10 More Horror Movies Where Evil Wins

10. Sinister

Sinister's ending may not be perfect - the Creepy Kids Collective is more than a little corny - but it gets a lot of credit for cleverly subverting one major convention of the haunted house movie.

"Why don't they just leave the house!?," we all scream at our TVs in movies like this, but to his credit, true crime writer Ellison Oswalt (Ethan Hawke) eventually does just that, taking his family from the seemingly haunted Stevenson house and back to their former abode. But the twist ending reveals that each of the prior murder victims were only killed after they moved out of the haunted house, in turn meaning that Ellison has just inadvertently marked himself and his family for death.

Ellison then passes out and wakes up to find himself, his wife, and son bound on the floor, with their daughter Ashley (Clare Foley) responsible. With Ashley under the control of pagan deity Bughuul, she murders her family with an axe and then disappears into the void with the entity. 

Evil wins, with the good guys clearly being totally outfoxed from the jump.