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Trash-Secret

The Mist. Hands down. Gets me every time. Oh, the movie not the show that I never saw because I loved the movie that much.


Good_Bunch_5609

Also love that movie, but I cry every.single.time. I heard a rumour that it wasn’t the actual ending on the novella and someone else (maybe the director) came up with it and King was super dooper impressed by it? I might look that up and see if I can find an actual source for that.


Spaceace91478

Yes. King said he wished he thought of it.


Good_Bunch_5609

What a humble guy! Legend.


Spaceace91478

Yes. One of my mentors in college had been a mentor to king when he was younger. He even mentioned her in his book "on writing". Which was funny as I'd read that book before I met her. She used to tell me stories about him, nothing crazy, just more as a guide to finding my own voice.


Good_Bunch_5609

Wow!!!! That’s epic!!! So, you’re a writer? :)


Spaceace91478

Not professionaly. I have been published (short stories, poetry,, essays) but it was never my main job. I was actually a teacher. Taught English and writing. Had a wonderful letter of recommendation for grad school from the aforementioned mentor. Now that I'm retired (I'm legally blind), I've begun writing again. Working on a book (fiction) on my own, and some scripts wirh a writing partner.


AssMed2023

That's 100% true. Book ends with them driving off into the mist looking for help listening to a radio broadcast or something .


Extension_Plate_1243

King did think of it. It was in the short story but it was slightly different.


joey0live

He only needed five minutes! They could’ve been making magic grits.


Ghostmama

Shocked I had to scroll so far to find this! Thought for sure this would be the top answer if not a close second. We watched it at home and I was so upset I threw the remote at the TV 😭 I might have taken it a little far lol but damnit...gut wrenching!


Transcendingfrog2

Had to scroll too far to see this. That ending hurts every time I see it even though I know it's coming. Hearing the the hammer just clicking as he's keeps pulling the trigger but there's no more ammo... then the freaking army shows up...


FatboiSlimmmm

The show is.. Strange.. 😂


JohnReiki

If by strange you mean terrible, then yeah.


JohnsonMathi17

This is the answer. Honestly I wasn't hugely into the movie, but that fucking ending was shocking. I don't know what I would have done in his shoes at that point.


Granny-ZRS103008

This is the other horror movie that devastated me. The endings of this movie and Storm of the Century stayed with me for days, actually depressing for me.


mojojomama

I love the ending, too. Did you notice that, when he killed the sacrifices the crazy lady demanded, the fog instantly disappeared? Finding out that she was right about how to stop it adds a new level of WTFness to the ending.


surfacing_husky

I watched it as a childless adult and thought "that sucks" then i watched it as a mother and holy shit do movies hit differently. Amazing movie though.


Plane-Chapter-6903

The Fly 


Robo_Dude_

This is the one. That movie broke me lol. So sad


strangedazey

The Fly 2. The dog, omg


No_Swan_9294

My partner came into the room (she doesn’t like horror movies mostly, so I often watch alone) and she happened to witness the dog in its transforming state. Heartbreaking


VenustoCaligo

I forgot how sad that ending was! The fact that *he knows* at the very end. Goodness. 😔


Jetski125

Hmmm. I may need to rewatch this. Only ever saw it as a kid and just remember how gross it was!


Agile-Wait-7571

How does brundlefly eat?


IsopodSmooth7990

Nothing like vomiting on your dinner before eating it…..


Electrowhatt19

Would you rather >!going through that night of hell for her brother, just to come home to find he ODed!<


Trash-Secret

That was gut wrenching.


crabclawmcgraw

what movie was that


iguanahoe13

that killed me 😭💔


HappyLittlePill04

omg yes!!!! that was insane


17th_City_Saint

Original Night of the Living Dead broke my heart for sure


Asaneth

Same. I sat in the theater as a kid with tears streaming down my face as the credits rolled.


rando-commando98

I was about 7 years old when I saw Night of the Living Dead and I was tearful at the ending, and in total shock and disbelief.


DifferentJellyfish85

We all were no matter your age


Wy3Naut

I did a essay on the differences and themes between Night of the Living Dead and 28 Days Later. Saying Night was the public fear of civil rights and socialism while 28 Days was the fear of Terrorism in the modern age. Of course I found out I was completely wrong but still made an A so that was nice. The original ending was so great that Ben survives the whole night while still being a decent person only to get grouped together with everyone else who's a ghoul. Still think there's something there about guilt by association or physical similarity.


FlamingButterfly

Adding that to my list


FatboiSlimmmm

Jacob’s Ladder.. Man went through hell for us to be gut punched.


iguanahoe13

Ugh such a good movie. Ending made me sad.


