10 More Horror Movies With Seriously Messed Up Endings

4. The Haunting Of Julia

The Dark and the Wicked
Cinema International Corporation

Mia Farrow in a horror movie centred around a demonic youngster? Nine years after Rosemary's Baby, Farrow was back in the world of the sinister with 1977's The Haunting of Julia.

While Rosemary's Baby ended with Farrow's character giving birth to a demonic entity, The Haunting of Julia opens with Farrow's titular Julia witnessing the death of her daughter Kate. After Kate chokes at breakfast, Julia performs a makeshift tracheotomy that sadly sees the girl bleed to death.

Ending her marriage to Magnus shortly after this, Julia moves into an old house where she starts to experience strange happenings. Initially thinking it's Magnus sneaking into her abode, Julia eventually discovers how she's being troubled by something related to the death of a young boy, Geoffrey, years prior.

At the time, a vagrant was blamed for this youngster's murder, although some digging discovers how a fellow child, Olivia, had corrupted her classmates to hold down Geoffrey as she smothered him with a coat and castrated him. Viewed as pure evil, Olivia herself was then killed by her mother.

Once the final scene has Julia see the ghost of Olivia for the first time, there's no 'feel good' redemption here - as Julia instead has her throat slashed by a toy that belonged to her own deceased daughter.

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