Most movies end with the loving couple kissing, the heroes saving the day, or everybody laughing joyfully as they ride off into the sunset.🐭 But not everything on the big screen has a happy ending. Sometimes the bad guys win—and it makes for a great story.

The following 32 films all have villains or baddies who come out on top when the credits roll. While this is common in some of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best horror movies, which frequently end on a grim note, other genres—like sci-fi, thrillers, and dramas— can subvert expectations, too. This list of movies includes all sorts of bad guys, and for the most part, tries to avoid films that just end with an implied evil victory. It's not enough for a bad guy to have maybe not been defeated; to be on this list, the baddies need to unequivocally have won.

Sure, ma𒀰ybe they'll get bested in the sequel. But, for now, they are the cinematic champions.

32. Little Shop of Horrors

Year: 1986
Director: Frank Oz

Little Shop of Horrors may seem like an odd choice here if you've only watched the theatrical cut of 🔜this adaptation of the off-Broadway horror-comedy musical (after all, it had a happy ending). In the most known version of the film, Seymour (Rick Moranis) and Audrey (Ellen Greene) defeat the singing, talking, man-eating plant and live happily ever after. However, the original ending, which matched the comedically dark finale of the play, had the plant eat the protagonists and then take over the world in a 23-minute special effects spectacular. Test audiences didn't like that the bad guys won, and the entire ending was scrapped, available now only as a director's cut. However, it is the superior ending.

31. Parts! The Clonus Horror

Year: 1979
Director: Robert S. Fiveson

Even if you haven't seen this '70s sci-fi flick about cloning, you might be surprised by how familiar it seems. The Michael Bay film The Island basically ripped its plot off, to the point where the studio settled a copyright infringement case out of court. Parts! The Clonus Horror's ending is much bleaker than the blo🌳ckbuster do-over, though. The film follows Richard (Tim Donnelly), a man who discovers that he and everyone he knows are actually just clones, created so that they can be harvested for organs if the rich elite who commission🌸ed them ever get sick. He escapes the facility only to be lured to his death. Sure, the covert cloning operation gets exposed, but Richard ends up a frozen corpse.

30. Life

Year: 2017
Director: Daniel Espinosa

When the crew of the International Space Station encounters an alien lifeform, the creature soon proves to be a dangerous, deadly threat. After it kills the rest of the crew, David (Jake Gyllenhaal) makes a plan to sacrificeꦚ himself to save the planet, trapping the alien in an escape pod with him and launching off into the void of space while the other survivor, Miranda (Rebecca Ferguson), takes a pod to Earth. But, in a sadistic twist, the pods are hit by debris, and Miranda's pod floats out into nothingness while David and the alien land on Earth, where the creature will presumably take over the planet. Whoops!

29. Planet of the Apes

Year: 2001
Director: Tim Burton

Th𒁃e original Planet of the Apes from the '60s has a famously bleak twis🌊t ending, though it's kind of inaccurate to say the bad guys won so much as humanity lost, ages ago, when they "blew it up" and destroyed civilization. Tim Burton's remake, though, has a different ending, as human astronaut Leo (Mark Wahlberg) travels through a wormhole that sends him back to what he thinks is his planet. When he lands, though, he discovers that the Lincoln Memorial now resembles the chimpanzee General Thade (Tim Roth), and the planet is ruled by apes. How, exactly, this somewhat infamous twist actually works is something that's been debated, but you've got to hand the bad ape the victory.

28. Swordfish

Year: 2001
Director: Dominic Sena

Hugh Jackman's hacker protagonist gets his happy ending in this silly tech thriller, but there's no denying that the bad guys get away with it. After forcing Stanley (Jackman) to do their bidding all movie, Gabriel Shear (John Travolta) successfully fakes his death, and he and his accomplice Ginger Knowles (Halle Berry) are last seen in Monte Carlo with all of the riches they obta🦩ined in the bank robbery. There are no repercussions for the pair whatsoever, and they're free to do stylish crimes—both of the real and cyber varieties— another day.

27. Brightburn

Year: 2019
Director: David Yarovesky

This 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:James Gunn-produced movie puts a horror spin on the classic superhero formula. What if you took the Superman origin story — an alien child lands on Earth and is raised by a kindly🌄 couple, only to discover he has superpowers — and removed Clark Kent's innate sense of goodness? What if this superpowered teenager were evil? In Brightburn, what happens is that the teen, Brandon (Jackson A. Dunn), kills his parents, crashes a plane to destroy the evidence, and generally seems like he's poised to do whatever he 🔯wants because nobody on the planet is strong enough to stop him.

26. The Curse of the Golden Flower

Year: 2006
Director: Zhang Yimou

Thousands of soldiers die in this epic wuxia, an extravagant, beautiful, and bloody tale of rebellion. But, when all is said and done, Emperor Ping (Chow Yun-f💞at) still sits on his golden throne, the sons who rebelled against him are dead, and the conniving Empress Phoenix (Gong Li) is defeated. The visual of the Emperor's attendants removing the countless dead from the palace courtyard, scrubbing away the blood, and setting everything back up with pristine flowers as though the entire rebellion never happened, is supremely effective.

25. The Vanishing

Year: 1988
Director: George Sluizer

This profoundly dis꧙turbing Dutch psychological thriller was remade by its original director,🌌 George Sluizer, in English. The 1993 remake may have Jeff Bridges and Kiefer Sutherland, but it does not have the original's ending. When Rex and Saskia (Gene Bervoets and Johanna ter Steege) are on a bike holiday, Saskia goes missing, and Rex spends the next three years trying to find her. He eventually encounters Raymond (Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu), who claims to know Saskia's whereabouts. It turns out that Raymond is a sociopath who kidnapped and murdered Saskia just to see if he could—and he subjects Rex to the same fate, burying him alive.

24. Revenge of the Sith

Year: 2005
Director: George Lucas

If the original Star Wars trilogy didn't exist within the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Star Wars timeline and it was just the prequels, then Revenge of the Sith would be a bummer of a finale. Even knowing that Luke ♏Skywalker and Co. will eventually defeat the Emperor and bring balance to the Force, Episode III still ends on a dark note. ไThe Jedi have all but been eliminated, Palpatine controls the galaxy, Padme has died of a broken heart, and Anakin has killed younglings and become Darth Vader, a black-clad cybernetic villain. The Sith certainly got their revenge!