Movies where the "bad guy" Wins

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The Usual Suspects



The bad guy: The infamous Keyser Soze is one of the baddest men on the planet, and the mere mention of his name strikes fear into the hearts of men, especially those in the criminal world.

How he wins: By pretending to be a dim, crippled man named Verbal Kint, Soze is able to simply walk out of the police station despite the fact that he’s murdered many people, including children. As Verbal tells Special Agent Kujan, “The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn’t exist.”

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest


The bad guy: Well, it’s a bad girl in this case – Nurse Ratched, who runs a mental institution and rules over her patients with an iron fist. Even though the patients clearly have mental problems, Nurse Ratched treats them all like crap, never once showing an ounce of sympathy.

How she wins: McMurphy made significant progress in galvanizing the patients to stand up to Nurse Ratched, but it just wasn’t enough. Sure, Chief Bromdem escapes, but not before McMurphy is labotomized and Ratched presumably regains control over the institution.

Memento


The bad guy: Leonard Shelby, the film’s likable protagonist who suffers from a condition that renders him unable to form new memories. So why’s he bad? He uses his condition to his advantage, creating a “game” for himself in which he can feel the satisfaction of destroying the man he believes is responsible for his wife’s murder.

How he wins: He “frames” his friend Teddy, knowing full well that Teddy was not responsible for his wife’s death. Leonard knows he will soon forget that he framed Teddy, and the demented cycle of murderous revenge takes its toll on an innocent man.

Hannibal


The bad guy: Notorious serial killer Hannibal Lecter, hiding out ten years after the events in Silence of the Lambs.

How he wins: After cooking parts of Paul Krendler’s brain and feeding it to him, Hannibal is momentarily captured by Agent Starling, forced to chop off his own hand in order to escape before reinforcements arrive. Yeah, he lost a hand, but when you cook a a dude’s brain, feed it to him, get away from the feds and then feed more brain to a little kid on an airplane, you SO win.

Rosemary’s Baby


The bad guy: While Rosemary’s neighbor Roman Castevet (a.k.a. Steven Marcato) is a manipulative Satan worshipper, the real bad guy is Satan himself.

How he wins: Rosemary gives birth to her child and is coaxed out of killing it, meaning that the spawn of Satan has entered our world.

Arlington Road


The bad guys: In this case, it’s the suburban couple Oliver and Cheryl Lang. Their neighbor, Michael Faraday, believes that the Langs are maniacal terrorists.

How they win: Well, the Langs areterrorists, and after planting a bomb in the trunk of Faraday’s care that kills almost 200 people, they get away, having framed Faraday for the explosion.

Se7en


The bad guy: Serial killer “John Doe,” a man who claims to be murdering people to carry out the will of a higher power.

How he wins: After murdering people in such ways as to symbolize the sins of gluttony, pride, lust, greed, and sloth, Doe brilliantly sets up Detective David Mills to complete his project. Guilty of envy, Doe decapitates Mills’ wife and has a package containing her head delivered to a remote location where only Doe, Mills, and Detective Somerset are found. Mills learns what Doe has done and realizes that if he kills Doe, he will have carried out the sin of wrath, completing Doe’s endeavor. Mills shoots Doe, which is exactly what Doe wanted. I get the chills just thinking about it.

Primal Fear


The bad guy: Aaron Stampler, a stuttering, shy boy accused of murdering an archbishop. Aaron apparently suffers from multiple personality disorder and, when agitated, transforms to the violent, aggressive Roy.

How he wins: Aaron transforms into Roy in the courtroom, leading the judge to dismiss the jury and order Aaron into a mental hospital, from where he will be released shortly. Aaron’s attorney, Martin Vail, is smart enough to realize that Aaron had been faking his disorder the entire time and used it as a ploy to appear insane. Vail remarks, “So there never was a Roy,” to which Aaron replies, “There never was an Aaron, counselor,” revealing the fact that Aaron/Roy is always violent and aggressive.

