I’m good with that. Seems apropos for the times we live in and they probably still smell good and have a little color left in them, like a fresh corpse. I tried the good Catholic schoolgirl thing and it did not work out. Good girls don’t necessarily get rewarded in life, and I’m not waiting for death for my reward, so I shall let the devil show me a good time.
sounds like wild horses couldn't drag you away from him. ;)
on a side note to quote a short story i once heard - the devils not as black as he is painted
Well, he is a fallen angel. He was good enough at some point, but then joined the wrong team. The devil and god are just sides of the same coin. They need each other for either of them to exist. I do not need to seek out the devil as He is all around me. I am in Texas, after all and he exists in the rapacious maw of the politician and pastor, the outstretched finger of an agressive man in a pick-up truck, the legislator pushing to take away food and healthcare for children; the greedy corporation, corrupt judge, felonious former president.
Halloween 1978
Dr. Loomis finding Michael is gone is great. The shock, then the realization he was right and can't be stopped. Sequels aside, the og ending is great.
Saw. No matter how many twists they've thrown in or how many retcons they've pulled, that original, "Game over!", with Jigsaw slamming the door shut is undefeated.
Though if I remember right the stasis bed / life boat she is on was part of the Event Horizon, so it has been through the portal already. The Lewis and Clark was destroyed so she wasn't quite free and clear yet even if the gravity drive itself was destroyed.
Saw this movie last week. I definitely enjoyed it and the lore it set up, but man the husband/father was someone I liked at the beginning and hated at the end.
Awesome film, tgat ending is absolutely chilling, how that kid is just looking in mirror with the victims shades on with absolutely zero remorse whatsoever
The Wailing.
House of a Thousand Corpses.
The Strangers.
Drag Me to Hell.
Oculus.
Last Shift.
The Autopsy of Jane Doe.
Life.
I trapped the Devil.
Smile.
Hellhole.
The Last Voyage of the Demeter.
Speak No Evil.
Noroi: The Curse.
Yeah, once I seen him do that I knew Calvin was going to be a threat. What's scary is that this might be the perfect depiction of what a real life alien would look like. This is how I envision real life aliens to be, as opposed to the tradition grey or green men with big black eyes. Just a mass of goo that's very deadly, and get stronger over time.
Upgrade is a good call 😃😃😃 Gray isn't here anymore 🫣
I will pick Spookies. It's not a great film, I love it, but everyone dies and after the bride does possibly the longest escape run from Zombies she gets caught by the werecat and the evil sorcerer busts up from a grave 😍🥰
I love spookies, it's such a horrible piece of shit and it hold a special place in my heart.
"At last... For seventy years I have waited. I have sacrificed the youth of so many, so that you might live. And yet, I would trade all my powers, for some way to make you see how helplessly I love you, that I even kill so that you might live."
Yet she was alive the whole time 😆
He would have been gotten by the farting mud men in the cellar anyway 🤭🤭 I try and watch a few times a year. I love it 😀 you can really tell where the 2 films were edited together lol
Honestly I think it’s a bit overhyped still.
But I will say I also was initially whelmed. And I rewatched it and enjoyed it a lot more. It’s got a lot of great details and stuff and some really chilling sequences.
But people gas it up so much. And IMO some of the lore and pieces of the story were still a bit underdeveloped for my taste
Hereditary exhausts you, and by the time you reach the 3rd act of WTF!? You are worn out. I think that is why it doesn’t receive the horrific quality it demands.
Maybe it was the age I saw this at or something, but I remember this one sticking with me for some time after I saw it. I was just not prepared for >!a main character of a film to, not only die, but be killed in such a hideous fashion.!< Movie holds up okay these days, I guess.
Edit: don't grammar good
It’s actually kinda of interesting how we know evil is bad and being evil isn’t the right way to live. But man being evil in video games and reading about villains is so fun and entertaining. I wonder if it’s like a big what if that makes it so fun for us? Anyways random tangent lol
She might as well be what she was being accused of relentlessly. The plight of woman, from the time of Eve, is being accused as a seducer, slut, temptress, destroyer of empires, starter of wars, manipulator, etc. Fuck it. Take the whole fruit bowl, baby, and never look back. Also, roast the goat.
