5 Recent Horror Movies With Extremely Disturbing Endings Like Hereditary

Some horror movies end. Then there are movies like Hereditary that leave viewers sitting in silence while the credits roll. That heavy feeling. That silence after the credits. That awful little moment where your brain realizes the movie is still sitting with you.

It's a difficult thing to pull off, and somehow, more than one recent horror movie managed to achieve that.

These movies don’t just scare you. They crawl under your skin, sit there comfortably, and refuse to leave. Some get brutal. Some get deeply sad. A few feel like pure nightmares pretending to be movies. If that sounds fun, welcome.

Here are the 5 movies that are like Hereditary

1. Talk to Me - 2023 (Apple TV+)

You know those horror movies where characters make one bad decision and everything spirals into disaster?

Talk to Me turns that idea into emotional chaos. The movie starts with a group of teenagers using a strange embalmed hand to talk to spirits, like it’s some dangerous party trend. At first, it almost feels exciting. Then things slowly become darker, meaner, and way more tragic than expected.

What makes the movie hit hard is how personal the horror becomes. Underneath all the possession scenes and terrifying visuals is a story about grief and loneliness quietly destroying someone from the inside.

And the ending?

It doesn’t scream. It just leaves this cold, empty feeling hanging in the air.

Exactly the kind of ending Hereditary fans usually love suffering through.

2. When Evil Lurks - 2023 (Apple TV+)

This movie feels illegal. Seriously, there are moments in When Evil Lurks where you genuinely start wondering if the film is about to cross a line most horror movies avoid. The story follows two brothers trying to stop a demonic infection from spreading through their community. Simple setup. Absolute nightmare execution.

What makes it terrifying is the complete lack of safety. Children are not safe. Animals are not safe. Nobody feels protected by “movie logic.” The evil inside this film spreads like a disease, and every bad decision somehow creates an even worse situation.

There’s one particular scene involving a road that horror fans still talk about online because of how sudden and horrifying it feels. And once the ending arrives, the movie leaves viewers with pure hopelessness. No relief. No comforting explanation. Just dread.

This is the kind of horror movie that ruins your evening in the best possible way.

3. Oddity - 2024 (Prime Video)

Oddity proves something important: A horror movie does not need nonstop screaming to terrify people. Most of the fear here comes from silence, strange objects, and the feeling that something awful is standing just outside the frame, waiting patiently.

The story follows a blind woman investigating her twin sister’s murder, and the deeper the mystery gets, the more unsettling the movie becomes. There’s a wooden mannequin in this film that somehow creates more tension than entire demons in other horror movies.

No giant explosions. No chaotic action scenes.

Even the dark corners in this movie feel alive.

The ending lands hard because the movie spends so much time tightening the tension that by the final moments, it feels impossible to breathe normally. Watch this one late at night, and every random noise in your house suddenly becomes suspicious.

4. Longlegs - 2024 (Hulu)

Some horror villains chase people. The killer in Longlegs feels like he’s haunting the movie itself. The real horror in Longlegs comes from the atmosphere. Everything feels wrong. The lighting feels sickly. Conversations feel uncomfortable. Even quiet scenes feel dangerous, like something terrible is hiding underneath every word.

And then there’s Nicolas Cage.

He delivers the kind of performance that makes viewers physically uncomfortable. Not loud. Not cartoonish. Just deeply unsettling in a way that sticks in your head afterward.

The movie slowly stops feeling like a crime thriller and starts feeling like a nightmare nobody inside it can wake up from. By the ending, Longlegs leaves behind the same lingering dread that made Hereditary impossible to forget.

5. Smile 2 - 2024 (Paramount+, Prime Video)

Most horror sequels try to go bigger. Smile 2 goes darker.

The movie follows a global pop star whose life slowly falls apart after a terrifying supernatural encounter. Between the pressure of fame, paranoia, hallucinations, and emotional breakdown, the film starts feeling less like horror and more like watching somebody mentally drown in real time.

The smiles start feeling less human every single time they appear. One of the smartest things the movie does is constantly make viewers question what’s real. Just when things seem normal again, the film pulls the floor away.

By the final act, the movie barely lets viewers breathe. And the final moments?

Let’s just say horror fans who loved the emotional devastation of Hereditary will probably sit through the credits completely stunned.

And the point is...

The best horror movies are not always the loudest ones. Sometimes the scariest endings are the ones that leave viewers quiet, uncomfortable, and staring at the ceiling at 2 a.m.

These movies understand that perfectly. By the end, silence becomes part of the horror. If Hereditary left you emotionally wrecked, these movies are more than ready to continue the damage.

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