Recent great movies where the "Baddie" or "Evil" prevails?

sxt

There has been many a great movie ruined by a dishonest happy Hollywood ending. The only recent films I can think of are 'the descent' and 'the mist'... Are there many others?

endacl

Skeleton Key.
Rosemary's Baby.
W.
Seven.
Primal Fear.
The Usual Suspects.
The Wicker Man.
Brazil.
1984.
No Country for Old Men.

EITS

Nightcrawler

Ageyev

There are not enough films where the antagonist wins. :

Arlington Road

is one that springs to mind.

French film 'Martyrs' would be another I'd suggest watching. I won't say any more lest I spoil it but it opens up questions about what a happy ending is and what it means to "win"

FortuneChip

The Watchmen
Memento

Not to say the antagonist "wins" in both, but neither sway to the classic happy ending

razorblunt

3:10 to Yuma ... kind of fits in.

5rtytry56

Reservoir Dogs

gucci

Event Horizon

Cork boy 55

Nearly all the WW2 ones.

Tipsy McSwagger

Blade Runner

Arghus

The thread should be subtitled Spoiler Alert .

Fysh

Some fascinating notions about what "recent" means on display in this thread

Nightcrawler and Cabin In The Woods are probably the most recent ones I can think of. I suppose you could make an argument for A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, Only Lovers Left Alive or Byzantium, but I think in all of those films it's not entirely clear-cut whether the characters involved are evil or just the product of their environments.

SouthTippBass

The Empire strikes back,
Silence of the lambs.

5rtytry56

True Romance
JFK

5rtytry56

Death Sentence (Kevin Bacon)

pah

Arghus wrote: »

The thread should be subtitled Spoiler Alert .

Thread title kind of implies it, no?

pmasterson95

Watchmen.

NachoBusiness

50 Shades of Grey.

Anastasia to get revenge in Part II though.

b34mer23

A Most Wanted Man

Mickeroo

The Dark Knight for me, even though the plan with the boats didn't work out he still pretty much got what he wanted in the end.

5rtytry56

"The Fly " movies (1980's)starring Jeff Goldbloom.

Skerries

you could include any of the big horror heroes like Freddie, Jason and Michael Myers as they kill most of the people that they intend to and get to come back and do it all again later

OneOfThem Stumbled

SouthTippBass wrote: »

The Empire strikes back,
Silence of the lambs.

5rtytry56 wrote: »

Reservoir Dogs

gucci wrote: »

Event Horizon

I wouldn't equate "not happy endings" necessarily with the baddie winning.

OneOfThem Stumbled

Skerries wrote: »

you could include any of the big horror heroes like Freddie, Jason and Michael Myers as they kill most of the people that they intend to and get to come back and do it all again later

Yes, but they don't really prevail do they? They generally have the crap kicked out of them and inexplicably* manage to return for a sequel




*Black magic via US dollars

eviltimeban

Skyfall.

The Passion Of The Christ.

United 93.

Life Is Beautiful.

A Serbian Film.

Blair Witch Project.

The Omen.

Rosemary's Baby.

Layer Cake (kind of).

Sad Professor

Mickeroo wrote: »

The Dark Knight for me, even though the plan with the boats didn't work out he still pretty much got what he wanted in the end.

It’s more of a pyrrhic victory. By taking the fall for Harvey’s crimes, Bruce prevents the Joker from winning but at considerable sacrifice to himself — and the creation of a lie which comes back to haunt everyone in TDKR.

eviltimeban

Sad Professor wrote: »

It’s more of a pyrrhic victory. By taking the fall for Harvey’s crimes, Bruce prevents the Joker from winning but at considerable sacrifice to himself — and the creation of a lie which comes back to haunt everyone in TDKR.

You should write the descriptions on the back of DVD boxes.

MattB11

Sinister

Dair76

Fysh wrote: »

Some fascinating notions about what "recent" means on display in this thread

And some loose interpretations of the word "great" as well.

MfMan

Downbeat endings;

The Sand Pebbles
Chinatown
Von Ryan's Express

Riskymove

eviltimeban wrote: »

The Passion Of The Christ.

interesting choice given the basic concepts of the story!

Riskymove

SouthTippBass wrote: »

Silence of the lambs.

an interesting one on a number of levels

technically Wild Bill is the baddie and doesn't prevail

5rtytry56

The Last Temptation of Jesus Christ - Harvey Keitel as Christ.

shazzerman

Harvey Keitel played Judas in The Last Temptation of Christ. Willem Dafoe was Jesus.

5rtytry56

The last exit to Brooklyn

Collie D

Cork boy 55 wrote: »

Nearly all the WW2 ones.

Who exactly do you think the"baddies" were? Or more worryingly - the goodies?

Dozen Wicked Words

Though not what you could call recent, The original version of The Vanishing (Spoorloos) is the one that sticks out in my mind (and still haunts me). Why an earth I watched that to the end (actually I know why, it was a brilliantly made film), age apart, its definitely what your looking for OP. I will never watch it again though, I'll stick with the vastly inferior US remake for its ending.

chanelfreak

Oldboy (original version)
Pretty much all Lars von Trier films
The Mist
Event Horizon (although I think that one is open to interpretation)

fluke

Planet of the Apes (original)

5rtytry56

Platoon produced by Oliver Stone

5rtytry56

Taps
find here
Condo developers = baddies for me

evil_seed

Arlington Road

Pete Moss

The Cabin In The Woods.

An over the top, slasher movie with thought. A great twist on the modern horror movie.

5rtytry56

Psycho 2 (1969) Apparently "cured" Norman Bates returns to his old ways.

Welsh Megaman

Natural Born Killers?

5rtytry56

Once Were Warriors
(1994) new Zealand production.

The_Valeyard

Arlington Road


The Grey

hidinginthebush

5rtytry56 wrote: »

Once Were Warriors
(1994) new Zealand production.

How do the baddies prevail there? It's a few years since I've seen it, but yer man gets an absolute hiding at the end of the movie, and jake is just about to get arrested when it ends. And the wife gets away.

Insect Overlord

Gone Girl

Bobby Baccala

Neds?

This is England possibly