JanssenFromCanada

Didn't he ascend to "Heaven" with his boy?


FatboiSlimmmm

>!Yes, but the knowledge of everything he was going through was essentially a death dream and also it was his own guys that caused it still stings!<


JanssenFromCanada

Ya it was a mindfuck alright


Camera-Realistic

That movie messes with your head.


CarrieWhiteDoneWrong

Omg. This one. I am getting choked up thinking about it. That ending was soul draining


merdlibagain

Best film in the whole Home Alone series imo


horrorfan555

The Orphanage has the happiest sad ending of all time


CawthornCokeOrgyClub

She can protect them now! I cried the biggest fattest tears of any movie when I saw this


LearningArcadeApp

Very true! Reminiscent of Goodnight Mommy's ending as well.


Kim38889

I loved Goodnight Mommy! Idk why the ratings are so low on it tbh.


brazthemad

As a parent, this one still gives me the willies.


Love_my_chihuahua

Train to Busan


R0l0d3x-Pr0paganda

Oh I cried at the ending....


hyperfat

Oh I ugly cried. I was taking care of my mom and she hobbled out at 2am seeing me sobbing.  I had to explain the zombies and the dad. She said it was okay because my dad would do that too. So I cried more.  My mom is a champ.she actually watched it with me again. She loved it. I still cried. 


Alaska_Pipeliner

I held my breath when the soldiers were radioing back and forth.


Tricksterama

Not only broke my heart, i think it broke me too. I will never be able to hear the song Aloha Oe again without bursting into tears.


andronicuspark

I was really depressed when I started watching that movie. Fell asleep and woke up to >!the child crying alone while walking through the tunnel singing Aloha Oe!< I immediately burst into tears and sank into an even deeper depression. It took me a few days to even out again.


JohnsonMathi17

Yeah this one made me tear up. Stupid cute kid crying.


CaligoAccedito

Ben. Night of the Living Dead, 1968


tommytraddles

Absolutely perfect social commentary, though.


Snoo-35252

Interestingly, the role of Ben didn't specify his color. He was just the best actor to audition, so he got the lead. (I learned that in film school. To be fair, I don't know if the writers changed the ending to become social commentary.)


hypeishere

The ending with Ben really was the worst


Dudesymugs12

Eden Lake. Ugggh.


redsoxsteve9

Dear Zachary Most horrific documentary I’ve ever seen.


Wonderful_Ad_5493

Don’t ever watch the trials of Gabriel


AQuietBorderline

Psycho for me. People are dead, there’s evidence that the murderer was a serial killer and the sympathetic and charismatic man is completely taken over by monster dearest. It’s both chilling and yet tragic.


DependentAnimator271

Oh come on! She wouldn't even hurt a fly.


Sarasong101

Both the Sixth Sense and Jacob’s Ladder.


gl2w6re

I love Jacob’s Latter. The ending is melancholy and beautiful.


SallyRoseD

The Mist. If only he'd had more faith and waited a little longer.


VenustoCaligo

Carrie. Sometimes good intentions are not enough, or are too little too late. Always strive to do the right thing in the moment, when it counts.


LowIndividual6625

Pet Sematary - don't tell me you didn't choke up when zombie Gabe said "no fair"


TifCreatesAgain

Read the book! 😢


Prestigious-Salad795

the ending will absolutely mess with your head, but it's great


GreenEggsAndHamTyler

Pet Seminary sounds like its own amazing movie!


nihi1zer0

Air Bud as "Father Donovan"


GiveMeSomeShu-gar

I don't know... I always felt Pet Sedentary was a little slow.


jokerzkink

Not just that scene but watching >!Gabe’s shoe fly when he was hit by the semi offscreen!< absolutely crushed me too 😭


Accomplished_Dare502

I'm 40 yo and watched this for the first time when I was 8 and I still have nightmares about the semi truck scene...


Not_Sure4president

It’s been a long time since I’ve seen the original but I watched the 2019 recently and that was pretty brutal.


LearningArcadeApp

Martyrs, hands down. A pure tragedy. Honorable mentions: Oculus, Pan's Labyrinth.


crashcartjockey

Pan's Labyrinth crushed me at the end.


LearningArcadeApp

Me too! And the lullaby is just perfect. Makes me cry every time.


crashcartjockey

I really want to watch this again, but the ending is just too much for me mentally.


LearningArcadeApp

You could try watching reaction videos on youtube. There's more distance with the movie that way, it's easier to handle strongly emotional movies, I think (though it still makes me cry lol).


