Top 20 Greatest Modern Horror Movie Endings

[Music] welcome to WatchMojo and today we're counting down our picks for the top 20 greatest modern horror movie endings [Music] for this list we're looking at the most impactful and memorable endings in horror movies released in or after the year 2000 as we'll be discussing endings in great detail a major spoiler warning is in effect which of these endings scared you the most let us know in the comments below number 20 the ring this classic horror film pulls a fast one on the audience Rachel and Noah seemingly end the videotape curse by recovering samara's body and giving it a proper burial she wanted that job on anything in the world but this story doesn't play by the old break the curse get a happy ending rules in instead Noah is killed by Samara and Rachel has her son Aiden make a copy of the tape to spare him from the vengeful ghost so not only did Samara not care about getting buried but Rachel knowingly Dooms more people and allows the curse to continue in order to save her son it's a wonderful ending that cleverly subverts expectations and introduces an exciting aspect of moral ambiguity to the story and its protagonist what about the person we show it to what happens to them number 19 Ready or Not Samara weaving stars as Grace La Demas a woman who becomes hunted by her husband's extended family in a brutal game of hide and seek so there's no way for me to win right well you could stay hidden until dawn no thank you the family has been cursed and if they don't find and kill Grace Before Sunrise then they will all die sure enough they do all die and in the most ridiculous way possible Grace escapes the ritual and wins the game causing the entire ladumas family to explode it's an expertly directed sequence that effortlessly toes the line between horror and dark comedy and it ends the movie with buckets upon Buckets of Blood what more can you ask for in a horror flick forgive us number 18. Sinister this movie has suitably a very Sinister ending Ellison's daughter Ashley falls under the control of a demon named bagul who makes children kill their own family a deity what kind of deity a very obscure one dating back to Babylonian times named Magoo the Eater of children well the poor oswalts are next on the list Ashley Slaughters her entire family with an ax and is subsequently taken away by the goal to live with the rest of the killer kids the snuff film that Ashley shot then sits in the Attic waiting for the next hapless victim to watch it and become cursed so the Oswald's die Ashley is taken by begol and the demon lives on to continue its Killing Spree it's a vicious ending without a semblance of happiness number 17 a quiet place John krasinski's popular horror film has a great ending that definitely mixes tragedy with Triumph it's a delicate balancing act that works flawlessly thanks to krasinski's confident Direction the family suffers a great loss as Lee sacrifices himself to save his children oh my God but this sacrifice helps save the world maybe it allows Reagan to survive and she goes on to discover the creature's weakness Reagan and Evelyn then use this knowledge to fight off the approaching monsters and hopefully give Humanity a shot at survival after 90 minutes of pure tension and submissive fear it was nice to see the humans fighting back number 16 Final Destination if we have to attribute a deeper meaning to Final Destination we'd say that it's an extended metaphor about the certainty of death you can only avoid and delay it for so long before it eventually comes for you proven in the Tower ending it seems like Alex clear and Carter have successfully escaped death but the omniscient Force has other plans Carter saves Alex from a falling sign but the sign swings back around and kills Carter this seems to imply that none of the three survivors will actually survive for long if there was any doubt this theory was clarified in the sequel as Alex dies off-screen and clear is killed in an explosion number 15 The Invisible Man screenwriter Lee winnell of Saw Fame updated H.G Wells iconic novel with many fun and creative revisions no one's ever left him before but he's burnished you enough now Oliver Jackson Cohen plays villain Adrian Griffin a scientist who makes a bodysuit that allows him to become invisible Adrian is the toxic ex of Cecilia Cass who finally gets her revenge in the movie's surprising climax Cecilia uses Adrian's bodysuit against him and violently takes his life but because she was wearing the suit she successfully frames Adrian's death as an act of self-harm and is allowed to walk free it's a triumphant ending that intelligently incorporates the story's technology and provides some much needed closure for its protagonist number 14. orphan Isabel Furman gives a commanding performance as young Esther a little girl who may not be such a little girl after all nine-year-old Esther is adopted by Kate and John Coleman but she begins displaying some troubling behavior and comes equipped with a disturbing past filled