10 Utterly Devastating Horror Movie Endings You Didn't See Coming

Not too long after the release of the first two Hostel movies came a French effort from Pascal Laugier that toyed with similar themes of torture against seemingly random victims, but Martyrs was both far bleaker and brought further meaning to the story.

After trying to help her friend on something of a short-lived hunt for revenge against her torturers from years earlier, Anna (Morjana Alaoui) found herself being tortured, this time by a cult who were essentially trying to push their victims close enough to the afterlife in order for them to report back what they had seen.

The torture itself is grim and almost impossible to watch, while scenes of Lucie (Mylène Jampanoï) hurting herself don't bare thinking about. The finale, however, provides something of a talking point of Martyrs, in which there is no real answer given.

Anna, the group's most successful subject ever, whispers something into the ear of the cult's leader, who proceeds to tell her followers to keep doubting, before taking her own life. There are so many ways this could be taken. Was the woman desperate to find the afterlife based on what she had been told? Was what she was told so devastating that she saw no point in continuing? Or did it truly not matter what Anna said, because, regardless, it spelled the end of the woman's hunt for knowledge and thus her purpose in life? Either way, there aren't many positives to take from it.