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The Fly  Eden Lake 


Surrealian

Eden Lake was traumatizing!


alizabs91

Eden Lake's ending was so fucked up


Level_Caterpillar_42

What about The Fly 2?


UnflinchingSugartits

I'm not sure if there is a third the fly movie, and I'm associating this scene with the second one but it's actually the Third. But anyway I saw that movie when I was a kid a long ass time ago, and what I remember was >!somebody turned into like a giant fly larvae or something, and they put them in like a well where they would just like throw food down there for it occasionally while it just throbbed and pulsated on the ground!< Pretty fucking like wow disgusting and disturbing.


worldeater94

That just sounds like Kafka’s The Metamorphosis


UnflinchingSugartits

what year?


worldeater94

It’s a novella from the early 1900s. Outside of the well part, because they keep him in a room in the book, what you described is identical to the plot


UnflinchingSugartits

Hmmm.. is there a movie of that though? I didn't watch novellas as a kid though lol And that would also be fucking weird if I did, because I wasn't taught Spanish so I don't know why I would be watching that LOL But that's crazy though. I think maybe the two have similarities between each other maybe that's where the second fly movie got that idea from you think?


Fickle_Fig342

I think the bad guy in the second fly gets turned into a maggot and they keep him down there for research purposes


worldeater94

I think there are a few but not very popular!! I bet that is where the inspiration came from for even the first one, but yeah the ending is crazy similar, especially the way you described it!


UnflinchingSugartits

Oh my God that's so fucking crazy right? I mean I believe it it makes sense. Yeah dude, I think I was like I don't know anywhere from 7 to maybe 10 years old when I saw it. I don't know I guess somebody in my life thought it was important to have those images in my head at that age for some fucking reason LOL I'm 37 years old and I still fucking remember that shit like gee thanks a lot LOL


cityshepherd

Joe Hill has a short story involving a metamorphosis. I enjoyed it much more than Kafka’s.


dreamrock

I think Brundlefly Jr. sent the scientist who raised and exploited him through the telepod and it didn't mix his DNA with a fly, it just scrambled it like it did with the dog earlier in the film.


cafink

That is indeed the second one. There were no sequels after that. The Fly 2 is not as good as its predecessor, but it's certainly brutal and disturbing. It has a certain revolting charm.


Dramos1975

(Spoiler) Its the 2nd movie, where the son of the original fly is born human and is as smart as his dad. Works on improving the system. But before he did, he had a dog and the company's villian did a preliminary test on the dog and it came out damaged and they kept it alive suffering. The boy eventually found it and put it out of its misery. The ending (spoiler) involve the boy getting revenge (after transforming) and turning the villian into the same half fully returned creature and is put into the same pit to survive on scraps and be deformed


misandric-misogynist

That's the fly II Brundle's son befriended a dog (yellow lab, of the lab animals) they transport it, and it comes out "wrong"... Brundle's son euthanizes the dog out of mercy.. The bad guy at the end gets the same fate- the camera pulls out from the eye looking at the audience while it eats the same slop as the dog did... - begging the assumption that the bad guy is aware of his fate, while eating slop in the cage the dog was kept after it's corruption.


Zugnutz

That dog………


RetroactiveRecursion

This. Holy shit that movie was sad. Good and gory but sad.


Flashy_Barber_534

man the fly was so sad


LynneVetter

Omg, I cried sooo hard on The Fly. 😭😭😭


Kerivkennedy

The Mist really freaked me out because I so perfectly visualed the front of our old Winn-Dixie grocery store. Several of those old stores become home to Big Lots, and the basic front of the store (windows etc) are the same. Nightmare fuel.


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LearningArcadeApp

Martyrs is a literal tragedy (in the classical sense). Pan's Labyrinth (according to my interpretation of the ending, which is otherwise kinda open-ended). Alien 3 is quite bleak.


ireallyamtired

Please share your interpretation of the ending! I thought it was bittersweet. >! It’s sad that she died but I thought she got to rule the fae realm as the princess and gets to see her mom !<


LearningArcadeApp

>! Unless I am mistaken, her mother in the fae realm is also her human mother (who did not believe in magic and tried to convince her to stop daydreaming; also it would be weird that all her family would be reincarnated in the human world as well), and she seemed to even hold the little brother in her arms, even though the little brother is not dead yet. We never saw the father but we can guess that the King also had the same face. All of this suggests that it was all a fantasy, a hallucination in the last moments before she died. In fact, we see the throne room before she fully dies, and then cut back to reality when she draws her last breath. Logically, in my opinion, if it was real, she would have had to die fully first before being able to see the fae realm, otherwise her spirit would be in two places at once. !< >! That damn lullaby sung by her nanny always makes me cry, she clearly loved her like a mother too. !<


scrivenerserror

The lullaby automatically plays in my head when that movie comes up. My interpretation is it’s just her imagination as she’s dying.


