50 Movies Where Evil Won

Plot: Two young men named Paul (Arno Frisch) and Peter (Frank Giering) break into a family of three's holiday home and torture them in a series of sadistic games. They break the fourth wall throughout the film, implicating the viewers in their sick crimes.

Austrian director Michael Haneke, who also directed the aforementioned The White Ribbon, has always specialized in making movies that mess you up, and his one horror film to date was just as nasty as you'd expect. A very good film for sure, but not for the faint of heart either. 

As has been seen throughout this list, many horror pictures conclude with the triumph of evil over good, yet few other films have rendered the good guys quite so powerless as this one. In Funny Games, there is a moment towards the end where one of the family does actually manage to shoot one of the attackers dead, but the other one takes a remote control and literally rewinds the film itself, preventing his partner's death. 

Having already murdered their child earlier in the film, the two killers proceed to murder both husband and wife, and they head off to another house to start their game anew. As such, this ranks among the most hopeless horror stories ever put to film. Michael Haneke also did a shot-for-shot American remake, so whichever version you watch is a feel-bad treat.