15 Greatest Movie Endings Of The Decade

8. Kill List (2011)

Back before Nic Cage teamed up with some bees and made the end of The Wicker Man something of a joke, the original was one of the most genius nasty endings in the history of nasty endings. When you learn that Edward Woodward's Sgt. Neil Howie was always the intended sacrifice, there's a breathless helplessness that quickly takes over. The same can be said of the awful revelation at the end of Kill List.

Beginning ostensibly as a "normal" hitman movie, Ben Wheatley's twisting, maniac monster of a movie turns into something markedly different with dizzying ferocity, unveiling its truly dark and strange underbelly before we see Neil Maskell's Jay invited to take on his final target - "The Hunchback", who is a masked and cloaked person armed with a knife he must fight. When he kills the unknown person, he removes the sheet to find his own wife with their son strapped to her back.

It's a stunning end that sucks all of the wind out of you and the crowning glory on a film that could never be called expected.