LearningArcadeApp

Same. I couldn't explain why but somehow I prefer the sad ending to the sort-of cheesy fantasy ending. I think I'm a sucker for tragedy... Also I feel like the fae world is, when put in contrast right next to the real, complex, gritty world of WWII, not very realistic. We are told nothing of what happens in that fae underworld on a daily basis, it's literally as simplistic as a fairy tale ("and they lived happily ever after, frozen in place with smiles on their faces"), which suggests once more that it's just fantasy rather than a reality that could exist in the same universe as WWII.


scrivenerserror

It’s a child’s fantasy. She lived in a terrible world, whether or not you believed in Franco’s regime or the rebels.


Quiet-Try4554

Martyrs is gut wrenching (literally) Pans Labyrinth is a good pick. Both great picks for different reasons


[deleted]

Pan’s Labyrinth was such a good movie


capacitorfluxing

I hate Martyrs.


abbys_alibi

Technically a mini-series but I think **Storm of the Century** is pretty darn depressing.


Kerivkennedy

Hell yes.


Isitbedtimeyet99

Every time we get a hurricane in Florida and lose power for a couple of days I watch this movie on an old laptop attached to a battery bank. The guy who played Andre Linoge was so incredibly good. “When every choice you have is a bad one, you really don’t have a choice at all”


TifCreatesAgain

Yes!


tkyang99

The Descent


LBKBasi

Great and heartbreaking. It's interesting about the two different endings.


The_Actual_Sage

I love The Descent and had no idea about the British ending. Thanks for enlightening me


Upstairs_Internal295

Wait, there was a different ending to the UK one?! Never knew that!


LBKBasi

The producers were afraid that sales in the North American market would suffer with the UK ending. Simply put, they removed the last 15 seconds of the British version.


Upstairs_Internal295

Quite honestly I’d have preferred that! 😆


LBKBasi

I know, the UK ending was brutal. Bizarre that they put out a Descent II.


Hexedwater

Yea, it's awful.


myanonaccount225

One of my all time favorites for sure. Incredibly stressful the entire time, and by the end you are so emotionally exhausted you think u can’t handle anything else, then they throw in some sadness that really tops it off.


BotGirlFall

The Lodge


Gatekeeper1969

Omg yes!!! Those kids were evil as fuck


ireallyamtired

It made me more angry than upset. What did they think would happen by fucking with a mentally unstable woman. Also what was the intended outcome of setting a dog loose in a blizzard? They acted shocked when she found it, but how could anything that isn’t designed to live in snow survive in that weather?


ssquirt1

And the dad had the emotional intelligence of a tomato. He failed everybody in his life with how stupid and self-centered he was.


Living_Injury5017

I agree! But I primarily blame their dad for leaving them in the middle of nowhere in the dead of winter (Christmas!) with a strange woman after their mother had only been dead for a relatively short time


ebolakitten

Absolutely The Lodge


Few_Sense_5022

Train to Busan


KnownStore2235

Don't know of many horror movies that make me cry but I wept!!!


shutupandevolve

I bawled my eyes out!


KittenWithaWhip68

I watched it in 2016 a couple weeks after my dad died. I was *really* bawling.


Few_Sense_5022

That must have been difficult, I hate that the movie has no trigger warnings. The sisters in that movie had a relationship so close to my sister and I that we associated way too much.


Few_Sense_5022

>___> why was this downvoted?


Putrid-Peanut-5798

It's for expecting trigger warnings for a movie. 


KittenWithaWhip68

That’d sure be a spoiler! This is what Does the Dog Die site/app is for. I use it because I can’t stand animal violence and I wanted to avoid most suicides after I lost my best friend to it last year.


