Bleak endings where the bad guys win in the end.

[IamNoOne666]

I have never posted a thread before but this is a topic that has been haunting my friends and I for acouple weeks now. Trying to think of movies where are the end the bad guys are with out a doubt the winners. The only ones we could really come up with were.

Invasion Of the Body Snatchers.

Phantasm (the first one gives that idea)

Fallen

and there were a few more that came to mind that I can't remember right now. But please help me out with this.

[IamNoOne666]

I'm sorry this in in the wrong section. My bad this should be in general horror talk. Could someone please tell me how to move it?

[izombie]

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House of 1000 Corpses

Another Heaven

The Hypnotist

Se7en

The Beyond

Zombie

The Ring

Versus

Legend of the Overfiend

Juon: The Grudge

Jeepers Creepers

Kairo

666 Devil Reincarnates

The Blair Witch Project

The House Where Evil Dwells

[Elgyn]

Book Of Shadows: Blair Witch 2

Sleepaway Camp 2: Unhappy Campers

Hellraiser: Inferno (sorta)

[RogueSpear]

Just about every zombie movie ever made fits the bill.

[pyscho dude]

Well Night of the living dead is like a tie. It's great when the bad guys win. It gives a movie a darker sense.

[saintofscars]

How about Madman? He wins... apart from getting his house burned down....:rolleyes:

[Duke Nukem]

The Clones (1973)

They (2002; UNDERRATED!!)

Dawn of The Dead (2004)

[XCoRyX]

Spookies...

[Elgyn]

-Cabin Fever

-Return Of the Living Dead (sorta)

-House Of 1000 Corpses

[Could Be Worse]

Jaws 3-D (I knwo those damn dolphins were planning something...no creature can possibly be that damn happy all the time)

[SixStrangSmoker]

ooooh i got one..

Pet Semetary
that little dude says "Im gonna play wif youuuu"

[deadeye]

Session 9 (unless you go with the alternate ending)

House By The Cemetary (but with Fulci, who the hell knows what that ending meant)

The Beyond

The Omen and The Omen II

[ERIN_LoJ]

Jeepers Creepers
Howling 4

[Dignan]

Natural Born Killers, maybe?

[Jason13thh]

Final Stab (aka Final Scream)
The Hitcher (John Ryder somehow wins)
The Ugly (poor doctor Schumaker !)
The Nameless
The Hole (oustanding british psychological thriller)
The Thing
BodySnatcher
Zombie
The Beyond (the ending is beautiful and impressive)
The Dead Hate The Living
Pet Sementary
Henry:POASK
Funny Games

[JCR]

More general ones not mentioned yet:

Chinatown (bleakest ending to any movie ever...makes se7en look upbeat)
Arlington Road
Brazil
Army of Darkness DC
The Fly 1986
Battle Royale 2 (sort of, imo anyway)

[darchangel]

some of these could be taken as the killer winning, some not...


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The Silence of the Lambs

Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (aka the stupidest movie ever made in darchangel's opinion)

Jason X

Freddy vs. Jason (i mean, they're both killers!)

F13th part 5 (since tommy went crazy, jason sort of won)




that's all i can think of for now...




Death to Beth

~darchangel~

[Gretchen_Ross]

return of the living dead 3

spoilers (highlight to read): at the end the zombies run amok, infect the lead character, and he and his already-living-dead girlfriend decide to die together rather than "live" as zombies. end of movie

[adamjohnson]

Originally posted by RogueSpear
Just about every zombie movie ever made fits the bill.

You mean like, DOTD (original) where they escape and everything? Yeah...

[SixStrangSmoker]

in the above post is that DOTD stand for the original Dawn or Day..
well actually they both apply

also the Night of the living dead and the remake apply because some of them escape

[TheDeadWalk]

Originally posted by SixStrangSmoker
in the above post is that DOTD stand for the original Dawn or Day..
well actually they both apply

also the Night of the living dead and the remake apply because some of them escape

No one escapes in the original Night of the Living Dead

John Carpenter's "The Thing"

*** Spoilers for ^ ***

MacReady really had a death wish by the end of the film, and I really don't totally believe he got all of the aliens.

[ERIN_LoJ]

Originally posted by Jason13thh
Final Stab (aka Final Scream)
The Hitcher (John Ryder somehow wins)
The Ugly (poor doctor Schumaker !)
The Nameless
The Hole (oustanding british psychological thriller)
The Thing
BodySnatcher
Zombie
The Beyond (the ending is beautiful and impressive)
The Dead Hate The Living
Pet Sementary
Henry:POASK
Funny Games

Is Dr. Schumaker the woman?

[!MorganOnyx!]

Ok, I'm about to shock some of you now, but the movie I'm about to state is, IMO, one of the BEST ENDINGS in HORROR MOVIE HISTORY!!! (SPOILER):



HALLOWEEN 3: SEASON OF THE WITCH


I'm sorry but I get chills down my spine EVERY fucking time. He's ranting down the phone telling the tv station to "STOP IT!!", and they stop all of the channels except for one. It ends like that with him screaming at them to stop it, but we're left wondering whether or not they do. KICK ASS!!!

Don't care what anyone says. I'm proud of that ending. :)

[Duke Nukem]

Originally posted by !MorganOnyx!
Ok, I'm about to shock some of you now, but the movie I'm about to state is, IMO, one of the BEST ENDINGS in HORROR MOVIE HISTORY!!! (SPOILER):



HALLOWEEN 3: SEASON OF THE WITCH


I'm sorry but I get chills down my spine EVERY fucking time. He's ranting down the phone telling the tv station to "STOP IT!!", and they stop all of the channels except for one. It ends like that with him screaming at them to stop it, but we're left wondering whether or not they do. KICK ASS!!!

