A horror movie doesn’t have to end horrifically to be memorable or successful as a work of horror, but it does make sense – for obvious reasons – if a horror film ends with something unpleasant. Don’t Look Now , for instance , has a rather infamously shocking ending, Psycho is effectively troubling in its final moments, and various Halloween movies end on uneasily uncertain notes, with Michael Myers cheating death again and again.

Without focusing on horror movies though (those with unsettling endings or otherwise), what about films that don’t function as works of horror, but aim to disturb with how they end? Enter the following movies, many of which are intense and dark without being classified as horror movies necessarily, especially when it comes to how they end . F

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