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I never thought the Shining’s ending was that confusing. The hotel essentially takes Jack Torrance’s soul, and just like Lloyd, the previous caretaker who also butchered his family, he becomes a permanent fixture in the haunted hotel’s history. I know Stephen King wasn’t crazy about Kubrick’s adaptation, but I personally felt like the films ending was much more eerie than the book’s. Just my opinion, though.
I have less problem with the c by anger to the book than what Stanley Kubrick did to Shelley Duvall. He couldn't imagine an actress PRETENDING to be traumatized, so he ACTUALLY traumatized her.
Steven King is not known for his endings, even he self admits he cannot write a fulfilling ending (relatable) in most of his works which is why i always wonder why he hates the ending so much in the film lol
In Krampus, Max doesn't hate Christmas, rather he loses his spirit after fighting with his family and exclaiming that he hates them all and later shredding his letter to Santa, thus cementing his loss of Christmas spirit and the "true meaning"
Let’s not forget that the Rossi files website no longer exists. Imagine watching that movie in 2022 not knowing the end and just being like WHAT and then going to the website and being like WHAT again
When Bret Easton Ellis wrote American Psycho he did it as a scathing review of the decadence of the 80s Yuppies. He didnt waste a word letting the reader know his absolute disdain for the excesses and vapid minds choked in coke and worshipping money. It was one of the funniest books Ive ever read.
It’s an utter family favourite! Me and my siblings quote from it regularly. Unfortunately my friends at the time it came out didn’t get it. I no longer see those friends
The real messed up thing is they made a sequel to American Psycho, which tells the audience that Bateman's murders were real, despite them obviously being only in his head, and the author confirmed that the sequel was crap because Bateman never actually killed anyone.
As far as The Shining, what makes sense to me is that Jack is now trapped in the Hotel and the photo is a group shot of every spirit that is trapped as well. So when he dies and his spirit becomes bound to the location, he joins the shot.
As a Hungarian Krampus is a huge part of our Christmas celebrations/culture I felt like the movie had a huge missed opportunity when it came to how Krampus really is, there's no wishes, hes seen as evil santa. In his stories he's said to kidnap naughty children, carrying them in a large burlap sack before taking them home to boil and eat them alive. He's a demonic force that's isn't summoned or gives wishes liek a genie, in my opinion that movie almost made fun of Krampus' lore/origins
On the contrary, compared to every other Krampus movie (and yes, I’ve just discovered that there are other Krampus movies), this one was the most lovingly rendered. It’s like if the makers of Silent Hill made a Christmas special. Every other Krampus flick makes him a generic slasher movie villain, a mix of Bigfoot and Jason Voorhees with little to no Christmas imagery. I’m surprised you’re not more offended by those films.
Evil dead doesnt belong on this list if youre using an after credit scene for the entry. The actual ending of Mia surviving all of that and still seemingly being possessed (or was that an alternate ending?) would be more appropriate WTF moment
@@skirnireta1003 ok so it might be an alternate ending like i thought. I still think the movie shouldnt be on this list since theyre using an after credit scene and not the actual ending
Seeing that movie in a theater entirely ruined that ending for me because everyone just started laughing, which is the appropriate response to something so nonsensical and goofy.
@@zachiswayposi1it wasn’t because it was goofy, it was because it was so surprising and we laugh when something is difficult to wrap our minds around. Important to know how to perceive
@@Jayariee As someone who was actually in the theater when this happened and therefore knew exactly what was going on, completely unlike yourself, I assure that I know why we were all laughing. People have tried to make this argument before and they were wrong then too. The ending to the Mist was the punchline that turned the entire movie into a joke.
Did you even watch Krampus? Max doesn't hate christmas season. He loved it so much he drop kicked a kid for telling younger children Santa isn't real and at the dinner table when his sweet letter to Santa is being read by his bratty cousins (with a group of adults around that could've stopped the cousins) he just gives up on Christmas every being the way it used to be before. He then rips up his letter to Santa and throws it out the window summoning Krampus.
