10 Horror Movies Where Evil Wins

3. Se7en

Without question, still one of the greatest twist endings in cinema history, Se7en still shocks to this day because of the stunning realistion that you've not actually been watching the type of film you think you have. For all 95% of it plays out like a sinister but nonetheless procedural police thriller, the whole thing is actually one man's twisted, and perfectly executed, plan to condemn the sinful world he sees around him.

Having seen the grizzly deaths of what he viewed to be embodiments of Gluttony, Pride, Lust, Greed, and Sloth, John Doe takes detectives Mills and Somerset out to a remote location to reveal his final two victims before promising to turn himself in and confess to everything. Then, in one of the most iconic moments in cinema, a courier arrives with a box containing the head of Detective Mills' wife.

The twist is that Doe coveted the normal, happy life the detective had, making him the representation of Envy. This unspeakable trauma pushes a grief-stricken Mills to gun him down on the spot, becoming Wrath and completing the cycle put in motion from the very first murder. Evil wins in the end but, in truth, it had won from the very start.