12 Disturbing Sci-Fi Movie Endings That Haunt You
8. Right At Your Door
One
of the post-9/11 era’s most chillingly realistic sci-fi horror stories, this
sparse indie from 2006 sees a man torn by an impossible moral choice when a
deadly disease is accidentally released into the LA atmosphere whilst his wife is away from home. The unbearably tense film sees this
increasingly unhinged, paranoid mess of man barricade his home against the
infected as he obsesses over details drip-fed through to him,
eventually closing himself in to protect from the disease at the cost
of his own wife's survival.
Pretty gnarly ending right there already, isn’t it? Hard to top that.
Unless,
you know, we discover that barricading himself inside has incubated the virus which has all but died off outside, and now it’s only the protagonist who will die alone from the disease
due to his hubris. There’s a moral there somewhere.