10 Post-Credits Horror Movie Scenes That Changed Everything
4. The Grey
The Grey is a powerful, emotional story about the lengths a man will go to stay alive and while not technically a horror, the situation can't be described as anything else. Liam Neeson plays John Ottway, a lonely man working as a wolf sniper protecting oil company workers at a drilling site in Alaska. Fuelled by alcoholism and weighed down with crushing depression, John is on the verge of suicide until a near fatal plane crash triggers his self preservation instincts.
John and the few surviving men stage a desperate attempt to battle both the elements and a hungry, aggressive wolf pack, hell bent on picking off the men one by one.
At the film's climax, John, the last man alive, makes a final stand against the wolf pack after he inadvertently stumbles into the lair of the alpha male. Strapping shards of broken liquor bottles to his knuckles and with a blade taped into his palm, John faces the wolf, reciting the poem his father taught him: "Once more into the fray. Into the last good fight I'll ever know. Live and die on this day. Live and die on this day." Roll credits, the end.
The outcome of the fight is unknown at first, except for a post credit sequence, which shows the heaving, bloody body of the wolf gasping for breath. Whether John survived or not is down to personal interpretation, the ending remains uncertain, perhaps the directors intention all along.