10 More Movies Where Evil Won

The ludicrously underrated supernatural horror Fallen does a fantastic job of making you dead certain that the hero's going to prevail, only to pull the rug out at the last possible moment.

The film opens with a glimpse of its ending, as protagonist Detective John Hobbes (Denzel Washington) explains via voiceover that he's going to tell us about the time he almost died, as he collapses to the floor in a snowy forest.

Hobbes spends the rest of the story hunting down a serial killer who is in fact a fallen angel, Azazel, who can possess people simply by touching them. 

And at film's end, Hobbes kills Azazel's host, Jonesy (John Goodman), before poisoning himself, in turn leaving Azazel stranded in the middle of nowhere without a possible new host.

Except, before Hobbes dies, Azazel possesses him just as we resume the scene from the start of the film, confirming that the voiceover was actually Azazel all along, talking about the time he almost died, rather than Hobbes.

At that moment, Azazel is saved from being confined to Hobbes' corpse forever more by a cat which arrives on the scene out of nowhere, allowing Azazel to possess it and then presumably find a new host as soon as another human being makes contact with him.