Saw


The bad guy: Jigsaw, a deranged killer who puts people in situations where they must make life-or-death decisions. Only the “life” part of those decisions usually results in the loss of a body part or some type of disfigurement.

How he wins: Pretending to be a corpse, Jigsaw (who is actually a terminally ill brain cancer patient) uses Zep as a pawn and only reveals himself after his plan had been carried out. I included Saw in this article because it’s a pretty blatant example of a bad guy winning, but the ending to this movie left me feeling kind of meh. It doesn’t suck, but it also doesn’t compare very favorably to movies like Se7en and The Usual Suspects and…

The Empire Strikes Back


The bad guys: Emperor Palpatine, Darth Vader, and the rest of the Galactic Empire.

How they win: Yeah, I know that in the end of the trilogy the good guys come out on top, but at the end of The Empire Strikes Back, Luke gets his hand cut off by Vader, and Han Solo – frozen in carbonite – is being transported to Jabba the Hutt by bounty hunter Boba Fett. The Empire simply owns the Rebel Alliance throughout this one, clearly pissed off after their Death Star was destroyed.

 

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No country for old men

 

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Brazil

Terry Gilliam’s entrancing, dream-like dystopian sci-fi is an unforgettable film, in large part due to its unexpectedly bleak ending.

Sam Lowry (Jonathan Price) is an office drone who, when following up on an administrative snaffu, winds up a wanted man, presumed to be a terrorist by those in charge. After being captured, it appears that he is sprung from his captivity, and reunited with his former flame, allowing him to live out the rest of his days in peace.

But of course, at the end, it’s revealed that none of this – at least the happy stuff – ever took place, and Lowry is still a prisoner; the film’s haunting final imagery is of Sam in a torture room, catatonic and clearly having lost his mind.

Given the fairly whimsical tone, this downbeat denouement came as even more of a surprise, yet without damaging the film’s tonal consistency.


No Country For Old Men


No Country for Old Men benefits hugely from Javier Bardem’s superb, Oscar-winning performance as ruthless killing machine Anton Chigurh, such that while he’s a horrific, cold-blooded psychopath, he’s still oddly likeable, what with his wry sense of humour and strict honour code, and as a result, we’re not that fussed that he gets away at the end.

A film that actively eschews thriller conventions – choosing not to show the gunfight that kills the protagonist (Josh Brolin) long before the climax in particular – The Coen Brothers end things just as Chigurh survives a purely accidental car crash, slinking away with a broken arm, while Sheriff Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) seems to concede the futility of his man-hunt. And to top it all off, Chigurh appears to have made off with all that money everyone’s so crazy about as well (though this is more implied than explicitly shown).

This is a great entry because it doesn’t rely on a twist ending like so many of the others; Chigurh stalks his way through the film like a phantom, and then disappears out of it in the same style at its climax, noting the pervasive presence of evil.



The Wicker Man

Unquestionably one of the most famously bleak – and downright brilliant – endings of all time is Robin Hardy’s sublimely creepy British horror film. Edward Woodward is sensational as police sergeant Neil Howie, who receives a letter begging him to venture to an isolated island in order to investigate the disappearance of a young girl there. Howie obliges, but soon finds himself very much out of his comfort zone, if not only for the fact that the locals don’t think him welcome, but that they also are practitioners of the Celtic pagan religion. Howie, a staunch Christian, is unsettled from the outset.

But it gets a lot worse for old Howie, unfortunately; we discover that there is no missing girl, and Howie was simply a poor shmuck lured to the island in order that he could be sacrificed by the pagans, in the hope that after a terrible harvest last year, such a sacrifice would appease the Gods and provide them with a bountiful yield next time.

Howie is placed inside the titular wicker man, which is then set on fire; the disturbing final images are of Howie helplessly sitting inside it, as the flames creep up and prepare to devour him.