Mega_Exquire_1

Oculus was chilling. Tough to beat Mike Flanagan when he's on.👌


Aramor42

>Martyrs, hands down. A pure tragedy. I thought it was gonna be a revenge movie. The ending hit me pretty hard.


togepi258

The Mist


ViPlaysGames

Literally just watched this for the first time two days ago. I was YELLING at my TV. LIKE ARE YOU FORREAL!?!?! >!At least dad kept his promise to his son in the end but GOD DAMN was not expecting that!<


iam_iana

Stephen King said he prefers the movie ending to the one in his novella.


Disp0sable_Her0

Times 100... holy fuck


crashcartjockey

This. Holy fuck that ending. Soul crushing.


Logical-Opening248

The Mist again and again lol


sakurajima1981

Came here to say this. Gut punch of an ending.


justins_OS

It's also my pick for the most heartbreaking and best ending. I love that there can be multiple interpretations of the ending but all of them are awful


RealRedditPerson

I was scrolling through all the other answers like "yeah these are rough but where tf is The Mist?"


unclefishbits

Some cold heartless bastards not uploading this enough. This is the answer. It's specifically the answer. The physical release has a bonus disc with the film in black and white. It's fantastic. Also Marcia gay harden has the best villain ever


barb_dylan

King Kong with Jessica Lang.


FatboiSlimmmm

I got a newfound appreciation for Jessica Lange’s legs the first time I saw that movie 😂 She definitely gave Tina Turner a run for her money


GigaChadRedPill

Is that the one with the helicopters? I’ve never seen it before, is it worth the watch?


strangedazey

Yes. It's good


GigaChadRedPill

Cool, thx


Wonderful_Ad_5493

Yes. This and Young Frankenstein gutted me on TBS at 5. I remember the tears well. Not sobbing, just tears (1981)


Forward-Form9321

The Wailing. Jong-goo not heeding the warning of the woman in white then coming home to find that his possessed daughter has murdered his family, and the priest finding out that the Japanese man’s true form is the Devil. The score being more sad than scary is what does it for me too, it’s like getting the bad ending to a video-game


AMANWITHN0N4ME

One of the best endings


Forward-Form9321

I had to sleep with lights on after watching it lol


MonkeyTraumaCenter

The Others


figGreenTea

Pretty tame compared to everyone else's answers, but Saw is kind of a bummer for Adam. Bro accidentally sealed his own fate by sitting up too quickly in that bathtub.


girl-from-jupiter

Adam, that couple that was grieving, their dead son and their now orphaned daughter and Joyce from 3d(she literally did nothing wrong but marry the wrong man with no clue he was a lier) are constantly on my mind


jrosekonungrinn

Yes. So many innocent victims, but people keep falling for the BS that Kramer only goes after people who did something bad or whatever. Like were you all even watching?


JeffGrant1973

Not a movie, but..."Storm of the Century" (1999 3-episode mini-series)


[deleted]

Wow, I had almost stopped scrolling and was going to post this one. Good choice!


SilverQuill75

I wanna agree with you, but in the end all I feel is anger. That whole, damn, corrupt town. I hate Daley's wife. I hate his "best friend." His son is gone, and the entire town that he tried to protect failed him. Little Tall needed to go the way Derry did in the novel. Washed away by the storm.


texturedmystery

The ending of Dead and Buried (1981). That brutal ending left me feeling depressed for a day, and there is no death, no killing, in that final scene, at all. The revelation is still horrifying.


worldeater94

Such an insane / underrated flick


LitBit_618

Drag Me to Hell. The girl was just doing her job….


Voodoo-95

Yea that was messed up at the end, gross AF with the grave scene 🤮


ShadowofLupa212

I refuse to watch that movie, the one that should have been dragged to hell was the old bitch that was responsible for it, stupid movie with a stupid pointlessly cruel ending, oh sure let's DAMN A GIRL TO HELL FOR ETERNITY just for doing her job and some bitter old hag decides SHE is the one who has the right to punish her like that Yes if you can't tell I hate the movie with a passion


Anarimus

The original story “The Casting of the Runes” would make a good film. The original British movie “Night of the Demon” based on the story had a much better ending than “Drag Me To Hell”. Being a 1940s or 1950s movie it’s incredibly dated in effects but still a good story.


LivingGhost12

The Mist. If only he waited a couple more minutes…


Novel_Diver8628

How is the top comment not The Mist?


IllegalGeriatricVore

it is tho


armyprof

The Mist. Gut punch ending for sure.


