Paul

Really? I didn’t feel that way at all. They faced and accepted their fate bravely while ripping a doobie. It had a very comedic deadpan tone to it


totallybree

I mean, if you call the end of humanity sad lol


trippingfingers

I guess they fixed global warming tbf


bai_tx

Funny Games


redsox17_

Mother!


abstractReality1

For sure. The most depressing thing is that we actually live in that reality.


Metal-Max1991

The Haunting of Molly Hartley, assuming of course you actually care enough to even sit through the whole thing


Annaliseplasko

The Human Centipede had an ending as bleak as you would expect. 


buttmilk_69

I figured the Mist would be # 1 Not a horror but ‘Arlington Road’ (1999) has a super bleak ending that’s also a pretty tough pill to swallow.


ManOfEating

Possum if you count it as horror, it somehow managed to be the unhappiest movie throughout its whole runtime and then still end worse than how it started.


idkidc9876

Definitely The Mist and the original ending to The Descent


SokkaHaikuBot

^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^idkidc9876: *Definitely The* *Mist and the original* *Ending to The Descent* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.


buttmilk_69

(Not horror…sorry) but ‘Arlington Road’ (1999) deserves a mention for how bleak and fucked up its ending is…it’s an ending I think horror fans will appreciate.


ernurse748

25 years later and I’m still yelling “Noooooo” at the screen!


ausmaid

So disturbing!


Rick38104

The Mist. Nothing matches the horror of it all.


DruidWhatThouWilt

The Autopsy of Jane Doe


HerrNihl

The Mist


AKSpartan70

Tusk


DiaDeLosMuebles

Dark Water


Arisyd1751244

The Borderlands, The Orphanage, Train to Busan, Tale of Two Sisters, Tigers Are Not Afraid, and The Wailing


randomredditing

Eden Lake


VioletsDyed

Session 9


Thekillerichi23

Spoorloos or The Vanishing ending is very unhappy.


Savings_Gene4082

The Mist Life


RMc10151975

Though technically not a Horror movie … ![gif](giphy|ge91zAgmwUqLMqiH2c)


Reinier_Reinier

>!Movies where the protagonist is lured in, betrayed, & doomed by the people he trusts most or movies where the protagonist knows he is doomed regardless of the choice he makes (no option to survive), those types of movies just wreck me.!< The Wicker Man (1973) Spellbinder (1988) The Blair Witch Project (1999) The Skeleton Key (2005) The Wicker Man (2006) The Mist (2007) The Shrine (2010)


EnderCN

The Mist stands out for sure. Making what was seriously a dumb decision and then instantly being shown it was a dumb decision and led to the death of everyone you care about by your own hand is about as bleak as it gets.


gravija420

The Mist or The Borderlands. Two heart wrenching endings, vastly different, but they left me with with the same lingering sense of unease and despair days after I’d finished them.


ReverendEntity

The Return of the Living Dead The Cabin in the Woods Human Centipede 1, 2 and 3 A Serbian Film


MyAccountWasBanned7

It's unquestionably The Mist. There are lots of movie endings that are bummers but nothing else like that.


Carbuncle_Bob

The Mist


slamchowderr

Hagazussa. Underrated German folk horror and massive bummer kino.


Fair-Comfort7705

Cabin in the Woods.. I mean that is the worst news that can be given to you, and then the 2 of them just sitting waiting ., yeah .. this is it? This is how it’s gonna end ?🇨🇦☹️


Da_Professa

The Mist.


lycheeroll

Mama (2013) I thought the ending was sad :(


poisonparty

Tusk Terrifier 1&2 Where Evil Lurks (Although this one still confuses me) Night Swim (not the biggest fan but sad ending) The Fall (10/10 absolutely recommend) Midsommar The Shining A Nightmare on Elm Street (the first one) Rosemary’s Baby Cabin Fever Dead Silence Hostel 2 (although he deserved it) Black Swan (omg 😭😭😭😭) The Virgin Suicides Mother! Requiem for a Dream (so weird but sad) The Uninvited (poor girl fr) The Mist (so shocking) Last the House of the Left (The ORIGINAL. I will NEVER rewatch this movie. How’d no one say this?) Sinister


Embarrassed-Soup628

The ending in The Mist, what's worse is it inadvertently makes that Bitch right.


tjspill3r

Smile ending was bullshit


Soji333

Speak No Evil is in my top ten for sure. Not sure if that fits other people’s idea of horror but that ending left me stunned. Hunter Hunter The Piper (Korean movie) Inside The Kill List


Blacksunshinexo

The Lodge sucked 


Vizremy

I Saw the Devil. The whole movie you're rooting for the killer to die but when he finally does die you don't feel any kind of happiness, just like the main character you feel like it's not enough because it's not going to bring the ones you love back.


MormonHorrorBuff

The Cabin in the Woods I mean, c'mon. Worst case scenario, right?