15 More Horror Movie Endings That Get Worse The More You Think About It

1978's Invasion of the Body Snatchers has one of the bleakest horror movie endings ever. Even thinking of it makes one shiver. 

Much like the 1956 original, this sees an alien invasion by mysterious alien pods. Each one is capable of producing a perfect replica of a human that lacks emotion. However, while the original film did end on a more hopeful note, this one took advantage of the more permissive climate of 1970s New Hollywood to go down a much crueler path. 

Over the course of this movie's story, the entirety of San Francisco is overrun by the pods and they start shipping the pods out to the rest of the United States as well. By the end of the movie, only one of the heroic characters is unreplaced, a woman named Nancy (Veronica Cartwright). She approaches the movie's protagonist, Matthew (Donald Sutherland), believing he's still his old self. 

He isn't. 

Matthew's duplicate points at her and lets out possibly the most horrible scream in all of horror cinema, the same one used by all the pods, drawing them all to her. The movie ends there, but Nancy probably died soon after this. Worse still, the pods could easily have taken over the entire country, maybe even the world. When this chilling tale reaches its horrifying end and the credits roll in silence, every audience member will shudder as they realize they might've just witnessed the beginning of an apocalypse.