Top 20 Movies Ruined By Disturbing Endings

0:00 your turn Truth or Dare welcome to watch Mojo and today we're counting down our picks for the top 20 movies ruined by disturbing endings I can't decide what's worse stealing my story or ruining the ending for this list we're looking at films whose Downer conclusions undermine some of their better aspects the movies don't necessarily have to be otherwise good as long as the endings stand out in a negative way we'll also be including films even if their endings are faithful to their Source material obviously there will be some disturbing spoilers which ending rubbed you the wrong way let us know in the comments number 20 glass we so wanted the concluding chapter in M Night

0:46 shyamalan's unbreakable Trilogy to live up to its crossover potential and while some of the interactions between the Superhuman characters have their moments fans were largely left scratching their heads following a rather anti-climactic finale the enemy becomes the Ally because of the hero es magic said so good subverting the notion that a superhero movie has to lead up to an epic set piece glass instead has its three leads die in unceremonious fashion perhaps none more so than David Dunn who is literally drowned in a puddle of water tell me the truth did I almost convince you you were an ordinary Man the movie tries to end on an optimistic note as the existence of

1:31 superheroes is made public but we can't help but feel it's undercut by its underwhelming and rather dour Climax and this is number 19 47 meters down the simple setup of divers having to survive a pack of hungry sharks after their cage plummets them to the bottom of the ocean has the makings for a Brisk Creature Feature but unfortunately 47 meters down tries to throw in too many narrative curveballs when it matters most after numerous close calls it seems like sisters Lisa and Kate have finally made it back to the boat after a thrilling

2:17 Ascension it turns out Lisa has been hallucinating and is still at the bottom of the ocean not only that but she realizes Kate has been killed by the Sharks a while ago we've made it you're hallucinating [Laughter] just as quickly as it took to explain this Lisa is rescued by the Coast Guard making us question this whole narrative back and forth number 18 Serenity no not the movie adaptation of firefly this one is way way worse pity is worse than a fist in the face before being thrown out the window by a ludicrous twist Serenity does at least have some atmosphere and

3:03 Intrigue about it the bulk of the plot sees Matthew McConaughey's fishing boat captain contemplate murdering his ex-wife's cool new husband Frank but as the walls of his reality begin to crumble bakerdale eventually realizes that he's merely part of a computer simulation created by his son Patrick in the real world you see someone made a world on their computer so they could play games [Music] but his favorite has always been catch the tuna Baker going through with killing Frank is the motivation Patrick needs to kill his abusive stepfather in the real world Patrick is charged with murder and we're left asking what the heck did we just watch it

3:53 number 17 Truth or Dare Truth or Dare is about as convincing as you would expect from a horror movie based on the titular game but the ending still manages to sink to new lows the basic premise is this a group of college kids get roped into playing a supernatural game of Truth or Dare whereby You have to either tell horrible truths commit dangerous dares or die because the evil game is Twisted apparently it leads to their deaths eventually but players can extend the time between their turns by inviting other players to join Carter was the only one who could stop this so now the game won't end until all the players are dead and your turns next

4:40 unless you find some new friends to play with rather than roll the dice again Olivia instead ends the movie by uploading a video whereby she invites potentially the whole world to play this feels edgy for edginess's sake I'm so sorry but I have to ask you truth or dare foreign the sun this film tangentially related to Florian Zeller's previous film The Father tackles some very serious issues however it's been criticized for doing so through melodrama at the heart of the story is Peter and his son Nicholas the latter of whom struggles greatly with depression eventually Nicholas is placed in an inpatient treatment facility for his own safety and makes an impassioned

5:26 plea for release towards the end of the film I think your parents have heard your arguments Nicholas please now I'm going to have to ask you to make a decision now his parents relent even against Dr wishes and as soon as they return home Nicholas tragically takes his own life it's far from the most tactful presentation for sensitive viewers and the final scene where the film briefly tricks us into thinking Nicholas survived doesn't help matters we're thinking about Nicholas should have paid more attention to him number 15 The Entity this horror film supposedly based on true events distinguishes Itself by going further than most in the Jara wood the trouble