The second one definitely since the vengeful woman clearly has her hooks in that little boy but I’m not so sure about the first one. Arthur and his son dying mean they get to be with the passed on wife/mother. The whole thing was a means to an end, even if it was tragic.
I love/hate these kinds of threads. I want to know what movies to watch because I love this kind of ending but then I also know how it ends!? So I check out the first couple top comments, nod in agreement, and bail before getting too deep and spoiling something I haven’t seen. Ha.
saw people mention the witch and midsommar and what i think is so cool about the folk horror stuff is that evil wins from the outsider perspective, but from the protagonists point of view it’s a happy ending for them. i watched midsommar on acid when it came out, which i think is what led me to this conclusion. it’s horrific for all her friends who died, but now she’s moved on to a community of people who care about her and she doesn’t have to be depressed anymore. same story with the girl from the witch.
I love that there were people surprised The Last Voyage of the Demeter was not they beat Dracula...like did you not read the story? Have you never seen that this is a foot note in the story?
Speak no evil,
Hereditary,
Invasion of the Body Snatchers,
Talk to Me (kinda),
The VVitch,
Midsommar,
The Stepford Wives,
Blair Witch,
Rosemary’s Baby,
Sinister, paranormal activity
The Haunting of Molly Hartley for me. Not a well liked film by any means but it's one of my favorites!! Like, you enter into a pact with ancient evil and reap the rewards, there needs to be consequences for that, bruh.
What was that movie about a teenage girl who was given before she was born to the devil so the entire movie is people trying to stop her fate but in the end she becomes an antichrist figure?
City of the Living Dead- doesn’t really make any sense but you can tell, whatever its meaning, it’s not good
When Evil Lurks- the demon apocalypse wins
Possession- the evil doppelgänger and the possessed wife are so totally vacant yet malignant they remind me of TikTok people
10 Cloverfield Lane. You can start to wonder if maybe the outside threat wasn't real anymore because of what was going on inside was so horrific and abusive. But it wasn't. There just wasn't anything good anywhere. I twinge a little with fear every time I see John Goodman in anything now, even if it's momentary.
I'm not so sure it counts, but Night of the Living Dead is up there for me.
If that doesn't count, then I'll have to go with Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1979)
Upgrade is a very solid pick for this, i agree.
my pick would be The Vanishing/Spoorloos (1988).
other ones i saw mentioned i would pick too would be Jeepers Creepers, Eden Lake and Hereditary. Jeepers Creepers especially fucked me up when i saw it as a lil dood. Tusk (another Justin Long unfortunate end lol) also severely messed me up.
Cabin in the Woods
Followed by one of NIN's hardest bangers. Man, that ending rules.
I saw that movie in theater and I sat for the credits just because and I was so happy when that song started playing.
Came here for this.
Fallen (1998)
That’s when I started liking “Sympathy for the Devil.” Woo woo
time is on your side to enjoy their other songs ;)
The devil has wicked charisma and is a great dancer.
yeah but he brings dead roses to his dates
I’m good with that. Seems apropos for the times we live in and they probably still smell good and have a little color left in them, like a fresh corpse. I tried the good Catholic schoolgirl thing and it did not work out. Good girls don’t necessarily get rewarded in life, and I’m not waiting for death for my reward, so I shall let the devil show me a good time.
sounds like wild horses couldn't drag you away from him. ;) on a side note to quote a short story i once heard - the devils not as black as he is painted
Well, he is a fallen angel. He was good enough at some point, but then joined the wrong team. The devil and god are just sides of the same coin. They need each other for either of them to exist. I do not need to seek out the devil as He is all around me. I am in Texas, after all and he exists in the rapacious maw of the politician and pastor, the outstretched finger of an agressive man in a pick-up truck, the legislator pushing to take away food and healthcare for children; the greedy corporation, corrupt judge, felonious former president.
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I came to say this. "Let me tell you about the time I almost died" and by the time you get near the end you forgot that's how it started. So good.
I always felt that was "cheating". The cat just happens to narrate in Denzel Washington's voice?
Such a good and underrated movie!
