Sad horror movie moments

[Ryantherebel]

 We all know horror films are supposed to be scary but there are some moments in these films that manage to pull at our heart strings. My choices are (warning here be spoilers):

The Insect Politics speech in "The Fly"

Bub finding Logan dead in "Day of the Dead"

The Final moments in "An American Werewolf in London"


Your choices?

[Allhallowsday]

I think the endings of all these are sad:
FRANKENSTEIN (1931)
THE INVISIBLE MAN (1933)
BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935)
THE WOLFMAN (1941)
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1956 and 1978) both films are SAD and SCARY !!

[LilCerberus]

The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992)
Considering the circumstances which drove Rebbecca De Mornay's character to go psycho in the first place, I couldn't help but feel some empathy for her, and I was grossly disappointed  by the cookie cutter slasher flick style finale.

[horseshoe crab]

The Final moments in "An American Werewolf in London"

Great choice.

I don't think it gets its due, but the 2004 Dawn of the Dead managed to be rather affecting. The entire beginning feels genuinely overwhelming and hopeless and the scenes between Sarah Polley and Jake Weber's characters are shockingly un-cheesy, especially for a horror film.

I'd like to say the same for Shaun of the Dead but I felt that went a bit too over-the-top and really should've known better.

[RCMerchant]

The  or

I think the endings of all these are sad:
FRANKENSTEIN (1931)

BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN

I would also add-
.In SON of FRANKENSTEIN when the Monster finds his freind Ygor dead..and lets out a loud moan of greif...which echos through the castle.
.KING KONG (1933) Kongs end at the top of the Empire state building.
.the ending of the EXORCIST when Father Damien is reciving the last rites.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dytJJrpxwDw

[Doc Daneeka]

The end of HOUSE II: THE SECOND STORY (Well, it was a bit before the end)

[Mr. DS]

When Roger turns into a zombie and gets capped in Dawn Of The Dead.

[Dennis]

Them, when James Whitmore's character is killed rescueing the 2 boys, is kind of sad but the saddest one for me has always been King Kong, the original, and especially the Peter Jackson remake, my wife won't even watch the end of this one, it makes her cry.

[telegonus]

I find most of Val Lewton's pictures sad or saddish to begin with; an air of tragedy often prevails. The Cat People and its sequel; I Walked With a Zombie, which has Tom Conway talking about the sadness of St. Sebastian even before we arrive there (!); The Leopard Man, in which some likeable people are killed off and ends on a dirge-like note; The Body Snatcher's crippled girl, Dr. MacFarland's tragic double life; Isle of the Dead, which informs us, as if we need telling, that plagues are not happy events; and Bedlam, with good people often sent to the madhouse, the bad ones running the world. Melancholy is never far off in Lewton's films, which tend to emphasize the tragedy of the horrors they depict rather than their grisly aspects.

Another sad one: The Wolf Man. Larry Talbot may be the saddest man in the history of horror, or classic horror anyway. He goes from one film to another in search of either a cure or death. Chaney, Jr. was the perfect actor for this part, as he seemed to carry a deep sadness around with him wherever he went, whatever the film. There's no one sad moment I can recall in the first film in the franchise that sums up Larry's dilemma, as he seems a marked man as soon as he turns up at his father's house in Wales.

[Joe]

im gonna nominate Reservoir Dogs, mabey not a horror but it is a b movie. also the Descent, the original ending for it anyway.

[JaseSF]

I'm always moved  and deeply saddened when Godzilla  and Dr. Serizawa meet their fate in the original Gojira or Godzilla, King of the Monsters. The music is very powerful stuff throughout that who sequence.

[D-Man]

I always thought the endings of Basket Case and Maniac were kinda sad in their own ways.   

[Ryantherebel]

I just thought of some more:
Frank Davies confronting his child in the sewers in the climax of "It's Alive".

The final moments of "Bubba Ho-Tep.

[Shadow]

I cried a river of tears at the end of Godzilla (aka GINO), though it was more from the feeling of utter heartbreak and disappointment.

Seriously, I'll second the King Kong and original Godzilla moments.

[Pilgermann]

One fellow I used to work with said that his mother took him to see Jaws when he was little and he cried when the shark got blown up.  But he was kind of weird.

Frankenstein is sad for sure.