10 Biggest Downer Endings In Major Movies
5. The Cabin In The Woods
Yes, like Drag Me To Hell, it's another horror movie with a down ending. Such endings are, of course, not that uncommon in the genre, but we don't necessarily expect them from comparatively big budget mainstream productions like this one. And we certainly don't expect them to be quite this nihilistic.
Director Drew Goddard's film takes a strange post-modern spin on the staples of the teen-friendly horror movie, revealing that, in theory, every horror movie scenario ever played out is part of an ancient blood rite, staged regularly in secret by a massive multi-national corporation, in order to appease ancient gods that live within the earth.
However, when the latest crop of would-be victims realise they're being manipulated, things go sideways in a spectacular fashion, leading to the slaughter of the corporate employees at the hands of the myriad of monsters in their vaults.
Finally, the company director (Sigourney Weaver) tells the designated final girl Dana (Kristen Connolly) that either she or fellow survivor Marty (Fran Kranz) must die to complete the rite, or the old ones will resurface and destroy the world.
Stubbornly, Dana and Marty refuse. And so, the old ones do indeed resurface, and humanity is indeed buggered. Who says the youth of today are all about saving the world?