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Friday, January 7, 2011

25 of my favorite horror/thriller films this Decade

Was really hoping to post this last month but seems i ran out of time...Okay, many of these horror films received a lot of bad reviews from other sites, many critics have really put some of these great horror films down which is sad really.Below are 25 of my favorite horror films this decade...

1. The Ring (2002)

Four teenagers die one week after seeing a strange video. The aunt of one of the teens (also an investagative news reporter) decides to look into the mysterious death of her niece. She retraces the teenage girls steps back to a cabin where she finds and watches a strange video and makes the connection between the video, their deaths and a strange phonecall that happens immediately after you watch it where a little girl says "seven days" and hangs up. Now she realizes she has one week to figure out the mystery behind the video, the creator of the video and to figure out how not to die.

          
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2. Pulse(2006)

Based on the Japanese horror movie "Kairo," "Pulse" centers on a group of college students who discover that a computer hacker friend of theirs unwittingly pirated a strange wireless signal that opened a doorway for a terrifying evil to cross over into the world. As it spreads, everyone in its path is consumed, and the students must race to find a way to stop it.


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3. The Grudge 

A japanese woman caled Yoko is a volunteer worker for the elderly. she visits one of her newest people , an old american woman with a laziness disorder, and as she goes upstairs to clean she sees something shut a door, yet she's alone with the american woman.

She goes into the room to look, sees nothing, then hears a clicking / groaning from above her, but that's the attic. she goes up to investigate and sees nothing. she turns around to leave when the thing pounces on her. we see kicking legs, hear screaming, then legs get dragged up.

Next day when Yoko hasn't turned up for work, Karen, an american who moved to tokyo with her boyfriend, is sent in as a replacement. she isn't attacked but lets loose a little boy (toshio), from a cupboard.

What follows is a whirlwind of deaths of people who go into the house, including the "bed scene". a lady is followed home (the two spirits can leave the house) and this woman hides under the bed-clothes like a five-year-old, and rather shockingly, the boy spirit is under her bedcover, and drags her to her doom.

The chief of police, investigating Yoko's disappearance, tells Karen how he was on a murder case three years ago, murder of Toshio and the spirit woman. they were murdered, and a curse was born. as long as the house stood, death had stained it, it bore a grudge on all who entered, they were doomed to die.

The police chief later goes to the house to burn it down, but Toshio drowns him, leaving two cans of gasoline. Karen's boyfriend goes to the house to look for Karen. Karen goes there to look for him, and as she tries to burn down the house, see ending.



 4. Mirrors (2008)

A mall security guard (Kiefer Sutherland) becomes wrapped up in a mystery involving a particular department store‘s mirrors which seem to bring out the worst in people. Down through the ages, mirrors have always been gateways to other worlds; they have protected us from evil, they have told us the future, and they have told us the truth. Mirrors reflect back at the viewer a glimpse of the human soul. In stories handed down through folk beliefs of generations, and stitched into the fabric of fairy tales and myths worldwide, mirrors have been the gateways to other worlds. is this a realm inhabited by angels, demons, and spirits of the dead? Or, does it reflect back to the viewer a glimpse of the human soul?








 5. The eye (2008)

Sydney Wells (Jessica_Alba) has been given the gift of sight, but it comes with a horrifying price in the English-language remake of Danny and Oxide_Pang's The_Eye. The double corneal transplant was to open up a new world for Sydney, a concert violinist whose blindness has plagued her since childhood. With the help of Dr. Paul Faulkner (Alessandro_Nivola) and sister Helen (Parker_Posey), Sydney's operation and recovery seemed to be on the road to success -- until horrific images start to tear their way into her newfound vision. What's worse is that these episodes appear to foreshadow future deadly events, leading Sydney on a mission to track down the person whose eyes she has inherited and discover what kind of mystery from beyond the grave lies before her. The film is directed by David_Moreau and Xavier_Palud, the duo behind the acclaimed 2006 French terror flick Them, and is produced by Tom_Cruise and Paula_Wagn under their Cruise/Wagner production banner. Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi



 6. Unborn (2009)

Sometimes the soul of a dead person has been so tainted with evil that it is denied entrance to heaven. It must endlessly wander the borderlands between worlds, desperately searching for a new body to inhabit.

