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Sleep with the lights on tonight... Join us as we count down our picks for the most terrifying movie endings that left audiences traumatized! From shocking twists to soul-crushing finales, these conclusions will haunt your nightmares long after the credits roll. Which horrifying finale made you afraid to turn off the lights?
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00:00We gave it a good shot. Nobody can say we didn't.
00:06Nope. Nobody can say that.
00:10Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the most well-crafted,
00:14most terrifying endings to a horror film ever. Major spoilers to come, of course.
00:19I like that you made the movies longer. They're better this way.
00:23Number 50. The Thing.
00:29This classic John Carpenter film follows explorers in Antarctica who discover an alien life form.
00:34What ensues is a tense thriller as the creature possesses the bodies of animals and humans alike.
00:49The ending pits leader MacReady against The Thing.
00:53MacReady manages to detonate the explosives around the stations, killing The Thing for good.
00:57Or so it seems.
01:14When a missing member child suddenly returns, the possibility of infection lingers in the air.
01:19Many fans have theorized as much, although Carpenter has cannily played both sides.
01:24The movie's finale is chilling in its subtlety.
01:28Where were you, Charles?
01:31Thought I saw Blair.
01:34I went out after him.
01:36Got lost in the stone.
01:38This British film will give you a fear of large bodies of water.
01:45Couple Jenny and Steve are enjoying their weekend vacation at a picturesque lake when they are besieged by young hoodlums.
01:51The gang engages in a reign of terror as they harass, steal from, and assault Jenny and Steve, leaving the latter for dead.
01:58Is it warm?
01:59Say it!
01:59Is it warm?
02:00Is it warm?
02:00Is it warm?
02:02When Jenny manages to escape, killing several of the youths as she does so, she finds herself in an even worse predicament.
02:09I want the police.
02:11Hey, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
02:13Don't worry about it.
02:14No, I'm still there.
02:15You just sit there.
02:16Hey, hey, hey, hey, shh, you just sit quiet.
02:18The house she's in belongs to the parents of Brett, the psychopathic ringleader of their gang.
02:25Angered by the loss of their children, the adults attack Jenny.
02:29Now this is horror.
02:31They did this challenge.
02:33I didn't meet you.
02:36They started this.
02:38We're going to finish here.
02:40Number 48.
02:41The Orphanage.
02:42One of the scariest Spanish language films,
02:44this movie follows Laura as she tries to renovate the orphanage she grew up in.
02:49But when her adopted son, Simone, goes missing, strange things begin to happen.
02:59Of course, the orphanage is haunted by the ghost of a young boy, Tomás,
03:03who died as a result of his fellow orphans' taunting.
03:06In the end, Laura finally finds Simone's corpse in a secret room, wearing Tomás' old mask.
03:12No!
03:14No!
03:16Laura takes many sleeping pills and meets with the departed orphans once more.
03:21It is a great, if bleak, twist on the whole haunted building trope,
03:24with the horror being the descent into madness.
03:36Number 47.
03:37An American Werewolf in London.
03:39It's what it says on the tin.
03:41This horror-comedy cult classic follows David and Jack through the London Moors,
03:45where they're attacked by a mysterious creature.
03:47Are you going to help me up or what?
03:54David survives, but soon discovers an even greater horror.
03:58The creature that bit him was a werewolf, and his transformation is imminent.
04:02Please!
04:04Help me!
04:05Help me!
04:08Sure enough, David transforms and goes on a killing spree.
04:14Unfortunately, David is unable to overcome his lupine nature.
04:18After failing to end himself, he is shot dead by the police,
04:22much in the same way his attacker was.
04:24Metamorphoses have never been so terrifying.
04:26I love you, David.
04:33Number 46.
04:34The Autopsy of Jane Doe.
04:36This is one troublesome corpse.
04:38Local coroner Tommy and his son Austin perform an autopsy
04:41on a female corpse found in a house with multiple homicide victims.
04:45When several corpses in the morgue seemingly come back to life,
04:48it isn't long before Tommy and Austin suspect Jane Doe.
04:51They are a witch, and their blood shall be on their own hands.
04:58It turns out Jane was a victim of the Salem witch trials,
05:01now with actual powers and not at all dead.
05:12Tommy offers himself a sacrifice, and Austin falls to his death.
05:16Jane, of course, survives intact,
05:18and there's even a suggestion she may come back.
05:21Chills.
05:29Number 45.
05:31Nosferatu.
05:32It's a tall order to remake a 1922 horror classic,
05:36but director Robert Eggers delivered a vampire film
05:38that delivers excellent chills and thrills.
05:41A loose retelling of Dracula,
05:43the film follows Thomas Hutter as he sells a manor
05:45to the mysterious Count Orlok.
05:47Of course, Orlok is a vampire with powers of his own,
06:03and a connection to Thomas' wife Ellen since her childhood.
06:07As Orlok begins to haunt Ellen,
06:09he demands that she submit to him,
06:10or else he will kill her loved ones.
06:12Ellen sacrifices herself,
06:31but Orlok overstays his feeding and sunlight kills him.
06:34Sometimes you can't go wrong with an OG classic.
06:37Number 44.
06:39The Silence of the Lambs.
06:41Speaking of classics,
06:42here is everyone's favorite cannibal.
06:44FBI trainee Clarice Starling
06:46enlists the help of the creepily erudite cannibal
06:48Dr. Hannibal Lecter
06:49to hunt for serial killer Buffalo Bill.
