20 Movies You Weren't Expecting To Make You Cry
8. The Mist
With this one, it all comes down to one thing: that ending. The Mist has one of the cruellest and darkest film endings of the 21st century, the kind that'll have left audiences staggering out of cinemas with their souls crushed into powder.
In The Mist, a supernatural mist filled with deadly creatures falls over a town. The town's residents hole up in the supermarket, but they're not much safer in there as the townsfolk begin to descend into murderous paranoia. By the end, five people - protagonist David Drayton (Thomas Jane), his son Billy (Nathan Gamble), and three other allies - escape from the supermarket and drive off into the mist, looking for aid. They don't find it.
Eventually, they run out of gas and decide to die. With only four bullets left in his gun, David shoots the other four - including his son - and then steps outside, waiting to be eaten by the monsters. Instead, he's greeted by the military, who are resolving the crisis. They were seconds away from rescue, and David just killed his own son for nothing.