This Century's Best Horror Movie Endings

A good ending can make or break a horror movie. Fortunately for fright fans, the 21st century has been full of fantastic finales that have sent us scrambling under the covers in fear—and from ghostly apparitions to bloodthirsty vampires, here are the greatest.

And here's your warning: spoilers for all these movies, of course.

The Descent has everything you'd want in a horror film: plenty of gore, great performances, practical effects... and two endings? That's right. There are two versions of this British horror film, one released in the U.K. and one in the U.S.

The film comes to a close after our last surviving character, Sarah spots a shaft of light atop a hill of bones. Covered in blood, Sarah makes a mad scramble for the exit, leaving the cave-dwelling creatures behind. Emerging into the sunlight, Sarah hops in a car and makes her great escape, but that all comes to a screaming halt when she sees the ghost of her old friend Juno, a woman Sarah just killed for having an affair with her husband.

That's where the U.S. version ends. But in the original U.K. version, there are a few extra scenes that reveal Sarah never actually escaped the caverns. That whole sequence was just a dream Sarah had after tumbling down a shaft and hitting her head. In her last moments, Sarah sees her long-dead daughter sitting a few feet away, greeting her mother with a birthday cake. Of course, there's no little girl, and the flames from the birthday candles are really Sarah's torch. Sarah is still trapped, and there's no escaping the crawlers as they move in for the kill. But at least she'll get to share her last few seconds with her daughter, even if it's all in her head.

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The Descent (2005) | 0:00
Let the Right One In (2008) | 1:49
Drag Me to Hell (2009) | 3:09
Resolution (2013) | 4:21
The Babadook (2014) | 5:43
The Blackcoat's Daughter (2015) | 7:01
Crimson Peak (2015) | 8:19
Alien: Covenant (2016) | 9:34
Split (2017) | 11:02
Mother! (2017) | 12:28
A Quiet Place (2018) | 13:51
Annihilation (2018) | 15:14
Upgrade (2018) | 16:54
Hereditary (2018) | 18:20
Mandy (2018) | 19:34

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