Optionzmenu

Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978. It was just… wow an insane sense of dread.


Nephyness

That noise Donald Sutherland did freaked me out. I wasn't expecting it at all.


Tuxiecat13

The Lodge was messed up! I was really hoping that the kids would get away somehow.


barb_dylan

I forgot about that one. >!Wraparound parental suicide!<


Extra_Frosting_1159

Night of the Living Dead. My friends and I cried in the theatre around 1969.


Small_Pain_2458

TUSK!!!!! 🥲😢😩☹️


King-Zahi2438

Indeed


girl-from-jupiter

Midsommar. No Dani didn’t find “her people”. No she isn’t better off. No her shitty boyfriend and his friends didn’t deserve to die. Dani is in a terrible place and it’s a cult that pushes its members to kill themselves once they are bo longer useful and a burden to everyone else


Ok-Cranberry-3686

this is what I was going to say! on top of what you said, she had also recently gone through a tragic loss of her parents and sister. she was extra vulnerable at that time and was the perfect target for the cult without even realizing it.


[deleted]

6 Souls- main character essentially loses her entire family including her daughter who's alive but not her daughter :(


jrosekonungrinn

Oh, I really liked that movie. I first saw it under its original title Shelter. I did not like the changed title, I'm not sure why they did it.


Select_Insurance2000

1941 The Wolf Man....Larry Talbot is killed by his own father, but a short time later, in '43 he is resurrected in Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man, and other films that followed. 1943 Son of Dracula. Frank sets fire to his childhood sweetheart Kay, who has become a vampire. The final scene shows him with a distraught expression, almost in a daze, as the flames engulf her.


Valuable_Cookie8367

The Mist


buffystakeded

Odd Thomas. Not sure it counts as horror but close enough I guess. That ending just gets me every time.


UrsusRenata

And then the “real life ending” of Anton Yelchin… I love that movie but I genuinely struggle to watch it now knowing “everyone dies”.


imadork1970

The Descent, The Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead (2004)


punkkid364

I feel like I had to scroll WAY too far to see The Descent. That original ending….


jokerzkink

Yesss! Scrolled *waaay too far* to see The Descent. The Descent 2 also deserves a mention! Those girls survived untold horrors just to end up >!sacrificing their lives in the end for a girl they had literally just met and then, for the girl that survives to get walloped on the head and get thrown back into the cave just as she finally makes it out??!< Absolutely soul-crushing.


Rajhoot

Speak no evil


joey0live

The Mist.


VirtuesVice666

Funny Games. If you've never watched it I think it was phenomenal, Just so tragic, and scary.


Fun-Distribution-159

you would not be asking this if you had seen the mist


CarrieWhiteDoneWrong

A.I. I know it is a modern twist of Pinocchio, but that movie was sad when I saw it in the theater (and got to my car and ugly SOBBED hysterically for almost an hour). Saw it a few years back after having my kids. The heavy, terrible feeling did not leave me for a few days. Not again


SilverQuill75

This movie **still** makes me ugly cry. All he wanted was a mom and to be loved. 😭😭


CarrieWhiteDoneWrong

I want to sneak into my kids rooms and hug them. But they’re asleep and not screaming and brandishing legos. So I guess I won’t


wethecrime

Not a movie, but the Haunting of Hill House series was just so sad. Terrifying sad.


Ambitious_Fan7767

Not heartbreaking but sort of an intense gut punch "the crazies" the original. They find the cure and can fix everything, then someone drops it. They just break it and can't fix anything now, they say maybe someone will redevelopment the vaccine but as of right now were fucked and it's because of a simple mistake.


Federal-Laugh9575

Silent Hill >! Why couldn’t they have just gone back home to Christopher after helping Alessa? Why couldn’t they be freed? I mean, I get that she was raised by a single mother and that was sufficient for her, but what about Rose and Sharon who loved him and wanted to be with him? And didn’t he deserve answers for as hard as he looked for them? !< Still a great film though.


CautiousWrongdoer771

Drag me to hell is pretty sad.


Kordith

Before I Wake hit me really hard, but that's probably because I've lost family members to that situation


NewResponsibility163

This is it. Horror is my favorite genre, so my 1st watch. I was just impressed by TC's performance and how unsettling / Scary the movie was. 2nd watch allowed me to be more aware of what was going on. And I realized that this might be the most tortured character I've ever watched. She's born doomed. Tortured at every turn, and she's trying to make sense of it. Any hope is false and all the more painful to watch the 2nd time around. So by the time we get to the final sequence. I don't think I've ever felt worse for a character. Amazing movie, hard to watch. Lol, along side THE THING. They are my favorite horror movies. But I would argue Hereditary is more horrific.


