# Most horrifying movie finale you have ever seen **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [June 27, 2023, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-horrifying-movie-finale-you-have-ever-seen/986155 "2023-06-27T03:18:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2023, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-horrifying-movie-finale-you-have-ever-seen/986155/1 "2023-06-27T03:18:34Z")
No jokey “This main character was so stupid I was horrified the other actors didn’t throw them over a cliff” type responses, please. I am talking about finales that jerk the rug out from under you emotionally, that let you know in no uncertain terms that any and all hope you had for good to somehow win out was false. I have one in mind, but I will let others go first because I am pretty sure someone will mention it within ten posts. And please-No Lists, either pulled from another website or home made. Just give us your single most horrifying movie finale if you can. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2023, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-horrifying-movie-finale-you-have-ever-seen/986155/2 "2023-06-27T03:28:30Z")
Se7en is what immediately springs to mind. I’ll come back if I think of any others. Grave of the Fireflies? Don’t recall the chronology of Dear Zachary, but I think it probably doesn’t quite qualify. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2023, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-horrifying-movie-finale-you-have-ever-seen/986155/3 "2023-06-27T03:32:10Z")
Again, not really looking for a list. Just the one finale that horrified you the most, please. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2023, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-horrifying-movie-finale-you-have-ever-seen/986155/4 "2023-06-27T03:43:05Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > And please-No Lists, either pulled from another website or home made. Just give us your single most horrifying movie finale if you can. In _The Last American Virgin,_ the main character is sweet on a girl who starts dating another guy, gets pregnant, and they he dumps her. Our protagonist ends up selling most of his worldly possessions, including his prized stereo, and borrowed money to pay for an abortion. They spend the next week together, he confesses his love, they share a tender moment, and she invites him to her 18th birthday party. Dude scrapes together some money to get her a gold locket, and when he shows up to the party he finds her making out with the guy who dumped her after she got pregnant. The movie ends with him driving away with tears streaming down his face. The ending was such a gut punch and probably the only reason anyone remembers this movie at all. And while not a horror film, I’m using the definition as given by the OP “finales that jerk the rug out from under you emotionally, that let you know in no uncertain terms that any and all hope you had for good to somehow win out was false.” ---
**Author:** ![cormac262](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@cormac262](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cormac262)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2023, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-horrifying-movie-finale-you-have-ever-seen/986155/5 "2023-06-27T03:44:22Z")
It’s an older movie so I’m not going to spoiler it: **Gallipoli** ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2023, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-horrifying-movie-finale-you-have-ever-seen/986155/6 "2023-06-27T03:44:36Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Again, not really looking for a list. Okay, if that’s what you need… okay, I’ll only post one: **The Cabin in the Woods**. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2023, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-horrifying-movie-finale-you-have-ever-seen/986155/7 "2023-06-27T03:46:39Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > And while not a horror film It doesn’t have to be, as you have just shown. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2023, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-horrifying-movie-finale-you-have-ever-seen/986155/8 "2023-06-27T03:46:49Z")
Sorry for ruining your thread. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2023, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-horrifying-movie-finale-you-have-ever-seen/986155/9 "2023-06-27T03:47:25Z")
Thread is doing fine. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2023, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-horrifying-movie-finale-you-have-ever-seen/986155/10 "2023-06-27T03:51:41Z")
ETA: never mind, don’t want to ruin the movie for someone else. It wasn’t quite what Czarcasm was asking for, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2023, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-horrifying-movie-finale-you-have-ever-seen/986155/11 "2023-06-27T03:51:52Z")
**Breaking News in Yuba County** This was billed as a dark comedy. We like dark comedies! Comedies don’t have to be simple or wholesome! But the movie just kept on getting darker and darker, and by the (insanely gory) end, I was ready to write a strongly worded letter to the editor, or to whoever at Netflix was in charge of movie descriptions. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2023, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-horrifying-movie-finale-you-have-ever-seen/986155/12 "2023-06-27T03:54:03Z")
“Let Me In” more sad than horrifying really. But it wasn’t until the end credits that it dawned on me that I was rooting for the villain to win. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2023, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-horrifying-movie-finale-you-have-ever-seen/986155/13 "2023-06-27T03:55:18Z")
Good one! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2023, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-horrifying-movie-finale-you-have-ever-seen/986155/14 "2023-06-27T03:55:50Z")
For me, it was _The Mist_, even more so having first read the story. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2023, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-horrifying-movie-finale-you-have-ever-seen/986155/15 "2023-06-27T04:19:08Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Just the one finale that horrified you the most, please. _A Serbian Film_ has an ending so horrific that I probably can’t even describe it without violating a board rule. Look it up on Wikipedia if you really want to know. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2023, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-horrifying-movie-finale-you-have-ever-seen/986155/16 "2023-06-27T05:17:39Z")
It seems kind of lame and predictable in hindsight, but when I saw it in the theater as a 15 year old, the end of the 1978 version of **Invasion of the Body Snatchers** had that effect on me. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2023, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-horrifying-movie-finale-you-have-ever-seen/986155/17 "2023-06-27T05:53:35Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > _The Mist_ This was going to be my suggestion. ---
**Author:** ![Moonrise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moonrise/32/14764_2.png) [@Moonrise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonrise)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2023, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-horrifying-movie-finale-you-have-ever-seen/986155/18 "2023-06-27T07:37:01Z")
Mine too. This is the only movie ending that managed to break my heart, and make me feel depressed AND furious at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2023, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-horrifying-movie-finale-you-have-ever-seen/986155/19 "2023-06-27T08:26:15Z")
**Being John Malkovich** - he’s finally free for a few seconds, and then that horde of body-snatching monsters crawls into his head and seizes control of his life, forever. ---
**Author:** ![Chad\_Sudan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chad_sudan/32/4509_2.png) [@Chad\_Sudan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chad_Sudan)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2023, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-horrifying-movie-finale-you-have-ever-seen/986155/20 "2023-06-27T08:34:56Z")
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