12 Most Hopeless Horror Movie Endings

12. The Autopsy Of Jane Doe

One of the creepiest and most original supernatural horrors, The Autopsy of Jane Doe is deep and dark throughout its runtime and culminates in some truly shocking ways.

The story of an unidentifiable female victim of a mass homicide being rolled into the morgue of father and son, Austin and Tommy Tilden. Olwen Kelly was chosen by Norwegian director André Øvredal to play Jane Doe as opposed to using a puppet or CG, and that decision really helps sell the eeriness of the film's settings and supernatural events.

The Autopsy of Jane Doe reaches a climax when the father and son work out that Jane Doe contains the spirit of a witch killed during the Salem Witch trials. The spirit begins using Tommy's body as a way of healing itself, torturing the older man in such a horrific way that he ends up begging his son to kill him by the end. Austin ends up being startled by another vision from the witch and falls to his death before the authorities arrive on the scene.

The film ends with the witch triumphantly being carted off somewhere else, with the audience's two main characters left dead inside the morgue.