50 Movies Where Evil Won

Plot: Siblings Kaylie (Karen Gillan) and Tim (Brenton Thwaites) try to destroy the supernatural mirror that led to their parents' deaths. 

Mike Flanagan's awesome psychological horror flick unfolds across two different timelines, showing the luckless siblings as kids and as adults, and this makes the mirror's ultimate victory even more crushing. Among the many downer horror movies out there, Oculus stands out, as evil doesn't just win, it wins twice. 

In the earlier timeline, both of their parents are killed, and Tim, wrongly blamed, is sent to a psychiatric hospital. In the later timeline, pretty much the exact same thing occurs. This time, the mirror tricks Tim into killing Kaylie, and he is taken into custody once again, frantically shouting that the mirror did it, just like he did as a child. 

These two conclusions are edited together at the film's close, creating a crescendo of absolute despair. Flanagan, perhaps wisely, never went ahead with a sequel, and as such, this grim ending is the final word. The mirror won, and it's difficult to imagine anyone else would've been able to destroy it, making it by far one of the most powerful and frightening horror movie antagonists of the 2010s.