I'm telling you that being doomed to have to spend the rest of your days in a perpetual Christmas day with not only your immediate family but extended family members as well is absolutely my idea of hell !!
Throughout American Psycho the Wall Street men are constantly mistaken for each other - a joke about how everyone in the movie's general shallow wall street are the same and essentially interchangeable - for "Paul Allen" being spotted means nothing.
What's funny about Drag Me to Hell is that the MC made the right choice. If she had given the lady the loan, she wouldn't have been able to pay it back since she died however many days later.
I think you wrongly interpreted the ending of American Psycho. It's not about if he imagined it or if it happened or not, rather that society doesn't care. People have no clue who is who and they don't want to know, it's all about keeping apparences. That lawyer is saying: "I don't want to get involved and I didn't hear that discussion"
It's always been weird to me that so many people take the lawyer at face value when he claims that Paul Allen is in London when the movie had a previous scene where no one could actually identify Paul Allen in the restaurant. I mean the lawyer thought Bateman was someone else.
@@sslssg247 yes. I also had the impression that maybe the lawyer knows it's Bateman. Obviously he knows about the call (because it would be hard for him to dismiss getting such a wacky voice message) and basically saying to leave it at is, nobody cares, and let him off the hook because he doesn't want to get involved.
From what I have heard the ending of the book is meant to be ambiguous about whether or not Bateman committed the crimes he thinks he did. And the movie does a decent job of leaving it ambiguous as well. I feel like the ending is could be "Bateman imagined he did all those things bc he wanted so desperately to be special", or "the murders have been covered up, now go back to being another wall street clone", or "nobody cares". The movie definitely leans far more clearly towards it all being in batemans head, but it's still not necessarily cut and dry
My interpretation of the ending of Krampus, is that Krampus reversed what he did and the family is not in fact trapped in a snow globe, but he's watching over from now on to make sure they don't under-appreciate the Christmas season again. And I'm not the only one who thinks so, I'm not kidding, there are fans who think the same thing, there are even comic books of Krampus released with the movie that end similarly where everything reverts back to normal and people learning their lesson. Another support to this theory is that when the boy wakes up, he looks out his window where he sees his neighborhood, if he and his family were in fact inside the snow globe, he would've seen the glass dome and Krampus' lair on the other side.
@@marcuscollins949 Ah ha! I have a reply for that. See, unlike the boy, she didn't confront Krampus and ask him to take back her wish. That's just my theory, you're more than welcome to disagree, but that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
@@jesk743 Thank you. There's a real debate about which is theory is true, and the director won't confirm which one is true, because he likes that everyone debate that.
This isn't a horror movie, but a movie I just watched that definitely had an ending that left me staring at the screen in shock while the credits were rolling was Nightmare Alley. Came out in 2021 with Bradley Cooper. Great movie. Incredible ending. Despite the name, it's not really a horror movie.
Isn't that the movie where the "main character" killed his father, worked at a circus, moved to the city to become a "magician", pretend to talk to the dead, gets caught and experiences downfall, and got hired as a "monster" for another circus?
Believe it or not, I saw a stage musical version of this. It was weird, and really didn't work. Oh, and the 2022 movie is based on a 1947 version, which I thought was better than the 2022 version. It was darker and creepier.
Apparently the actual ending isn’t what you believe it to be with Krampus. The director stated that the family is given a second chance as Max has got his spirit back for Christmas, and the fact he learns from his mistakes and apologises. Unfortunately this wasn’t very obvious so the director kinda failed at that
He left it ambiguous because he enjoys the debates carried out. For those who need clarification, there’s a prequel comic he wrote called Krampus: the Shadow of Saint Nicholas.
There's a prequel comic that pretty much confirms this. The snowglobes are essentially a way for Krampus to keep an eye on the family and make sure they don't revert back to their old ways.
