Films That Just Strangely Stop

InformationGeek · July 14, 2010, 02:23:02 PM

Movies have good, bad, and or odd endings. Sometimes, however, there are movies that just end all of a sudden when there is still plenty of things left to talk about or wrap up. These movies just come to a blinding hault and leave the audience confused, angry, or just stunned.

The topic was inspired just recently after my dad and me finished watching Blood Waters of Dr. Z, aka. Zaat! (The MST3K verison of course). The ending just left us baffled and confused about what just happened and the fact that the movie just sort of peters out. It's like they ran out of script or things to explain in the film (Which I believe).

Other things I feel are good examples of that are Barb Wire, Cool as Ice (Both endings just sort of appear out of nowhere), Rock a Doodle (The movie fades out the main character singing, not telling us if the boy is dreaming or is really experiencing what is happening to him), Clones of Bruce Lee (The police take away the evil doctor and the film just cuts to a blacks screen), and Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly (Yeah, a video game, but it ends pretty abrutly when there are still things left to dicuss).

So, my question to all of you, what other movies have you seen where the film just sort of peters out or ends pretty suddenly?

indianasmith · July 14, 2010, 02:49:53 PM

The Grandaddy of all sudden endings . . .

MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL!

Did they find the Grail? Did the nasty French knights ever get their proper comeuppance? Did the Communist peasants ever realize what a repressive failure socialism is? Did they bring out ALL the dead? Was Sir Galahad the Pure ever allowed to face "just a little" temptation? Did the Knights ever get their second shrubbery?

Man, they really left us hanging!

Flick James · July 14, 2010, 03:45:02 PM

Birdie (1984)

If you're allowing tv shows, how about the ending of The Sopranos?

Nukie 2 · July 14, 2010, 04:39:51 PM

"Bog"
So the town's people have been trying to kill the murderous swamp monster by blowing it up, or poisoning it. None of the methods work, and so they taunt the monster out of the water, and inexplicably some mysterious flaming car smashes the monster against a tree. The monster bursts aflame and then the movie ends.

InformationGeek · July 14, 2010, 04:47:20 PM

Quote from: Flick James on July 14, 2010, 03:45:02 PM
If you're allowing tv shows, how about the ending of The Sopranos?

While this topic is more towards films, yeah, TV shows can be as long as they end very abruptly. The Sopranos is a real good choice for this.

Mr. DS · July 14, 2010, 07:25:09 PM

Ultracop 2000 though I'm not sure if that film ever really began for me.

zombie no.one · July 14, 2010, 08:02:49 PM

Colossus: The Forbin Project

no actual ending or resolution at all

WildHoosier09 · July 14, 2010, 09:21:26 PM

Halloween III: Season of the Witch
ends with the main character calling TV stations trying to convince them to stop playing the flashing pumpkin which will cause all the children who bought halloween masks to die. Ends with him begging the third station to stop playing the commercial as the pumpkin flashes faster and louder. Ends with that annoying freaking theme song which I was barely able to hear over my flashing-light induced epilepsy. Never find out if he was able to stop the commercial if all the kids died.

Rev. Powell · July 14, 2010, 09:44:43 PM

MONSTER A GO-GO. Nevermind, this movie didn't happen. Go back about your business.

Monster Jungle X-Ray · July 14, 2010, 10:13:09 PM

No Country For Old Men has a rather abrupt ending, but I think I like it better that way.

vukxfiles · July 15, 2010, 12:11:43 AM

I think Eyes Wide Shut has a sudden ending, and it left some things unexplained, or missing from the storyline.

Trevor · July 15, 2010, 01:19:10 AM

Andrew Davis' The Package: two sudden gunshots, black screen, credits roll.

claws · July 15, 2010, 04:29:00 AM

Most notorious: the ending in City Of The Living Dead (1980).

zombie no.one · July 15, 2010, 08:09:15 AM

Quote from: Monster Jungle X-Ray on July 14, 2010, 10:13:09 PM
No Country For Old Men has a rather abrupt ending, but I think I like it better that way.

good call. haven't read the book, perhaps the book ends like that too, maybe.

THE ITALIAN JOB - the end is not exactly the place I thought it would end...a bit of a cliffhanger in fact

Ozzymandias · July 15, 2010, 08:20:58 PM

Ozzymandias speaks: Hell Is For Heroes. McQueen dies and then Fess Parker, Bob Newhart and Bobby Darin charge a battery as the credits roll. We don't really know what happened. I think Newhart said on David Letterman's show that the studio pulled the plug because it was over budget.

Ozzymandias has spoken!!!

Films That Just Strangely Stop

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