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- The very beginning of the movie after the car accident, when a sobbing Sarah runs into Beth's arms and demands to know where her daughter is, only for Beth to say that's she's died, and her father (Sarah’s husband) died in the crash as well. Sarah collapses and screams in grief while Juno cries and watches on.
- Unusually for a horror movie, most of the deaths are Tear Jerkers. Most obviously Beth's well-acted I Cannot Self-Terminate scene, but the sisters (one of whom was The Cutie) trying so hard to protect each other, one throughout the film and one Taking a Level in Badass just before she died, and both failing, is pretty upsetting too.
- Oh dear lord, the second ending!
. While the US ending concludes on a more ominous note, the UK ending is just horribly tragic. Like the first, Sarah awakens from her Hope Spot hallucination and finds herself back in the cave as the sounds of the crawlers draw nearer. Utterly defeated, she sees her smiling daughter sitting happily next to a lit birthday cake, waiting for her mother to join her. She looks back at her, a smile forming on her face as if she has finally found peace. Then, the field of view widens to reveal Sarah further hallucinating and staring at her burning torch, oblivious to the crawlers approach off screen. Sob! - David Julyan's score, when it's not being spine-chilling, is depressing as hell, underlying the tragedy of the whole situation. The main theme in particular is downright heartbreaking.
- Overall, Juno could be a very tragic character, all things considered. It's implied her and Sarah's husband were having an affair, but the reactions to his death and how she says to Beth "we all lost something in that crash" suggests there was genuine feelings there, so she did lose the man she loved. She also made a very stupid decision, and has to face the consequences, also knowing that if they even make it out alive, her friends will hate her forever. She tries so hard to save Holly, killing Beth was a complete accident that she looks horrified at, and she is desperate to make sure Sarah makes it out alive. While everything in the film is her fault, you can't feel at least a little sorry for her.
