Throughout cinema for the past 40 years we've seen alot of films that have had some strange ending to film that have had good emotional ending, but what about the films that you never saw coming.
The one with the most shocking and most screwed up ending that leave you with a chill or your jaw just hitting the floor. Well here the top ten film with the most shocking ending that most would agree were the most shocking ending in a film.
10. SHUTTER ISLAND
Martin Scorsese's adaptation of the noir novel of the same name in a psychological film leads us down a twisted path at an asylum in the Northeast. As we believe we are following Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo on the hunt for an escaped patient in to this labyrinthine plot, we soon realize not only is DiCaprio's character the escaped inmate.
which everyone in the story is actually a doctor or a figment of his insanity. Daniels/Laeddis actually murdered his wife and is the person they have been hunting all along.
9. SAW
Before this franchise descended into a mockery of itself with 7 films, the SAW series started as a small horror film set almost entirely in a single room with two men trying to determine who would live and who would die in a sick twist game. while this would have made a decent film on it's own as a single twilight horror style film, the twist that the Jigsaw Killer was actually laying in the middle of the room as a "DEAD BODY" between them the whole time was absolute genius writing which caught everyone off guard leave everyone gobsmacked with a shocking ending
8. BURIED
Ryan Reynolds career has featured some off the wall choices like "voices" many other films, but this 2010 thriller puts the focus on his acting ability as a man buried alive in a coffin slowly filling with sand.
The film features many voices, one of whom is searching for Reynolds' Paul Conroy and assures him they rescued a man in a similar situation weeks before. As the film comes to a close and the rescuers get close to Paul's coffin, they reveal that it is the man "rescued" weeks before. The downer and one hell of a gut punch to the audience is that his character isnt the one getting rescued.
7. The DivideFilm staring Michael Biehn set in a situation where someone has attacked the city, group of people are force to take shelter in a nuclear bunker. The sick twist thing about this film is that over time food was becoming less as the group to lose their mind paranoia set in, one by one they go complete mad as they start to turn on one another.
But this is where the shocking and twisted ending come in as one of the try to escape the nuclear bunker only to find that the world has been complete destroyed by nuclear war leaving the audience in shock that there is no escape.
6. Drag me to Hell
All though the film was pretty much explainable young bank accountant name Christine reject a Jipsey woman plead to save her house due to to many bank loans, the woman places a curse on Christine which end up being a pretty messed up nightmare to get rid of the curse before it too late.
Although the ending was a little predictable as she falls on the train tracks hell opens up watch her flesh burn off her face iss a truly haunting imagine that sticks with you.
5. (John Carpenter's original) The fog
Now most of us that are horror fan should of come across this film at some point in there lives and watched this film, story of the Elizabeth Dane who made a deal with the town fork who were lure to the death the town stolen the gold as a fog role in.
Several hundred years later the soul of the Elizabeth Dane return in a strange fog killing although they come in to contact with, as a group of town people try to defend off the ghostly ghouls the priest hand back to the gold to the ghosts giving the audience a sense thats it over as the ghosts and fog dispear.
But as the priest look back the leader of the Elizabeth Dane is stood in front of the priest just as the credit roles a sword strike the priest down, leaving the audience with a shocking ending.
4. Se7en
Psychological crime thriller starring Brad Pitt and Morgan Freemen are thrust into a what looked like a normal homicidal case actually turn in to a serial killer hunt as a nut job religion killer is going around killing a select few people over the 7 deadly sins.
The most shocking apart of this film not that most of this film is pretty much shocking ,this scene audience never saw coming was at the end when the audience is subject to the ramble of a serial killer kneeing in front of brad Pitt characters a strange package arrive which leave the audience shock as in side the box was the the head of brad Pitt characters wife. Leaving the audience in complete shock.
3. Death watch
In 1917, in the Western front, a group of survivors of the British Company Y reach the most forward German trench in a foggy night as they capture a German soldier. The German soldier that starts ranting that evil is in the trench which was forcing the soldiers to kill each other and asks them to leave the place. Soon after it was only private Charlie Shakespeare listens and helps this prisoner,
Soon after this strange things started happen as one by one the British Soldiers were drop like fly it because a battle against an unseen supernatural forces. What shocking about this film is the audience probably never saw coming, the only survivor in that trench was German solider that no one expect him to actually be the evil supernatural force that was lure solider to there deaths but what more shocking is it let Charlie go free for his kindness.
