The Ten Best Horror Movie Endings
5. FRAILTY (2002) – A psychotic father believes God is telling him to kill demons. He enlists his young boys to help him, using tools from the Lord (a shovel and other common shed tool items). His eldest son tries to stop him. The twist? The father was telling the truth.
4. MAY (2002) – A lonely young woman is a social outcast due to a traumatic childhood. May (Angela Bettis) idolizes specific parts of the people she meets and begins harvesting them for their limbs to create a perfect friend and mate. When she completes her human masterpiece, she becomes distraught that he can’t see her. Finishing the creature with her own eye no less, bloodied no eyed May curls next to her creation. The assembled body of dead parts reaches over and strokes May’s face for one of the most creepified endings ever.
3. THE MIST (2007) – Five people are the final survivors escaping a chaos of crazy monsters and insane people. Their vehicle finally runs out of gas buried in the thick foggy mist. They can hear their inevitable tortured doom from creatures lurking just beyond eye sight. They decide the best option is to use the revolver to take their own lives. The problem is there are only four bullets but five people. Thomas Jane is our heroic leader who takes it upon himself to shoot the other four (including his son). Exhausted and broken he steps out of the car to let whatever danger beyond consume him when a tank emerges followed by safety in the form of military and a caravan of rescued humans as the mist is clearly subsiding.
2. PSYCHO (1960) – The twist ending that started it all. I can only imagine what it would be like to have the fresh discovery that Norman’s mother who was thought to be doing the killing the entire time is actually a rotting corpse. Norman has been psychotically channeling his mother dressing in her clothes and wig killing any victims that might threaten her little boy (himself). An appropriate title and if not for the unnecessary explanation at the end, PSYCHO would be number one.
1. THE SIXTH SENSE (1999) – Some may think this is an overplayed option but there is no denying the impact this film had. “I see dead people.” A tag so terrifying yet so clearly telegraphing the ending without anyone the wiser. A brilliant concept that for those with the privilege of seeing it before knowing about the “twist ending” was glorious. A triumphant picture that has influence countless others finds Bruce Willis as a child psychiatrist helping out an Oscar nominated performance by Haley Joes Osmett who sees the dead. Guess who’s been dead the entire time and we were clueless.