10 Movie Endings That Left You Speechless

Even accepting the fearlessness of the great Sam Raimi, few went into his campy 2009 horror-comedy Drag Me to Hell expecting it to quite literally live up to its title.

But that's precisely the fate that befalls the film's likeable hero, cursed bank loan officer Christine Brown (Alison Lohman), at the very end.

After it appears that Christine has finally beaten the curse and her life has returned to normal, she realises that she incorrectly completed the ritual to lift the curse, and so demons are now coming to drag her to hell.

Christine's at a train station with her boyfriend Clay (Justin Long) when she makes the realisation, and then trips and falls onto the train tracks. At that moment, demonic hands emerge from underneath the tracks and start dragging her downwards to hell.

Christine screams for Clay to help her as the flesh begins to melt off her bones and she's pulled down, all while Clay can do nothing but watch his love - the woman he was about to propose to, no less - get violently ripped out of existence.

It's an insanely harsh ending for Christine considering that her "sin" was simply working within the capitalist machine and rejecting a woman's mortgage extension, albeit one that certainly ensured the film delivered on its titular promise.