10 Endings That Make Movies Impossible To Rewatch

6. The Most Depressing Ending Ever - The Mist

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with a bleak ending or two – not all films can or should have a happy conclusion – but some film’s endings are so depressing that they border on pure nihilism. Case in point: Frank Darabont’s adaptation of Stephen King’s novella The Mist.

When a strange, creeping mist takes over a small Maine town bringing with it a horde of deadly monsters, David Drayton and his young son Billy find themselves trapped in a supermarket with a ragtag group of locals. After enduring terrifying attacks from disembodied tentacles, pterodactyl-like creatures and the all too human threat of a religious whack-job, David, his son and a handful of others decide to take their chances and make a run for it.

As they drive through the mist and witness the death and destruction left in the wake of the monsters they decide that all hope is lost and agree that a bullet to the head is better option than becoming monster food. One problem though: there’s five survivors and the gun they have only has four bullets, so David bravely offers to off the others and leave himself to the mercy of the monsters. But after killing them all (including his young son), the military show up apparently in control of the situation. Yay, a happy ending! Oh wait … you just killed your son for nothing.

Though Stephen King isn’t exactly known for his brilliant endings, at least his – an ambiguous conclusion in which the survivors escape and drive off into an uncertain future without shooting each other in the head – offered a shred of hope.