06:52Lecter gives Clarice cryptic clues
06:53as to Bill's whereabouts and motivations.
06:56Our belly wasn't born a criminal, Clarice.
06:59He was made one.
07:00Clarice manages to kill Buffalo Bill,
07:02but not before Lecter orchestrates
07:04his gruesome escape from prison.
07:12Afterward, Lecter calls Clarice
07:13to assure she is safe from him,
07:15so long as she doesn't try to capture him.
07:18That ending long shot
07:19with Lecter leisurely stalking his latest victim
07:21is one of the most subtly chilling shots
07:23in all cinema.
07:24Number 43.
07:38Us.
07:39Director Jordan Peele's sophomore effort
07:41has a devastating finale.
07:43This film follows Adelaide
07:44as she meets her doppelganger, Red.
07:46It turns out Adelaide's whole family
07:48has evil doppelgangers as well,
07:50known as the Tethered,
07:51who terrorize and attempt to kill them.
07:54We finally find out from Red
08:08that they were created
08:09as a result of a failed experiment
08:11to control the populace.
08:13Adelaide finally manages to kill Red,
08:15but of course,
08:16there is a gruesome twist.
08:17Adelaide is actually the Tethered doppelganger
08:30who trapped the real Adelaide underground
08:32and usurped her life.
08:33Now that's horrific.
08:34Number 42.
08:51The Fly.
08:52Beware of this fly.
08:54Metamorphosis horror doesn't get much better
08:56than this classic sci-fi horror film.
08:58When scientist Seth Brundle tests out
09:00his brand new teleportation device himself,
09:02he starts to exhibit strange
09:04and horrific characteristics.
09:06Oh, God.
09:08Oh, God.
09:09Seth.
09:10You look so pretty.
09:12What will happen?
09:13It turns out that a fly
09:15had entered the pod with him,
09:16causing its DNA and his to merge.
09:19As Seth becomes more and more
09:20of a fly hybrid,
09:21his mental state unravels.
09:23You know, I'm becoming something
09:24that never existed before.
09:26I'm becoming Brundle Fly.
09:28When he holds his girlfriend Ronnie hostage,
09:31he finally transforms
09:32into the ultimate Brundle Fly.
09:34A heartbroken Ronnie finally shoots him
09:36and puts an end to his misery.
09:38Devastating.
09:39I can't.
09:41No.
09:44No.
09:47No.
09:49No.
09:49Number 41.
09:50The Wailing.
09:51This Korean film's ending
09:53is pure stranger danger.
09:55After the arrival of a mysterious Japanese man,
09:57a small remote village in Korea
09:59is afflicted with a strange plague.
10:11The villagers become possessed,
10:13causing them to erupt into violence
10:15and attempt to kill their families.
10:22When Officer Chung-gu's daughter Hyojin
10:24becomes one of the possessed,
10:26Chung-gu sets out
10:27on a perilous investigation.
10:29In the end,
10:30a possessed Hyojin escapes
10:31and kills her family,
10:32as well as her father.
10:41It turned out
10:42the Japanese man
10:43was the cause of the infection
10:44and was, in fact,
10:46a demon.
10:47Yikes.
10:47What's that?
11:00Number 40.
11:01The Substance.
11:02Nominated for the Palme d'Or,
11:04this body horror finale
11:05packs a punch.
11:07Celebrity of a certain age,
11:09Elizabeth Sparkle
11:09begins to take
11:10a black market substance
11:11known as
11:12The Substance,
11:13which promises to restore
11:15her youth and beauty.
11:16Instead,
11:17it makes another
11:18youthful version of herself,
11:19Sue,
11:20come out of her body.
11:21This is my dream.
11:23As a child,
11:23I used to put on shows
11:24for my family.
11:25Ooh, your family.
11:27Switching consciousness,
11:29the two women clash
11:30as Elizabeth
11:31resents Sue's success
11:32and Sue becomes scornful
11:34of Elizabeth's bitterness.
11:35Sue eventually
11:36gets rid of Elizabeth,
11:37creating a monster composite
11:39of both her
11:39and Elizabeth.
11:40The ending shows
11:54this monster,
11:55Alyssa Sue,
11:56getting decapitated
11:57and falling apart.
11:58You could say
11:59that the substance
12:00didn't become her.
12:01Monster!
12:02Shoot the monster!
12:13Number 39.
12:15Mother.
12:15Directed by Darren Aronofsky,
12:17the film follows a couple,
12:19him and Mother,
12:20as they give boarding
12:21to a mysterious person
12:22called Man,
12:23who turns out to be
12:23a fan of him's poetry.
12:25Man is soon joined
12:40by his wife, Woman,
12:41and their two sons.
12:42What follows
12:43is a series of strange
12:44and violent events,
12:46where one son
12:46assaults and kills the other,
12:48and him's rabid fans
12:49grow into a deadly cult.
12:51When Mother
12:51finally blows up
12:52the intruders,
12:53she is badly burned
12:54and dies.
13:06Him places her heart
13:07on a pedestal.
13:08The house becomes
13:09a beautiful home
13:10once more,
13:11and a new mother
13:12is born.
13:13A chilling allegory
13:14with definite
13:15biblical resonances,
13:16this ending will haunt us
13:17for a long time.
13:24baby.
13:26Number 38,
13:27The Vanishing.
13:28This Dutch film
13:29is an oldie but a goodie.