with violence and death She's dangerously ill violent she killed seven people that we know of Kate eventually learns that her adoptive daughter is actually a fully grown Estonian serial killer suffering from a hormonal disorder that gives her a youthful appearance The Twist is mind-blowing and encourages viewers to watch the entire film again to catch the clues they missed it proceeds to end on a Bittersweet note with Kate killing Esther but losing her husband in the process I need the police we have an intruder in our home number 13. Drag Me to Hell if you've seen any of his Evil Dead series you know Sam Raimi likes his horror with a generous helping of tongue-in-cheek humor Drag Me to Hell is no exception delivering the Absurd horror you'd expect from raymie the film culminates with Allison lohmann's Christine realizing she failed to break the curse placed on her before falling onto a set of train tracks a portal to Hell opens beneath her with spectral arms dragging her in and fulfilling the film's title her boyfriend played by Justin long can only watch in horror as Christine cries for help number 12 the others Alejandro aminabar's 2001 ghost story Stars Nicole Kidman as Grace the mother of two children living on an island off the coast of Normandy following World War II you listen to me I've seen them too Grace and her kids begin to believe their house is haunted as the film goes on but the real shocker comes near the film's end is that how she kills you with a pillow it's revealed that Grace murdered her children before killing herself and they've been the ghost in the house ever since crazy right eventually Grace and her kids come to terms with their status as ghosts and decide to happily and peacefully inhabit or haunt the house together I don't know number 11 the babadook like many of the best horror films the babadook works both as a straightforward monster movie and as a prolonged metaphor in this case the babadook itself represents Amelia vanak's grief depression and anxiety following the death of her husband Oscar six years old you're still waiting yourself I wished it was you not him that died in a richly thematic climax Amelia regains her confidence and banishes the creature to the basement of the house while she continues to acknowledge the monster she finally seems content with her life and shows both love and attention to her son Sam it's an optimistic ending that provides encouragement and reinforces the idea that personal demons can be banished and imprisoned it's all right it's all right number 10 it follows director David Robert Mitchell's low budget horror flick came out of seemingly nowhere when it shocked audiences back in 2015. the film deals with a sexually transmitted Supernatural force that follows and kills its victims along a chain of sexual partners the only way to avoid death you guessed it pass it along via sex at the film's conclusion when Jay and Paul believed they've gotten rid of the force during the bloody pool Showdown the film hints that they may not be so safe after all while walking peacefully down their Suburban block we see a figure slowly walking behind them in the distance it is a perfectly ambiguous horror ending that left audiences terrified number nine Paranormal Activity there are about 12 endings to Paranormal Activity okay three but whatever and they picked the one that allowed the series to continue it was probably the right call financially speaking of course in both alternate endings Katie dies of violent death but the theatrical version plays out a little differently Katie kills her boyfriend Mika and then lunges at the camera before a text epilogue reveals that she's missing this ending generates intense feelings of paranoia indicating that a murderous woman possessed by a demonic presence is on the loose it works great as a standalone conclusion but it also perfectly sets up the many sequels to come over please don't hurt me number eight The Descent this movie also has an alternate ending and in this case the alternate version is way better or at least much darker in the original American release Sarah escapes from the cave and its violent inhabitants her vision of the Dead Juno indicates that she will be traumatized by the experience but she survives [Music] turns out this is only part of the original British ending in it the Escape is revealed to be a hallucination and Sarah is presumably killed by the creatures inhabiting the cave it's a fantastic reveal that skillfully gets one over on the audience providing a false sense of hope and security before cruelly ripping it away now that is how you do horror number seven wreck this Spanish found footage film details the plight of journalist Angela Vidal and her cameraman Pablo as they find themselves trapped in an apartment building overrun with some sort of demonic possession virus [Music] the film is scary throughout but its ending is truly intense Angela and Pablo in a darkened apartment lit only with their night vision camera when one of the possessed becomes aware