10 Bleakest Endings In Horror Movies

4. Cabin In The Woods

Shivers Lynn Lowry
Lionsgate

You probably wouldn’t expect a tongue-in-cheek comedy horror to have such a bleak ending. Cabin In The Woods is a parody not of one specific movie but of multiple tropes which populate the horror genre.

Placing several young adults in a spooky cabin out in the woods, we come to learn that a mysterious organisation is actually manipulating events with the goal of ensuring a real-life horror movie is acted out. The horror experienced by the teenagers is juxtaposed with the corporate banality of the team placing bets on which monsters will be successful in killing off the most of the cast.

In its final moments the movie brings in Sigourney Weaver to play the leader of the mysterious corporation who explains that the whole ordeal has been part of a sacrificial ceremony repeated every so often to entertain the Old Gods and keep them from destroying the earth.

Confronting the final two teens, she pleads with them to finish the ceremony but the two teens decide to say “screw it” and instead they allow the Old Gods to rise, presumably leading to the end of humanity.

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I'm Jamie, I am a writer and filmmaker based in Essex, UK. My key interests are in film and TV, particularly horror and comedy. I've published several short stories and hoping to publish a novel soon. Specialist subjects include Resident Evil, horror movies and Doctor Who.