10 Most Disturbing Horror Movie Endings

10. Sinister

We may praise this flick’s impressive sequel from Eli director Ciaran Foy later, but now it’s time to address the original film’s divisive ending. From the mind of recent Marvel exile Scott Derrickson, Sinister sees true crime author/washed up alcoholic Ethan Hawke relocate his family to a haunted house in order to uncover the truth behind a string of gruesome deaths attached to the place.

It’s not long before he discovers a box of vintage snuff reels in the attic, and so begins a sombre, moody psychological thriller as he grows more obsessed with the murders whilst also being haunted by shadowy children hiding throughout the dark house at night.

That is, until the last half hour or so, wherein we discover that Marilyn Manson lookalike/ demon Bughuul is the source of the many murders, and he’s been using kids as a conduit for his nefarious machinations. It’s hard to make a circle of sprogs look unsettling in any circumstances, but laugh at your peril—just when it seems like Hawke and family might escape unscathed, and even get a good book out of the experience, the entire family are drugged, tied up, and summarily killed by… his seven year old daughter, under Bughuul’s control.

Look, the image of a kid covering the walls of their house in their family’s blood is undeniably disturbing—no one said the endings wouldn’t also be illogical and unbelievably silly.