15 More Horror Movie Endings That Get Worse The More You Think About It

5. Oculus - The Mirror Wins Again

As soon as Oculus came out, it was immediately clear that the man behind it would go on to achieve great things and indeed, he has. The director in question is none other than Mike Flanagan. Here, he created one of the most frightening horror movies of the early 2010s, and one of the toughest things about it was just how downbeat it was. 

Set across two timelines, this tells the story of how a supernatural mirror destroys two generations of the same family, and it concludes with a similar scene playing across two timelines. In both cases, Tim Russell (played by Brenton Thwaites as an adult, Garrett Ryan Ewald as a child) is arrested for deaths that the mirror was responsible for, as he desperately protests his innocence to no avail. 

It's a bruising ending to a brilliantly nasty psychological horror. Firstly, Tim is being sent back to prison - possibly for good this time - for something that wasn't his fault and secondly, the mirror is still intact to continue killing goodness knows how many innocent people. Flanagan managed to make a mirror one of the most terrifying and powerful horror movie villains of the 2010s, and it's tough to imagine anyone would've ever been able to destroy it.