8 Horror Movie Moments Nobody Understands

8. What Does The Ending Mean? - Martyrs

Martyrs is one of those classic horror movies that's been talked about to death, which is why it's even more impressive that nobody has been able to come down conclusively on its ending one way or another.

Though the film starts off relatively simple, with a woman invading a house to murder the people responsible for keeping her captive as a young girl, it quickly moves into the surreal as the woman is killed, and her friend Anna is re-captured and subjected to torture.

Her captors have a pretty nuts goal behind her suffering: to figure out once and for all whether there's life after death. In order to achieve this answer they need to create a "martyr", someone who is tortured so extremely that they essentially become a being caught between the world of the living and the world of the dead.

After being gruesomely flayed, Anna achieves this and whispers the secret into the ear of the organisation's leader, who then promptly kills herself. Without being privy to what this secret was, audiences are left to ponder what comes after death, if anything. What did Anna see? We can only guess.