6:13 is the ending manages to go too far all right faster I've finished running plagued by a malicious Supernatural Force Carla is finally able to prove her sanity and the existence of the invisible entity only the person with the ability to officially validate her claims goes into denial you did see it didn't you something I I saw something the film ends with Carla moving away with her family but not before the entity greets her by saying [Music] followed by a weirdly vulgar British slang word I think you know what it is

6:58 it's a decidedly dour downbeat to end on with the entity's colorful language eliciting little more than confusion number 14 the number 23 now here's a movie that makes the wrong call at every turn with its twist being at the center of it all some choices are easy some aren't those are the really important ones the ones that Define us as people Jim Carrey stars as Walter Sparrow a man who becomes obsessed with a book that may hold the secrets to a murderer wrapped up in this mystery is the number 23 which Walter can't help but see everywhere my birthday 2-3 driver's license social security number everything I was born at 11 12 p.m 11 plus 12. it's like it's

7:44 imitating my life at no point is the film less convincing than the third act wherein Walter overcomes his Amnesia and remembers that he wrote the book and committed the murder um who wrote the book wrote it the number 23 takes the well-worn Trope of an unreliable protagonist and stretches it Beyond its limits if it was less concerned with simply being dark it might have offered a halfway satisfying solution number 13 The Box the financially desperate Norma and Arthur are presented with an option by a mysterious man if they press a button they'll receive one million dollars but a stranger will die what if it's someone's baby

8:29 [Music] since her name is [Music] crook do you know rather than lean into the psychological angle of the plot the movie eventually takes a turn into the realm of Science Fiction in the end the mysterious man Reveals His assistance have blinded and deafened their son and offers them another Choice keep the money and live with their son's condition or Arthur can kill Norma and their son's senses will be restored we get the latter but we feel like the movie should have taken option C that is if option C is anything else water's upstairs he's okay they assure me you and your son be taken care of that number 12 the woman in black for what it's worth the woman in black is actually a creepy little

9:15 haunting film with plenty of atmosphere to spare but we're still not sold on the dour ending throughout the film lawyer Arthur Kipps handles an estate that turns out to be haunted by the spirit of a woman who lost her young son the titular woman in black gets her revenge by taking the lives of the children in the nearby Village she makes us do it she makes us they took her boy away so now she takes us realizing she's going after his son Joseph next Arthur attempts to save him however after Joseph wanders onto train tracks both he and Arthur are killed Daddy

10:06 while Arthur is reunited with his deceased wife in the afterlife we can't help but wish things had turned out better in the end number 11 The Boy in the Striped Pajamas this one is incredibly heavy so get ready the film is set in Nazi occupied Poland and follows the friendship between two boys Bruno is the son of an SS officer and shmuel is a Jewish prisoner at a nearby extermination camp we're not supposed to be friends women to be enemies did you know that the boy's ignorance of the real Horrors going on reaches a critical point at the end when Bruno is mistaken for a prisoner and rounded up with the rest of them here until the rain stops Bruno schmuel and countless others are tragically

10:52 executed and the film ends with Bruno's family utterly devastated while the film has garnered mixed reactions detractors of the ending have criticized it for being contrived and sympathizing with Nazis either way it's definitely a gut punch we wish we could forget number 10. Secret Window the only thing that matters is the ending certain endings are so cliche their inclusion nearly always detracts from the rest of the story a tired twist and murder mysteries is revealing the protagonist to be the killer usually with multiple personalities thrown in for good measure in secret window Johnny Depp plays Mort a writer who suffers a mental break after learning about his wife's Affair throughout the film Mort is tormented by a person named shooter before the third act reveals the two to be one and the

11:38 same [Music] number nine Sucker Punch of course it's me it's me it's the only way this is Zack Snyder's film is a grim psychological drama about abuse that also loves to drop its attractive cast in video game scenarios devoid of consequence despite being set in a horrifying mental institute fond of lobotomizing its patients baby doll's explosive dream sequences are pure escapism as a result sucker Punch's tone is all over the place ultimately baby doll is lobotomized to allow one of the other captives to escape it's an ending that may have actually worked had Sucker Punch focused more on the psychological storyline rather than constantly