And sometimes it actually succeeds.

Writer/director David Goyer (Blade: Trinity, The Invisible, Batman Begins) gives a terrifying glimpse into the life of the undead in The Unborn, a supernatural thriller that follows a young woman pulled into a world of nightmares when a demonic spirit haunts her and threatens everyone she loves.

Casey Beldon (Odette Yustman) hated her mother for leaving her as a child. But when inexplicable things start to happen, Casey begins to understand why she left. Plagued by merciless dreams and a tortured ghost that haunts her waking hours, she must turn to the only spiritual advisor, Sendak (Gary Oldman), who can make it stop.

With Sendak’s help, Casey uncovers the source of a family curse dating back to Nazi Germany—a creature with the ability to inhabit anyone or anything that is getting stronger with each possession. With the curse unleashed, her only chance at survival is to shut a doorway from beyond our world that has been pried open by someone who was never born.



 7. 100 feet

A young woman, Marnie Watson, is granted early release from her prison sentence for manslaughter (killing her husband - a violent NYC cop - in self defense) on condition she wear an electronic ankle bracelet and remain within her home, effectively under house arrest, for the remainder of her sentence.
 

Her late husband's partner keeps tabs on her from a patrol car parked across the street, hoping she'll violate probation and he can send her back to prison. But the 100-foot radius her ankle bracelet allows isn't the worst of her problems. Her dead husband --now a malevolent ghost--is still in the house, where he died -- intent on savage revenge.








8. One missed call (2008)

What will it sound like when you die? In "One Missed Call," a chain of people receive terrifying cell phone messages of their own final fatal moments. Though the messages can be deleted, their number is up. Beth Raymond (Shannyn Sossamon) is traumatized when she witnesses the gruesome deaths of two friends just days apart. Even more disturbing, she knows that both of them had received chilling cell phone messages-actual recordings of their own horrifying last moments. Impossibly, the calls were received days before they died, but each death occurred precisely when and how the messages foretold. The police think Beth is delusional-except for Detective Jack Andrews (Edward Burns) whose own sister was killed in a freak accident that bears a strange similarity to the deaths of Beth's friends. Together, Jack and Beth work feverishly to unravel the mystery behind the ominous calls. But even as they get closer to the truth, Beth's cell phone begins to ring with an eerie tune, and the readout says One Missed Call...

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 9. Halloween (2007)

The_Devil's_Rejects director Rob_Zombie resurrects one of the most notorious slashers in screen history with this re-imagining of the 1978 John_Carpenter classic that spawned numerous sequels and countless imitators. As a child, young Michael Myers (Daeg_Faerch) committed one of the most unspeakable crimes imaginable. Subsequently locked in an asylum and placed under the care of Dr. Loomis (Malcolm McDowell), the hollow-eyed boy grew into an emotionless man determined to escape back to his hometown of Haddonfield and complete the murderous mission that he began so many years back. These days, the long-abandoned Myers house sits decrepit and overgrown on a peaceful suburban street, its boarded windows and rotting wood a silent testament to the slaughter that has haunted Haddonfield for decades. Now Michael Myers (Tyler_Mane) is back, and as the children of this typical Midwestern town fill the sidewalks for a fun-filled night of tricks and treats, Haddonfield is about to find out that there is no escape from pure evil. Brad_Dourif, William_Forsythe, Udo_Kier, Dee_Wallace, Sheri_Moon_Zombie, Danny_Trejo, and Adrienne_Barbeau co-star. Jason Buchanan, Rovi


