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Author Topic: Best "shocker" movie endings Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-01-2010 01:27 PM                        Let's list our favorite movies with shocker endings, but I would suggest if you want to describe the ending itself, tag it with spoiler tags so people who haven't seen the movie don't have it ruined for them. My favorite: "Carrie" (the original of course) Spoiler Alert - Click to Toggle The one girl who was nice to Carrie throughout the movie arrives at her imploded house to place a bouquet, and juse when she's laying it down, Carrie's hand comes bursting out of the ground and grabs the nice girl's hand. With a great "sting" music track of course. I remember running this show. Our theatre has a balcony and every night when that ending happened, the whole booth vibrated from people jumping back in their seats. One of the best horror-movie endings ever, IMHO.  |  IP: Logged Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-01-2010 03:36 PM                        The final swordfight in Kurosawa's Sanjuro. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYbi7gKKvOo&feature=related I remember going to a Yojimbo/Sanjuro double feature at the Biograph in DC on New Year's day. The house was full. Half of the audience had clearly seen the movie before, because you could feel them tense up as the scene approached. The other half practically jumped at the moment. Legend is the two actors were not aware of what the effect would be either, and from the looks on their faces, the legend is true.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 08-01-2010 04:40 PM                        Was everyone shocked at how blatantly fake that looked?  |  IP: Logged Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-01-2010 04:59 PM                        Pre-CGI, Joe. Pre-CGI  |  IP: Logged Dan Lyons Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 698 From: Seal Beach, CA Registered: Sep 2002 posted 08-01-2010 06:47 PM                     OMFG that youtube clip is long... I'm still waiting for something to happen. I think MOTHRA is going to swoop down any minute!  |  IP: Logged Joe Tommassello Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 547 From: Coatesville, PA, USA Registered: Jan 2008 posted 08-02-2010 10:42 AM                  Frailty  |  IP: Logged Pravin Ratnam Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 844 From: Atlanta, GA,USA Registered: Sep 2002 posted 08-02-2010 08:12 PM                     Last American Virgin. I loved the ending. Cant disclose it as I do not know how to use a spoiler tag. I agree with Frailty.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-02-2010 08:41 PM                        Quick tip: How to use spoiler tags: Type the word "spoiler" but enclosed in [ ] brackets instead of quotes. Then type your desired text. Then type the world "/spoiler" enclosed in brackets. Everything between the bracketed tags will be hidden.  |  IP: Logged Pravin Ratnam Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 844 From: Atlanta, GA,USA Registered: Sep 2002 posted 08-02-2010 09:56 PM                     Thanks Mike. here goes the spoiler for Last American Virgin Spoiler Alert - Click to Toggle The good guy doesn't get the girl after all at the end. The flow of the movie has you thinking it is going for a corny ending, then BAM. you see the girl hugging and kissing her ex who dumped her ass when she got pregnant. The good guy drives away in tears. Heh heh.  |  IP: Logged Robert Crabtree Film Handler Posts: 91 From: Largo, FL Registered: May 2008 posted 08-03-2010 02:38 PM                     Well, when it first came out, The Crying Game had that big surprise element, though I think that by now, the cat is out of the bag on that big twist.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-03-2010 03:03 PM                        The Sixth Sense is another fave of mine. Probably my favorite non-Die Hard Bruce Willis movie. I guess everyone knows the "secret" in that one too.  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-03-2010 03:12 PM                     Red October: "Andre... You've lost ANOTHER submarine?"  |  IP: Logged Mark Lensenmayer Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1605 From: Upper Arlington, OH Registered: Sep 1999 posted 08-03-2010 09:10 PM                     The very end of YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES is quite a surprise.  |  IP: Logged Kenneth Wuepper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1026 From: Saginaw, MI, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 08-03-2010 09:48 PM                     I remember that the audience for the 9 o'clock show was unable to enter the auditorium during the last reel of the 7 o'clock showing of "Psycho"! "No one will be seated during the last 10 minutes of this film." That was in the paper and on posters in the lobby. Those waiting in the lobby heard the screams from the house and became even more interested in the film. Psycho was not one of Alfred's cliff hanging endings. KEN  |  IP: Logged

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