Were left with the lone German solider waiting for another group which turn up camera pan on the German face he look up and grins (screen goes black)
2. The Shinning
Signing a contract, Jack Torrance, a normal writer and former teacher agrees to take care of a hotel which has a long, violent past that puts everyone in the hotel in a nervous situation. While Jack slowly gets more violent and angry of his life, his son, Danny, tries to use a special talent, the "Shining", to inform the people outside about whatever that is going on in the hotel.
Now most everyone would say that the shocking ending to this film after Jack descended in to madness and at the end of the film he meets his demise in the freezing cold weather, this is in fact not the shocking ending of this film.
The shocking end comes as the camera pans down a lobby toward a group of photo on the wall, the photo show party's taken many year before jack came to the hotel, as the camera pans closer to one photo we see jack standing in the very photo.
Yet this couldn't be possible as the photo was take 70 years ago leaving the audience shock and some saying that he part o the hotel ghost now.
The Most SHOCKING AND HEART BREAKING ENDING OF ALL TIME.
1. The Mist.
Everyone thinks of it as a harmless lightning storm. When Dave Drayton notices a strange mist on the lake, he thinks nothing of it. When he, his son, Billy Drayton, and his neighbor Brent Norton travel to the supermarket, the unthinkable happens. On their way to the market, they see the army, firefighters, and the police heading toward the mist.
When he sees this Brent mentions something about "Project Arrowhead", a secret military project that no one knows about. As they are shopping, they see three soldiers walk in, pick up a few things, then head toward the mist. All eighty of the store's shoppers have no clue what is going on until an old man runs in the market with a bloody nose and declares "Something in the mist!" He tells them to close the door.
About five seconds after they close the door, the entire store shakes, as though it has been lifted several feet above the ground. When David is asked to check on the generator, he finds the loading dock door being pushed on by something outside. Then Dave hears a groan. He asks three people to come with him.
When Norm the bag-boy volunteers to go out, he is dragged away by a creature with large squid-like tentacles that have mouths, teeth, and arms. After Dave and the other three fight off the tentacles, they warn everyone in the store what is out there.
Upon hearing this, Mrs. Carmody exclaims that it is the End Time and that God is punishing them. People don't believe it, but finally Mrs. Carmody has almost everyone in the store on her side. Does 'Project Arrowhead' have anything to do with this? Will Dave Drayton, his son, and his friends make it out alive as they make a last stand against this destruction? Or will they be taken by the demon-like creatures of 'The Mist'?
The ending of the film what seem to be the only 5 survivors left of the town try to escape from deadly creature only to find that the car had run out of fuel there is no escape, this is where the shocking end comes as they believe there is no escape commit suicide leaving only David Drayton (Tom jane) and his son.
Which left the audience stunned and shocked as David killed his son but as he went to kill himself the gun was out of bullets, audience thinking David would be killed by a creature moment after a large group of soldiers came in to a clear leaving the audience shock as if they just held on for just 5 mins more they would have been rescued were left with David screaming in pain that he killed his son for nothing.
These are just some of the most shocking ending to a film, what you favorite shocking ending to any film give us a comment below.
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Saturday, 26 August 2017
why is the horror genre in decline
Over the past 40 to 50 year's alot of us have seen quite alot of horror film, iver on the big screen or on the small screen. Clearly from the the 40's horror films we're in decline because of the great recession which didnt help the industry, but then world war 2 happen which further push horror genre out of Hollywood.
This was mainly due to a lot of people saw enough horror in the real world to actually watch the horror on the big screen, but horror film clearly made a big come back from the 60 to 80s in a big way
"For example" : Friday the 13th's Jason vorhees hacking and slashing his way through campers to Freddy Kruger invading the dreams with a nightmares to kill them in their sleep.
This was enough to terrifie young and old viewers across the world for years as most cinema goers have seen in shock and ore, this is because of the director / writers with imagination brought us some of the most terrifying creatures and monster to the screen.
With an honorable mention of "Clive barkers" "Hell Raiser" with Pin head was enough to put chills down you're spine for any audience. These classic went on to be the biggest horror icon's of the generation but since the 90's the Biggest Question in the film industry is why "Horror" films are in decline? Well this is mainly due to a number of factor that are killing the horror - genre.
