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

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*

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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.

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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?

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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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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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.

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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.)

And of course Querelle.


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

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