10 Horror Movie Endings That Leave You Speechless

Noughties French horror is a breed unto itself, pulling together a continental sense of propriety (or, you know, lack thereof) with the kind of low-budget guts and gore we saw during the UK video nasties period. And Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo’s Inside (original, À l'intérieur) is about as full-on as it gets.

The premise is simple: pregnant and widowed Sarah Scarangella (Alysson Paradis) is trapped alone in her own home on Christmas Eve by a character known only as La Femme (Beatrice Dalle), a mysterious and unhinged woman who seeks to take Sarah’s unborn child – by any means necessary. Things get real bloody real quick, and when the police, Sarah’s doctor and her mother drop by to check on her, we are treated to an ongoing barrage of gruesome injury, with scissors through skulls, people shot in the face, Sarah’s pregnant belly punctured and even La Femme’s face partially burnt off.

The point of all this is that the car accident that killed Sarah’s husband also killed La Femme’s unborn baby, and she lost her mind as a result, seeing only one path to being whole again. And, you know what? She gets it.

The final scenes of the film have La Femme perform an ad hoc Caesarean section on a beaten and bloody Sarah, saving the baby and killing its mother. And these words don’t even go halfway to describing what this feels like to watch.