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

7. Fall

Having an unreliable narrator in a film can open so many doors to play with an audience's collective mind, especially so with a reveal that a character on screen was never really there.

This worked to perfection with The Sixth Sense and The Others, and heck, there was even the heart-stopping episode of Scrubs in which Dr. Cox's (John C. McGinley) best friend was revealed to have died at the beginning of the episode. Then there is Fall.

The story revolves around two friends who climb a decommissioned TV tower and get stranded with no way down, having to try and find some way to alert anybody to their situation. At one point, Hunter (Virginia Gardner) falls, and though at first it seems that she managed to save herself, it is ultimately revealed that she did not, and that Becky (Grace Caroline Currey) has been hallucinating her friend thanks to dehydration and exhaustion.

In reality, Hunter's body lay on a dish an upsettingly long way down. In order to finally save herself, Becky abseils down to her friend's corpse and, after pressing send on an SOS text to her dad, shoves the phone into a shoe, pushes the shoe inside Hunter, and throws Hunter hurtling to the ground. Her body protected the phone in the fall, and allowed the message to send once out of range of the tower's radio interference. It's an ending as dark and disgusting as it is shocking.