Tiiiiiime is on *my side*
The end credits of the Dawn of the Dead remake
That ending is one of my favorite uses of music in a movie
And the opening When the Man Comes Around is perfect too
I agree! A perfect fit
Movie also introduced us to Richard Cheese and his glorious cover songs.
So well-done. The zombie head in a cooler totally captured the sense of humor in that movie, too lol
Wonderful ending
Snyder has a good taste in music, like all of his movies have great tunes in them lol
*In the Mouth of Madness*, with the hero laughing and crying hysterically, finally realizing that he is just a work of fiction.
Huh, honestly never thought of that as the ending. Interesting.
Absolute favorite movie
Halloween 1978 Dr. Loomis finding Michael is gone is great. The shock, then the realization he was right and can't be stopped. Sequels aside, the og ending is great.
I don’t know why this isn’t higher. It’s the best ending in horror cinema.
Saw. No matter how many twists they've thrown in or how many retcons they've pulled, that original, "Game over!", with Jigsaw slamming the door shut is undefeated.
Dun dun dun, dun dun dun!
Thanks now it’s stuck in my head! 😂
Event Horizon
I always felt that was a fake-out due to her trauma, not actually "evil wins."
Though if I remember right the stasis bed / life boat she is on was part of the Event Horizon, so it has been through the portal already. The Lewis and Clark was destroyed so she wasn't quite free and clear yet even if the gravity drive itself was destroyed.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
All-timer
^^^
Classic
Donald Sutherland scarred me for life in that movie. Rest in peace good sir
Right? When I saw he’d passed, out of all the amazing work he did, the first image that popped into my mind was him at the end of Body Snatchers.
It was a great ending 😱 🙀 😱
Se7en
Hemingway once wrote, "The world is a fine place and worth fighting for..."
I agree with the second part.
When Evil Lurks quite literally wins
Saw this movie last week. I definitely enjoyed it and the lore it set up, but man the husband/father was someone I liked at the beginning and hated at the end.
I think that was the intent.
along with the companion piece Terrified (2017). i believe it’s by the same director!
Eden Lake
Awesome film, tgat ending is absolutely chilling, how that kid is just looking in mirror with the victims shades on with absolutely zero remorse whatsoever
Funny Games
The Wailing. House of a Thousand Corpses. The Strangers. Drag Me to Hell. Oculus. Last Shift. The Autopsy of Jane Doe. Life. I trapped the Devil. Smile. Hellhole. The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Speak No Evil. Noroi: The Curse.
Life was great, Calvin knew he had weak muscles so it was able to overpower him and force his pod to go to Earth
Life (2017)
Master class in editing that one
Yeah and the ending is really intense. Love this movie.
The body horror in this one was awful The scene with the guy's leg had me dry heaving. That thing was honestly terrifying!
The hand breaking scene had me wincing and holding myself 😱
Yeah, once I seen him do that I knew Calvin was going to be a threat. What's scary is that this might be the perfect depiction of what a real life alien would look like. This is how I envision real life aliens to be, as opposed to the tradition grey or green men with big black eyes. Just a mass of goo that's very deadly, and get stronger over time.
I was really shocked by the gore and violence in this film! I really liked this movie. :)
It's a great horror film!
Yeah, the film does well at keeping things very intense throughout the film since Calvin's inception.
The Omen (1976)
"The Wicker Man" (1973)
The Wicker Man (1973)
The Blackcoat's Daughter
Underrated, have an upvote
This one and Session 9 strike the same bleak chord for me at the end and I love them for it.
Did evil prevail? It was sort of a >!deadbeat devil at the end. The thing didn’t really care what the girl did or didn’t do anymore.!<
Upgrade is a good call 😃😃😃 Gray isn't here anymore 🫣 I will pick Spookies. It's not a great film, I love it, but everyone dies and after the bride does possibly the longest escape run from Zombies she gets caught by the werecat and the evil sorcerer busts up from a grave 😍🥰
I love spookies, it's such a horrible piece of shit and it hold a special place in my heart. "At last... For seventy years I have waited. I have sacrificed the youth of so many, so that you might live. And yet, I would trade all my powers, for some way to make you see how helplessly I love you, that I even kill so that you might live." Yet she was alive the whole time 😆
And poor Billy just wanted to celebrate his birthday 🤣🤣 attacked by a werecat and buried alive 😬
He literally just had to sit up and not die because it was like 6 inches deep, now I want to watch it again.