No, wrong there. I actually felt right off the director's aim. I knew there Max and the family was given a Very close second chance. And he's not alone, that's the cherry on top. Because Krampus doesn't collect families like that, cuz according to Grandma he literally just drags them all to hell. And the Bell is given to those he spare for good reasons.
Yes the lesson we get from Saint Maud is fire hurts. Especially when it's covering your whole body. Which I know it's wrong but that scene was unintentionally funny to me
In the Mouth of Madness was the first horror movie I ever saw willingly lol. I was forced to watch the first Nightmare on Elm St as a kid but I don't really count that. I went because I was young and loved Sam Niell from Jurassic Park so I was pretty surprised. I try to make everyone I know watch it because it's just fantastic to me. Evil Dead was so damn confusing to me when I went in thinking about the originals and it was completely different.
In krampus there home is not trapped in a snowglobe. People on you tube keep saying that. He has different snow globes to watch everyone he gave another chance too showing he keeps a watchful eye in his lair.
I now just put Evil Dead in between season 2 & 3 of Ash vs Evil Dead as far as the timeline. It doesn't mess anything up, there's space there for it. And I still love it.
the director and screen writer(who I met when I was in high school) both supposedly regret how American Psycho made the audience question if Patrick's actions were real, that was not their intention
@@RiyaSingh-nr3dp He did kill all those people but the point is no one cares, they’re so caught up in their own narcissistic lives that he gets away with it all.
@@anonymousbo0318 The book leaves the ending intentionally ambiguous from what I have heard. The film not managing to duplicate that is one of the frequently cited regrets/gripes of the film
That's what I thought too. The Shining ending seems a bit too similar to Burnt Offerings, although in that movie it's individual photos. I know this is a stretch but maybe the Overlook acts like the Weeping Angels and sends its victims back in time.
I typed in the website from “The Devil Inside”, was instantly greeted with a screen from my Antivirus system (Malwarebytes) alerting me to the fact that the site may contain “riskware”, the movie almost gave me a computer virus.
Honorable Mention: Pieces. It made no sense but it's the perfect ending! Plus, one could argue it's kind of deep (depending on if you think it counts if it was intentionally done). Also, the original One Missed Call... but that movie didn't really give many reasons for anyone to want to try to figure it out.
I was _very_ disappointed in _Krampus,_ considering a) Michael Dougherty did such a great job with _Trick 'R Treat,_ and b) the _Krampus_ film completely ignores the actual Krampus origins and/or backstory. I liked _The Shining_ enough when it came out. A year or three later I read the novel and thought _Wow, this'll make a good movie someday..._
@@djCatScanRL While a good point (I checked that _Trick'R Treat_ indeed is rated R), one could do a PG-13 of Krampus that actually follows his backstory and character, _and appearance,_ none of which are addressed in the _Krampus_ movie... A far better dark Christmas movie is the feature film _Rare Exports_ (particularly if one has seen the dark comedy _Rare Exports_ short videos on CZcams, on which the feature version premise is based).
@@fortifarse My point is, ignoring easily accessable (and substantial), Source Material and you could end up with similarly painful narrative fiction "adaptations" such as the agonizing Percy Jackson films, or the anti-Tolkien series about to launch on Amazon Prime...
Krampus - There's an alternate theory that the snowglobe is just Krampus's way of keeping tabs on the family to make sure that they behave. Drag Me to Hell - I never for a second thought that Christine was going to live. Why? Because that's not how horror movies work any more. The villain ALWAYS comes back in the end. What started as a twist has now become so obligatory that NOBODY is surprised by it anymore. And while the 'villain' didn't technically come back in this film, they won in the end, which still counts.
