Most Disturbing Movie Endings You've Ever Seen- Page 3

[best12bars]

Posted: 2/26/14 at 12:58pm

It Changes from Snoopy, Come Home was devastating as a kid, so I agree there, but it wasn't the ending or anywhere near it, right?

Such a haunting song by the Sherman brothers.

I need to see the movie again, but I'm pretty sure it all works out and Snoopy comes home to Charlie Brown ... and leaves that poor dying girl in the hospital.

*cries*

[tazber]

Posted: 2/26/14 at 1:09pm

Yea, there are no winners in that one.

[Marianne2]

Posted: 2/26/14 at 1:21pm

Any movie where an animal was the main point and dies is disturbing. Why do they want to crush our souls like that?

If it didn't end up with a happy ending, I would have put Scruffy on this list too. But, that's very disturbing up until the end.

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 2/26/14 at 1:30pm

I need to see the movie again, but I'm pretty sure it all works out and Snoopy comes home to Charlie Brown ... and leaves that poor dying girl in the hospital.

STOP! I. JUST. CAN'T.

*SOB*

[tazber]

Posted: 2/26/14 at 1:32pm

I agree.

The Fox and the Hound is unique imo. No one dies.

It's just these two adorable little animals that become best friends before they are taught that one hunts the other.

Then they get separated and when they meet up again it's as predator and prey.

Granted, the hound spares the life of the fox, but they aren't able to overcome their nature or nurtured traits and thus remain "enemies".

I mean WTF is that supposed to teach?

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 2/26/14 at 1:35pm

WHY CANT THEY JUST BE FRIENDS?!?!?!

[strummergirl]

Posted: 2/26/14 at 1:35pm

Although it differs from the book's ending Brighton Rock's ending in the 1947 adaptation is disturbing and very clever in dealing with the fact that despite not being able 'to go there', there is this added tragic texture with the new ending.

Saw Rosemary's Baby as a teen and just had to lay down afterward with where that went.

Art house films can generally be incredibly good and bad in WTF levels of disturbing. Best one for me was Catherine Breillat's Fat Girl and Michael Haneke's The Piano Teacher.

The original version of The Wicker Man.

Bunny Lake is Missing

Joseph Losey's The Servant- Which is one of the more revelatory films I have discovered in the last year

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

Black Christmas

Salo

Disturbing but in a cheeky way that is still a powerful image: All About Eve

A lot of Fassbinder films. Goodness.

And then an ending so depressing that it shook me out of depression spell: Turtles Can Fly

Nashville is both disturbing, powerful, sad, moving, and I'll always love that Barbara Harris song.

[east side story]

Posted: 2/26/14 at 1:54pm

Boys Don't Cry was the first film to ever give me a movie hangover. I could not get that ending out of my mind.

Blair Witch Project. Looking back now, the whole shebang is a joke. But the first I saw that film, I was scared ****less. Such a simple, yet brilliant cash cow.

And the original Black Christmas? FANTASTIC. Updated On: 2/26/14 at 01:54 PM

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 2/26/14 at 1:58pm

From start to finish, I still consider BLAIR WITCH to be the worst film I've ever seen.

[~~tiny3~~]

Posted: 2/26/14 at 2:02pm

"The Conversation".
Probably my most fave film of all time..an almost obscure, but brilliant Coppola flick. That ending and that music haunts me still. I still don't REALLY understand ALL of it, even after 40 yrs,

[Marianne2]

Posted: 2/26/14 at 2:11pm

Yikes, reading the plot of All Dogs Go To Heaven on wikipedia is scaring me. Who thought that was a good idea for a children's movie? No matter what, the dog is dead.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 2/26/14 at 2:19pm

Re The Fox and the Hound: the ending of the book is even more disturbing. Copper relentlessly pursues Tod for two days until Tod finally drops dead of exhaustion. He is then skinned and hung on the wall. Later, Copper's master decides to go into a nursing home. Before he leaves, he takes a shotgun, covers Copper's eyes and it's implied that he shoots him dead. The last image is of Copper licking his hand trustingly. :-/

[tazber]

Posted: 2/26/14 at 2:23pm

W
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Are you serious?

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 2/26/14 at 2:24pm

Jesus F*cking Christ. That's HIDEOUS!

I remember when my mother thought Watership Down would be a fun movie about bunnies to watch.

[tazber]

Posted: 2/26/14 at 2:26pm

yea, that one is right up there with Wizards for family entertainment.

[Eris0303]

Posted: 2/26/14 at 2:29pm

But in the book Tod and Copper were never friends and neither is what you'd call a "sympathetic character".

[dreaming]

Posted: 2/26/14 at 2:31pm

For me it's likely "Fatal Attraction" although "Bambi" gave me lots of nightmares as a kid.

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 2/26/14 at 2:31pm

I remember when my mother thought Watership Down would be a fun movie about bunnies to watch.

That is also how I wound up seeing Watership Down. Luckily I was a bit young (and stupid) to understand any of what was going on; I just knew I did not like it.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 2/26/14 at 2:34pm

The ending to the current STRANGER BY THE LAKE is, shall we say, unconventional, to say the least.

[Eris0303]

Posted: 2/26/14 at 2:40pm

I think we all saw "Watership Down" because our parents saw it at the video store and went "Oh, a cartoon about bunnies? This'll work".

[StageManager2]

Posted: 2/26/14 at 2:41pm

Eris0303, in the book the real friendship was between Copper and The Master. Copper enjoys being with his master and just wants to please him. He feels no vengeance for Chief's death or hatred for his prey. Scenting prey makes him useful to his master, catching prey makes his master happy, and he does it to bond with him. Likewise, the Master appreciates Copper and forms a strong bond with the hound. That's why the book's ending is so sad. They're both getting on in years and the Master is no longer able to care for Copper.

[Jane2]

Posted: 2/26/14 at 2:41pm

"A lot of Fassbinder films. Goodness. "

remind me of one of the disturbing endings, I can't remember.

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 2/26/14 at 2:44pm

I agree about the 1978 remake of BODY SNATCHERS.

On another note, I realize the movie seems corny now that we're all grown up and sophisticated, but when I was 12 and watching it on a B&W TV, the "real" ending of THE BAD SEED was as chilling as it got. (I'm talking about the ending from the play when we realize that little Patty is still alive, not the added-on Hayes Code ending where she is struck by lightning. Even when I first saw the film that extra scene was so preposterous it didn't seem part of the actual movie.)

[strummergirl]

Posted: 2/26/14 at 3:28pm

Jane2,

In a Year of 13 Moons
Fox and His Friends
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
The Third Generation
Veronika Voss
The Marriage of Maria Braun

Meanwhile, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant get points for really elevating an ending I saw coming with not at all foreseen dark humor that makes it one of my favorites of his.

Those are off the top of my head.

[tazber]

Posted: 2/26/14 at 3:43pm

And of course Querelle.


(not the ending, just adding to strummer's list)

Updated On: 2/26/14 at 03:43 PM