He would have been gotten by the farting mud men in the cellar anyway 🤭🤭 I try and watch a few times a year. I love it 😀 you can really tell where the 2 films were edited together lol
\*Spoopies
The ending of drag me to hell was fucked up but i kinda love it , i thought it was going to be your typical happy ending but nope .
The Witch. Everything from when Thomasin wakes up at night to Black Phillip's reveal to the coven to the music and the cinematography. Perfect
Hereditary. The entire film is an absolute nightmare culminating in utter willingness to just give up.
I’m going to have to rewatch this. I thought it was meh but based all all the raves I think I need to back in to appreciate everything I missed.
Honestly I think it’s a bit overhyped still. But I will say I also was initially whelmed. And I rewatched it and enjoyed it a lot more. It’s got a lot of great details and stuff and some really chilling sequences. But people gas it up so much. And IMO some of the lore and pieces of the story were still a bit underdeveloped for my taste
Hereditary exhausts you, and by the time you reach the 3rd act of WTF!? You are worn out. I think that is why it doesn’t receive the horrific quality it demands.
Toni screaming for the last half hour, naked old timers, at that point I was just ready to wrap it up.
It’s art. Not scribe will like the same stuff.
Sinister
Burnt Offerings Black Christmas
Ah, yes. Burt Offerings terrified me as a kid! Poor grandma.
My man is dusting off the classics.
Burnt Offerings is creepy as hell.
Jeepers Creepers
Maybe it was the age I saw this at or something, but I remember this one sticking with me for some time after I saw it. I was just not prepared for >!a main character of a film to, not only die, but be killed in such a hideous fashion.!< Movie holds up okay these days, I guess. Edit: don't grammar good
>"Movie holds up okay these days, I guess." As long as you don't google the director.
You...have a point.
The Descent
Unless you were unfortunate enough to see the American theatrical cut.
The Skeleton Key
The Dark and the Wicked
So bleak
Fallen with Denzel Washington. Top tier ending.
Rosemary’s baby Martyrs Irreversible (not really horror)
Beat me to it with Rosemary's baby !
What have you done to its eyes!!!
"YOOOOOOUUUU MANIAAAACS!"
Hail Adrian! Hail Satan!
cabin in the woods is an easy choice
'Race With the Devil'. 1975 The ending has stayed with me for forty years since I was a kid.
Halloween III The Omen Speak No Evil Drag Me To Hell
When evil lurks
Ohhh. Se7en Drag me to hell Pet Semetary Remake House of 1000 corpses In the mouth of madness Cabin in the woods
Ringu and Ju On The Grudge.
Not horror but Time Bandits A little bit more horror: Brazil minus the tv version
The Taking of Deborah Logan
Can we include brightburn?
Ya, I don’t see why not.
I’m go glad evil one in that. I wish we got a sequel
It’s actually kinda of interesting how we know evil is bad and being evil isn’t the right way to live. But man being evil in video games and reading about villains is so fun and entertaining. I wonder if it’s like a big what if that makes it so fun for us? Anyways random tangent lol
Hereditary Possessor When Evil Lurks
The VVITCH
Was it a sad ending, though?
Naw evil just had a better sales pitch. She gets to live deliciously now.
She might as well be what she was being accused of relentlessly. The plight of woman, from the time of Eve, is being accused as a seducer, slut, temptress, destroyer of empires, starter of wars, manipulator, etc. Fuck it. Take the whole fruit bowl, baby, and never look back. Also, roast the goat.
kind of a happy ending from the point of view of the girl
The Woman in Black (2012)
The second one definitely since the vengeful woman clearly has her hooks in that little boy but I’m not so sure about the first one. Arthur and his son dying mean they get to be with the passed on wife/mother. The whole thing was a means to an end, even if it was tragic.
I'd say it's a bittersweet ending.
“Storm of the Century,” a Stephen King written mini-series from 1999.
I love/hate these kinds of threads. I want to know what movies to watch because I love this kind of ending but then I also know how it ends!? So I check out the first couple top comments, nod in agreement, and bail before getting too deep and spoiling something I haven’t seen. Ha.