Yeah, I remember when a post credit scene where the evil survived (like in "critters") was a surprise. Now I just yawn at it, and roll my eyes ('ugh, not again') Somehow this reminds me of the evolution of the general jumpscare design. First there was the tension build up to a normal jumpscare, later came the suppose to be jumpscare, but it isn't one, and results in a relief. And jumpscare mk 3 does the tension, then the relief, and then suddenly, oh no, it's a jumpscare! Like in "it follows", near the end, where the camera lingers on the hole in the wall.
@@idathomasdotter9806 tell that to the people who run this horror channel. Sixth Sense has been used in several of their lists, including their most recent video.
@@ManicTinCan oh really? This is one of the first videos I've seen from them, so I'm new. I'm surprised they would count Sixth Sense as horror frankly. In terms of story and pacing I would say it's a drama as primary genre, with thriller as a secondary genre simply because of the twist. Genres aren't as clearcut nowadays, but Sixth Sense is definitely a drama thriller, not a horror film.
That wasn't how I interpreted the ending of American Psycho. I assumed the fellow who said the one character was alive was lying to maintain a status quo, and that's why Bateman feels trapped, without the easiest exit to his situation.
I was curious about the ending of Krampus. Were they all trapped in a snow globe forever or is the snow globe Krampus's way of keeping an eye on them with the bell being their reminder?
You left something out about the ending of American Psycho - the final line is Patrick looking into the camera and saying, "This confession has meant nothing." So it's even more of a WTF moment.
Drag Me to Hell ended so awesome I forgot that the end of Christine was nothing like the book The alternative ending to Army of Darkness was insane yet totally fitting to the character of Ash
Really!...... the book has a different ending 😃..... I'll have to read it.....so I can get the disgusting taste of disappointment out of my mouth from the films ending 😃😃
Just an idea, but what would be cool is a list of non-horror movies that are so terrifying they may as well be considered horror (i.e. Seven, Watership Down, From Hell, Mindhunter, etc.).
Salvage (2006) has one of those kind of endings. A college student who works nights at a convenience store/gas station is killed only to wake up the next day. Unnerved by the nightmare, she goes through her day only to meet the same fate at the hands of the same killer. This continues like a dour version of Happy Death Day or Groundhog Day. Until the ending where she's trapped in her basement by her mom and the killer. That's when it's revealed (SPOILER ALERT) that the girl is actually the killer in his hell, reliving the girl's last day over and over again. At the end, "she" awakens with little memory of what happened. Just an uneasy feeling.
Err…that’s weird. I don’t remember the Devil Inside at all, but I _do_ remember seeing that non-ending ending. Is there perhaps another movie that “ended” by telling you to go to a website like that, or was the movie just that forgettable?
The happy ending you describe in Krampus is actually the alternative ending. Thank goodness that wasn’t the true ending. The ending to Krampus is perfect.
You missed a very crucial point at the end of American Psycho. During the dizzied montage that follows Patrick learning about Paul Allen, his secretary Jean (Chloe 70) is looking through a notebook from his desk. The notebook is filled with over the top, violent doodles, which heavily suggests that it was all in his mind.
I effing loved the ending of the Suspiria reimagining, there are so many things to unpack and reflect upon. Props to Tilda Swinton for playing THREE roles.
i never understood saint maud, if she was THAT faithful she would know that suicide is a mortal sin and sends you straight to hell *edit* technically in drag me to hell it wasnt the refusal that brought about the curse, it was throwing her out while she was begging that did
The ending of Saint Maud wasn't that confusing. In her own twisted mind she became an angel and the people kneeled before her while in reality she served herself up flambé. If the ending made you go, "what?" than you didn't pay attention the rest of the film.
@@johnblaze2665 yeah, it's a common theme on What Culture. The gaming channel is just as bad. It feels like they have to make stuff up or twist things around a bit to pad out their lists.