The Vanishing

The Vanishing remains one of the best and most terrifying horror films ever made because of its hopeless and shocking ending. But from minute one, George Sluizer’s masterful thriller is keen to show us something we haven’t seen before, introducing us to the villain, Raymond, from the outset, showing him going about his daily life rather than resorting to a twist reveal later on. When a young couple stops at a petrol station, the woman, Saskia, goes missing, and her boyfriend, Rex, spends the next few years frantically, obsessively searching for her.

Eventually Raymond, intrigued by Rex’s obsession, offers to explain what happened to Saskia, proclaiming that if Rex drinks some coffee he hands him, he can experience exactly what Saskia did. Overcome by his curiosity, Rex drinks it, only to take up in a coffin, buried alive just as Saskia was. Raymond then goes back to his family life, and that’s that.

Sluzier later remade the film himself with Keifer Sutherland and Jeff Bridges, a vastly inferior effort that changes the ending – the girlfriend still dies, but Rex’s character kills Raymond – and completely denies audiences the same terrifying experience of the original.



Credited to: TVOvermind and Whatculture

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

Friday the 13th. They never could kill Jason.

Michael Bay. No matter how bad they continue to suck, he keeps getting green lit to make more transformers movies.

Man of Steel. Zod won because he doesn't have to suffer from working with a emotionless emo superman and bulkshyt plots that DC will keep putting out.

Final Destination. Fate/karma/death kept winning.

Xmen. For a villian, magneto never lost. Add Stryker to that list as well.

 

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was gonna name drop arlington road

 

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The Empire Strikes Back

The bad guys: Emperor Palpatine, Darth Vader, and the rest of the Galactic Empire.

How they win: Yeah, I know that in the end of the trilogy the good guys come out on top, but at the end of The Empire Strikes Back, Luke gets his hand cut off by Vader, and Han Solo – frozen in carbonite – is being transported to Jabba the Hutt by bounty hunter Boba Fett. The Empire simply owns the Rebel Alliance throughout this one, clearly pissed off after their Death Star was destroyed.

Revenge of the Sith too

 

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Watchmen

The live-action version of the classic graphic novel has its share of critics and haters. But Zack Snyder did manage to replicate the story’s terrific ending. Hunting what they think is a masked killer that ties in to a growing threat of nuclear war in an alternate 1985, crime-fighters Nite Owl and Rorschach discover that the man behind it all is former ally Adrien Veidt aka Ozymandias. Confronted at his Antarctic base, Veidt recites a classic monologue explaining how he’s planning the greatest “practical joke” in history: tricking the world into peace by making them think something much more threatening is at hand. Utilizing the teleportation energies of the god-like Dr. Manhattan, Veidt will wipe out New York, Moscow, London and other major cities and thus unite world powers against the supposedly mad Manhattan.

It’s not quite how it happens in the comic but thankfully, the movie still keeps the same gut-punch twist. When a disbelieving Nite Owl asks when Veidt was going to enact this insane scheme, the man scoffs at the idea he would waste time detailing his master plan when there was a chance of stopping it. “I did it thirty-five minutes ago.”

Naturally, the real Manhattan is a bit ticked when he and Sally Jupiter appear in a ruined New York. He goes after Veidt, who counters by showing live broadcasts of President Richard Nixon declaring Manhattan has attacked humanity and thus the world powers are calling a global cease-fire to work against this “threat.” Veidt states that if the others expose him, all they’ll be doing is putting the world right back on the brink of nuclear war and the millions of people in those cities would have died for nothing. Nite Owl and Jupiter agree but Rorschach is intent on seeing justice done and is atomized by Manhattan. Some might argue about Ozymandis being a pure villain but getting away with the murder of millions for “peace” surely earns a place on this list.



CHINATOWN

Javier Bardem, who justly won an Academy Award for his stunning performance. As Anton Chigurh, a merciless hitman sent to recover stolen money in a small Texas town, Bardem is chilling as a man who intimidates victims by asking them to flip a coin to decide their fate. Wandering into this town, he’s soon involved in the hunt for the money which has him targeted by the local sheriff, played by Tommy Lee Jones. The death toll rises as Anton tells the thief that he’ll spare the man’s wife if he gives up the cash but he refuses.