13:30While on holiday in France,
13:32couple Rex and Saskia
13:33stop at a gas station
13:34where Saskia
13:35mysteriously disappears.
13:37For three years,
13:38Rex becomes obsessed
13:39with finding her.
13:47The kidnapper Raymond
13:49comes forward
13:49as a self-proclaimed
13:50sociopath.
13:51He admits
13:52that he abducted Saskia
13:53by posing
13:54as a traveling salesman.
13:56He tells Rex
13:56that the only way
13:57to know what happened
13:58to Saskia
13:58is to drink
13:59a cup of drugged coffee.
14:08We then see Raymond
14:09with his family
14:10in his estate.
14:11A newspaper
14:12details the disappearances
14:13of both Rex
14:14and Saskia.
14:15There is nothing
14:16more haunting
14:17than love
14:18and obsession.
14:27Number 37,
14:28It Follows.
14:29You've heard
14:30of stalker ghosts.
14:31Now get ready
14:32for a stalker
14:33STD.
14:34High schooler Jay
14:35has sex
14:36with her boyfriend
14:36Hugh
14:37who drugs her
14:37and tells her
14:38that she will be
14:39followed by someone
14:40only she can see.
14:41The only way
14:48to get rid
14:49of this entity
14:49he claims
14:50is to have sex
14:51with someone else
14:52and pass it on.
14:53Sure enough,
14:54Jay begins to see
14:54a naked old woman
14:55along with others.
15:04Jay's friends
15:05do manage
15:05to kill the creature
15:06electrifying it
15:07in a swimming pool.
15:08Still,
15:09when Jay and Paul
15:09have sex,
15:10the entity
15:11seemingly returns
15:12to haunt them.
15:13Sex and horror
15:14continue to be
15:15deeply intertwined.
15:27Number 36,
15:28Midsommar.
15:29If it isn't sex
15:30or a rural small town,
15:32it's a cult.
15:33Couple Danny
15:33and Kristen's
15:34relationship
15:34is strained
15:35after Danny's
15:36bipolar sister
15:36undoes herself
15:37and kills her parents.
15:39They go to a nine-day
15:51mid-summer festival
15:52in Sweden
15:53where the locals
15:54engage in a whole host
15:55of strange practices
15:56including hallucinogenic tea,
15:58sex rituals,
15:58and of course,
15:59human sacrifices.
16:01Nine in total.
16:02Those two hudans
16:03have just reached
16:05the end
16:05of their
16:06horga life cycle.
16:08You need to understand
16:09it as a great joy
16:11for them.
16:11As the crowned
16:12May Queen,
16:13Danny must choose
16:13either to sacrifice
16:14Christian
16:15or a random member
16:16of the commune.
16:17She chooses Christian
16:18and the members
16:19burn him with the others.
16:21Talk about a messy breakup.
16:22Number 35.
16:32The Cabin in the Woods
16:33Drew Goddard
16:34and Joss Whedon
16:35dipped their toes
16:36into horror
16:36in this meta-satirical film
16:38with a twist
16:39on this old trope.
16:47A group of American students
16:48spends a weekend
16:49at a cabin in the woods.
16:50It turns out
16:51the cabin is controlled
16:52by engineers
16:53engaging in an annual ritual
16:55of human sacrifice
16:56to the Ancient Ones.
16:58They manipulate
16:58the students' behavior
16:59and release monsters.
17:01The whole world, Marty,
17:02is in your hands, Dana.
17:05There is no other way.
17:08You have to be strong.
17:10The ritual is complete
17:11only when Dana,
17:12the virgin,
17:13kills Marty, the fool.
17:14Dana and Marty refuse.
17:16Instead,
17:17both they and the cabin
17:18are swallowed
17:19by the Ancient Ones.
17:20and the world ends.
17:22Defying horror movie tropes
17:24will lead you
17:24to a gruesome end.
17:36Number 34.
17:37The Witch
17:38Get thee behind Satan.
17:40Few films can pull you
17:41into the 17th century mentality
17:43as effectively as this one.
17:45A Puritan family
17:46living in New England
17:47is banished from their community
17:48and forced to build
17:49a farm near a forest.
17:51Tensions rise
17:51when baby Samuel
17:52is kidnapped by a witch.
17:54The devil!
17:54No, no, it does.
17:55The devil will speak
17:56scripture too!
17:57No, no, it does.
17:58It's not true!
17:59We are damned!
18:00Wake!
18:01Following many
18:02hallucinatory episodes
18:03and grisly deaths,
18:05Thomason's mother accuses
18:06her daughter
18:06of causing these deaths.
18:08She tries to kill her
18:09and Thomason kills her
18:10in self-defense.
18:11You killed my children!
18:14You killed that father!
18:17You're a witch!
18:18I love you!
18:19I love you!
18:20What?
18:21The devil arrives
18:22and offers her
18:23anything she wants
18:24with this iconic line.
18:26What's thou like
18:27to live deliciously?
18:29What a finale!
18:31Number 33.
18:32Funny Games
18:33Georg and Anna
18:34are visited by two strangers,
18:36Powell and Peter.
18:37When Georg tries to oust them
18:38for their impertinent behavior
18:40over eggs,
18:40Powell and Peter
18:41take them hostage instead,
18:43forcing them
18:43into playing sadistic games.
18:46They will be with us
18:47that they live tomorrow
18:47and we will be with you
18:49that they are dead, okay?
18:51Their son Georgie
18:52tries to escape
18:53but is shot
18:54by trigger-happy Peter.
