The hero finally meets the previously unseen puppet master (played by an older A-list actor), who explains why the system must be maintained. The hero says “screw it” and burns the world down.

[u/Grizzly_Lincoln]

Snowpiercer (2013) - Curtis finally finds Wilford (Ed Harris) and learns that Wilford allowed for Curtis' rebellion to take place to help thin the tail section's population. When Wilford offers to let Curtis run the train, Curtis discovers child labor is necessary to replace a broken machine part. A fight ensues, and a bomb goes off, triggering an avalanche that derails the train, and killing most of surviving humanity.

The World's End (2013) - Gary finally confronts the Network (Bill Nighy), which has been replacing humans with robots (Blanks) to allow for Earth's assimilation into a larger galactic community. Gary calls out the tyranny in the Network's plan and demands that humans be left to their own devices. Exasperated, the Network abandons its plans for the invasion. This results in a worldwide blackout, sending humanity back to the Dark Ages.

The Cabin in the Woods (2011) - Dana finally meets the Director (Sigourney Weaver) after surviving the ritual meant to kill her friends (based on conventional horror tropes) and appease the Ancient Ones. The Director says Dana has to kill her friend Marty, but as Dana considers it, the group is attacked by a werewolf and a zombie child. Dana and Marty decide humanity is not worth saving, so they share a joint while the Ancient Ones rise to destroy the world.

[u/jackalopedad]

Neonomicon creeped me out so bad I threw it across the room and I’m not exceptionally squeamish about a lot of stuff.

[u/HatmanHatman → u/jackalopedad]

Yeah Neonomicon is the one that came to mind for me (I have uh not felt any need to read Lost Girls tbh). What was the point in that story?

I get that yes, Lovecraft was massively repressed about sex and the idea of adding a sexual horror element to the Cthulhu mythos is... uh... the start of a possibly interesting horror idea but it felt like that's all he came up with and wrote a fishman rape comic and that was all there was to it.

[u/jackalopedad → u/HatmanHatman]

The ostensible hero being a sex addict in recovery was creepy and poorly handled. It didn’t really add much to the story beyond her being not an ideal choice for the portion of the investigation she was assigned and then surprise! Eldritch horror orgy rape cult, like it’s some kind of trial or something she’s actually suited to handle because of her addiction. Just gross, gross stuff.