20 Horror Movies That Were Way Too Cruel

Another slasher flick, another off-putting ending that'll rub everyone the wrong way; it's time to talk about 2019's Black Christmas, the second remake of the wonderful 1974 slasher flick of the same name, albeit a remake in name only. It's got almost nothing in common with the original, a criminally underrated gem that you should most definitely watch instead of this.

This one sees a group of Sorority sisters being stalked by various masked attackers, and the movie goes in a pretty crazy direction by the end. It turns out that the attackers are the college's fraternity brothers, who've been possessed by the spirit of the college's misogynistic founder. Working with the villainous Professor Gelson (Cary Elwes), they've been murdering women they deem unruly. 

This largely underwhelming (if admirably audacious) redo drops the ball at the very end, just like the aforementioned Prom Night. It's got one of those endings that's presented as happy despite having some horrible implications. Specifically, while most of the heroic characters escape and Gelson is killed, the previously possessed frat brothers are left to die in a burning building, even though they'd clearly been possessed and weren't really in control of their actions. 

That's exactly the wrong kind of disturbing, and this ranks among the least-happy 'happy endings' in recent memory.