One is being the certification of the film which seem to have become the normal with (MPAA PG13) - (BBFC-12A) thinking that a teen style horror film is gonna scare the audience. Sadly this is not the case as (PG13- 12A) horror restricts the art form of the film, this tone down concept to the point you can't use true natural horror to frighten the audience is an example of this.
What i mean by this is the fact is most Hollywood director use the jump scare moments like sound or load bangs to make the audience jump at the right moments, this isnt horror; this is an amateur thing to do in a horror film to give cheap scare show that the director has no clue what they are doing.
Although some horror are subject-able like gory horror, this is not scary as this is meant to shock you more than scare, it's the slasher and psychological horror that are meant to scare
"Good example" : House of haunted hill, shutter island, poltergeist, the conjuring etc great examples of psychological horror that dont use jump scares to frighten the audience.
Bad examples: "Mama", "Ouija", "it follows", and many other horror film in this generation that have failed to scare the audience, this is the one of the main reason.
The other Reason stem from wrong timing of the year which yes we can all agree on mainly always having a horror film around the time of the month's January or February, which everyone knows is the two month of the year where the film dumping are for crappy movies goes.
The other will probley piss off the comic book fans but fuck it who cares im gonna say it anyway, the reason why i calling in the comic book genre as well on this is because i have notice over the past few years that comic book movies are staggering other films.
What i mean by this is the fact the comic book genre is taking over cinema which over shadows other film's as well because all people want to see now is comic book film all the time, as most people can't seem to appreciate a movie out side of the comic book genre which i have noticed.
This is other reason why the Horror genre is dying because Hollywood think the 12A- PG13 will bring in more money because they feel a 18 cert film wont make money, yet Dead pool was 18 cert made money proving that audience would watch a 18 cert film if it was made right.
For those that say that not every film has to be an 18 certification sadly horror film do or whats the point in making a horror film, Horror needs the 18 certification so it can go all out in the psychological concept to truly get under the skin of the audience without that you don't have a horror you have a twilight film for teenagers.
Hollywood inst just to blame here it's also from the IPF industry (Independent film) also, two many sub-genres like zombies and found footage adopted by horror film director on a low budget have become over used, which sadly is killing horror genre as well because with there scary camera and lack of imagination really doesn't help.
Simple put Horror in 2017 is simple just not frightening anymore, compared to the horror from the 60's to 80's horror back then horror was horror, now its become this complete washed down industry which sadly is why this horror genre is in decline.
Personally i think the horror genre need to bring back the old school time of horror, forget about the 80s, stop trying to copy whats done before and truly make a dark sinister chill to the bone horror film that the audience will love.
What do you think as an audience do you feel the horror genre should just die out or get a complete make over? Let us know in the comment section what you think.
By Movie Knights
This was mainly due to a lot of people saw enough horror in the real world to actually watch the horror on the big screen, but horror film clearly made a big come back from the 60 to 80s in a big way
"For example" : Friday the 13th's Jason vorhees hacking and slashing his way through campers to Freddy Kruger invading the dreams with a nightmares to kill them in their sleep.
This was enough to terrifie young and old viewers across the world for years as most cinema goers have seen in shock and ore, this is because of the director / writers with imagination brought us some of the most terrifying creatures and monster to the screen.
With an honorable mention of "Clive barkers" "Hell Raiser" with Pin head was enough to put chills down you're spine for any audience. These classic went on to be the biggest horror icon's of the generation but since the 90's the Biggest Question in the film industry is why "Horror" films are in decline? Well this is mainly due to a number of factor that are killing the horror - genre.
One is being the certification of the film which seem to have become the normal with (MPAA PG13) - (BBFC-12A) thinking that a teen style horror film is gonna scare the audience. Sadly this is not the case as (PG13- 12A) horror restricts the art form of the film, this tone down concept to the point you can't use true natural horror to frighten the audience is an example of this.
What i mean by this is the fact is most Hollywood director use the jump scare moments like sound or load bangs to make the audience jump at the right moments, this isnt horror; this is an amateur thing to do in a horror film to give cheap scare show that the director has no clue what they are doing.
Although some horror are subject-able like gory horror, this is not scary as this is meant to shock you more than scare, it's the slasher and psychological horror that are meant to scare
"Good example" : House of haunted hill, shutter island, poltergeist, the conjuring etc great examples of psychological horror that dont use jump scares to frighten the audience.
