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

3. The Long Walk

By the very definition of the game from which The Long Walk's title was taken, in a similar way to The Hunger Games, there was only going to be one young man left breathing at the end, at most. However, while Katniss and Peeta found a way to both survive, Ray and Pete (Cooper Hoffman and David Jonsson) didn't.

In a dystopian world in which the economy has collapsed, 50 boys, one from each US State, participate in the Long Walk. It is literally last man standing, where those who cannot maintain a speed of 3 mph are killed off, until there is a winner who is showered with riches and has one wish granted.

Ray wanted to kill the Major (Mark Hamill), the authority figure watching over the 49 murders, while Pete, who managed to befriend Ray in the face of one or both of their imminent deaths, tried his very hardest to talk him out of it, telling him of the beauty of the world, and how sad it would be if he became the kind of person who could kill a man.

When all was said and done, though, throwing Stephen King's 1979 ending out the window, Pete used his winning wish to become that person and kill the Major. No making the world a brighter place, no two winners in the future Walks; just cold revenge that ultimately meant nothing in an already bleak world.