10. See no evil (2006)

A ragtag group of juvenile delinquents assigned the task of cleaning up an abandoned hotel find out just how deadly community service can be when they are stalked by a monstrous, four-hundred-pound maniac with a grudge in director Gregory_Dark's wrestling-infused survival horror flick. It was a mere four years ago that seven-foot menace Jacob Goodnight (WWE superstar Kane) was shot in the head and left for dead by a local police officer. But Jacob wasn't going down that easy. With a steel plate subsequently attached to his skull and ten razor-sharp fingernails ready to scrape grey matter from the skulls of his victims, Jacob retreated to the abandoned Blackwell Hotel, where he resided in the darkened, rotting hallways while planning his ultimate revenge. As fate would have it, Jacob wouldn't have to go far to satiate his raging bloodlust, though, and as the unsuspecting teens make their way through the crumbling corridors of the once-luxurious inn guided by the very same policeman who fired that misguided bullet years earlier, the notorious killer sharpens his nails, stalks his prey, and prepares for a little payback. Jason Buchanan, Rovi


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 11. Saw


When Adam is jolted back to consciousness after nearly drowning at the bottom of a decrepit bathtub, he awakes to find himself chained to a rusty pipe inside a dark torture chamber. There is someone else in the room. Dr. Lawrence Gordon has also just regained consciousness and is chained to the opposite side of the space. Between them a man is lying in a pool of blood after apparently shooting himself in the head with the pistol in his hand. Adam and Dr. Gordon piece together the clues left behind by the deranged criminal mind that has brought them together and finally realize that they, too, must make a seemingly impossible set of choices for their lives.







12. Final Destination (2000)

There’s nothing like a brainless teen horror to fill a Friday night, particularly on the rare occasion you find one as enjoyable as this.


Directed and co-written by regular ‘X-Files’ pensmith James Wong, ‘Final Destination’ poses one question: what if Death (the capital ‘D’ seems appropriate here) has a pre-determined plan for all of us? Would we be able to cheat it? I know what
you’re thinking – that’s two questions. But you get the idea.

Devon Sawa plays the semi-nerdy Alex, who’s about to head for Paris on a school field trip when suddenly he has a premonition involving the side of the plane falling off and everyone hurtling to their deaths. You get the immediate feeling he’s a glass-is-half-empty sort of fellow...more

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13. Jeepers Crepers (2001)


This one here is definitely one of my favorites,  i bought this movie a while back and it seems i misplaced it somewhere, been trying to find it though, it really would love to watch this1 again

Trish (Gina Philips) and her younger brother Darry (Justin Long) are passing the hours on their long drive home for spring break as they always do - bickering, insulting each other and enjoying every minute of it.

As they speed down the seemingly endless country road, they spot an ancient, creepy-looking van approaching in the rear-view mirror. The van suddenly accelerates, practically running them off the highway, its weird horn wailing. As it zooms off, Trish and Darry notice its odd license plate -- "BEATINGU. "

Recovering from the scare and mumbling about in-bred rural psychopaths, they remind each other of the legend of Kenny and Darla, two kids from their old high school who disappeared along this stretch of road more than twenty years earlier. As the story goes, they found their car, but never their bodies. ..
As they drive on, Trish and Darry approach an old church, its roof eerily blanketed in black crows. The van is there. They see a tall, dark figure dropping something - something wrapped in what looks like a blood-stained sheet - down a drainage pipe. As Trisha and Darry are watching from their car the figure turns and seems to peer right at them as they pass by. Just as quickly, the figure is in the van, pursuing them at break-neck speed. They floor it but lose control of the car and career off the road; the van roars on ahead, leaving them shaken and breathless.
Knowing full well that it is exactly the kind of dumb thing a character in a horror movie would do, Darry thinks that they really should go back to the church to see if someone needs help. This is real life, not a movie and Darry knows it's the only responsible thing to do. Despite Trish's protests, they return and Darry squirms down the pipe, Trish holding his legs and cursing their stupidity. Darry suddenly slips from her grasp and plummets down into a dark room. Someone is there, barely alive. It is a boy, with a horrifying, raggedly-stitched incision from navel to neck. Darry watches in terror as the boy dies before him.

