Usually, horror movies have at least a somewhat predictable ending.
If you’re watching a franchise slasher, chances are that the killer might look dead at the end, but he’s probably coming back.
But at least the hero or the final girl gets a moment where they’re standing tall, victorious, even if only briefly.
Increasingly, however, horror has gone for darker, bleaker endings.
There was nothing to smile about at the end of last year’s Smile, for example.
Going back a little farther, Saw in 2004 and The Mist in 2007, went dark as well.
And much farther back, who can ever forget the final images of 1973’s The Wicker Man? In all of these cases, the hero dies, or at least wishes they were dead.
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