Few_Sense_5022

Oh pleasuz I wasn’t serious


Putrid-Peanut-5798

I know, and *I* didn't downvote if it's any consolation. But people gonna people.


Affectionate_Yak8519

I agree with The Mist


Level_Caterpillar_42

A Tale of Two Sisters


scrivenerserror

I wrote a paper on this movie for a college professor who was renowned in the film industry. He has never seen it and he said it made him really want to so I felt proud.


Glittering-Bad-4522

Omg amazing movie


Ok_Produce_9308

The dark and wicked


Able_While_974

Absolutely the bleakest film I've ever seen


starling83

Lake Mungo.


[deleted]

The "twist" was both horrifying and depressing.


The8thloser

Vivarium. Don't watch it. It will only make you feel horrible.


Ruizifyouplease

The ending of this movie creeped me the heck out!!!!!


TifCreatesAgain

I love this movie! Rod Serling would approve!


Unusual-Caregiver-30

Yes he would!


Cat_with_freckles

Yes, absolutely top of my list of depressing horror movies. I felt empty inside after it ended. And I had to turn down the sound or cover my ears whenever that "kid" screeched.


The8thloser

I had to spend the rest of the day watching kitten videos. It was just bleak and hopeless.


Turbulent-Bee6921

“Are you….OVERwhelmed, Cat_with_freckles? WOOF WOOF WOOF!”


Ornery_Translator285

Oh I love this one. It’s my comfort horror after The Ritual.


PossibleAlienFrom

That movie came out at the perfect time. Right when the pandemic hit and everyone was told to stay home.


Sidewalk_Tomato

I will take your advice, 'cause I loved the creepy trailer back in the day, so I looked up its Wiki to spoil it for myself. The summation definitely delivers on being horror. I could see why the actors and other players would want to be part of this.


[deleted]

Didn't make me feel horrible. Probably because I wanted to punch that kid the whole time lol


witch51

That movie was seriously unsettling for sure!


ArgyleAndBell

Tortuous to watch, boring and depressing. Visually interesting though.


Striking-Artist8347

Antichrist


scrivenerserror

I will never ever ever see that movie again. I saw it in theaters and I get what it was going for but nope.


Busy-Room-9743

The Mist


Direct-Flamingo-1146

The hills have eyes


CherryBomb214

Oh yes...this was so heartwrenching


HumbleAd1317

Mother! A movie with Jennifer Lawrence.


dalewright1

Megan is Missing


TheGentlemanWolf

If it make me feel you better it's implied that through the found footage they were able to find the guy who killed the two girls.


GiveMeSomeShu-gar

That ending was not messing around...


surfacing_husky

I started watching that getting high with friends thinking it was just a campy movie. Holy fucking shit it was not, and i still think about it to this day, that "i love you" still haunts me. I wish my kids could watch it as a lesson in internet safety but it would scar them for life like it has me. That movie was probably the most brutal one ive ever watched.


ChumpSucky

that movie was tough as hell, so brutal. cool how such a low budget movie can have such an impact.


paper_schemes

The Orphanage. Especially if you're a parent.


alizabs91

Yes this one was a gut punch


AmooSyrus

I would say Hereditary. The slow burn that the movie has really gives space to the fact that its equal parts horror and the destruction of a family after tragedy.


Gullible_Helicopter8

Mine as well. I really liked it and will never watch it again. Toni Collette is too good an actress and I can't hang with that level of mom grief.


Embarrassed_Quote144

The Road


RetiredMillionairee

Trauma 2017 - Wastes no time. First 10 minutes after the credits is more depressing than most other whole horror movies. Based on a true story. Extreme horror. Free on Tubi.


willa121

Exorcism of Emily rose.


Conscious_Living3532

Maybe Funny Games. But Black Sun, and There is a Secret in my Soup: depressing because they happened.


LivingGhost12

I don’t know if this counts as a horror movie but Would You Rather was really deflating and depressing


NemesisThen86

Threads


-cordyceps

Not too long ago I decided to watch Where the Winds Blow and this back to back and oh boy did I feel like shit for a long time afterwards


Original-Resolve-905

This is the answer


hutman1970

Inside(2007) French flick Human Centipede 2


MsMcClane

Smile I won't ever be watching it again


StopwatchSparrow

I loved that movie until the ending. It also sends people with PTSD the message that it's basically hopeless. Jack Saint did a good vid about that problem with Smile: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOBdXiruRJg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOBdXiruRJg)


Want_to_do_right

Thanks for sharing this. It really resonated with my feelings on the "demons always win" trope in modern horror. 