18:56When Anna succeeds
18:57in killing Peter,
18:58Powell merely rewinds
18:59the movie for a do-over.
19:00The two of them
19:09successfully kill the couple,
19:11moving on to
19:12their next victims.
19:13These are horrifying games indeed.
19:15Number 32.
19:23The Mist
19:23This film,
19:24based on the Stephen King novella
19:25of the same name,
19:26differed from its source material
19:28in its ending.
19:29The townspeople of Maine
19:30find themselves trapped
19:31in a supermarket
19:32by a mysterious mist
19:33that descended on their town.
19:34Soon,
19:35creatures begin to attack
19:36the inhabitants.
19:37local resident David
19:47emerges as a group leader,
19:48killing monsters
19:49and trying to get supplies.
19:51When their group
19:51runs out of gas,
19:52David decides to do
19:53mercy killings
19:54on his fellow survivors,
19:56only to be rescued
19:57soon afterward
19:58by U.S. troops.
19:59For once.
20:04There's five of us.
20:06King himself approved
20:07of this change
20:08to his original ending,
20:09and we agree
20:10it is a devastating conclusion.
20:23Number 31.
20:25Audition
20:25A grieving husband
20:27decides to audition women
20:28for the part of his wife
20:29in this Japanese horror film.
20:31Widower Shigeharu Aoyama
20:32gets help
20:33from his film producer friend,
20:34who sets up
20:35a fake casting audition.
20:48Shigeharu is particularly
20:49taken with Asami,
20:50an ex-ballet dancer
20:51with a suspiciously
20:52false resume.
20:54Asami demands
20:55that Shigeharu
20:56love her
20:56and only her.
20:58When he fails,
20:59she resorts
20:59to incapacitating
21:00and torturing him,
21:02as she had done
21:02with others.
21:13Fortunately,
21:14Shigeharu is saved
21:15by his son,
21:16Shigehiko,
21:17who kicks the murderously
21:18obsessive Asami
21:19down the stairs,
21:20breaking her neck.
21:21Be careful
21:22what you wish for.
21:22It's quite warm.
21:35Number 30.
21:38Sinister
21:38Ethan Hawke stars
21:40as a true crime writer
21:41who inadvertently
21:42curses his own family
21:43by moving into a house
21:44with an evil history.
21:46But,
21:46once he realizes
21:47his mistake,
21:48it's already too late.
21:49He, his wife, and his son become the next victims.
21:52The ancient church believed that he would take possession of those who saw the images
21:57and cause them to do terrible things.
22:00The young daughter Ashley becomes possessed by an ancient demon
22:03and slaughters her entire family.
22:05Don't worry, Daddy. I'll make you famous again.
22:09The ending, shot in creepy Super 8 footage, only suggests the violence,
22:14and it's played mostly against an eerie and ambient soundscape.
22:17There are no screams, no hysteria,
22:20just the disjointed images of the children who have been taken
22:23by the malevolent spirit that haunts the movie.
22:26Number 29. Black Christmas
22:29The caller is in the house.
22:31The calls are coming from the house.
22:33Largely credited with being the first movie to bring the
22:36calls-are-coming-from-inside-the-house trope to film,
22:39Black Christmas is an underrated thriller.
22:42The killer is a vicious and disturbed man who calls a group of sorority sisters
22:46from an upstairs phone line every time he murders one of them.
22:49After the killer is presumed dead,
22:51the police leave the sole survivor alone to sleep.
22:54A driving down from Unionville.
22:56I'll see where it'll end.
22:58But the condition she's in,
23:00I wouldn't count on talking to her before tomorrow afternoon,
23:02if I were you.
23:03Then, the murderer, who is still very much alive,
23:06descends from the attic.
23:08The phone rings again, going unanswered.
23:11It gets louder and louder as the credits roll,
23:14leaving us with the assumption that the only girl left in the house has also been murdered.
23:19Number 28. The Babadook
23:21Possessed by the demonic Babadook,
23:23the grieving widow Amelia tries to kill her son in the movie's last act.
23:27Amelia chases him through the house until he knocks her out.
23:30And although love does win the day,
23:33it's a hard-fought and intense win.
23:35Watch out for your mom's leg, little one.
23:37He's fine. I've had the stitches out.
23:39The Babadook ends up banished to the family's basement,
23:42where the mother and son collect worms and grubs to feed it.
23:45It's all right.
23:47It's all right.
23:49It's all right.
23:51Shh.
23:53Since the titular monster is largely understood as a metaphor for grief,
23:57this is actually a relatively hopeful note to end on,
24:01even if that last scene does have a great scare.
24:04Number 27. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
24:07You're evolving into a new life form.
24:12Come and watch.
24:14In this remake of the Red Scare-inspired sci-fi classic,
24:17Donald Sutherland plays a health department employee
24:20who becomes caught up in an apocalyptic alien invasion.
24:23These creatures invade the bodies of humans and replicate them.
24:27At one point, though,
24:28the humans learn they can fool the pod people by acting like they're one of them.
24:32We'll get him.
24:32We'll get him.
24:33Can't stay awake forever.
24:36This is what we think, or at least hope, is happening at the end.
24:40But when Sutherland's character is approached by one of the last remaining humans,
24:44he lets out an inhuman howl,
24:46alerting the other replicants to her presence.
24:48All is lost.
24:50The people you care about are either dead or about to be.
24:53Roll credits.
