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Came looking for this one.
Had to scroll way too far to find this answer.
Brazil (1985)
Gone Girl (2014). Then again, maybe that one counts as horror.
Nah, I’d call it a thriller.
I’m assuming that it’s been taken as read that this post will be full of spoilers.
Fallen (1998). IMDB doesn’t include ‘horror’ in the genre list, but it’s got supernatural elements to it, I suppose.
The Vanishing (1988) aka Spoorloos. Not the American remake, obvs.The Usual Suspects is the first one that comes to mind that isn’t horror and the villain winning by getting away. Does that fit the ‘evil wins’ concept you are looking for?
Would Reservoir Dogs also count in that case?
None of the thieves got away at the end of Reservoir Dogs.
This is not to say that “good” triumphed at the end either.
Mr Pink walked away with the diamonds before the police arrived. It’s not clear if he was caught or not but he did walk away. https://youtu.be/0GQc_SwSp_U?si=1XjXFxckgrvR_6EV
It’s pretty clear to me given the cops shooting, then shouting orders, and Mr. Pink saying he’s been shot, that he does not in fact get away.
I know there’s theories on the Internet about this, and he may not have died, but at the very least he’s been caught and does not keep the diamonds.
Fight Club
That was more chaos winning than evil. Blowing up credit institutions and wiping everyone’s debt is far from evil in most people’s eyes.
Blowing up buildings with people inside them is evil.
From what I remember there were no people inside
It’s a point raised in the movie. There were no people in the buildings because the bombings were done at night and the only people that would be in the buildings were a part of the group and knew to be out of them.
Fair point. Although I suspect you could still kill people that just happen to be walking by the buildings and such.
Chinatown
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Doesn’t count if you go by the entire multi movie arc, but the first Marvel film with Thanos (Infinity War) fits the bill.
I remember seeing it in the cinema, when the credits rolled everyone was kinda stunned.
Wait how does that work? Is that a glitch in Sync or something else?
I can see it using “view raw”
Yeah i could see it by copying the comment. If the OP did use the delete button and the content isn’t truly deleted… that seems problematic.
I guess the iron giant
In The Company Of Men
Devil’s Advocate
Interview With The Vampire
Se7en
Nightcrawler
American Psycho
Arguably No Country For Old Men
A lot of documentaries e.g: Paradise Lost.
Devil’s Advocate
I’d say evil loses quite definitively in that one - although the final minute or so makes it clear the contest of wills isn’t over.
The reason why I think it wins is it becomes obvious Satan can have do-overs and he’s already falling for one of them. He hasn’t actually escaped, and Satan is still having fun at his expense.
Dick Dastardly gets Muttley back in the new Scooby Doo movie. So he does get what he was after.
Saltburn
I am going to put in little shop of horrors since it is a musical. And I really would not consider it horror.
For those of you that don’t know there are actually 2 versions of this movie. The original release version where the plants lose and the ORIGINAL test audience version where the plants win.
The director insists the alien plants winning was the original ending he wanted, but he was forced to give the film a happy ending at the last minute. The director’s cut gives you the original ending in all it’s evil glory.
There’s also an original Little Shop of Horrors released in 1960 that stars a young Jack Nicholson. That film has a different ending than both endings of the 1986 remake.
The original ending was included on one of the recent home video releases. If you like the movie and haven’t seen it yet, you really need to.
Globo Gym wins in the original version of Dodgeball, but the test audiences hated it so they added the blindfolded stand-off. I’m mostly happy they changed it, but that original ending would have been so ballsy. Also would make the subtitle better, since most “true” underdogs do lose.
Heh. Ballsy.
Angel Heart.
Good call. And a good movie. I won’t spoil it for people who haven’t seen it.