It all comes down to Anton confronting the wife who refuses the coin flip, telling Anton the choice to kill her is his. We see Anton leave the house, checking his shoes for blood and getting into an accident. Rather than this be the moment that trips him up and he’s captured, he manages to escape with just a minor wound and with the money as well. In the end, Jones realizes there was nothing he could do as, like a dark specter, Anton leaves all this damage in his wake and vanishes as quickly as he came. A fitting end to a stunning drama that deserves all its accolades.




Jack Nicholson, hired by Evelyn Mulwray to spy on her husband Hollis, an engineer for the Los Angeles Water and Power Department. He does only to be confronted by a woman – Faye Dunaway – who claims to be the real Evelyn. This plunges Jake into a confusing case involving killers, power and water rights, a sliced nose and sleeping with Evelyn. Jake soon discovers that Evelyn is protecting Katherine, the mistress of her husband who Evelyn claims is her sister but later admits she’s her daughter. The two are both abused by their father, the rich and powerful Noah Cross.

The ending has Jake arranging for them to escape to Mexico and confronts Cross, who’s been planning to annex lands north of the city and make a fortune developing them himself. His security chief takes the evidence Jake had against Cross and forces the detective to drive them to the women. Clearly, the man has been abusing both girls for years and intends to continue and when Evelyn drives away with her sister, the police open fire, killing her. Cross takes Katherine away and the police hold Jake back as he realizes the man is going to get away with the murders, his plans for the land, the abuse, all of it. That he can do nothing is a stunning move for a film and how the police and city officials are willing to turn a blind eye to such crimes as nothing in the grand scheme of things. It’s all summed up by that famous closing line: “Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.”

7. Identity

With shades of Agatha Christie, this 2003 thriller begins with talk on the discovered journal of a serial killer named Malcom Rivers who sits on death row. The movie then cuts to a small motel in Arizona where ten people are stranded by a massive storm: a limo driver, a faded actress, a cop transporting a serial killer, a prostitute, a pair of newlyweds and a couple with their mute son. Soon, one by one, each guest is murdered. It turns out that the “motel” is really the mind of Malcom Rivers, the killer suffering from alternate personalities and the “killings” are his psychiatrist’s method of trying to cut out the murderous persona.

The movie bounces from the real world to this one as Ed, the cop turned limo driver, is sent to kill the murderous persona, represented by the serial killer. They end up shooting one another, leaving only the kind-hearted prostitute Paris; the psychiatrist declares that Rivers is no longer a danger and he’s sentenced to a mental institution. But in the ride there, we see inside the mind of Rivers that it was the seemingly kind mute boy who was truly the murderous persona, killing the only survivors. With only this personality left, Rivers overpowers and kills his guards, wrecks the ambulance and runs off into the night, more dangerous than ever before. A wild end to a movie where you’re never sure who is what.

 

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Watchmen. Ozymandias got exactly what he wanted and didn't suffer any repercussion.

 

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FALLEN

“I wanna tell you about the time I almost died.” So begins the voice-over of this 1998 horror film as Detective John Hobbes (Denzel Washington) oversees the execution of Edgar Reese, a brutal serial killer he captured. When similar murders occur, Hobbes naturally believes it’s a copycat but the details are way too precise and complete strangers are taunting him on the street just like Reese did.

It turns out Reese was merely the latest host of Azazel, a demon who can jump from one body to another by touch and has been using hosts for centuries to commit brutal murders as revenge for being cast out of Heaven. Hobbes’ soon framed for murder and his own family is targeted by Azazel, pushing Hobbes to an extreme action. Hiding out in a cabin in the woods, he tricks Azazel into coming in the body of Hobbes’ partner. Shooting the demon, Hobbes points out that they’re the only two people around for miles and Hobbes has ingested poison. He shoots Azazel dead and forces the demon to jump into Hobbes’ dying body.