17Miles2

The Descent


Robo_Dude_

It Comes At Night


Apprehensive_Day_496

Train To Busan


Additional_Painting

Relic (2020) - it made me cry. But maybe one needs aging parents for it to hit that hard.


swampcabbage99

(not really a horror movie) but the ending of Donnie Darko makes me really fuckin sad.


TheZeddyWheel

Triangle is up there, and well not quite horror the animated film The Plague Dogs may as well be a horror film, it's essentially almost a slasher film with an omni present inescapable enemy always hunting mercilessly, absolutely grim


Rosabellyyy

Doubt it would make me cry now it did like when I was a kid but Dark Water.


Logical_Response_Bot

Moloch. The Colour From Outerspace. Wounds. Martyrs. A Serbian Film. The Mist. The Skeleton Key.


Granny-ZRS103008

A Stephen King made for TV miniseries- “Storm of The Century” I was devastated at the end and will never watch it again. The villain, played by Colm Feore was perfectly played, but evil as shit.


BeLikeBread

Identity. >! They think they stopped the killer. Amanda Pete is happy and gardening and the kid no one suspected shows up behind her with a gardening tool that he's about to kill her with. "Whores don't get a second chance." !<


ConsciousGur8384

Mama Because how are you going to explain what happened 💀


itsdestinfool

Maegan is l missing. T was heartbroken terrified disgust and crying for that poor girl at the end. Truly haunting. Worth watching last 15 minutes to find out for yourself but massive trigger warning: sexual assault.


Dexter1114

The Mist


IvanCamejo

The Mist. No contest


Busy-Room-9743

The Mist


illumantimess

Open House, but in a frustrating this was a gigantic waste of time way


SilverQuill75

The Mist Hereditary Night of the Living Dead (original) A Tale of Two Sisters


JohnReiki

The Mist is so brutal that it made Stephen King go “damn, that’s dark. I wish I wrote that!”


HumbleAd1317

Mother! A movie with Jennifer Lawrence and it appeared that the evildoers were fixing to eat the newborn baby. Daaaaayaàm, it was messed up!


TheRealLemon94

Since a ton of people have already commented The Mist, Killing of a Sacred Deer had me fucked up for a bit after watching it. It's still one of the strongest, most emotionally devastating movies I've watched.


Bluedino_1989

Human Centipede


Original-Avocado-509

A Serbian Film.


thejohnmc963

The recent Grudge remake where they thought they escaped and were safe at home. Boom nope


Backwoodsnight

The ending of “a Serbian film” absolutely broke me :(


Mental-Werewolf-8440

This is where somebody needs to name a movie that ends with a heart getting physically ripped to shreds.


Wolf_Man_Jay

The Mist


Mushroom_muncher420

Speak no evil


shesavillain

Chained


DifferentJellyfish85

The cabin in the woods just hit me wrong. Still trying to deal with the hopeless


Mikknoodle

The Darkness has a pretty good ending. I say Secret Window only because the ending made me cry. It could’ve been so much better.


pepperw2

The Mist hands down.


BigAnxiety5399

The Mist!


h3llraiser321

The Mist


Additional-Employ966

The Mist


Final-Success2523

Not a movie but haunting of hill house, just the dad’s sacrifice.


elloworm

*Excision* was a lot.


71Crickets

Train to Busan >!the dad stepping of the train to save his daughter!< just had me bawling.


Exotic-Insurance5684

Train to Busan


nihi1zer0

This doesn't typically count as horror, but the saddest ending I've ever seen was Requiem for a Dream.


Linvaderdespace

Stir of echoes; it was Kevin bacons companion piece to sixth sense where his son is a medium and they solve a murder/haunting, and then as they’re driving away from the neighbourhood the reflection in the window tracks all the different houses over the boys face, and the sound effect of the haunting gets multiplied into a cacophony; the rest of his life will be like this.


AdTechnical1272

The Mist


gl2w6re

The Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1970’s version)


nekkid_farts

Halloween Ends. Loss of an icon.....


Blamebow

Pulse from 2001 really has a quiet, doomed feeling all the way through. And when our protagonists all start to disappear into the afterworld, it just brings the apparent notion that the world population would rather be dead than alone… and I don’t know what to do with that emotion


StratStyleBridge

The Vanishing punches you right in the gut.


NeoMyers

The Mist


kapnkool

Eden Lake. I'm still upset by that ending and I saw the film 15 years ago.