Bad examples: "Mama", "Ouija", "it follows", and many other horror film in this generation that have failed to scare the audience, this is the one of the main reason.
The other Reason stem from wrong timing of the year which yes we can all agree on mainly always having a horror film around the time of the month's January or February, which everyone knows is the two month of the year where the film dumping are for crappy movies goes.
The other will probley piss off the comic book fans but fuck it who cares im gonna say it anyway, the reason why i calling in the comic book genre as well on this is because i have notice over the past few years that comic book movies are staggering other films.
What i mean by this is the fact the comic book genre is taking over cinema which over shadows other film's as well because all people want to see now is comic book film all the time, as most people can't seem to appreciate a movie out side of the comic book genre which i have noticed.
This is other reason why the Horror genre is dying because Hollywood think the 12A- PG13 will bring in more money because they feel a 18 cert film wont make money, yet Dead pool was 18 cert made money proving that audience would watch a 18 cert film if it was made right.
For those that say that not every film has to be an 18 certification sadly horror film do or whats the point in making a horror film, Horror needs the 18 certification so it can go all out in the psychological concept to truly get under the skin of the audience without that you don't have a horror you have a twilight film for teenagers.
Hollywood inst just to blame here it's also from the IPF industry (Independent film) also, two many sub-genres like zombies and found footage adopted by horror film director on a low budget have become over used, which sadly is killing horror genre as well because with there scary camera and lack of imagination really doesn't help.
Simple put Horror in 2017 is simple just not frightening anymore, compared to the horror from the 60's to 80's horror back then horror was horror, now its become this complete washed down industry which sadly is why this horror genre is in decline.
Personally i think the horror genre need to bring back the old school time of horror, forget about the 80s, stop trying to copy whats done before and truly make a dark sinister chill to the bone horror film that the audience will love.
What do you think as an audience do you feel the horror genre should just die out or get a complete make over? Let us know in the comment section what you think.
By Movie Knights
Film's : Original Vs Reboots
In this article i'm gonna try to give a in depth look at these reboots vs the original film, try to explain why some fail where some actually work, so here a few reboots from their originals.
- Evil dead vs Evil dead (Reboot)
Here is something that should've been felt well alone special when "Evil dead" is such a big classic in the horror genre, with its comedic moments with "Bruce Campbell" playing the unwittingly boyfriend who unleashes the an ancient evil force from the book of the dead; which take his girlfriend and his friends which become this funny but disturbing blood feast battle good vs evil film.
Unfortunately which most would disagree with me on the 2013 reboot of evil dead does try its best to come up with an original story while still slightly copying what's been done before, this i feel was it down fall has it didn't quite feel like it could make a sequel out of sadly, maybe this film should have been give a new twist instead of copying.
- Poltergeist vs Poltergeist (Remake)
Now this original film special for me when i first watched this film was one of the most creepiest films I've ever seen, even though it was give a PG (parental guidance) rating which i still to this day think was a mistake because poltergeist though it's classed as a fantasy film is still a psychological horror film that wasn't under any circumstances a family film.
Sadly after 3 films the child actress "Heather O'Rourke" who play the little girl Carol Anna sadly past away with a rare child bowel disease, which soon after this came the famous curse theory because they used real skeletons on set several actor and actress died curse or strange coincidence it was a little weird.
The remake of the original Poltergeist didn't do to badly but again with a Remake although it's more like a sequel as in the film it does mention about a house disappearing as a joke at the diner table, state that the film is set a few years on after this event. But sadly this film does try to copy what's been done before this is why it flop in the cinema, although it was a enjoyable film to watch as it had it moments and we see what's on the other side. But sadly this didn't save it.
- Ghostbusters vs Ghostbusters (2016 Reboot)
Yes i know this is beating a old horse but lets face it this was a pretty big mistake by sony to give this film a reboot instead of just giving us a third film, but why the original worked was because of comedic time and off script acting which actually help the film a lot.
This gave the original a balanced of a dark creepy film with comedic moments that breaks up the doom and gloom of the film, which made it a classic cult movie of the 80's.
Sadly for the Ghostbusters 2016 which has been met with hostile criticism which let's be honest was a pile of trash although some would disagree on that, did quite work out for sony as it took a major hit in losses in box office. Mainly due to the fact Amy pascal and Paul feig turning ghostbusters in to a SNL (Saturday night live) Film which was its downfall along with other issue.
