Forget the head-in-a-box twist of Seven, the mistaken identity tragedy of Night of the Living Dead or the sacrificial denouement of The Wicker Man (the original not the unintentionally hilarious Nicolas Cage in a bear suit remake). No other horror has left audiences teetering on the edge of existential despair more effectively than this Stephen King adaptation. Just ask the author himself, who argued the 2007 release boasted “the most shocking ending ever.”
