Top 10 most haunting endings in horror movie history

5. Drag Me to Hell (2009)

This freaky Sam Raimi flick marked the director’s return to horror after leaving the Spider-Man film series. Drag Me to Hell focuses on a loan officer named Christine (Alison Lohman) that is cursed by a gypsy woman after refusing to extend her mortgage. According to the curse, Christine will be pulled straight into Hell after first enduring three days of torture. Only by passing on a cursed button to someone else — even a dead person — can Christine avoid this doom.

Christine places the button into an envelope, later passing on the curse to the corpse of the gypsy that gave it to her in the first place. However, it’s not until she sees her boyfriend Clay that morning she realizes her fatal mistake. Apparently, she had mixed up her envelope with the button with another, as revealed by Clay holding the button in his hand.

Horrified, Christine falls onto the train tracks. With Clay and other witnesses watching in horror, the ground opens up beneath Christine, and demonic hands pull her beneath the surface.

4. Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)

To this day, there are still fans of the Halloween franchise that won’t even bother to watch the third entry. Infamous for not featuring Michael Myers as its antagonist, some don’t consider the film to be a legit Halloween movie. All I can say about that is these people have no idea what they’re missing, because Halloween III is actually a great film.

In the movie, the Silver Shamrock mask company is heavily promoting a major event to take place on Halloween night. The idea is for every trick or treater to wear their special Silver Shamrock Halloween masks while watching a video set to air on TV at 9 PM sharp. The masks are so trendy that practically every child, millions of them, have these masks are are planning to take part.

Investigating the Silver Shamrock company, Dr. Dan Challis discovers them to run by an evil man named Cochran and his army of cyborgs. Challis learns of Cochran’s plan to kill every child wearing the mask; each one contains a microchip that will kill whoever’s wearing it when they watch this mysterious video.

In the end, Challis stops Cochran and the robots, but the deadly commercial is still set to air at 9PM. Challis makes it to a gas station to use the telephone, pleading with whoever’s in charge to take the ads off the air. Though it is removed from two channels, it remains playing on the third one. Before cutting to the credits, Challis frantically screams for them to “Stop it!” and turn it off as the video plays, leaving audiences to forever wonder if he stopped it in time.