- Magnificent seven vs Magnificent seven (Reboot)
Here is a rare example of a film that's been rebooted from the 1960's version starring "Yul Brynner", to the 2016 version starring "Denzel Washington" that has actually been a good remake. Both have similar traits where a group of corrupt government official use their official title to run a town with an iron fits, the town folk hire a us marshal to take them down which is hard pressed to tell which one was better as they are both good in their own right.
This is because the reboot version mixed up the film a little and didn't try to copy what was done before, which is why this reboot is a rare reboot that works.
- Teenage mutant ninja turtle vs Teenage Mutant Ninja turtles (Reboot)
This is probably the most hate reboot in the history of cinema along with transformers but growing up on the original Turtles movies it didn't really bother me that much as it did most others, from the originals the first two films we're good, but sadly the third film wasn't that great which is why i agree this need a reboot.
My first choice wouldn't of been "Megan Fox" playing April o'Neil but she didn't do to bad in the reboot, despite people actually hate on the films even the sequel out of the shadows bring in DC Arrow's "Stephen Amell" playing Casey Jones was good but was it really a good a reboot i'l let you decide that as it had mixed view.
- Nightmare on Elm st vs Nightmare on Elm st (Reboot)
Now this one is a pretty easy choice to make which one was the best of the two version, which no offence to Jackie Earle Haley who's a great actor the script for the new "Nightmare on elm st" waste that great. Which is why the remake failed to make that impact plus it did take the story a little too dark on the child moltser / serial killer side of Freddy Krueger character which i don't think was it downfall.
I believe the down fall just came from poor concept writing, where this film could've used the sleep deprivation better with a more creepier tone with a lot more Freddy krueger scene maybe it might of worked. As is stand the original "Nightmare on elm st "still stand the best classic icon film of it generation, should of seen the return of "Robert Englund" as Freddy in a more darker film it could've been a success plus fan-base would have loved his return.
- Robocop vs Robocop (Reboot)
Here a film that could've of been good as its original yet it just fails in compression, to factor that bring down the reboot certification 12A vs the R-rated version of Robocop. The 12A PG13 as i've said in a previous article i wrote of the decline of horror films, its important not to tone down a character if they need that R-rating to actually work for it concept which sadly they did here.
Not that the reboot wasn't good it had it entertainment value but without that R-rating the character didn't have the impact, plus changing the suit of Armour to look black was another reason this film failed because believe it or not the new design actually looked better in the classic silver Armour.
This sadly is why the original film will always been the best of the two version.
- Friday the 13th vs Friday the 13th (Reboot)
What is it about this iconic serial killer that Hollywood can seem to get right? It one of the most easiest character to give a good concept script for. We have had over ten films of the original Friday the 13th film including Freddy vs Jason spin off film, they attempted a reboot of the film which wasn't that bad but still missing something this character so needed which sadly didn't do so well in box office.
Original films will always stand the test of time will always been great classic films, but for a reboot ya their attempt was great but not good enough, but i would if I was a film writer capitalize on the supernatural side of Jason voorhees using the mist teleportation effects like a demon in a dark creepy but blood thirst film with more than just a few campers.
- Terminator vs Terminator Genisys (Reboot)
Where do i start with this? Terminator first came out this was one of the biggest franchise movies to hit the cinema, spawn 4 films and a reboot, although the third film was a bit of a let down and some would say Terminator salvation was just the franchise killer.
Although i would tend to agree that although salvation was a good film the ending of that film did kind of kill anymore film from being done, so technically Terminator and Terminator 2 Judgement Day T-1000 Edition were really the only two film in the franchise that were a massive success.
In light of salvation this franchise was reboot with the return of Arnold playing the T-101 killing machine, only in Genisys play a Terminator father figure for a more hardened Sarah Connor with a mixed concept of Terminator and Terminator 2 might of been its downfall.
Plus with sky-net actually killing john Connor as well by turning him into a an advanced Terminator which was supposed to lead the future of mankind against the machines, kind of throw the franchise off level to the point you couldn't really take it anywhere. So again the original wins out of this one.
Honorable mention of Reboot / Remake to come:
- Ace Ventura Akira
- Big Trouble In Little China The Black Hole
- Blade spawn
- Bloodsport Blue Thunder
- Death Wish
These are just a few of reboots about Around, what reboot do you think was better than its original or do you think the original was better? Let us know in the comments below.
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