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Grab some popcorn — and maybe a towel. Join us as we count down our picks for the movies with the most shockingly violent and blood-soaked finales in cinema history! Warning: major spoilers ahead!
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00:00There'll be waiting for us.
00:04I wouldn't have it any other way.
00:06Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 movies that end in extremely bloody
00:11fashion, with most of the cast dead.
00:14Obviously, major spoilers will follow.
00:16Oh my god, look, look.
00:19Oh, everyone dies in this movie, don't they?
00:24Number 10, The Departed.
00:25You soft fits, when I tell you to dump a body in the mosh.
00:32Martin Scorsese is no stranger to bloodbaths, and The Departed is no different.
00:36In fact, it's probably his most violent film ever, at least in terms of sheer carnage.
00:41They didn't call it The Departed for nothing.
00:42For over two hours, undercover cop Billy Costigan and mob mole Colin Sullivan play a grueling game of cat and
00:49mouse, and countless people get killed along the way.
00:52Your guys should not have done that.
00:53One of us had to die.
00:54With me, it tends to be the other guy.
00:56Yeah, but Queenan, now I got no access.
00:58You killed the guy who had all the information.
01:00Now Dignam's gone.
01:01Forget about him.
01:02He resigned.
01:02Queenan is thrown off a building, Costello is shot by Sullivan, and in the famous climax of the film, Costigan
01:08is shot in the head after leaving an elevator.
01:10Staff Sergeant Dignam is the only main character to survive the carnage, cleaning up the loose ends by killing Sullivan
01:15in his own apartment.
01:16It's a stunning wipeout that serves as the perfect, cynical punchline to a brutal tale of corruption and betrayal.
01:22I'll catch up with you guys.
01:32What about the baby?
01:36Number nine, Reservoir Dogs.
01:38Even if he is on the up and up, I don't think he's going to be too happy with us,
01:42okay?
01:42He planned a robbery and he's got a bloodbath on his hands now.
01:44He's got dead cops, dead robbers, dead civilians.
01:47Quentin Tarantino's explosive debut redefined the indie crime genre, establishing his trademark flair for dialogue and blood.
01:55Throughout the movie, tension inside a warehouse steadily boils over as surviving thieves desperately try to sniff out the undercover
02:01cop in their ranks.
02:02I mean, I can say I definitely didn't do it because I know what I did or I didn't do,
02:05but I cannot definitely say that about anybody else because I don't definitely know.
02:08For all I know, you're the wreck.
02:10While Mr. White certainly spills plenty of blood earlier on, Tarantino saves the ultimate punchline for the very end.
02:16The finale delivers cinema's quintessential Mexican standoff, where all the surviving characters just shoot each other to death.
02:21It's a stunning, but rather foreseeable ending for the story, and it's only Mr. Pink who gets out alive.
02:27That said, he walks straight into the cops who are waiting outside, so it's not like he's running away to
02:31have Mai Tais in Tahiti.
02:39Number 8. Scarface.
02:41Now what we're gonna do?
02:47We're gonna eat that salsa for breakfast.
02:49Say hello to one of the most bullet-riddled finales in movie history.
02:53Brian De Palma ensures that drug kingpin Tony Montana goes out with a colossal and unforgettable bang.
02:59After alienating everyone he ever cared about and murdering his best friend Manny,
03:04Tony's sprawling criminal empire crumbles during a cocaine-fueled last stand.
03:08Say hello to my little friend!
03:12When an army of cartel hitmen storms his mansion, the resulting showdown becomes a deafening and heavily squibbed machine gun
03:19massacre.
03:20Dozens of bodies are left bloody and draped over lavish velvet balconies.
03:24Countless people die in the climactic assault, including Tony himself, who is shot from behind and falls into a small
03:30fountain below.
03:31The world is his, indeed.
03:36Number 7. Sinners.
03:55Ryan Coogler's genre-bending horror film starts as a stylish historical drama, before pulling the rug out from under its
04:01audience.
04:01When twin brothers Smoke and Stack open up a bustling juke joint, the lively party is abruptly interrupted by a
04:07violent horde of vampires.
04:09The third act instantly transforms the club into a blood-soaked meat grinder.
04:13You tell him the truth, Smoke.
04:16I can see his memories.
04:18Smoke, I need your brother.
04:20This wasn't no juke joint, no club.
04:24This here is a slaughterhouse.
04:26Patrons are ruthlessly torn apart by the vampires, and Sammy and Smoke are the only survivors of the juke joint
04:32siege, but their worries aren't over.
04:34As if the supernatural massacre wasn't enough, Smoke is immediately ambushed by a mob of heavily armed Ku Klux Klan
04:39members.
04:40He unleashes an arsenal of weapons, and mows down the attackers, but he's shot and killed in the process.
04:46Sammy proves to be the only survivor of the night's events, and he lives a long and happy life as
04:50an acclaimed blues musician.
04:52Last time I seen my brother, I know you.
04:57Last time I seen his son.
05:00Early in this morning.
05:02Just for a few hours.
05:05It was free.
05:06Number 6.
05:08Carrie.
05:08Ladies and gentlemen, I've got the winners.
05:12Alright.
05:13I give you Tommy Ross and Carrie White.
05:17Brian De Palma makes our list again with what is easily cinema's ultimate pressure cooker.
05:21Stephen King's tragic story features a ton of agonizing psychological build-up, and leads directly to the infamous Black Prom.