Desperate for a way out, Darry sees a doorway. With no other choice, he proceeds through, only to discover a scene worthy of Dante's Inferno - countless mutilated bodies, stitched into the wall in some kind of horrifically gruesome tapestry. And there among the bodies are the long-lost Kenny and Darla. ..
Thus begins a terrifying race against one of the most unspeakably evil creatures ever imagined, a race that leads Trish and Darry from a spooky all-night diner to a lonely farmhouse inhabited by an old woman with a swarm of cats (Eileen Brennan) to the ultimate showdown inside a police station. As the chase quickens, Trish and Darry come to the sickening realization that the creature wants - needs - something from one of them. But from which one. .. and what? ...more

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14. Ghost Ship (2002)

Really, Its been a long time since I've watched this one, i was but a young boy back then and i could roughly recall some scenes...it would be really awesome if they did a remake of this movie

A salvage team think they've made the find of a lifetime, until they discover there's more on board than meets the eye in this supernatural thriller. Led by Captain Sean Murphy (Gabriel_Byrne), the crew of the tugboat Arctic Warrior have discovered a sideline far more lucrative than hauling ships in and out of the harbor -- they locate missing or wrecked ships in international waters, repair them until they can be brought back to port, and then sell off the ship and its contents as salvage. Acting on a tip from Jack Ferriman (Desmond_Harrington), a pilot in the Canadian Air Force, Murphy and his crew -- salvage expert Maureen Epps (Julianna_Margulies), first mate Greer (Isaiah_Washington), and crewmen Santos (Alex_Dimitriades), Dodge (Ron_Eldard), and Munder (Karl_Urban) -- set out to find a large craft seen adrift off the Alaskan coastline. To their surprise, the crew of the Arctic Warrior discover what appears to be the Antonia Graza, a famous Italian ocean liner, legendary for its luxury, which vanished without a trace in 1962. While they at first anticipate the payday of a lifetime from this find, the crew soon discover a sinister force has taken control of the ship, and before long they're battling not for salvage rights, but for their lives. Ghost Ship was directed by special effects man turned filmmaker Steven_Beck, who previously directed the 2001 remake of 13_Ghosts. Mark Deming, Rovi
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15. The Texas chainsaw massacre (2003)

Ahh, three thumbs up for this one...

When five teenagers try to have the time of their lives road tripping across Texas, they come across a hitchhiker covered in blood. They pick up the girl who then blows her own head off. Now having a corpse in their car, they try to call the police from a gas station. While waiting, they discover a house in the middle of no where and begin to be systematically hunted down by the monsterous cannibal family that lives within. The one doing the killing is the psychotic Leather Face who's weapon of choice is a chainsaw. Bloody, Gory, Chilling. Based on the real life Ed Gein who wore women's skin as clothes. source : ruined endings

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16. The Exorcism of Emily Rose

I don't how many times I've watched this, it gets scarier each time a watch it is a pretty popular horror movie in my country, maybe because its based on a true story & with all that religious stuff...

Troubled—-and disputedly epileptic-—teenager Emily Rose is in bad shape; she sees (possible hallucinated) demonic faces, and is wracked by convulsions she interprets as demonic attacks. When drugs failed to help Emily, she and her devout family turn to their priest Father Moore (Tom Wilkinson), who sees in Emily’s symptoms not a medical condition but instead a spiritual one: demonic possession. His attempted cure, an exorcism, fails and Emily dies in his care. Agnostic lawyer Erin Bruner (Laura Linney) is then assigned by the church to defend Father Moore on negligent homicide charges, but the case is far from simple. It’s not clear if Emily’s episodes (told in flashback) were possession or not; the evidence is ambiguous.

“There are dark forces at work,” Father Moore warns Erin as the trial gets underway. Soon, like Emily and Father Moore, Erin begins seeing quasi-demonic signs, nudging her toward faith. The fact that she wakes up at 3 A.M. is a sign. While walking along the street after court, Erin happens to find a locket in the snow that has her initials on it. “What are chances of that?” she asks ominously (a skeptic might reach for a phone book to actually try and answer the question; the chances are probably better then she might expect)...more


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17. An American Hauting

The movie opens in present times with a young girl having a dream about being chased by something unseen through the forest and into her house. Her mother comes to wake her up and finds an old binder of letters from the 1800's, as well as an old porcelain doll. The letter's are from a previous occupant of the house, warning the mother that if she is reading the letters, and noticing supernatural happenings, then the unthinkable has come to pass. The movie then switches to the 1800's, in a village that used to stand around the house, and we hear the story of the Bell Witch.

