10 Utterly Devastating Horror Movie Endings You Didn't See Coming

10. Midsommar

Such is the tragedy of Dani's (Florence Pugh) life within the story of Midsommar, the opening scenes that see the fallout from her sister's murder of their parents and subsequent suicide only scratch the surface of the ordeal she is about to go through.

While a horror film removing its cast of characters to a rather claustrophobic and isolated setting of the Swedish woods was never going to end well, you'd still be hard-pressed to find someone who could telegraph how the thing was going to end.

On a vacation fuelled more by grief than anything, with a boyfriend who simply couldn't be bothered with her emotions, Dani's downward spiral was as rapid as it was shocking. The festival turned out to be a cultist community, with sacrificial elders, murder, and humiliation rituals aplenty, and Dani managed to be the sole survivor from her visiting group. 

Though this may be the case, it's a hard ending to read. Dani survived, but now, as the May Queen of the community, she's almost trapped there. She may have gotten some sort of revenge on her boyfriend Christian (Jack Reynor) by all but ordering his death by fire, but the fact that this is where her life led her is utterly heartbreaking, so much so that Florence Pugh quit the horror genre altogether.