So it appears to be a pyrrhic victory for Hobbes, sacrificing himself to stop this demon once and for all. Unfortunately, Hobbes has made one major error: his assumption was that Azazel can only possess humanbodies. As the camera pulls up, it appears we’re seeing Azazel’s final fall only for his narration to point out how he’d said at the start this was the time he almost died. We cut to a close-up of a passing cat that looks right at us as Azazel’s voice chuckles “be seeing you.” The cat walks off, letting us know Hobbes’ sacrifice was for nothing and this demonic killer is still out there to continue his work.


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1.
The Sting (1973)
George Roy Hill
Stars: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning

2.
The Pink Panther (1963)
Blake Edwards
Stars: David Niven, Peter Sellers, Robert Wagner, Capucine

3.
The Getaway (1972)
Sam Peckinpah
Stars: Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson, Sally Struthers

4.
A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
Charles Crichton
Stars: John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin


6.
The Longest Yard (1974)
Robert Aldrich
Stars: Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, Ed Lauter, Michael Conrad

7.
Maverick (1994)
Richard Donner
Stars: Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, James Garner, Graham Greene

8.
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Michael Curtiz, William Keighley
Stars: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains

9.
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Sam Peckinpah
Stars: William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan,Edmond O'Brien

10.
The Godfather (1972)
Francis Ford Coppola
Stars: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Diane Keaton

11.
Ocean's 11 (1960)
Lewis Milestone
Stars: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford

12.
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Frank Lloyd
Stars: Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, Herbert Mundin

13.
The Transporter (2002)
Louis Leterrier, Cory Yuen
Stars: Jason Statham, Qi Shu, Matt Schulze, François Berléand

14.
The Blues Brothers (1980)
John Landis
Stars: John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Cab Calloway, John Candy

 

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15.
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Irvin Kershner
Stars: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams


16.
Thelma & Louise (1991)
Ridley Scott
Stars: Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen


17.
Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)
Burt Kennedy
Stars: James Garner, Suzanne Pleshette, Jack Elam, Harry Morgan


18.
Gambit (1966)
Ronald Neame
Stars: Shirley MacLaine, Michael Caine, Herbert Lom, Roger C. Carmel


19.
Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
Hal Needham
Stars: Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jerry Reed, Mike Henry


20.
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
Steven Soderbergh
Stars: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Matt Damon


21.
The Music Man (1962)
Morton DaCosta
Stars: Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett,Hermione Gingold


22.
Risky Business (1983)
Paul Brickman
Stars: Tom Cruise, Rebecca De Mornay, Joe Pantoliano,Richard Masur


23.
Diggstown (1992)
Michael Ritchie
Stars: James Woods, Louis Gossett Jr., Bruce Dern, Oliver Platt


24.
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
Robert Rodriguez
Stars: Harvey Keitel, George Clooney, Juliette Lewis, Quentin Tarantino


25.
Rob Roy (1995)
Michael Caton-Jones
Stars: Liam Neeson, Jessica Lange, John Hurt, Tim Roth


26.
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Robert Aldrich
Stars: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, John Cassavetes



28.
Bandits (2001)
Barry Levinson
Stars: Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Cate Blanchett, Troy Garity


29.
Road to Perdition (2002)
Sam Mendes
Stars: Tom Hanks, Tyler Hoechlin, Rob Maxey, Liam Aiken


30.
How to Steal a Million (1966)
7.6/10
Romantic comedy about a woman who must steal a statue from a Paris museum to help conceal her father's art forgeries, and the man who helps her.(123 mins.)