John Bell is taken to Church court for having stolen a woman's land. The church finds him guilty of charging her too much interest, but let him go because 'the loss of his good name is punishment enough'. The offended woman tells him to enjoy his good health and the health of his family (especially his daughers) while he can. The whole village thinks the woman's a witch, so John Bell is scared.

Soon after that, strange things start happening. John Bell sees a wolf that keeps dissappearing, and his oldest daughter, Betsy Bell, hears noises in her room, like someone's in it. Betsy starts hearing noises more and more often, and had terrible nightmares about a little girl in a red dress, and something evil that always comes into her bedroom after everyone else is asleep...more
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18. Boogeyman 2


I personally think the third part wasn't as good a s this one...

Differing from the original Boogeyman film’s scotophobic plot, Boogeyman 2 focuses on a young woman with a more defined fear; that of the boogeyman himself. The story is about a young woman named Laura Porter with a life-long phobia of a supernatural boogeyman, in this case a demon that lives in her closet and springs out at night to attack her. Trying to face up to her terror and get some help, she voluntarily checks herself into a mental health facility under the care of Dr. Jessica Ryan (Renée O'Connor) with the hope of conquering her overwhelming fears. Nevertheless, she discovers that some things are terrifying for a reason and confronting her demons was not the best course of action because it brought back the titular demon.
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19. The Amityville Horror (2005)

Yep, another horror movie based on actual events...

In 1974, Police recieved a 911 call leading them to the DeFeo house, where Ronald Defeo Jr. killed his entire family. One year later, George and Kathy Lutz move in with their family into the same house, only to stay 28 days. source : ruined endings

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20. The Cave (2005)

Deep in the Romanian forest, a team of scientists stumbles upon the ruins of a 13th century Abbey. On further inspection, they make a startling discovery ? the Abbey is built over the entrance to a giant underground cave system. Local biologists believe the cave could be home to an undiscovered eco-system, so they hire a group of American cave-explorers to help them investigate its depths.

JACK (Cole Hauser) and his brother TYLER (Eddie Cibrian) are thrill-seeking professional cave explorers who run a team of the top divers in the world. They arrive in Romania with all the latest equipment, including a new type of scuba tank allowing a diver to remain submerged for up to 24 hours. The crack unit, which also includes Charlie (Piper Perabo) and Buchanan (Morris Chestnut), immediately begins their exploration. But what they find deep inside the caves is not just a new eco-system, but an entirely new species altogether.
 source : mooviees

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21. The Mist (2007)

A group of people barricades themselves in a market after a mysterious mist appears, with unknown yet lethal creatures inside it. And as time goes by, the frustration, desperation and fear builds up until the people inside the market are just as big a threat to their own survival as the things outside. source : ruined endings

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22. The number 23

I know rite, not exactly his kind of movie genre, a friend actually suggested i watched this back in high school, i wouldn't call this a horror film, but it has a really interesting story behind it. ..

The psychological thriller "The Number 23" stars Jim Carrey as a man whose life unravels after he comes into contact with an obscure book titled The Number 23. As he reads the book, he becomes increasingly convinced that it is based on his own life. His obsession with the number 23 starts to consume him, and he begins to realize the book forecasts far graver consequences for his life than he could have ever imagined. source : mooviees


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23. The midnight meat train

I just recently watched this even though it was released two years ago.

When Leon Kaufman’s (Bradley Cooper) latest body of work – a collection of provocative, nighttime studies of the city and its inhabitants -- earns the struggling photographer interest from prominent art gallerist Susan Hoff (Brooke Shields), she propels him to get grittier and show the darker side of humanity for his upcoming debut at her downtown art space.

Believing he’s finally on track for success, Leon’s obsessive pursuit of dark subject matter leads him into the path of a serial killer, Mahogany (Vinnie Jones), the subway murderer who stalks late-night commuters -- ultimately butchering them in the most gruesome ways imaginable.

