{"id":100554,"date":"2020-10-29T19:16:33","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T16:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/10-most-affectingly-bleak-downer-endings-in-horror\/"},"modified":"2020-10-29T19:16:33","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T16:16:33","slug":"10-most-affectingly-bleak-downer-endings-in-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/10-most-affectingly-bleak-downer-endings-in-horror\/","title":{"rendered":"#10 Most Affectingly Bleak Downer Endings in Horror"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35c9e8055a7\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35c9e8055a7\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/10-most-affectingly-bleak-downer-endings-in-horror\/#10_Kill_List_2011\" >10. Kill List (2011)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/10-most-affectingly-bleak-downer-endings-in-horror\/#9_Pet_Sematary_1989\" >9. Pet Sematary (1989)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/10-most-affectingly-bleak-downer-endings-in-horror\/#8_The_Wicker_Man_1973\" >8. The Wicker Man (1973)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/10-most-affectingly-bleak-downer-endings-in-horror\/#7_The_Mist_2007\" >7. The Mist (2007)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/10-most-affectingly-bleak-downer-endings-in-horror\/#6_The_Thing_1982\" >6. The Thing (1982)<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#10 Most Affectingly Bleak Downer Endings in Horror<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">\n                <\/aside>\n<p><!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 3.7.7--><em>October is defined in Webster\u2019s Dictionary as \u201c31 days of horror.\u201d Don\u2019t bother looking it up; it\u2019s true. Most people take that to mean highlighting one horror movie a day, but here at FSR, we\u2019ve taken that up a spooky notch or nine by celebrating each day with a top ten list. This article about the most memorable downer horror movie endings is part of our ongoing <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> <strong>31 Days of Horror Lists<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>Horror is home to a higher percentage of bleakly depressing endings than any other genre, but that\u2019s only to be expected, isn\u2019t it? Romance films make your heart flutter, action raises your pulse, and horror aims to terrify, disturb, and obliterate hope. That\u2019s why we love it. Sure, there are plenty of horror movies that test their protagonists only to see them come out on top in the end. Those aren\u2019t the movies we\u2019re here to celebrate, though.<\/p>\n<p>No, we\u2019re here today to praise the horror movies that push both characters and viewers alike into an uncomfortable corner. The ones that secure our interest and emotion before teasing hope, survival, or redemption before grinding our hearts into the dirt. To be clear, we\u2019re not talking cheap shot endings where the monster is defeated only to pop up in the final seconds and claim victory anyway. We are, however, talking about movies that thrill us, make us care, and then crush us right before the end credits roll.<\/p>\n<p>Now please join me and the crew (Chris\u00a0Coffel,\u00a0Valerie Ettenhofer,\u00a0Kieran Fisher,\u00a0Brad Gullickson,\u00a0Meg Shields,\u00a0Anna Swanson,\u00a0Jacob Trussell) as we put on a brave face and relive the bleakest downer horror movie endings!<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"10_Kill_List_2011\"><\/span>10. Kill List (2011)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-357947 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Kill-List-2011.jpg\" alt=\"Kill List downer endings\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Kill-List-2011.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Kill-List-2011-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Kill-List-2011-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Kill-List-2011-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no good way to say this: you just don\u2019t come back from accidentally stabbing your wife and child to death in a cult ritual. Any movie kind of has to end at that point because there\u2019s nowhere to go from there. <strong>Ben Wheatley<\/strong>\u2019s scuzzy and sadistic thriller is about two hitmen who get more than they bargained for when a series of jobs leads them down a dark path. How dark? Familicide, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>arently.<\/p>\n<p>The end of <em>Kill List<\/em> is especially brutal and demoralizing because there\u2019s absolutely no way to see it coming. Much of the film mixes the folk horror of pagan rituals with the clinical violence of mercenary killing; until the last moment, it\u2019s impossible to tell what Wheatley has in store. Audiences\u2019 stunned silence hits right as the credits roll, leaving us alone with our overwhelming sense of disgust and horror. (Valerie Ettenhofer)<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"9_Pet_Sematary_1989\"><\/span>9. Pet Sematary (1989)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-358900\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/pet-sematary.jpg\" alt=\"Pet Sematary\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/pet-sematary.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/pet-sematary-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/pet-sematary-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/pet-sematary-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Stephen King\u2019s bibliography is heavy on horror, obviously, but he doesn\u2019t always succeed (or even make an effort) at being legitimately frightening. He tells great stories, but he doesn\u2019t always aim for scares. <em>Pet Sematary<\/em> is one of the exceptions as it delivers some truly unsettling scenes and emotionally affecting horrors, and <strong>Mary Lambert<\/strong>\u2018s adaptation follows suit for the screen.