10 Horror Movie Endings That Leave You Speechless

Rose Glass is one of the newest directors on the horror scene, but her first feature - Saint Maud - is proof of just how much can be achieved in the genre with as little as possible.

Made on a budget of $2.5 million, and featuring a small cast with just two main characters, Saint Maud makes horror of the everyday, setting us down in Scarborough, where Welsh palliative care nurse Maud (Morfydd Clark) has a new client in former US dancer and choreographer Amanda (Jennifer Ehle).

A devout Catholic, Maud fails to draw a line between her own personal beliefs and her job, scorning Amanda’s hedonistic, atheistic lifestyle and positioning herself as a holy messenger of God, who has been tasked with saving Amanda's soul. Needless to say, this doesn't go so well, and Maud's delusions lead her down a dark path, hallucinating visions and miracles, punishing her own flesh and stabbing Amanda to death with a pair of scissors. 

And that's not even the end - Maud self-immolates on Scarborough beach, seeming a vision of divinity in a whirl of holy fire. Unfortunately, Glass takes this opportunity to smash cut back to reality and our last image is of Maud screaming in pain and terror as she burns alive.