10 Most Disturbing Movie Endings Of All Time

Any film that ends with the skinning alive of a woman is going to find itself on a 'most disturbing' list. However, it’s not only Martyrs' visuals that are disturbing, it’s what it is trying to say, somewhat intellectually, that is all the more haunting.

Anna’s torture, her non-consensual martyrdom if you will, is a way of getting her to reach a stage of transcendence whereby she is able to experience the afterlife – if there is one – but not fully cross over. Though the film never reveals exactly what she saw, the ambiguous ending does insinuate that whatever it is doesn’t make life worth living, when in a shocking scene one of the cult leaders kills herself following Anna’s whisper.

Martyrs disguises itself as torture porn throughout to make the deeper more profound ending feel even more left field. No one could have predicted that following an hour of seemingly pointless and almost unwatchable violence, it would be so thought provoking with the ideas and questions it leaves you pondering.