24:54Number 26. Phantasm
24:57You can never really trust what you see in this bizarre metaphysical cult horror classic
25:01from the late 70s.
25:02In it, a young boy named Mike stumbles upon a deadly secret at the local mortuary.
25:07You play a good game, boy.
25:10But the game is finished.
25:12Now you die.
25:14The Undertaker is actually taking the bodies from the cemetery and transforming them into
25:19undead hooded monsters from another dimension.
25:22If it sounds like a fever dream, it actually is.
25:25At the end, Mike wakes from this elaborate nightmare.
25:28Hey, you had a dream.
25:30Just a nightmare.
25:32But in the last few frames, there's a shocking double reveal.
25:36Not only was it all true, but Mike is ripped through his bedroom mirror by the monsters.
25:41Fans would have to wait over a decade to find out what happened to him in the sequel.
25:46Number 25.
25:48Don't Look Now
25:48It's okay.
25:50It's okay.
25:55I'm a friend.
25:57Donald Sutherland's bad luck continues.
25:59In Don't Look Now, he's a grieving father who begins seeing apparitions of his daughter
26:04on the streets of Venice, wearing the red raincoat she died in.
26:07This just happens to coincide with a serial killer stalking the streets of the flooded city.
26:12Chasing the childlike figure to the top of a tower, Sutherland's character is horrified
26:17to see that this isn't his daughter at all.
26:19It's actually a little person who just happens to be that same serial killer.
26:28You can guess how it ends.
26:30Not only is it scary and disturbing, it's also incredibly tragic.
26:35Number 24.
26:36Saw
26:36Although the series has since become an endless cycle of narrative loops and needless twists,
26:42the original film actually has a pretty satisfying ending.
26:45Throughout the movie, we've been asking,
26:47will one of these guys saw their own foot off to get free?
26:50Well, yes, that does happen.
26:51But the movie's piece de resistance is the gut-punching reveal that the corpse lying between
26:56the two victims has been alive the whole time.
26:58In the last minutes, he rises, revealing himself to be the man we now know as Jigsaw.
27:04He leaves the last prisoner to die in the bathroom alone, with only his terrified screams piercing
27:09the dark.
27:10Game over!
27:14Number 23.
27:16Night of the Living Dead
27:17Things really go south in the last 10 minutes of George A. Romero's genre-defining zombie flick.
27:22The farmhouse that Ben and his compatriots have holed up in is now divided,
27:26and falling to the zombie horde.
27:28Barbara, our focal character, is dragged into a pile of hungry undead by the living corpse
27:34of her brother.
27:34Help me!
27:36Help me!
27:37Help me!
27:39Ben survives the night, only to be gunned down by a white militia in a scene that reflects
27:43real-world violence.
27:45Okay, he's dead.
27:46Let's go get him.
27:47That's another one for the fire.
27:49The terror of the climax is followed by an oppressive feeling of dread and hopelessness.
27:54Even as the humans win, it's a hollow victory.
27:58Number 22.
27:59The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
28:01Now, now, you just cooperate, young lady, and we'll have no trouble.
28:04Director Tobey Hooper spends a lot of time building this movie's atmosphere,
28:08but the final act of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre never lets up for a minute.
28:13Sally is the last survivor of her friend group.
28:16She's taken to the house of Leatherface and his cohort of cannibals,
28:19and subjected to the most unhinged family dinner in movie history before finally making her escape.
28:25Help!
28:27Help!
28:29The last chase down the country road is a nail-biter,
28:33but it's Leatherface's maniacal chainsaw dance that stays in your mind.
28:37The movie's final moments are a showcase of savage, untethered madness.
28:42Number 21.
28:43Halloween
28:44The masked killer has finally caught up to his prey,
28:47the babysitter Laurie Strode.
28:49His endless assaults culminate in a terrifying and claustrophobic scene in a walk-in closet.
28:54Dr. Loomis saves the day,
28:56shooting his former patient and sending him careening off a balcony.
28:59What's the boogeyman?
29:06As a matter of fact, it was.
29:09But of course, when he looks down, Michael Myers is gone.
29:13That iconic and terrifying theme kicks in once more.
29:19As the film cycles through footage of all the places we've been,
29:26there is no sign of the killer except the sound of his breathing.
29:29We realize he is everywhere.
29:31Myers hasn't just escaped from Dr. Loomis.
29:34It's like he's escaped his physical form.
29:37Number 20.
29:38The Descent
29:39This British horror flick terrified audiences with its release in 2005.
29:49When a group of friends growing apart decide to schedule a spelunking trip together,
29:53they're confronted with monstrous creatures known as crawlers.
29:55After being picked off one by one and even betrayed by one of their own,
30:06the last survivor, Sarah, along with the audience, believe she's escaped the cave.
30:10This is quickly revealed to be nothing more than a hallucination,
30:13and Sarah is back alone in the cave, with the creatures moving in for the kill.
30:17It's a dark ending that was changed for its United States theatrical release.
30:21Number 19.
30:29Paranormal Activity
30:302007's low-budget found footage phenomenon Paranormal Activity
30:40shows us the slow and deliberate possession of Katie by a demonic spirit,
30:44as her boyfriend Mika attempts to document their new house's haunting.
30:47We'll be okay. It's better if we stay.
30:50At the film's end, the demon finally takes full control of Katie,
30:54luring Mika out of bed after her usual hours of creepy night looming.
