10 More Movies Where Evil Won

10. Primal Fear

If you go into Primal Fear without any prior knowledge of where it's going, the ending is one hell of a trip alright. 

Gregory Hoblit's taut legal thriller follows defense attorney Martin Vail (Richard Gere) as he defends a teenage altar boy, Aaron Stampler (Edward Norton), accused of murdering an Archbishop.

We eventually learn that Aaron did kill the Archbish, but only in revenge for being sexually abused by him, and it's subsequently revealed that Aaron suffers from dissociative identity disorder, with the killing having been committed by a violent second persona, Roy.

At film's end Aaron is found not guilty by reason of insanity and sent to a psychiatric hospital, but in the stunning final scene, Vail meets with him once more where Aaron drops a flabbergasting revelation.

It turns out that Aaron faked his mental illness in order to kill the Archbishop while receiving the minimum punishment possible, and when a shocked Vail declares that "There never was a Roy," Aaron retorts with the chilling truth, "There never was an Aaron."

The shy, timid Aaron was a fabrication the entire time - the terrifying Roy was his true self, and with the verdict having already been rendered, all Vail can do is leave the scene, Aaron/Roy's scheme having worked perfectly.