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In my opinion, a lot horror films tend to have really good endings. Knowing that the target audience is probably going to have a dark sense of entertainment, the filmmakers oftentimes try to cater to this, and the result is usually one of hell of a deliciously twisted finale. What are some of your favorites?

Some I love:

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974): Yes, the girl escapes, but that extended final shot of Leatherface going insane with the chainsaw gives me goosebumps. The orange sunrise in the background, the overpowering din of the chainsaw, the abrupt cut to black...perfection. My only gripe is that the end credits should have rolled in silence. It's okay - I just press the mute button on my remote when the credits begin.

Night of the Living Dead (1968): So here we have a movie in which, for one of the first times in film history, the "hero" so to speak is played by a black man. Throughout the film, we get to know and like him, and it's pretty hard not to root for him. So he survives the night of the zombies, and then looks out the window in the morning to see a hunting party out killing the remaining zombies. He made it! Right? WRONG! The hunting party mistakes him for a zombie and BAM! Right in the head. Our hero dies. The hunting party burns his corpse with the rest of the zombies. No one ever knows. One of the most biggest shockers in horror history, if you ask me. I certainly never saw it coming.

The Beyond: So these people have literally endured all hell breaking loose by the end of this film. They've had to deal with death after bloody bloody death, had to kill zombies trying to kill them, had to watch their friends die, and even had to blow a little girl's face off. So they have to get away, right? I DON'T THINK SO! What happens? They get trapped in hell for all eternity. Now THAT is what I call a grim ending!

Cannibal Holocaust: I'm ignoring the VERY last line of dialogue, as it is completely unnecessary. However, the scene right before that line really gets to me. The documentary footage ends, and the people just sit there in silence. One of them calls the projection booth and says "I want this footage burned. All of it." I find that to be a very powerful note to end on.

The Fearless Vampire Killers: Wow, I LOVE this film. Easily my favorite horror film (and comedy for that matter). Anyway, the tone throughout is fairly light. Yes, it has a pretty creepy atmosphere when it needs to, but it tends to focus more on gorgeous backdrops and physical comedy. So I certainly did not expect an ending this grim. Over the course of the film, we as viewers really fall in love with Alfred and Professor Abronsius. How can you not? They're so fun, charming, and charismatic. They're just very loveable characters. So we expect them to escape and warn the world with proof of the existence of vampires, right? What we DON'T expect is that Alfred's love is going to turn into a vampire, bite Alfred on the throat, and then Professor Abronsius is going to take them both back to modern civilization and unknowingly unleash terror upon the entire world!

The Omen: We get Gregory Peck going through this huge, terrible two-hour ordeal in which everyone he knows dies horribly, only to find in the end that is son is the goddamn anti-Christ. So, in an attempt to save the world, he tries kill Damien, and the fucking police kill him! Of course, we're not quite sure if he got to kill Damien or not before they got him, but alas, the final shot pops on screen...my only thought was: "YOU HAVE GOT TO BE FUCKING KIDDING ME!!!"

Audition: This one is obvious.

The final image in Sleepaway Camp is the most disturbing thing I have ever seen.

Man, just reading about it really creeps me out.

Heh, I knew that one'd come up pretty quick. I thought it was funny as hell, not to mention totally unexpected.

Sporloos (The Vanishing) - Ha!! Now you're buried alive, and all because you were an ass to your girlfriend years ago!

You know, why the FUCK did they have to ruin the ending on that fucking 100 Greatest Horror Moments thing? What's the point in watching it now?

They ruined it on the American trailers for the movie, too. It's definitely still worth watching.

Why the hell would you give away the most shocking part of a movie in a trailer? They do the same thing for the When a Stranger Calls remake. The whole point of the original was that *SPOILER* you didn't KNOW he was in the house!

That's only the first 10 minutes of the original.

what is it? seriously, i'll never watch it. i would like to know.

Is it? Well then I guess I will bother watching it. I'm an idiot.

Well, you're still partially right. The first ten minutes are the only part of the film worth seeing (although it's a great opening.)

There's this really shy girl at the camp. There's a teenage guy trying to get into her pants through the whole movie. There's someone killing random campers. At the end, we find out the girl is a guy - her mother tried to turn him into a girl from birth. The girl is also the killer. The last shot is her (him) naked with a weird face, next to the dead boy. And, you know, she's naked, so there's a penis.

Cannibal Holocaust is pretty cool

A Nightmare on Elm Street -

For an entire movie that's about the blurring of the line between dreams and reality, this one still manages to throw you for a loop. After pulling Freddy from out of the dream world and vanquishing him, Nancy awakes to find the world is back to the way it was. Hell, it's even better, her Mom is going to stop drinking and all of her friends are back from the dead, rolling up in a convertible to take her to school. It's going to be a bright, bright sun shiny day, right? Of course it isn't. After entering the car we see the top automatically pop open colored in the green and red of Freddy's sweater, the windows roll up and the car rides off. For the final frames, Nancy's mother is pulled back inside by Freddy and like it or not, the nightmare wasn't about to be over for a very long time.

Halloween

Along with Texas and Night, this one may be my favorite. It's so beautiful in it's simplicity. After Laurie Strode has just escaped Michael's clutches, pulling off his mask and revealing him to be a young man underneath, Dr. Loomis arrives and unloads his revolver into Michael, sending the masked psycho plummeting two stories to the lawn below. "What's the boogeyman?" Laurie asks and the Loomis reply comes, "As a matter of fact, that was." He leans over the railing to look at the kill, and Michael's gone. Cue the infamous music and the collage of the house, the yard and other potential places he could have gone with Laurie sobbing in the background and you have a total stunner. This was perhaps my first horror ending, I watched it when I was about 5, peaking and sneaking from under the covers as my parent's watched it when I was a kid. The impact was immediate, and it's possible that I've never been the same since.

i love that film, but i hate what it inspired.

anyway, this pales in comparison to some that have been mentioned, but i kinda liked the ending to pet sematary.
"darling..."
thowck
cue rock music

The slasher genre?

I'll resurrect this thread with a couple additions.

The Grapes of Death: The heroine's infected husband is shot down by one of the two men that had been helping her throughout the film, and, of course, it was necessary. But she just loses it. Kills them both with the very same gun. Then, standing below her dead husband, she stares at his limp, hanging hand. Blood drips and lands on her cheek. She closes her eyes in ecstasy, as in love as ever. Credits roll. It gives me chills.

The Shining: He never "gets better". Nothing good comes of anything. He dies, frozen in the snow, forever insane. And the last shot confirms our worst fears: he has become a part of the hotel, ready to haunt anyone else who ever enters its halls. *shudder*

Anthropophagus: The Grim Reaper: One of the most deliciously gory climaxes ever. The pick-axe goes into the chest, and the villian falls to his knees before he can attack the girl. The end, right? Not quite. He pulls out HIS OWN INTESTINES and takes a bite before he falls dead. Once a cannibal, always a cannibal.

The Hills Have Eyes (1977): It's simple. It's brutal. It's to the point. The tortured man turns the carnage around and stabs one of the mutants to death. Nothing is resolved - it's harsh, primitive violence. No extraneous fluff - the vicious cycle is complete. The fade to red only enhances it.

How have we not mentioned the Devil's Rejects? Any hopes for a sequel are completely destroyed, thankfully along with the hope that Otis, Baby and Capt. Spaulding will become anything but the brutal murderers that they are. They're blown to bits in a hail of gunfire, set to "Free Bird" no less.

Wow, that should have been an obvious choice. Good call.