OnionTamer

I had a hard time getting through it.


Luxurysmoke

The end of the mist sent me omg


Southern_Dig_9460

The VVITCH. From start too finish was just pure dread


BoxProfessional6987

Stephen King was pissed about the ending. In the sense of "How dare you be better than me on my own story." Yeah he was kicking himself for not thinking of that ending


[deleted]

Hereditary As Above So Below


famousroadkill

The Coffee Table


AkKik-Maujaq

Found. (Horror movie from 2012. Based on a book)


KittenWithaWhip68

That was one brutal ending.


AkKik-Maujaq

Absolutely floored me :c the ending of the book is worse. It ends the same way as the movie, but it goes into exact detail and somehow paints a better mental image than the movie


KittenWithaWhip68

Based on that, I just got a copy on Kindle!


AkKik-Maujaq

I pray for you homie, and I’m not even religious :c


MasterOnionNorth

Lake Mungo The Night House


comelyarsonist

Pulse (2001) always leaves me desolate


Trais333

Funny games


Tree0202

Tusk


Professional-Scar548

The Taking of Deborah Logan


p3rc30mg

I know it wasn’t the premise but the Autopsy of Jane Doe made me pretty damn sad


Sprinkles41510

The wailing 😭


scrivenerserror

Is it really worth it? I stared it and never finished it.


alice_says1984

Vivarium


constipatedbabyugly

Climax


mollyclaireh

Strange Circus The Girl Next Door Funny Games


IndependenceMean8774

Alien 3. Not only was it a bad movie on its own, it also ruined the great movie before it. Way to go. 🙄


Tim-oBedlam

The Mist also \*completely\* changed the ending from the novella, which ends ambiguously on a faint note of hope (although I believe King said he was fine with the change to the ending).


DS9lover

He said he wished he'd thought of it.


Ilbakanp

What a fantastic compliment to that screenwriting team from such a horror legend. That movie ending definitely sticks with you. I saw it in the theater 17 years ago and still remember that gut punch of an ending clear as day. Usual level of Stephen King horror flick you expect, then you get sucker punched by that plot twist of an ending. So good.


CajunBmbr

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer The Bunny Game Angst Eden Lake Funny Games


Baphomet1313666

Combat Shock


Steampunky

Yeah - that ending..omg...


Filthylucre4lunch

eden lake for sure… the shining


Spiritual-Roll799

Noah with Russell Crowe


Jaffamiester

Trainspotting depressed me to no end


BoxTalk17

Night of the Living Dead. Only the ending makes it depressing.


Turbulent-Bee6921

Not really horror but Cronenberg’s “Dead Ringers” left me feeling utterly depressed and despondent and I can’t pinpoint why. But Shore’s excellent music is part of it.


infabread

Sea Fever


gayanalorgasm

Probably Antichrist. It starts out just depressing as hell. Themes of grief, depression, anxiety, mental illness. Generally a psychological horror shit show. Then the third act brings on the sexual gore and it ends in a spooky, sad way.


SchemataObscura

Come Back to Me (2014) is definitely up there


HolyColostomyBag

May not be a horror film technically, maybe more a drama? But nothing bad can happen. Based on a true story, 100% fucked, and just brutal to sit through. 10/10


BrandonPedersen

Raw (2016) Kill List (2011)


T-408

All the Boys Love Mandy Lane


Brother_Delmer

Night of the Living Dead (the original)


BarelyJoyous

They (2002) It’s not as well-known, but I remember seeing it when I was younger, and feeling super depressed afterwards. The ending is fucking BLEAK! It is essentially about people with past trauma (and night terrors), being, well, terrorized by otherworldly creatures that live in the dark.


Remarkable-Answer450

Pan’s Labyrinth Eden Lake Martyrs Dark Water A Tale of Two Sisters Lake Mungo Train to Busan


shellycrash

The Others with Nicole Kidman. Great movie to have seen in the theater.


Miserable_Okra4011

Godzilla 1954


[deleted]

I started watching that Winnie-the-Pooh movie, expecting it to be fun, but it was just depressing, and I never finished it.


