10 Horror Movies Ruined By Disturbing Endings

2. Inside (2007)

Like High Tension, 2007’s Inside is a textbook example of the New French Extremity movement because of its excessive gore and sadistic storyline.

You see, several months after surviving a car crash that killed her husband, grieving widow Sarah is resting as she prepares to give birth to their baby the next day. Unfortunately, a mysterious woman (with an admittedly clever motivation) breaks into Sarah’s house with the intention of cutting the baby out of Sarah’s body and raising it herself.

Sarah spends most the night hiding from – and fighting – the relentless woman, leading to plenty of bloodshed, torture, and homicide (including Sarah accidentally stabbing her mother, Louise, in the neck with a needle).

If Inside were more conventional, it would allow Sarah to defeat her attacker as the movie wraps up. Instead, it further punishes her – and audiences – by showing the mysterious woman slice open Sarah’s midsection and remove her baby. Then, Sarah bleeds to death while the woman sits in a chair and comforts the child.

As is common with Hollywood adaptations of non-English-language films, the significantly inferior 2016 remake offers a more crowd-pleasingly clichéd finale that’ll probably work better for sensitive viewers.

So, at least there’s that.