Top 10 Movie Endings That Give Us Chills

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The chills will never end. Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the most devastating, frightening, and/or unsettling endings in film.

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00:00The primal questions of any marriage.

00:04What are you thinking?

00:06How are you feeling?

00:07Welcome to Ms. Mojo,

00:09and today we're counting down our picks for the most devastating,

00:12frightening, and or unsettling endings in films.

00:16Spoilers ahead.

00:17This is Jessie, the roughest, toughest cowgirl in the whole west.

00:21She loves critters, but none more than her best pal, Bullseye.

00:2510. The New King – Hereditary

00:38Peter Graham goes through the ringer as his family falls apart.

00:41Not only are his sister and father dead, he then has to avoid his possessed mother.

00:46After being revived, he enters the treehouse and finds himself to be King Paimon.

00:51It's nothing short of unsettling after a whirlwind of tragedy.

00:55There's nothing to do but reluctantly accept this new reality.

01:22But the chaos around him is nothing short of freaky.

01:26It appears that the coven finally gets what it wants in this shady ritual.

01:30As filmmaker Ari Aster leaves you pondering existence,

01:34he provides one last disturbing note to finish the story.

01:409. The Sound of Silence – The Graduate

01:52Ben Braddock has had nothing short of a strange time in his post-graduate life.

01:56While in the midst of an affair with Mrs. Robinson,

01:59he falls for the older woman's daughter Elaine.

02:02I don't know what to say.

02:03Maybe we can get together sometime and talk about it.

02:06Really incredible.

02:07Braddock ends up interrupting the latter's wedding and riding off with her in a bus.

02:12This appears to be a happy ending, until we see that the two look completely lost.

02:17It's uncertain whether or not they'll last,

02:19with the pair going silent as they ride away.

02:22They might have jumped the gun a little too soon,

02:25and possibly ruined one or both of their lives.

02:28Accompanied by the sounds of Simon and Garfunkel,

02:31the melancholic ending makes us wonder whether cinematic romance is all it's cracked up to be.

02:458. Forgetting It – Chinatown

02:50In the third act of this film noir,

03:00private detective Jake Giddes uncovers a conspiracy and the horrors within the Mulray family.

03:06Giddes tries to help Evelyn and her daughter get away,

03:09but the police intervene and kill Evelyn.

03:12The violent conclusion leaves the private eye looking hopeless in the face of corruption.

03:17He realizes that this case is much worse than he could have imagined,

03:21breaking down in a devastating finale.

03:24Sometimes the hero doesn't win, and even makes things worse.

03:28Hearing a final, immortal line of dialogue,

03:30the broken protagonist walks away from a complete mess, leaving us perturbed.

03:367. Giving the Toys Away – Toy Story 3

03:48Andy's collection of toys have gone through a lot,

03:51even escaping a fiery death at one point during Toy Story 3.

03:55Woody, Buzz, and the rest of the family are still trapped in the house,

03:59and the only way to get out is to find a way out.

04:02Woody, Buzz, and the rest of the gang ultimately find themselves with another owner.

04:08The heartfelt ending gives them a final moment

04:11before their human friend Andy leaves for college, and they begin anew.

04:22It's such a bittersweet sequence, filled with all the sadness and uncertainty of goodbyes.

04:28For an animated movie about talking playthings,

04:31Pixar leaves us on a mature note as we think about the concept of growing up.

04:36You might cry or be left feeling melancholic,

04:39depending on how you interpret this one.

04:516. The Box – 7

05:02After the serial killer John Doe turns himself in,

05:05he takes Detective Mills and Somerset to a remote location.

05:09This prompts one of the most chilling endings of the 1990s.

05:13I'm gonna open it.

05:15When I said I admired you, I meant what I said.

05:18The gruesome contents of a package are said to be the head of Mills' wife,

05:22prompting the latter to seek revenge on Doe.

05:25It's all part of the killer's plan to engineer the last steps of his seven deadly kills,

05:30putting these sins into practice.

05:32The villain finishes out his brutal scheme, essentially from beyond the grave.

05:37Most movie bad guys are awful, but this proves that some are downright diabolical.

05:535. The Ghostly Twist – The Sixth Sense

05:57Why, Malcolm?