05:28Once that dreadful bucket of pig's blood inevitably drops from the rafters, the gymnasium abruptly transforms into an inescapable slaughterhouse.
05:40Unleashing her newly awakened powers, Carrie White coldly crushes, electrocutes, and burns almost her entire graduating class in one chaotic
05:48tantrum.
05:48The sheer scale of this localized destruction remains visually breathtaking, even to this day.
05:54The bloodbath continues after the prom, with Carrie killing Chris, Billy, and her mother, Margaret, before dying herself.
06:00Jeez, it's no wonder Sue is traumatized.
06:02It's alright.
06:04I'm here.
06:07It's alright.
06:09It's alright.
06:09I'm here.
06:10It's alright.
06:13It's alright.
06:14It's alright.
06:14It's alright.
06:16Number 5.
06:1813 Assassins.
06:31Takashi Miike delivers what might be the greatest climactic meat grinder in samurai cinema.
06:36The first half of this brilliant film is deliberately dedicated to quiet political plotting and careful strategic preparation.
06:42However, once the anticipated trap has finally sprung, the movie explodes into a continuous 45-minute battle sequence.
06:52Our titular rogue warriors successfully corner a sadistic lord and his 200 armed guards inside a rigged, maze-like wooden
07:00village.
07:00What follows is a profoundly brutal, mud-soaked, and visceral slaughter showcasing the unglamorous horrors of feudal warfare.
07:07Swords dull, fatigue sets in, and limbs are severed.
07:11As the blinding dust finally settles, only Shinrokuro and Koyata remain standing amidst a staggering sea of chopped-up corpses.
07:31Number 4. Suspiria
07:33Luca Guadagnino's ambitious horror remake is a masterpiece of moody atmosphere, right up until its deeply shocking final ritual.
07:40Violence is doled out sparingly throughout the film, keeping the dread almost entirely psychological.
07:45But when the true mother Suspiriorum finally reveals herself to a treacherous coven,
07:49the third act becomes an unbroken sequence of supernatural carnage.
07:52There's something wrong here. Can you not feel it? This is not right.
07:57Set to the hauntingly beautiful sound of Tom York's score,
08:00rebellious witches are magically ripped in half and have their heads blown up.
08:03The sheer volume of thick crimson geysers literally drenches the screen and paints the underground dance floor pitch red.
08:10This hypnotic massacre wipes out a massive portion of the coven,
08:14cementing it as one of the most visually staggering and blood-soaked finales in modern horror.
08:21Number 3. The Wild Bunch
08:31Sam Peckinpah forever changed the landscape of cinema with this climatic shootout.
08:36Choosing not to go quietly into the changing frontier,
08:38an aging outlaw gang makes a final stand against the heavily fortified Mexican army,
08:42where results is the acclaimed Battle of Bloody Porch.
08:46A legendary bit of movie history is a chaotic storm of roaring machine gun fire,
08:51flying shrapnel, and primitive bright red squibs.
08:54It completely annihilates the main cast and dozens of surrounding soldiers
08:57through an unrelenting, beautifully edited montage of death.
09:01This grim finale utterly shattered the highly romanticized illusions of the classic American western
09:06and was a watershed moment in the depiction of movie violence.
09:09When the smoke clears, there are no heroes riding into the sunset,
09:12just a mountain of bullet-riddled corpses baking in the sun.
09:15I expect to find you here.
09:17Why not?
09:19I sent him back.
09:21That's all I said I'd do.
09:23Number 2. The Hateful Eight
09:24The man who pulls the lever that breaks your neck will be a dispassionate man.
09:31And that dispassion is the very essence of justice.
09:36For justice, delivered without dispassion, is always in danger of not being justice.
09:45Tarantino strikes our list again, and this time, he ensures zero survivors.
09:50Nobody can pull a Mr. Pink and just walk away,
09:52as these outlaws are trapped inside a cramped haberdashery by a raging blizzard.
09:56The pressure relentlessly builds until a cup of poisoned coffee finally takes effect in the third act,
10:02resulting in a horrific and extremely bloody climax.
10:05Coming up!
10:05Hold on there, you bushwhacking sack shooter.
10:09You just opened the door.
10:11We tell you when to come up.
10:12Viewers are treated to cowboys vomiting buckets of blood,
10:16getting their heads blown off, and slowly bleeding out on the freezing floorboards.
10:19It's a claustrophobic symphony of excess that perfectly encapsulates the director's signature style.
10:24By blending sharp dialogue with some unforgettable gore,
10:28Tarantino ensures this snowbound mystery ends in the most satisfying manner possible.
10:32John Roof was the hangman.
10:37And when the hangman catches you, you don't die by no bullet.
10:43When the hangman catches you, you hang.
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11:24No finale, no matter how bloody, will ever beat the legendary system purge of The Cabin in the Woods.
11:30The entire movie builds to the exact moment those elevator doors chime open
11:35and unleash a massive horde of iconic nightmare creatures onto the guards.
11:38What follows is a geyser of unparalleled monster mayhem tightly clustered into the final 20 minutes of the film.
11:45Sector 12 down.
11:46Sector 8 down.
11:48Sector 3 down.
11:49Jesus!
11:50By the end of the massacre, the entire hallway is literally soaked floor to ceiling in the red stuff.
11:55And just to cap off the carnage, our two survivors decide that humanity isn't worth saving
12:00and let a giant ancient god rise up and crush the entire planet.
12:04Boasting buckets of blood and literally no survivors,
12:07this is hands down the greatest and most apocalyptic bloodbath ever put to film.
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