Hey Pandas, What Was The Most Shocking Movie Ending? (Closed)

Got to be The Mist, surely. A real horror movie ending - even Stephen King said it was better than the ending he wrote himself.

Monty Python And The Holy Grail... I was not expecting that 😅

Two classics from the 70s: Planet of the Apes and Soylent Green. Charlton Heston got us good, both times!

The Sixth Sense .. M Night Shyamalan

"Arlington Road" - the best movie nobody knows or remembers; if you don't know what to watch this week, make it this one

Also "Frailty" from and with Bill Paxton
...I know, some might be more shocking, but were listed already...

"Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry" with Peter Fonda. When after they finally succeed in eluding the police and are safely across the state line the criminal's car is hit by a train. Totally unexpected.

"Von Ryan's Express". Colonel Ryan. brilliantly played by Frank Sinatra, succeeds in leading his men on a desperate escape from Nazi occupied Italy. They hijack a train and are headed for the Swiss border with the Nazis in hot pursuit. Running to reboard the train after they had to stop to clear the tracks, Colonel Ryan is shot and kill to the horror of his men. It's not the same ending as the book but it's the one Frank insisted on before agreeing to star in the movie.

Annihilation with Natalie Portman. Not that unexpected, but scary as hell

American Graffiti. Great film with a seriously bleak ending. Alt answer, Ex Machina.

The village. I thought it was such a good ending. My sister hated the whole movie for it.

"Ghost Stories". Best twist ending of a movie I've seen in recent years. A paranormal investigator researching three cases his mentor could not prove false starts seeing things that gradually expose a shocking discovery about himself.
Also, the open ending to Christopher Nolan's "Inception".

Babe! That'll do pig.

Million Dollar Baby. Cried my eyes out 😭

Jacobs Ladder.

The ending of the first Saw movie

I have to put "The Usual Suspect" and "Sleepaway Camp" on this list. No one could see those endings coming and my jaw was on the floor with both.

Easy Rider.

My grandma had The Watcher in the Woods on VHS and my sister and I watched it repeatedly as kids. I rented it as an adult to watch with my daughter and it had a completely different and totally wild ending! Turns out there were two versions. If you like creepy and weird, check it out.

The Others. When I first watched the movie I wasn't sure where the story was going. I did start suspecting everyone was ghosts or the family was being visited by ghosts. Wasn't expecting the ending to be what it was. It wasn't satisfying, either. I felt the children should have been allowed to move on and whatever happens to the mother happens.

The Sixth Sense. No, I did not expect that ending.

The Barbie movie. I have mixed feelings about that whole movie. I didn't expect that ending.

On a more heartwarming note, when I first saw 50 First Dates. Who knew that was a possibility for someone with that type of memory loss. Imagine the shock of waking up pregnant and not remembering yesterday, and the days and months, years before that.

The Crying Game.
That was a complete twist to any movie ending I’d seen before. Very well done. I loved how Miramax asked the audience not to reveal the secret regarding Dil’s gender identity.