30:57The audience is limited to the stationary camera view of the dark hallway
31:01as we hear horrific screams of Mika downstairs
31:03before they're suddenly and brutally cut off.
31:10After a tense period of silence,
31:11Mika's body is flung from the darkness into the camera
31:14as we see a blood-soaked Katie standing in the doorway,
31:17truly chilling.
31:20Number 18. Enemy
31:21My name's not Anthony.
31:23You're not Anthony?
31:24No.
31:26I'm calling to speak to Daniel St. Clair, the actor.
31:28All of the endings on our list are terrifying,
31:30but this one is also bizarre as hell.
31:33What's happening?
31:35Jake Gyllenhaal stars as two characters,
31:37history professor Adam Bell and stage actor Anthony Clare.
31:41As the film comes to a close,
31:42Bell is talking with his new lover Helen,
31:44only to come across a startling sight.
31:46Being face-to-face with an enormous tarantula is horrifying in and of itself,
31:54but that's not the kicker here.
31:55It's Bell's low-key reaction that's even more frightening.
31:58Rather than being openly scared,
32:00he instead appears resigned to the situation.
32:03To say it's all open to interpretation would be the understatement of the year.
32:06In the room below.
32:09Number 17. Buried.
32:11Everybody, you have to hurry.
32:13It's almost four, please.
32:14Just hang in there.
32:14We're going to buy a vehicle.
32:15Hopefully you aren't too claustrophobic.
32:17This Ryan Reynolds vehicle is about an American truck driver in Iraq
32:20who's kidnapped and buried alive for ransom.
32:23Reynolds' Paul is given a cell phone and a few supplies
32:25and has to try to survive until he can be rescued.
32:28By the movie's end,
32:28it seems as though rescue is on the way for Paul,
32:31only for it to be a misdirection.
32:33It's Mark White.
32:35He brought it to Mark White.
32:37The film ends with the rescue crew digging in the wrong place
32:40as Paul's damaged coffin fills up with sand, suffocating him.
32:44It's a dark ending that we did not see coming.
32:46I'm sorry, Paul.
32:48I'm so sorry.
32:49Number 16. Sleepaway Camp.
32:52Yes, I've always dreamed of a little girl just like you.
32:57This 1983 slasher cult classic starts off
33:00as a particularly creative summer camp massacre movie
33:03before its shocking twist ending.
33:05After a flashback seemingly shows the death of Angela's father and brother
33:08in a boating accident,
33:09she goes to live with her aunt
33:10and is sent off to summer camp with her cousin a few years later.
33:14At the film's conclusion after a series of gruesome murders,
33:17Angela is, yes, shown to be the killer.
33:19Not only that,
33:20it's also revealed that she isn't Angela at all
33:22but is in fact her long thought-to-be dead brother Peter
33:25who survived the boat accident
33:27but was raised as a girl by his aunt.
33:30Angela. Such a lovely name.
33:35Number 15. Mulholland Drive.
33:38David Lynch's dense and nightmare-inducing film
33:40has been called one of the best films of the 2000s,
33:42in part due to its horrifying conclusion.
33:45Once you hand that over to me, it's a done deal.
33:52You sure you want this?
33:53After spending most of the movie
33:55in what many interpreted as an extended dream sequence,
33:57Naomi Watts' Diane, an actress,
33:59wakes up to her failed Hollywood life,
34:01where she may have hired a hitman to kill her lover.
34:04Or not?
34:05The movie's ending sees Diane
34:06plagued by visions and voices in her apartment
34:09before she takes her own life.
34:11Though the film and its ending may be abstract
34:13and open to much interpretation,
34:15there's no doubt that Lynch succeeds
34:17in provoking terror in his audience.
34:18Have you ever heard of Candyman?
34:27Hook's in Vengeful Violence.
34:29Certainly an unsettling concept
34:31and one that's not helped by this movie's bleak finale.
34:34Jesus, it stinks.
34:35At the end of Candyman,
34:37which, by the way, is based on a Clive Barker story,
34:39grad student Helen has sacrificed herself
34:41for the sake of a child
34:42and has left her husband Trevor in the land of the living,
34:45where he's shacked up with one of his students, we might add.
34:47I don't know what happened.
34:50I just woke up in that place
34:51and there was blood everywhere.
34:53While at the home of his new lover,
34:55Trevor calls out Helen's name out of sheer grief
34:57and who should appear but the spirit of Helen herself,
35:00angry and ready to kill.
35:02My God, Trevor?
35:04Trevor?
35:07Trevor?
35:08It's a brutal and unrelentingly violent way to end a film.
35:12But then again, this is a film about hook-wielding spirits.
35:15Number 13, Insidious.
35:17To be honest, I've never seen anything like it.
35:21A horror movie rule to remember,
35:23demonic possession may not end just because you think it has.
35:30Insidious sets itself up for a triumphant ending,
35:33with the Lambert family seemingly free
35:34from the demon's haunting that's been plaguing them.
35:36However, paranormal investigator Elise
35:38becomes suspicious of Josh Lambert,
35:40and when she takes his photo,
35:42he flies into a violent rage.
35:44Why did you do that?
35:48The scene's tension builds
35:50as Josh's wife comes up to investigate,
35:52ending with a shocking reveal of the photo
35:54and one final jump scare courtesy of Josh.
35:57That poor family.
36:04The man.
36:05Number 12, Drag Me to Hell.
36:08Soon it will be you
36:09who comes begging to me.