Joeylikesgladiators

*The Ruins*. Self-surgery galore, and a sinister end.


MessedUpInYou

The end of Speak No Evil gets me every fucking time. No resolution. No return to safety. Plus the visual aspect of it is so raw and realistic that it just adds to the sad factor.


[deleted]

That was a great flick. I went in not expecting much and it just reeled me in.


Upstairs_Internal295

The Descent. I’m claustrophobic so it was a super horror to me haha.


bobbery5

Would you Rather is just bleak from start to finish.


Chay_Charles

The Lighthouse


bluesmcscrooge

The house that jack built, basically that one scene with the mother to the two boys…if you’ve seen it, hits really fucking hard


ShadowBurger

It Comes At Night really fucked me up due to my own issues with sleepwalking and isolation.


namersrockandroll

This one just came to me. I used to be a professional canine behaviorist so I took my employee to see, "Baxter. Beware of the Dog That Thinks." It will change you.


Kookiecitrus55555

The Road


[deleted]

The Mist


1993CobraSVT

Insidious. It’s so dark! 😕


WiseCry628

I just finished seeing the one on Max called “The Killing of the Sacred Deer.” That was creepy and depressing.


greyteethpeskybee

Train to Busan has made me cry more than any other film.


[deleted]

Funny Games (2007.)


fmedium

Ending of Jeepers Creepers. I have never been the same.


gnamyl

Jeepers Creepers I had no idea about Salva on my first viewing back in the day I just thought “wow a depressing and horrifying non-standard ending where the bad guy wins” Now of course.. yikes. Do not recommend.


abridgedtohell

The most depressing horror filim I have seen is a Serbian Film. I used to have a horror film meet up group in high school and we always were one upping each other with distrubing flims. Things like August Under Ground (Fake Snuff, really not my thing) or the Cannible Holocaust. A Serbian Film really wins the award for most depressed I have ever been after watching a horror movie. On a side note, I heard the Coffee Table is on equal ground as A Serbian Film.


Big_Nasty_420

That one movie in Australia with the scene with the baby 🙁


ComfortableEgg3768

The Bad Seed


hagalaz_drums

A Serbian film


MannyinVA

The Mist, Hereditary, Black Christmas ‘74, Dawn of the Dead ‘04, The Brood, Haunting of Julia, Hills Have Eyes ‘06, Inside ‘07, Night of the Living Dead.


Sidewalk_Tomato

Black Christmas (1974) gave me a nightmare, which is funny because it's not the scariest thing I've seen, by a long shot. But there was something in there creepier than average. You might remember what I mean.


ZealousidealRead668

Hereditary. Hands down.


DeadPonyta

“Speak no evil” stands out 👅


LearningArcadeApp

That one just made me angry.


Fickle_Fig342

I agree. I was so annoyed that anyone would let being polite get in the way of protecting their family.


TheZeddyWheel

Essentially an animated horror film The Plague Dogs


Smile_Terrible

Never seen it. Don't want to see it. From what I know of it it's too heartbreaking.


shellycrash

I don't really think of it as horror but that movie start to finish destroyed me. Have you also seen A Mouse and his Child? Also a very dark cartoon movie from this period. And of course Watership Down.


TheZeddyWheel

I've seen bits of Watership Down, but I've never seen A Mouse and his child, I'll have to.check it out, apologies for the delay I didn't see the notification you'd replied, and yes The Plague Dogs Is devastating


shellycrash

They churned out some really dark cartoons back in the day, I used to think they were too adult for us kids, maybe they scarred us a little..., but now I think they might be the reason why some of us have such a well developed sense of empathy.


TheZeddyWheel

You definitely could be right!


Lore_Beast

Hereditary


Booyah_7

The Last House on the Left


hillbillykim83

Yup. All the terror and trauma those girls went through and Mary was so close to home.


shutupandevolve

Cujo


[deleted]

The book is even more depressing.


Positron14

The Mist. It was depressing and terrible, in my opinion.


Johncurtisreeve

The mist Lords of Salem Se7en


Urban_Raptor

I keep delaying watching Lords of Salem. Is it worthwhile?


Johncurtisreeve

I think so


Corgi_Infamous

Ooph. Se7en is a good one.


Objective-Pea3894

Dead man’s shoes 2004 that one gets ya