Besides the obvious in the new Evil Dead about heroin abuse and/or addiction it's kinda like the whole movie is a PSA about the worse side effects of heroin use especially IV ...just saw this movie last week I can remember thinking a lot of this was written by a hopefully ex heroin abuser from what I remember and saw in the clips the GF loses her arm by cutting it off...the vomiting... the hallucinations... actually using a syringe as a weapon (right thru the eye)...ect ect bc I can't remember other metaphorical and physical symptoms that made me think about it the way I do but these all relate to withdrawals and negative consequences of heroin abuse... almost sent me into recovery unfortunately still stuck in the cycle but it made me think the writer or director is in recovery themselves and kinda use the flick as sort of releasing their own demons with this horrible disorder...my doctor at the methadone clinic finally gave me a legit explanation of addiction in that I exposed my brain to this drug and it liked it too much...now I'm immune to it and just use to avoid withdrawal symptoms...please never try this drug it is definitely Evil...dead???
I liked it too but I don't see why it's on this list. The movie is literally called "Drag me to Hell" and that exactly what happens. I agree there's nothing confusing about it.
I think the director of Krampus said that the family is not sealed away, but Krampus is watching the family through the snowglobe in case they'll go astray again.
I heard a theory in krampus that he did let them go but the snow globe is to keep an eye on them to make sure they don't lose the spirit of Christmas again
Evil Dead (the originals) were, are, and will always be amazing. The remake was a mixed bag. Now when it comes to Ash vs The Evil Dead that's in a league of its own and if those asshats at Starz wouldn't have canceled it we may still have a chance to have Ash back in a movie. Bruce aka Ash you are AWESOME
I have told others about The Mouth of Madness that its a great movie if you stopped right before the ending. I got to see it when it came out in the theaters with some other people in the Army and we all was like WTF at the ending. We all agreed that it was a great movie till the ending showed up.
You missed a huge point of In the Mouth of Madness - it is stated in the film if you watch the film you become infected and turn into one of the monsters. Going to the cinema was the protagonist committing suicide and turning into one of Kane's monsters.
I never thought the Shining’s ending was that confusing. The hotel essentially takes Jack Torrance’s soul, and just like Lloyd, the previous caretaker who also butchered his family, he becomes a permanent fixture in the haunted hotel’s history. I know Stephen King wasn’t crazy about Kubrick’s adaptation, but I personally felt like the films ending was much more eerie than the book’s. Just my opinion, though.
Great point. It seemed to be such an incomplete recap with zero reference to a major novel which had an opposite ending.
@@thetaxiucla it's a minute long segment in a list video, of course it's going to be a glossed over version.
I have less problem with the c by anger to the book than what Stanley Kubrick did to Shelley Duvall. He couldn't imagine an actress PRETENDING to be traumatized, so he ACTUALLY traumatized her.
Steven King is not known for his endings, even he self admits he cannot write a fulfilling ending (relatable) in most of his works which is why i always wonder why he hates the ending so much in the film lol
Agreed, I'm a King fan, but I loved the movie more than the book
In Krampus, Max doesn't hate Christmas, rather he loses his spirit after fighting with his family and exclaiming that he hates them all and later shredding his letter to Santa, thus cementing his loss of Christmas spirit and the "true meaning"
good breakdown tbt!! n the ending was wild, how he basically became another snow globe in his collection!!! wasnt expecting that
excellent movie and a great cast
Good, someone said it.
Let’s not forget that the Rossi files website no longer exists. Imagine watching that movie in 2022 not knowing the end and just being like WHAT and then going to the website and being like WHAT again
Do you know what was on the website?
@@BobBob-vy9ds nope
When Bret Easton Ellis wrote American Psycho he did it as a scathing review of the decadence of the 80s Yuppies. He didnt waste a word letting the reader know his absolute disdain for the excesses and vapid minds choked in coke and worshipping money. It was one of the funniest books Ive ever read.
Agreed!!