36:11Talk about a last-minute screw-up.
36:14In Drag Me to Hell,
36:15persevering bank loan officer Christine
36:17has seemingly freed herself of a curse
36:19that would condemn her to hell.
36:24Relieved,
36:24she can now prepare for a bright future.
36:26Just one small issue.
36:28Her boyfriend Clay shows up carrying a button
36:30which Christine intended to use
36:32to break free of said curse.
36:33As the audience clues into Christine's hopelessness,
36:41she ends up backing onto an open train track
36:44where the film's title finally bears fruit.
36:48Help me!
36:51Number 11, The Shining.
36:54Here's Johnny!
36:55This 1980 classic based on the Stephen King novel
36:59tells the story of the Torrance family's tenure
37:01as winter caretakers
37:02of the remote Overlook Hotel in Colorado.
37:05A little slow tonight, isn't it?
37:10Throughout the winter,
37:12Jack Torrance is driven mad by ghosts
37:14of the hotel's past.
37:15When Jack finally snaps
37:17and goes after his wife Wendy
37:18and their son Danny,
37:19all hell breaks loose.
37:20Danny!
37:21Jack chases Danny into the snowy labyrinth
37:25of the hotel's giant maze
37:26where his son outwits him
37:27and escapes with his mother
37:29while Jack freezes to death.
37:30If that wasn't enough,
37:32the film concludes with an eerie picture
37:33implying Jack has been adopted
37:35as one of the many ghosts
37:36of the Overlook Hotel.
37:38Midnight,
37:39where the stars had you.
37:45Midnight,
37:46and the lonely moon.
37:50Number 10,
37:51Carrie.
37:56This Oscar-nominated 1976 film
37:58tells the tale of psychic high school student
38:01Carrie White,
38:01who is constantly subjected
38:03to intense harassment
38:04and an abusive mother.
38:09After being elected prom queen,
38:16only to be doused in pig's blood
38:17as a prank by a few students,
38:18Carrie launches a telekinetic attack
38:20on all the students,
38:22eventually burning the school to the ground
38:24with everyone locked inside.
38:26She heads home,
38:26only to be attacked by her mother,
38:28whom she promptly kills along with herself.
38:31At the very end of Carrie,
38:32the only surviving student, Sue,
38:34has a terrifying nightmare
38:35of Carrie's hand grabbing at her
38:37from the grave.
38:38No, not the remake starring Nicolas Cage.
38:52We're talking about the original film here.
38:54The Wicker Man follows police officer
38:56Neil Howey,
38:57who's sent to a remote Scottish island
38:59to try to locate a missing girl.
39:01Howey becomes embroiled in the pagan religion
39:03of the islanders,
39:03and Howey slowly uncovers a plot
39:06to use the missing girl
39:07as a human sacrifice.
39:08Near the film's climax,
39:09this is revealed to be a ruse,
39:11and the true sacrifice
39:13is Howey himself.
39:14Think what you're doing!
39:16Think!
39:17In the name of God,
39:19think what you're doing!
39:21The horror cult classic ends
39:22with Sergeant Howey burning alive
39:24in a giant Wicker Man structure
39:25as the sun sets.
39:28Daniel!
39:30Daniel!
39:33Daniel!
39:35Number 8.
39:36Hereditary.
39:37This horror hit may just be
39:38an instant classic.
39:39Hereditary tells the story
39:41of a mother of two and her family
39:42in the aftermath of the death
39:44of her own mother,
39:45who may or may not have been,
39:46but definitely was,
39:47a witch.
39:48After the shocking death
39:49of the family's daughter,
39:50Charlie, early on in the film,
39:51things only escalate from there,
39:53culminating with the possession of Annie
39:54and a pagan ritual
39:55to summon a demon known as Paimon.
40:01The film's final minutes
40:02are hectic and terrifying,
40:04with Annie's son Peter
40:05trying to comprehend
40:06what is happening
40:07before he dies
40:08and is possessed by the demon,
40:09followed by the film
40:10abruptly ending
40:11with him being hailed
40:12as a demon king.
40:14Hail, Paimon!
40:16Number 7.
40:17Wreck.
40:21Keep calm and don't get grabbed.
40:23A perfect example
40:24of that advice
40:25not being followed
40:26appears in Wreck,
40:27a Spanish horror film
40:28about a reporter's survival
40:29and investigation
40:30of a viral outbreak.
40:31Angela and cameraman Pablo
40:38eventually find themselves
40:39stuck in a penthouse
40:40with a demon-possessed girl,
40:41whom they try to evade.
40:43Unfortunately,
40:44this plan quickly falls apart
40:46as the two are brutally attacked.
40:48The film ends
40:49with Angela's last glimmer
40:50of hope being stamped out,
40:51just as she's about
40:52to reach her camera.
40:54So close.
40:57Number 6.
40:58The Omen.
40:59You see me in hell,
41:00Mr. Thorne?
41:03There we will share out
41:04our sentience.
41:06This 70s classic
41:07finds the Antichrist himself
41:09secretly and unwittingly
41:10adopted by American diplomat
41:12Robert Thorne
41:12shortly after the death
41:14of his son in childbirth.
41:15Young Damien is raised
41:16by the ambassador
41:17and his wife,
41:17played by veteran actors
41:19Gregory Peck
41:20and Lee Remick.
41:21By the time Thorne
41:22comes to understand
41:23what the boy is,
41:24it's too late.
