Why it works: You had to know this movie wasn't going to end well from the start. More unsettling than most full-length horror films, these credits effectively introduce us to John Doe's psyche as we watch his hands obsessively flip, scribble, and slice through a series of notebooks to disturbing effect (that remix of Nine Inch Nails' "Closer" definitely helps).

P.S. – If you're seeing shades of this sequence all over the intro to "American Horror Story," good eye and ear. That too is the handiwork of Kyle Cooper, the titles designer of ALL YOUR NIGHTMARES.