06:01What? What is it?

06:05Why did you leave me?

06:07Helping a kid who sees dead people,

06:09Dr. Malcolm Crowe doesn't understand that he has some ghostly problems of his own.

06:14Cole, I was really interested in what you told me at the hospital.

06:18I'd like to hear more about it.

06:20Crowe later tries to reunite with his wife,

06:22but realizes he didn't survive the opening scene where he got shot.

06:26This shocking twist marks one of M. Night Shyamalan's greatest filmmaking feats.

06:31As viewers, we have to rethink everything we've just seen,

06:34which gives the story a newer, much darker context.

06:38The hero comes to understand that he can't exactly have his happy ending.

06:42With Bruce Willis' fantastic performance,

06:45the emotional and unexpected finale gives us chills to this day.

06:49I think I can go now.

06:56I just needed to do a couple things.

06:584. Burning the Bear – Midsommar

07:01One to be chosen by the Queen. Nine in all to die and be reborn.

07:09Danny and Christian have a questionable relationship

07:12that's pushed to extremes during their deadly visit to Sweden.

07:16Many others are killed, but the final segments take it all up a notch.

07:20Indeed, Christian ends up paralyzed as Danny becomes the May Queen.

07:24This horror plot does more than ensure there's not going to be a happily ever after.

07:29Hello, there you are. Listen, you can't speak, you can't move, alright?

07:38She ultimately has to choose who else will die in a chilling finale.

07:43As the villagers play the couple against each other,

07:45they let the lead character seal her lover's fate.

07:48It's exactly the kind of horrifying conclusion you'd expect from an Ari Aster film.

07:593. The Vision Comes True – Don't Look Now

08:03It's okay. I have a friend. I won't hurt you.

08:12After the death of their daughter, a family grieves in Venice.

08:16Dad, John Baxter, starts to have all kinds of spooky visions.

08:20These end up being glimpses into the future, but by the time he realizes that, it's too late.

08:31He sees his child's red coat once more on his killer.

08:35With the hero's death, the twisted nature of this thriller comes to light.

08:39It's definitely a gut punch for all of us hoping that the haunting mystery would

08:43end on a better note. Under the skilled direction of Nicolas Roeg,

08:47Don't Look Now channels grief, violence, and family strife into a finale you'll never forget.

08:582. End of the Maze – The Shining

09:04The ending of this Stephen King adaptation is more than a little ominous.

09:08Wendy and Danny manage to escape, and Jack Torrance is left to meet his demise.

09:14It would seem that the nightmare at the Overlook Hotel is over.

09:21Before letting us go, though, director Stanley Kubrick points us towards a vintage photograph

09:27that shows Jack at a party decades before. This leads us to believe that maybe the lead

09:32character's identity is more complicated than we could have imagined. It's an unsettling way

09:38to end things, as we're left wondering about this haunting ghost story.

09:51Before we unveil our top pick, here are a few honorable mentions.

09:55The Older Woman – Orphan

09:57Esther's true age and identity are revealed, and she forces her new family into a violent finale.

10:08Bowling Alley Showdown – There Will Be Blood

10:13Daniel Plainview finishes off his rival Eli in one last moment of greed and violence.

10:24Trapped – Gone Girl

10:26Amy returns home and coerces Nick back into the ultimate toxic relationship.

10:32Deadly Union – On Her Majesty's Secret Service

10:41James Bond's saddest moment comes when he loses the love of his life.

10:52Accidental Shooting – Night of the Living Dead

10:55Ben survives the night only to be treated like another monster.

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11:20Too Soon – The Mist

11:22If things aren't dire enough by this point in The Mist,

11:30the survivors now believe they're about to die and decide to take matters into their own hands.

11:36So leader David makes the impossible decision to use the last of his ammo

11:40on the others in a show of mercy.

11:53Afterwards, he sees the military and learns they all could have been saved.

12:00It's an earth-shattering realization that leaves us speechless. Thanks to Thomas Jane's acting,

12:06his character's final scream makes us feel the pure anguish he's experiencing.

12:11It's one of the most tragic endings on this side of the 21st century,

12:15showing that even heroes sometimes can't catch a break.

12:22Did we forget a classic movie that left you devastated? Let us know in the comments.

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