It’s an utter family favourite! Me and my siblings quote from it regularly. Unfortunately my friends at the time it came out didn’t get it. I no longer see those friends
I had no idea it was a book and I need to read this now
💯
The real messed up thing is they made a sequel to American Psycho, which tells the audience that Bateman's murders were real, despite them obviously being only in his head, and the author confirmed that the sequel was crap because Bateman never actually killed anyone.
Sleepaway Camp's ending tends to get the "WHAT?!" reaction from most of the friends I've watched it with. :)
I try to convince everyone I know to watch that movie 🤣🤣🤣
I already knew the Sleepaway Camp twist ending prior to watching it but still found it to be pretty disturbing.
Def a WHAT THE F!!!
We weren't so much "what" but more like, screaming in horror as we were only 13 and had never seen anything or any "thing" like that.
@@jayhandron9435 The face at the end haunts me still. eek!
As far as The Shining, what makes sense to me is that Jack is now trapped in the Hotel and the photo is a group shot of every spirit that is trapped as well. So when he dies and his spirit becomes bound to the location, he joins the shot.
Thanks for that. Makes sense. I wasn't sure.
As a Hungarian Krampus is a huge part of our Christmas celebrations/culture I felt like the movie had a huge missed opportunity when it came to how Krampus really is, there's no wishes, hes seen as evil santa.
In his stories he's said to kidnap naughty children, carrying them in a large burlap sack before taking them home to boil and eat them alive.
He's a demonic force that's isn't summoned or gives wishes liek a genie, in my opinion that movie almost made fun of Krampus' lore/origins
On the contrary, compared to every other Krampus movie (and yes, I’ve just discovered that there are other Krampus movies), this one was the most lovingly rendered. It’s like if the makers of Silent Hill made a Christmas special. Every other Krampus flick makes him a generic slasher movie villain, a mix of Bigfoot and Jason Voorhees with little to no Christmas imagery. I’m surprised you’re not more offended by those films.
@@bluecoin3771are you seriously trying to tell someone which movie about their culture they should enjoy…
Evil dead doesnt belong on this list if youre using an after credit scene for the entry. The actual ending of Mia surviving all of that and still seemingly being possessed (or was that an alternate ending?) would be more appropriate WTF moment
Somewhere I read that this wasn't the canon ending, 'just' an alternate ending.
I think I read this on IMDB, but I can't find it anymore.
@@skirnireta1003 ok so it might be an alternate ending like i thought. I still think the movie shouldnt be on this list since theyre using an after credit scene and not the actual ending
Evil Dead 2 is just Evil Dead and adds the ending when Ash gets sent to the Medieval times
The Mist. That whole movie had my adrenaline going. That ending had me crying pissed off at the same time.
Seeing that movie in a theater entirely ruined that ending for me because everyone just started laughing, which is the appropriate response to something so nonsensical and goofy.
@@zachiswayposi1it wasn’t because it was goofy, it was because it was so surprising and we laugh when something is difficult to wrap our minds around. Important to know how to perceive
The moral of the story is NEVER GIVE UP!! KEEP GOING UNTIL THE VERY END
@@Jayariee As someone who was actually in the theater when this happened and therefore knew exactly what was going on, completely unlike yourself, I assure that I know why we were all laughing. People have tried to make this argument before and they were wrong then too. The ending to the Mist was the punchline that turned the entire movie into a joke.
@@zachiswayposi1😂You're slow than
Did you even watch Krampus? Max doesn't hate christmas season. He loved it so much he drop kicked a kid for telling younger children Santa isn't real and at the dinner table when his sweet letter to Santa is being read by his bratty cousins (with a group of adults around that could've stopped the cousins) he just gives up on Christmas every being the way it used to be before. He then rips up his letter to Santa and throws it out the window summoning Krampus.
I'm telling you that being doomed to have to spend the rest of your days in a perpetual Christmas day with not only your immediate family but extended family members as well is absolutely my idea of hell !!
