10 Horror Movie Scenes That Totally Trolled Everyone
4. Hit The Road, Jack - The House That Jack Built
Lars von Trier's deeply nasty serial killer movie The House That Jack Built is two and a half hours of the filmmaker chastising the audience, of seeing just how far he can push the bounds of taste and decency without losing them entirely.
But for those who dared to stick with it to the end, von Trier decides to close the movie out on a hilariously unexpected joke.
In the final scene, Jack (Matt Dillon) attempts to escape the ninth circle of Hell by climbing to a stairway, only to slip and fall to his death in the fiery abyss below.
Von Trier holds on the brimstone for a few seconds, before suddenly smash-cutting to the credits which are scored by Ray Charles' "Hit the Road Jack."
To end such a horrifically brutal and nihilistic film with a peppy pop classic which signals Jack's mortal sign-off is... a choice alright, and a damn funny one at that.