• ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@midwest.social
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    Fallen. Denzel sets a very neat trap for the demon… but not neat enough.

    Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog as well. While the Doc may have been mostly noble and Hammer mostly awful, it ends (somewhat ambiguously) with the Doc actually turning into a villain.

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    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?

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    I don’t want to spoil anything but if you’re even in this thread you need to watch, The Girl With All The Gifts. It’s fuckin brilliant!

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    Dick Dastardly gets Muttley back in the new Scooby Doo movie. So he does get what he was after.

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        I know, but I didn’t feel like it’s horror in the spirit of the question. OP would need to weigh in.

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        Many people do, but the whole point of the movie was that the prosecution didn’t go far enough to stop the orbital perpetrators. The whole point of the ending was that the entire law enforcement system came together to try to determine what it would take to stop one person, and when he tried to stop that he signed his own death warrant.

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          I’d argue that the whole damn system was either corrupt or broken beyond repair. The fact that they “won” in the end and got to simply go on with their lives is pretty much evil winning out.

          It would also have been a much more interesting story if they let Clyde win or escalated the havoc he unleashed even further. But it seems they ran out of ideas and or budget by the time they started wrapping up the final act. So that’s a second time evil wins again.

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    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.

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      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.

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          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.

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      “The Jetty” inspired 12 Monkeys, for anybody interested in watching that. It’s somewhat more experimental

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        If I recall it’s only like 10 minutes and either no dialog or in French. But it’s easy to get the gist of it and worth a watch. And it unlocked the thought experiment about someone witnessing their own death through time travel that Terry Gilliam expertly ran with.