Throughout American Psycho the Wall Street men are constantly mistaken for each other - a joke about how everyone in the movie's general shallow wall street are the same and essentially interchangeable - for "Paul Allen" being spotted means nothing.
No but the missing bodies in Paul Allen's flat that is being showed by a real estate agent does.
The ending of The Blackcoats Daughter still haunts me
Yeh that movie was something else
f*cked up as it is that movie's ending is weirdly heartbreaking
@@pedrerriki Very
What's funny about Drag Me to Hell is that the MC made the right choice. If she had given the lady the loan, she wouldn't have been able to pay it back since she died however many days later.
I think you wrongly interpreted the ending of American Psycho. It's not about if he imagined it or if it happened or not, rather that society doesn't care. People have no clue who is who and they don't want to know, it's all about keeping apparences. That lawyer is saying: "I don't want to get involved and I didn't hear that discussion"
It's always been weird to me that so many people take the lawyer at face value when he claims that Paul Allen is in London when the movie had a previous scene where no one could actually identify Paul Allen in the restaurant. I mean the lawyer thought Bateman was someone else.
@@sslssg247 yes. I also had the impression that maybe the lawyer knows it's Bateman. Obviously he knows about the call (because it would be hard for him to dismiss getting such a wacky voice message) and basically saying to leave it at is, nobody cares, and let him off the hook because he doesn't want to get involved.
Also, Bateman's final line, said to the camera - "This confession has meant nothing."
From what I have heard the ending of the book is meant to be ambiguous about whether or not Bateman committed the crimes he thinks he did. And the movie does a decent job of leaving it ambiguous as well. I feel like the ending is could be "Bateman imagined he did all those things bc he wanted so desperately to be special", or "the murders have been covered up, now go back to being another wall street clone", or "nobody cares". The movie definitely leans far more clearly towards it all being in batemans head, but it's still not necessarily cut and dry
My interpretation of the ending of Krampus, is that Krampus reversed what he did and the family is not in fact trapped in a snow globe, but he's watching over from now on to make sure they don't under-appreciate the Christmas season again. And I'm not the only one who thinks so, I'm not kidding, there are fans who think the same thing, there are even comic books of Krampus released with the movie that end similarly where everything reverts back to normal and people learning their lesson. Another support to this theory is that when the boy wakes up, he looks out his window where he sees his neighborhood, if he and his family were in fact inside the snow globe, he would've seen the glass dome and Krampus' lair on the other side.
@@marcuscollins949 Ah ha! I have a reply for that. See, unlike the boy, she didn't confront Krampus and ask him to take back her wish. That's just my theory, you're more than welcome to disagree, but that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
That's how I interpreted the ending also
@@jesk743 Thank you. There's a real debate about which is theory is true, and the director won't confirm which one is true, because he likes that everyone debate that.
that's what I heard
I was fairly convinced that Hereditary would be no 1, turning from genuinely scary to utterly bewildering in the final moments. Big miss there!
Huge miss!!!!
That shot of Jack frozen in The Shining always make me laugh. It's just such a goofy face he's pulling.
This isn't a horror movie, but a movie I just watched that definitely had an ending that left me staring at the screen in shock while the credits were rolling was Nightmare Alley. Came out in 2021 with Bradley Cooper. Great movie. Incredible ending. Despite the name, it's not really a horror movie.
Is that the one on Hulu? I think my mom and I watched that! My mom was scratching her head while I ate popcorn and was invested!
Isn't that the movie where the "main character" killed his father, worked at a circus, moved to the city to become a "magician", pretend to talk to the dead, gets caught and experiences downfall, and got hired as a "monster" for another circus?
Believe it or not, I saw a stage musical version of this. It was weird, and really didn't work. Oh, and the 2022 movie is based on a 1947 version, which I thought was better than the 2022 version. It was darker and creepier.