12:24 stopping dead to show glorified music videos number eight knock knock oh my God starring Keanu Reeves knock knock's married protagonist engages in a touch of infidelity before the two determined women torture him as punishment for succumbing to Temptation for the most part knock plays it relatively straight but the over-the-top ending jumps right over satire into parody territory including a no moment capable of making Anakin's Skywalker blush [Music] after the protagonist accidentally likes his own assault video on Facebook the girls gleefully escape to presumably torture another day at the very least the movie that inspired knock knock had

13:10 the decency to hit the villains with a truck number seven Paranormal Activity the ghost Dimension the sixth entry in the franchise the ghost Dimension finally answers a couple of long-standing questions as it so happens some things are better left a mystery long story short occult needs the blood of a girl named Leela to revive a demon called Toby and the villains succeed while killing the rest of the child's family since most entries in the series conclude with a win for the bad guys the ghost Dimensions shocking ending happens to be the most predictable outcome possible along with an absence of scares the ghost Dimensions theatrical ending represents a franchise that never should have been running out of steam what happened number six The Descent Part Two

13:58 come on come on following six women who enter a cave occupied by cannibalistic humans 2005's The Descent is a fantastic horror movie with a seemingly happy ending that winds up being the exact opposite despite obviously lacking the element of surprise key in making the original film's climax so effective the sequel could not resist closing with another Switcheroo the descends protagonist sacrifices themselves to allow another woman to escape the cave unfortunately a rarely seen minor character shows up to ensure nobody survives it's almost as if the film suddenly remembers it needs a crushing ending and opts for the flimsiest solution possible number five remember me I mean why aren't you

14:43 rip it in the hands of the right director and writer any subject matter can work that being said adopting a real-life tragedy to artificially bloat a story's self-importance is a recipe for disaster for approximately 95 of its run time remember me is a Meandering drama about pretty people grieving over senseless acts of violence then the 911 attacks happened while the protagonist is in the World Trade Center for some reason remember me turns one of America's worst moments into a poorly timed twist ending that no one asked for number four splice oh strange twisted and often great splice sees a pair of scientists fusing human and animal DNA to create a female hybrid

15:30 called dren as Elsa's own DNA is used the engineer is basically dren's mother meanwhile the other scientist begins to sleep with the hybrid creature following a thoughtful exploration of this unorthodox love triangle splice foregoes atmosphere in favor of a purely insane climax after becoming male dren forcibly impregnates Elsa who opts to keep the baby for money anything interesting sply says about genetic engineering is overshadowed by the overly grotesque third act nobody would blame you if you didn't do this number three high tension oh starting out as a relatively grounded slasher film about Marie a teenager

16:16 desperate to protect her friend from a deranged serial killer high tension ultimately exposes the protagonist as a psychopath suffering from dissociative identity disorder framed as Marie recounting her version of events while in a mental institute high tension asks audiences to believe all these violent murders were committed by a petite teenager rather than a Brawny guy even if the ending's inconsistencies can be waved away as the ravings of an unreliable narrator this does not mean logic can be thrown out the window otherwise everything prior to the twist is rendered irrelevant number two the life of David Gale focusing on a philosophy Professor sentenced to death after being wrongly convicted of murder and assault the life of David Gale's twist ending is hardly to blame for all of the film's problems that being said it definitely does not help in an

17:03 attempt to discredit Capital Punishment David Gale frames himself for the murder of a close personal friend who actually took their own life with a video of the real death surface saying after the protagonist is executed consequently the life of David Gale takes the criminal justice system Kate Winslet's investigative reporter and audiences on a wild and profoundly ill-advised ride before we continue be sure to subscribe to our Channel and ring the bell to get notified about our latest videos you have the option to be notified for occasional videos or all of them if you're on your phone make sure you go into your settings and switch on notifications number one pay it forward that's me [Music] and that's three people seeking to make the

17:50 world a better place a young boy named Trevor creates a Pay It Forward system where favors are reimbursed by the benefactor helping out three other people despite touching upon serious themes Pay It Forward is an uplifting family drama that highlights the good inside most humans but the film cannot help delivering one final and unnecessary gut punch Trevor shockingly dies while defending a friend from a group of mean kids an ending so out of nowhere and blatantly manipulative it cheapens the rest of the movie did you enjoy this video check out these other clips from WatchMojo and be sure to subscribe and ring the bell to be notified about our latest videos [Music]