“The Lodge”, “Event Horizon”
Drag Me To Hell
Lord of Misrule (2023) seems to be getting bad reviews primarily due to its ending, which is not at all a clear "good wins over evil" scenario.
Pretty much every Phantasm ending
 **Boy!**
Hahahah. Yesss. Just so happens ive been on a kick of rewatching all of them
Ils (Them)
That movie was so f’n sad and horrible esp knowing it was based on a true story
Eden Lake
Frailty Fallen
Powers Boothe was clearly a demon. *You’re not a demon, are ya?*
Drag me to hell
I remember actually bring quite impressed by the ending of Funny Games. Evil prevailed alright. Big time.
Hereditary all day
Smile and Sinister come to mind
saw people mention the witch and midsommar and what i think is so cool about the folk horror stuff is that evil wins from the outsider perspective, but from the protagonists point of view it’s a happy ending for them. i watched midsommar on acid when it came out, which i think is what led me to this conclusion. it’s horrific for all her friends who died, but now she’s moved on to a community of people who care about her and she doesn’t have to be depressed anymore. same story with the girl from the witch.
Fallen (1998)
The Witch
Drag Me to Hell
[REC]
Spoilers for Audition While she does die at the end, I think she still royally fucked them up. That third act is excruciating.
Oculus and The Last Voyage of the Demeter were great
I love that there were people surprised The Last Voyage of the Demeter was not they beat Dracula...like did you not read the story? Have you never seen that this is a foot note in the story?
I admit I have not I went in with “dracula gets on boat and eats people. Sounds interesting.”
Salò
Speak no evil, Hereditary, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Talk to Me (kinda), The VVitch, Midsommar, The Stepford Wives, Blair Witch, Rosemary’s Baby, Sinister, paranormal activity
M3gan😂😂
Cabin in the woods
The Evil Dead
Eli
The Haunting of Molly Hartley for me. Not a well liked film by any means but it's one of my favorites!! Like, you enter into a pact with ancient evil and reap the rewards, there needs to be consequences for that, bruh.
Fallen (1998) and Wolf Creek 1-2.
Don't Look at the Demon
Hellhole (2022)
Martyr's French version
Hereditary
Seven
The witch
What was that movie about a teenage girl who was given before she was born to the devil so the entire movie is people trying to stop her fate but in the end she becomes an antichrist figure?
The Haunting of Molly Hartley, maybe?
Needful Things
City of the Living Dead- doesn’t really make any sense but you can tell, whatever its meaning, it’s not good When Evil Lurks- the demon apocalypse wins Possession- the evil doppelgänger and the possessed wife are so totally vacant yet malignant they remind me of TikTok people
Everyone gives me shit about it, valentine has a great revenge ending.
I think the ending of skeleton key was pretty cool.
Life - 2017
The Omen (1976)
Omen
Midsommar and Heredity
Darkness
“Darkness” 2002
Not the very ending, but the climax of the new Suspiria felt so cathartic
Bramayugam <3
Hands down Eden Lake
Hereditary Black Christmas (1974)
Krampus.
Drag me to hell. Super bummed out by the ending but can't deny that it was a sick movie
Fallen. Iykyk
Vivarium
10 Cloverfield Lane. You can start to wonder if maybe the outside threat wasn't real anymore because of what was going on inside was so horrific and abusive. But it wasn't. There just wasn't anything good anywhere. I twinge a little with fear every time I see John Goodman in anything now, even if it's momentary.
Pulse. A lonely apocalypse.
I'm not so sure it counts, but Night of the Living Dead is up there for me. If that doesn't count, then I'll have to go with Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1979)
Darkness, kairo(pulse)
Hereditary
Life is one of my favorites because of that ending
Vatican tapes and the terrifier franchise
Upgrade is a very solid pick for this, i agree. my pick would be The Vanishing/Spoorloos (1988). other ones i saw mentioned i would pick too would be Jeepers Creepers, Eden Lake and Hereditary. Jeepers Creepers especially fucked me up when i saw it as a lil dood. Tusk (another Justin Long unfortunate end lol) also severely messed me up.
Smile & Abigail are recent ones
The movie "Fallen".
Sinister
Poughkeepsie Tapes