41:25After the death of his wife
41:26and confirmation
41:26that Damien is the son of Satan,
41:28Thorne tries to take Damien
41:30to a church
41:30so he can kill him,
41:31but is stopped by police
41:32who see a man
41:33attempting to murder
41:34a young boy.
41:35This is not a human child.
41:39Make no mistake.
41:41Thorne is killed,
41:42and Damien is able
41:43to continue in his role
41:44as the Antichrist.
41:46Number 5.
41:47Psycho.
41:48We have 12 vacancies.
41:5012 cabins,
41:5112 vacancies.
41:52He wouldn't hurt a fly,
41:53would he?
41:54Or is it she?
41:55Well, a boy's best friend
41:56is his mother.
41:57Whatever the case,
41:58this simple but effective
41:59final scene
42:00from Alfred Hitchcock's
42:011960s psychological horror
42:02has a way of putting
42:03people on edge.
42:07In the film's final moments,
42:09some police officers
42:10go to check on their
42:11detainee, Norman Bates.
42:12It's sad
42:13when a mother
42:14has to speak the words
42:16that condemn her own son,
42:18but I couldn't allow them
42:19to believe that I would
42:20commit murder.
42:21The audience finally
42:22gets a look into Bates' mind
42:24as we listen to his mother
42:25Norma discussing
42:26her innocence,
42:27the camera slowly zooming in
42:28on Norman's creepily
42:30satisfied face.
42:31He was always bad,
42:33and in the end
42:34he intended to tell them
42:35I killed those girls
42:37and that man.
42:38His psyche totally splintered.
42:40Norman Bates is somehow
42:41more terrifying
42:42all wrapped up
42:43in his own mind
42:44than when he was free
42:45to kill at will.
42:45I hope they are watching.
42:47They'll see.
42:49They'll see
42:49and they'll know
42:50and they'll say
42:51why she wouldn't
42:53even harm a fly.
42:56Number 4.
42:57The Blair Witch Project
42:58Have you ever heard
42:59of the Blair Witch?
43:00Found footage movies
43:01just don't end well
43:02for people.
43:02Take the Blair Witch Project
43:03for example,
43:04a fictional documentary
43:05about three student filmmakers
43:07who disappear
43:07while investigating
43:08the titular witch.
43:09As the movie comes
43:10to its abrupt end,
43:12students Heather and Mike
43:13search for their friend
43:13in an abandoned house.
43:15I hear you.
43:16Josh!
43:17Little by little
43:18there's a growing sense
43:19that the two are being watched
43:20and then Heather finds Mike
43:22staring at a wall
43:23before she's attacked herself.
43:26What?
43:27The lack of context
43:28and surplus of ambiguity
43:30makes it all the more
43:31terror-inducing.
43:32Number 3.
43:33Friday the 13th
43:35And thus,
43:38a franchise was born.
43:39Friday the 13th
43:46moves towards its finale
43:47on a victorious note.
43:49Sole survivor Alice awakens
43:50to see police
43:51investigating Crystal Lake
43:52and then suddenly
43:53the decomposing corpse
43:55of Jason Voorhees
43:56pops up
43:56to drag Alice
43:57to her doom.
44:02Fortunately,
44:02it's just a dream
44:03as Alice awakens
44:04in a hospital
44:04to inform police
44:05about what has occurred.
44:06Unfortunately,
44:10when told
44:10there was no boy
44:11found at the lake,
44:12Alice's three choice words
44:14ensured filmgoers
44:15went home in terror.
44:16Too fair.
44:18Now that's true fear.
44:21Number 2.
44:21A Nightmare on Elm Street
44:23This
44:23is gone.
44:27If not for this,
44:28things might have ended happily.
44:30Come to Freddy.
44:32Right after
44:32our teenage heroine
44:34Nancy Thompson
44:34has seemingly vanquished
44:35Freddy Krueger,
44:36she emerges from her house
44:38to find her friends alive
44:39and her mother
44:39wishing them well.
44:40See ya.
44:44However,
44:45things are not
44:46as cheery as they seem.
44:47Nancy and her chums
44:48get carried off
44:48in what can only be described
44:50as a demon car
44:51as the familiar
44:52nursery rhyme rings out.
44:54One, two,
44:55Freddy's got it for you.
44:58Then,
44:59Nancy's mother
45:00is grabbed by Freddy,
45:01abruptly
45:02and without warning,
45:03and the audience
45:04is left in awe.
45:05It's chilling scenes
45:06like this
45:07that keep people
45:07coming back
45:08to the Elm Street movies.
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45:261. Rosemary's Baby
45:30We have to make a baby.
45:33Pray for Rosemary's Baby indeed.
45:35Towards the climax
45:36of this horror classic,
45:37the titular Rosemary
45:38grows suspicious
45:39of both her building's inhabitants
45:40and the disappearance
45:42of her newborn.
45:42What have you done to it?
45:45What have you done to its eyes?
45:47Upon investigating further,
45:49she finds her fellow tenants
45:50gathered around her child,
45:51and then it's revealed
45:52that her baby
45:53is the literal spawn of Satan.
45:55What have you done to him,
45:57you maniac?
45:59Satan is his father,
46:00not Guy.
46:01If that reveal
46:02plus Rosemary's horrified reaction
46:04to the child's appearance
46:05weren't enough,
46:06the film leaves off
46:07on a haunting note,
46:08complete with unsettling music.
46:14Which other horror film ending
46:16haunts you to this very day?
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