 

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Gone Girl
The Thing
Se7en

 

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Amy was turnt up in "Gone Girl" lmao

 

[Cheesy]

Oldboy comes to mind, at least the original, never saw the remake but I assume they didn't change the ending

 

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Fight Club



Definitely a modern day classic that offered audiences great performances from Brad Pitt, Edward Norton and Helena Botham Carter who were just on their way to become movie stars. The movie follows two men, an unnamed narrator (Norton) and Tyler Durden (Pitt) as they create a fight club for men who want to release stress and anger by beating the crap out of each other. All is going well until the narrator suddenly notices that Tyler is forming other “fight clubs” around the nation that are also anti-corporate and anti-materialist. Tyler calls the fight clubs an organization by the name of “Project Mayhem”.

The narrator become scared by what’s going on and decides he wants to leave the organization but he then finds out that not only he created Project Mayhem but he and Tyler are the same person. Hmm, another Edward Norton movie where he has multiple personalities… What a weird coincidence. Anyway, Tyler reveals that he wants to erase debt to the city by blowing up buildings that contain credit card debt records. The narrator tries desperately to stop his other personality from destroying a large chunk of city and the final confrontation has Tyler holding a gun to the Narrator’s head… But the Narrator is really holding the gun to himself and the Narrator pulls the trigger with the bullet going through the Narrator’s cheeks, not killing him, but a bullet going through Tyler’s head… Killing him… metaphorically because technically he never existed.

However, it is too late as the explosives planted in the credit card companies detonate and explode as the Narrator can only watch from the safety of his own apartment building… You know, as I’m writing this, this is a really strange and fukked up movie. But man it’s fukking awesome.

American History X



Hey, another Edward Norton movie and probably his best one to date. American History X follows a skin-head racist Derek Vinyard who recounts his time as a part of a neo-Nazi group, his time in prison and his redemption to become a better person. As a new person, he tries to stop his younger brother, Danny, from following the same path of hatred and racism that he did. Danny has been picking up some bad habits from Derek and his skin-head buddies, even by picking fights with some black kids in the school bathroom.

Near the end of the movie, Derek becomes completely reformed having left the skin-head group and started a new chapter in his life while his little brother Danny starts doing better in school. Unfortunately, while stopping off in the bathroom, the black kid he started a fight with earlier in the movie confronts him and shoots him to death. The movie then ends with Derek holding his dead brother in his arms as the credits. This movie doesn’t have a single person defeat the protagonist, in the end Derek’s bad influence on Danny is what killed him. Racism is the enemy kids, the more you know.

The Mist



The Mist, on the outside, is just a basic monster movie but on the inside it is something much more. The movie is about a movie poster artist named David Drayton who goes to the store to supplies after a huge storm caused some damage to his house. He goes to the store with his six year old son and estranged neighbor, Brent Norton. When the arrives to the store, a strange mist starts to form around the town and kill anyone who gets trapped in it. To make things worse, one of the townspeople stuck in the store is Mrs. Carmody, religious fanatic who loves to preach the “good” word of god.

As the movie goes on, things get worse and more people start to die which starts to make Mrs. Carmody look better and better to the lost people trying to find peace in the terrible situation. Soon David, his son, and some other survivors decide they need to leave and try to drive away from the mist but they are soon stopped by Mrs. Carmody and her followers who try to sacrifice David’s son to lift the mist away. However, one of the survivors kill Mrs. Carmody and they all dive into David’s truck and keep on driving.

The movie ends with the survivors running out of gas and deciding that they cannot escape the mist, they decide on a suicide pact. David takes the gun and takes out the other survivors, including his son but he has no more bullets for himself. He exits the truck and starts shouting for some creature from the mist to kill him… Only for the mist to start disappearing and the military emerging transporting survivors. David is in shock and falls to his knees and he says to himself “They’re dead… For what” and starts shouting to the sky. One way to interpret this ending is that Mrs. Carmody was right all along about God needing to be paid in blood in order for the plague to be lifted.

Another way to interpret this ending is that you should never give up or lose hope because you never know what will happen and what the future will hold. Either way, the protagonist lose everything in the end and the mist/Mrs. Carmody technically win the bigger picture.