With his concerned girlfriend Maya (Leslie Bibb) fearing for his life, Leon’s relentless fascination with Mahogany lures him further and further into the bowels of the subways and ultimately into an abyss of pure evil – inadvertently pulling Maya right along with him.
source : cinemablend


 

24. The Descent

Three friends--Sarah, Beth, and Juno--partake in a white water rapid expedition. The adventure ends safely and happily when the three women reach calmer water and Sarah's husband, Paul, and daughter, Jessica, who wait on the bank of the river. When no one is watching, Paul affectionately helps Juno with her helmet. Sarah leaves with her family, saying she will meet the others at the hotel. On the drive to the hotel, Sarah asks Paul if he is okay; Paul is temporarily distracted and collides head-on with a vehicle transporting copper poles. Both Paul and Jessica are impaled and killed by the poles, which Sarah discovers after waking up alone in a hospital bed. Sarah is haunted by dreams of her daughter blowing out candles on her birthday cake. Sarah reunites with Beth and Juno for a caving expeditin one year later in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina. They are joined by Holly, Juno's Scottish "protege" and sports enthsiast, as well as half-sisters Rebecca, an experienced climber, and Sam, a medical student who studies in America. After spending the night in a cabin, drinking and reminiscing, the women leave to explore a nearby cave (level 2 difficulty). The women head deeper into the cave, crawling through a narrow tunnel in which Sarah is almost trapped. The tunnel caves in behind Sarah, forcing her to abandon one of the group's bags of rope. Frightened and desperate, the group turns to Juno for direction. Juno reveals that she has left the guide book in the car, and Rebecca rejects the reassurance that local authorities will locate them in the event they don't return--Rebecca registered their intended expedition plans with Mountain Rescue, but Juno has deliberately led them to a different cave. When crossing a deep chasm, the women find climbers' equipment left by past explorers. They quickly lose hope of escape, realizing that no explorer has successfully exited the cave because the cave remains unnamed (naming rights typically go to the first successful explorers). The women ultimately discover what has killed all explorers of the cave: an adapted form of cannibalistic human that locates prey (both human and animal) by sound. sorce : ruined endings


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25. Drag me to hell (2009)

Charlotte is a bank employee who is in line for a management post, but her boss says she needs to show she can make tough decisions. When an old gypsy woman comes in and asks for a mortgage extension, she refuses her, even when she begs on her knees. As Charlotte is leaving work, the gypsy woman attacks her in the car park, rips a button off Charlotte's coat, and curses it.

Charlotte starts to experience strange phenomena like freak winds, scary dreams and visions of a goat-like creature. She goes to see a medium who advises her that she is haunted by a lamia and that she has 3 days before it takes her soul. First, she tries (at the medium's advice) sacrificing her pet cat as a substitute for herself, but the strange visions continue and cause her to freak out at dinner with her boyfriend's parents. She then decides to go and try and sort things out with the gypsy, but finds that she has died.

The medium offers to take her to an experienced medium who can help her for $10000. Charlotte pawns everything she owns but cannot raise the money, but her boyfriend says he trusts her and pays the money. The medium manages to communicate with the lamia (who tells her it did not want the cat), but lose control of it. The experienced medium dies without getting rid of the lamia, and the original medium says that the last resort is for her to give the button to someone else - but whoever it is will die by the lamia in her place.

Charlotte tries to find someone to give the button to but she cannot face giving it to anyone, not even her business rival. She then decides she could give it back to the gypsy woman, and checks with the medium that gifts can be given to the dead (they can). She puts the button in an envelope and has her boyfriend drive her to the graveyard. On the way, they nearly hit an old man, but her boyfriend stops just in time, scattering the papers in the car.

Charlotte takes the envelope, digs up the gypsy woman's grave, and gives her back the envelope and button. The following day, she gets her promotion and buys herself a new coat, then meets her boyfriend at the station to go away with him. But, then he offers her the envelope with the button in! When the papers got mixed up, she grabbed the wrong envelope, and gave the gypsy an envelope with a collectable coin in. Charlotte still owns the button! Backing away from her boyfriend, she falls onto the train tracks and is hit by a train, and the lamia drags her through the gravel to hell. source : ruined endings




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