Dark Endings

[dean]

Watching the different endings of Swordfish on the DVD made me appreciate the ending more, knowing they could have gone with the more happy ending, which doesn't quite suit.

Also I wish the ending for War of the Worlds was more somber and not so happy, but that's no big news to everyone here.

As for another bleak ending,  I liked Arlington Road.  Very nicely done bleak ending.

[ulthar]

dean Wrote:
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> As for another bleak ending,  I liked Arlington
> Road.  Very nicely done bleak ending.
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I watched this one (again) just the other day.  I agree; nicely done ending.

[Cullen]

I never thought the end of "The Thing" as hopeless or dark.  I just assumed neither men were actually Things, and that, though they died, they died in the course of defeating a terrible foe.

Just sitting here thinking about it, a lot of Carpenter's horror films end  with the protagonists winning a  battle, but not the war.  That's probably one of the reasons that I like his stuff.  Not that I kick at an all-out "happy" ending, mind you...

[Vermin Boy]

I always thought the original ending of Natural Born Killers, where Mickey and Mallory are killed by the guy who helped them break out, worked much better than the one where they get away scot-free. Though I suppose whether either one is a "happy" ending is open to interpretation.

[Zapranoth]

I liked the ending to The Thing very much... two men huddling down in the cold, watching it all end around them.  

Oh, the ending to Brazil.  You HAD to bring that one up.  I watched that movie and said to myself, "nope.  Never, ever watching another Terry Gilliam movie again."  And then I watched 12 Monkeys.

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[odinn7]

Digging this up because I knew there was a movie I was overlooking that needed to be on this list.

Session 9

If that ending's not dark, I don't know what is.

[Mr_Vindictive]

Odinn,

I didn't even think about the ending of Session 9 when reading this thread.

Thanks for ruining the rest of my day by bringing it up....

[odinn7]

How could that ruin your day? The movie was great, you said so yourself. It also was most certainly a dark ending.

[Mr_Vindictive]

Odinn,

Yes, it's a great movie.  I was saying that the ending is dark enough to ruin my day by thinking about it.  Truly disturbing stuff.

[odinn7]

Gotcha. It was quite a moving ending the way it all came together.

[C.B.W.]

How about David Cronenberg's Rabid? Frank Moore really sells the near-to-last scene emotionally, and it's pretty affecting the first time you see it. Then to see the lifeless body being gnawed on by a stray dog before being pitched into a garbage truck...there's a dark ending for ya.

[Anonymous User]

The Crazies - they had several chances to stop the bio weapon but fate conspired against them.

[Archivist]

You could say that Soylent Green has a dark ending, what with the protagonist being taken away to the factory.

And a complete waste of time and money movie (mistakenly bought on DVD at near full price, lord I was an idiot, no, I haven't let this one go yet!) is The Butterfly Effect.  (Spoiler)  In the end, it's as if Ashton Kutcher's character never lived.  Sure, everyone else got to live happily ever after, but only at the 'sacrifice' of himself.  Then again, the disappearance of ol' Ashton might be a happy ending after all. ;-)

Mickey Rourke's Angel Heart had a nice, dark ending.  When you finally work out who he was searching for, it all comes together.

I consider Cube to have a dark ending.  Sure, the 'developmentally delayed' guy gets out, but the Cube keeps running and running.  I might have to watch it again, I've got it here somewhere...

I've never heard of Session 9.  Should I see it?

~Archivist~

[odinn7]

"I've never heard of Session 9. Should I see it?"

Without a doubt. If you like horror that's more than just gore, see it.

[akiratubo]

"On Her Majesty's Secret Service" comes to mind.