HORROR TEN SPOT: Top 10 WTF Endings

1. American Psycho

This ending always makes me think harder than I did when I first watched the film, Memento. So, did he do it, or didn’t he? At the end of the movie, we discover that Jared Leto’s character is still missing, and is most likely dead. Did Patrick Bateman kill him and the other victims, or was it all in his head? Maybe, he killed some and fantasized the rest.

Maybe he did in fact kill everyone, yet no one cared or no one thought a spoiled and rich white guy could ever commit such heinous crimes, and it pissed him off that no one acknowledged his actions. Damn it! I’m confusing myself yet again! (I’m going to go cross eyed if I keep this up.)Well at least one thing was certain. He was indeed a complete PSYCHO.

2. Return to Horror High

For a cheesy slasher/comedy, this movie sure was hard to follow. (After George Clooney gets killed off, I pretty much was lost.) Especially the ending. So the Principal was the killer? Although he was posing as the black janitor? Then you find out that lots of the “killings” were a publicity stunt for the movie making it harder to figure out if the killings were really real or not.

Then you find out that the killer is still alive after being stabbed in the heart, and shot by a weird and horny cop played by Marsha Brady from The Brady Bunch. The ending made no sense at all!!! Don’t even try to understand it or it will give you a migraine.

3. Silent Hill

Since there are a lot of you out there who haven’t seen this movie, and are waiting to watch it on DVD, I will not reveal too much. All I will say is the ending didn’t make any sense to me. It was sad, anti-climatic and very depressing. Is that what happened in the game? God, I hope not.

If it was, I’d be beyond pissed for playing it for so many hours for a conclusion like that. I’d really like to talk about it, but I don’t want to ruin the ending for the rest of you that haven’t seen it. (At least the rest of you that have know what I’m talking about.) Don’t let the ending stop you from seeing it though if you haven’t seen the movie. It’s a must-see for horror fans.

4. May

The final few frames of the film are truly creepy. After she makes her “friend” from all her friends/acquaintances body parts, and takes out her own eyeball (YEESH!) for the final touches, I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw that thing’s hand move. What was that? Was it her imagination thinking that her “doll” was alive? Or was it really alive? All I can say to that is, CREEPY!

5. American Crime

This movie had a really cool premise, yet it failed to resolve anything at the end. All of the main characters die. Bodies disappear, and the killer is never revealed. That sucks! All though, as bad as the ending was, I really do recommend you watching this just to see the purposely bad acting from Cary Elwes! ( By the way for people that saw this flick…I thought the killers were Rachel Leigh Cook and the cameraman. Hopefully I’m not way off with anyone else’s theories.)

6. The Blair Witch Project

It’s pretty clear as to what happened to Mike and Heather at the end of this movie, but the horror fiend in me wants to know how. How did they die? Was it really the Blair Witch who killed them, or was it that other kook they were talking about? I think it’s pretty obvious that my morbid curiosity and overly wild imagination got the best of me when watching this mysterious and creepy ending.

7. Hotel

Wow, I thought David Lynch’s films were hard to follow. You can believe me that the words, “What the f*ck?” escaped my mouth quite a few times during my viewing of this film. The ending was not really surprising. I was expecting a messed up ending, because the whole movie made little to no sense whatsoever.

Cannibals or vampires popping out of nowhere and eating Salma Hayek and David Schwimmer? Can someone explain that? The director (in the film) waking up from a coma and telling Lucy Liu that his mind was able to watch everybody everywhere during his comatose state? Huh? Can someone explain that to me as well? Anyone who can make me understand this entire movie deserves a f*cking medal.

8. I Still Know What You Did Last Summer

The ending of this sequel was much like it’s predecessor. Basically, Julie James meeting her “demise” at the hands of the killer fisherman, Ben Willis. Since the last scene in the first film was a dream, I just assumed that it would have been a dream in this one too.

But, since the actors had enough sense not to come back for a third installment, that screws up my theory. Did she really get pulled under the bed, or was it a not so clever dream sequence ending? Hmm….

9. Dawn of the Dead (2004)

For the few of you that left the theatres or turned off your DVD player as soon the credits rolled, then you my friends got the optimistic ending of this film. The rest of you who watched past the credits, saw the “Blair Witch” like ending that probably made you think about the outcome of the survivors.

So did they all die? (minus for the dog of course) I basically assumed they did, but if Ving Rhames’ character is back in the upcoming Day of the Dead remake, then what really happened when the survivors got on that zombie infested island? I guess we’re all going to have wait until Day of the Dead comes out to find out. Argh.

10. Valentine

This one is the last one on the list, because after watching the ending again, I got it. The audience is left thinking that Dorothy, (a.k.a. “Spielberg’s stepdaughter) is the killer. Yet at the end, we see David Boreanaz’s nose dripping blood indicating that he was the little boy that the girls had tormented as a child, and he in fact must be the killer. So were there two killers? Well, because of the “brilliant” ads for this movie pointing out that David Boreanaz was the killer, (and watching the film, you’re clearly not supposed to know that until the ending).

I just figured it was him that did it all along, and he must have knocked that girl out, put her in the costume, and shoved her down the stairs, making it appear that she was chasing Kate. (Marley Shelton) Hmm…I don’t know why that was so hard to figure out the first time, but believe me the rest of the audience was just as confused as I was while watching it in theatres.