Don't care what anyone says. I'm proud of that ending. :)

I agree. Great ending to a severely underrated movie.

[SixStrangSmoker]

ya know..it wasnt until years later that i realized i liked Halloween 3, even sans Michael Myers

[MyClone]

RACE WITH THE DEVIL
Peter Fonda + motorcycles = bad news.:D

[KillerKlown]

I can't believe no-one hasn't mentioned The Wicker Man yet.

[Jason13thh]

Is Dr. Schumaker the woman?

Yes indeed.

The Ugly is the second best movie coming from New Zealand, the first being Next Of Kin (aka Return To Monclare)

[Schnapps]

Now I know it isn't exactly "Horror" but on some DvDs of the musical "Little Shop of Horrors" they show the original ending in which the plant eats seymour and his bride and proceeds to take over the world. Pretty bad ass cept it's in black in white.

-Remember, whatever you do, DON"T FEED THE PLANTS!!!

[Elgyn]

Originally posted by Schnapps
Now I know it isn't exactly "Horror" but on some DvDs of the musical "Little Shop of Horrors" they show the original ending in which the plant eats seymour and his bride and proceeds to take over the world. Pretty bad ass cept it's in black in white.



That alternate ending was on the original print of the DVD, but then it was yanked off for legal reasons.

Sucks, I never got to see it. So they actually show Audrey II in giant size?

P.S. - The original black & white "Little Shop Of Horrors" has a downbeat (though tounge-in-cheek) ending.

[drdash]

what about the devil's advocate, that has one of my all time favorite endings. also, the 1st 2 omen movies.

ciao
drdash

[the dead one]

Damien!!!!!!! The Omen, Love it!
Hey drdash, Like your punisher avatar...you a Tim Bradstreet fan?

[drdash]

Originally posted by the dead one
Damien!!!!!!! The Omen, Love it!
Hey drdash, Like your punisher avatar...you a Tim Bradstreet fan?
yes, i'm a bradstreet fan, but i'm more of a punisher fan. thanks for the input.

ciao
drdash

[Duke Nukem]

Yeah, the first "Omen" flicks have bleak endings. The first one's was surprising and effective, but the sequel's end was more hokey and obvious.

[Dignan]

Originally posted by adamjohnson
You mean like, DOTD (original) where they escape and everything? Yeah...

It was a moral victory, on the zombies part.;)

[IamNoOne666]

i just remembered Psycho 2, I acually like this movie and the ending was great.

[moviemorgan2]

~*~Spoilers~*~
Nightmare on Elm Street(sorta kinda)
Freddy vs. Jason(They both died but Lori was such a slut she was a bad guy:p)
Jeepers Creepers
House of 1000 Corpses
Halloween 5
Halloween 4(sorta)



Well, there's more, but I got no time....

[Elgyn]

Don`t know if these have already been mentioned, but both "Ginger Snaps" movies have rather downbeat endings.

[SixStrangSmoker]

ok heres a flick for ya..

THELMA AND LOUISE

unless that car had jet packs and they flew away
...which would have been weird:rolleyes:

[IamNoOne666]

Originally posted by SixStrangSmoker
ok heres a flick for ya..

THELMA AND LOUISE

unless that car had jet packs and they flew away
...which would have been weird:rolleyes:

Correction that would have been AWESOME!!!!

[!MorganOnyx!]

Oh THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT's ending always does it for me too.


I didn't mention PHANTASM because I felt that everybody would be thinking that. But I feel that is THE BEST ENDING ever, in horror movie history. :cool:

[Elgyn]

In "Slaughter High" the bad guy wins.

[IamNoOne666]

Spoilers!!!



I just remembered the fog had the bad guys win in the very end.

[Friac]

Maybe you guys didn't mention it because it's too famous, but what about...

HALLOWEEN?
;)

[syxxpac]

Originally posted by Elgyn
Don`t know if these have already been mentioned, but both "Ginger Snaps" movies have rather downbeat endings.

****SPOILERS for GINGER SNAPS****

I think this is a strange case. On one hand, our heroine Ginger dies. BUT, so does the werewolf inside of her. In a way, she was both heroine and villainess. So it's kind of a mixed ending.

****END SPOILERS****

And I must mention Resident Evil. Apocalyptic nihilism at its finest.

[Gretchen_Ross]

Originally posted by syxxpac
And I must mention Resident Evil. Apocalyptic nihilism at its finest.

you gotta give credit to a major release that has the guts to end that way.

has anybody mentioned "dead and buried" yet? a definite downer at the end.

[Elgyn]

Originally posted by syxxpac
****SPOILERS for GINGER SNAPS****

I think this is a strange case. On one hand, our heroine Ginger dies. BUT, so does the werewolf inside of her. In a way, she was both heroine and villainess. So it's kind of a mixed ending.

****END SPOILERS****




The last shot of the movie is Bridgette (who is now infected) crying over the dead body of her sister. To me, that`s 'downbeat'.

[syxxpac]

Originally posted by Elgyn
The last shot of the movie is Bridgette (who is now infected) crying over the dead body of her sister. To me, that`s 'downbeat'.

Yeah, but the werewolf is dead (for now). Hooray! :D

Just kidding. I agree.