<\/p>\n<p>Grief is the order of the day, and the film captures the agony and pain well starting with the accidental death of young Gage and continuing through his father\u2019s heartbreaking need to kill the boy again \u2014 the child returns from the grave, starts racking up a body count including his own mother and is finally downed by his father, Louis. The man is in clear distress as he injects his zombie son with an extra lethal dose, and it\u2019s here where madness finally sets in.<\/p>\n<p>He then buries his murdered wife, the love of his life, in the cursed burial ground\u2026 and waits. She returns, shambling into their kitchen, and as the two of them embrace for a final heartbreaking kiss, she picks up a knife and slashes him to death. It\u2019s one of the genre\u2019s great downer endings and just one of the reasons why it\u2019s a superior adaptation to the one from 2019. (Rob Hunter)<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"8_The_Wicker_Man_1973\"><\/span>8. The Wicker Man (1973)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-358901\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/the-wicker-man.jpg\" alt=\"The Wicker Man\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/the-wicker-man.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/the-wicker-man-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/the-wicker-man-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/the-wicker-man-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Being set ablaze and sacrificed to a bunch of pagan gods is bad enough, but do you have to tell the chump victim why? Let him just enjoy the agony without the humiliation of exposing his virginity. Sorry, Officer Howie, your foolish clinging to your flower is the death of you.<\/p>\n<p>If only our hero were the lead of some teen slasher, right? Howie would have reigned supreme as the final girl in <em>Halloween<\/em> or <em>Friday the 13th<\/em>. Instead, he\u2019s huffing and puffing his way through <em>The Wicker Man<\/em>, and his perpetually limp noodle will be the death of him. (Brad Gullickson)<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"7_The_Mist_2007\"><\/span>7. The Mist (2007)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-358902 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/the-mist.jpg\" alt=\"The Mist downer endings\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/the-mist.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/the-mist-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/the-mist-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/the-mist-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Typically when we use idioms like \u201cI was on the edge of my seat,\u201d we\u2019re being purposefully hyperbolic to describe a feeling you can\u2019t adequately put into words. But when I first watched <em>The Mist<\/em> in theatres, I was literally on the edge of my seat, enough to lean over the back of the chair in front of me (call off your hounds, the theatre was empty.)<\/p>\n<p>As we hear Thomas Jane systemically shoot his family and allies, my jaw dropped. You don\u2019t go to a horror movie expecting a happy ending, but you also don\u2019t go to one anticipating nihilism of such an extreme degree. When he realizes he miscounted and he doesn\u2019t have a final bullet for himself, the wind is knocked out of you. And then you see the mother who no one wanted to help from the beginning of the movie survive with her kids and you\u2019re like, \u201cOk what in the actual fuck.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Famously this ending is not in Stephen King\u2019s original novella, the survivors instead driving into an unknown future in the haze surrounding the interdimensional creatures, but <strong>Frank Darabont<\/strong>\u2019s pitch black ending knocks a hole in you that King himself was hesitant to do. <em>The Mist<\/em> might be a B-movie blast, but that doesn\u2019t rob it of having one of the most impactful downer endings in horror cinema history. (Jacob Trussell)<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"6_The_Thing_1982\"><\/span>6. The Thing (1982)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-358163\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/The_Thing_dynamite.jpg\" alt=\"The Thing musical Dynamite\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/The_Thing_dynamite.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/The_Thing_dynamite-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/The_Thing_dynamite-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/The_Thing_dynamite-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>John Carpenter<\/strong>\u2018s <em>The Thing<\/em> is one of the most beloved and iconic horror films of all time. This story about a research team in Antarctica that is invaded by a shape-shifting alien creature is a masterwork of special effects and paranoia. That ending, though, sure is bleak.<\/p>\n<p>MacReady (Kurt Russell) and Childs (Keith David) are the last two survivors. They watched on as their fellow researchers all died horribly brutal deaths, most of them being ripped to shreds in some way, and then they destroyed their research base. Resigned to the fact that there is nothing they can do, they sick back, pop open a bottle of scotch, and welcome the cold and bitter death that is sure to follow. 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