of them we see Pablo's brutal death as Angela struggles to get a hold of the camera so she can see in the darkness after finding but then dropping the camera the audience sees Angela crawl towards it before she's abruptly pulled into the darkness [Applause] number six the Mist this Stephen King adaptation is notorious for its Downer ending after being trapped in a supermarket for the entire film David Drayton and his group of survivors make their escape into the monster-ridden Mist in an attempt to find rescue after hours of driving finding no survivors the group's car runs out of gas with David using the last of his ammunition to put all the other survivors out of their misery including his very young son before they can be consumed by monsters David prepares to be killed only to be rescued by the military just moments after mercy killing four people [Music] [Applause] number five the witch this Slow Burn Supernatural tale may not have been the type of horror movie many were expecting but by the film's end all hell breaks loose and were paid a visit by the Devil Himself [Music] after the family is plagued by strange goings-on and disappearances things come to a head when the witch finally makes her move creating Chaos on the farm that ends with only young Thomason Left Alive Thomason makes a pact with the devil in the form of the family's goat before she joins a coven of witches in the midst of some sort of ceremony it is a creepy ending that serves as a perfect payoff to the film's churning Pace Number Four The Cabin in the Woods me virgin we work with what we have this clever Twist on a classic horror Motif is a sharp and scary Thrill Ride that ends in a way that manages to be hilarious frightening and entertaining all at the same time this should have gone differently with Dana and Marty being the only survivors after uncovering the underground facility that caused the knight's chaos the pair releases the rest of the monsters deciding to bring the facility down we're not talking about change we're talking about the agonizing death of every human soul on the planet they soon discover that they are part of a sacrificial ritual meant to stop the end of the world Dana must kill Marty in order to prevent Armageddon but besides it isn't worth it leaving the pair to sit and watch the world come to an end number three hereditary most people weren't too sure what to expect heading into hereditary it's safe to say we got more than we bargained for after a tangled plot involving a coven a demon and a tragic accident sixteen-year-old Peter was penciled in as the new host for the demon payment after a terrifying scene depicting an attack by his possessed mother Peter was drawn into the backyard Treehouse that belonged to his deceased sister Charlie [Music] foreign soul is transferred into Peter fulfilling a prophecy that we can imagine is going to have some pretty dire consequences for the rest of the world [Applause] Ari Astor would continue his trend for violent endings in midsummar which sees a paralyzed Christian being burned alive number two saw the year 2004 saw director James Wan break onto the scene with his horror hit saw hello Amanda the film shows the struggle of several victims of the serial killer known as jigsaw as they attempt to solve his puzzle and escape with their lives the film's twisting and turning plot comes to a head when it's revealed that the seemingly dead body lying in the room through the whole film was actually the jigsaw killer himself into that chain every other character in the film was essentially a pawn in his game and there are no winners in this one before we continue be sure to subscribe to our Channel and ring the bell to get notified about our latest videos you have the option to be notified for occasional videos or all of them if you're on your phone make sure you go into your settings and switch on notifications number one get out 2017's massive horror hit get out Drew both popular and critical Acclaim for its Frank analysis of race in America today my dad would have voted for Obama a third time if he could have after Chris uncovers the full conspiracy at play and has nearly escaped from Rose's Family Farm she confronts him one last time in the driveway as Chris tries to stop the bleeding half dead rose from killing him a police car approaches oh help me with the added cultural context of police violence against black men the scene immediately takes on a new feeling of dread before it's revealed that the driver of the car is Chris's TSA agent friend rod [ __ ] talk about the biggest sigh of relief peel would go in a far more pessimistic Direction with his follow-up us which sees the tethered killing their surface counterparts and taking over the world did you enjoy this video check out these other clips from WatchMojo and be sure to subscribe and ring the bell to be notified about our latest videos foreign

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Length: 17min 49sec (1069 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 25 2023