Apparently the actual ending isn’t what you believe it to be with Krampus. The director stated that the family is given a second chance as Max has got his spirit back for Christmas, and the fact he learns from his mistakes and apologises. Unfortunately this wasn’t very obvious so the director kinda failed at that
He left it ambiguous because he enjoys the debates carried out. For those who need clarification, there’s a prequel comic he wrote called Krampus: the Shadow of Saint Nicholas.
There's a prequel comic that pretty much confirms this. The snowglobes are essentially a way for Krampus to keep an eye on the family and make sure they don't revert back to their old ways.
Their literally kidnapped and can’t do anything else! I wouldn’t be shocked if that was purgatory!
@@latayeshaExcept they aren't, you goof.
No, wrong there. I actually felt right off the director's aim. I knew there Max and the family was given a Very close second chance. And he's not alone, that's the cherry on top. Because Krampus doesn't collect families like that, cuz according to Grandma he literally just drags them all to hell. And the Bell is given to those he spare for good reasons.
I'm surprised the ending of the Mist wasn't on here due to being so different from the short story
They should have put 'The Perfection' on here. I watched it recently and it was cray-cray, especially the ending!
Yes the lesson we get from Saint Maud is fire hurts. Especially when it's covering your whole body. Which I know it's wrong but that scene was unintentionally funny to me
In the Mouth of Madness was the first horror movie I ever saw willingly lol. I was forced to watch the first Nightmare on Elm St as a kid but I don't really count that. I went because I was young and loved Sam Niell from Jurassic Park so I was pretty surprised. I try to make everyone I know watch it because it's just fantastic to me.
Evil Dead was so damn confusing to me when I went in thinking about the originals and it was completely different.
Are you supposed to kill the cat before feeding it to the ATM? Asking for a friend.
Only if the ATM is out of network
Bruce Campbell will un-retire Ash in a second if the price is right.
In Krampus comic don’t remember the full thing but it heavily implied the families aren’t sealed but are being forever watched by Krampus.
In krampus there home is not trapped in a snowglobe. People on you tube keep saying that. He has different snow globes to watch everyone he gave another chance too showing he keeps a watchful eye in his lair.
I am SO glad The Neon Demon got rep here. It's a super polarizing film, but I absolutely adore it.
Thanks for the GREAT List & Video... Happy New Year 😀
What?? The ending to St. Maud is brilliant!! Anything else would be cowardly.
It's still a worthy "wtf" moment because my mouth dropped when you realized it was all in her head - but it was an amazing ending!
I now just put Evil Dead in between season 2 & 3 of Ash vs Evil Dead as far as the timeline. It doesn't mess anything up, there's space there for it. And I still love it.
I liked The Shining's Wendy Theory by Rob Navarro.
The robot voice was a little annoying but I think they made some interesting points.
the director and screen writer(who I met when I was in high school) both supposedly regret how American Psycho made the audience question if Patrick's actions were real, that was not their intention
could u explain what was their intention then?
@@RiyaSingh-nr3dp He did kill all those people but the point is no one cares, they’re so caught up in their own narcissistic lives that he gets away with it all.
They were shii writers than. Since they couldn't present what they intended. Assuming you're not full of it.
@@anonymousbo0318 The book leaves the ending intentionally ambiguous from what I have heard. The film not managing to duplicate that is one of the frequently cited regrets/gripes of the film
What if the shining painting just adds more of its victims to it after they die there?
That's what I thought too. The Shining ending seems a bit too similar to Burnt Offerings, although in that movie it's individual photos. I know this is a stretch but maybe the Overlook acts like the Weeping Angels and sends its victims back in time.
Lighthouse (19) should been added on this list.
Errmm.....The original Wicker Man anyone!!😳😳
Yeah after I watched American Psycho. I was like,OK.
I typed in the website from “The Devil Inside”, was instantly greeted with a screen from my Antivirus system (Malwarebytes) alerting me to the fact that the site may contain “riskware”, the movie almost gave me a computer virus.
I would've added Donnie Darko to this list for sure.
“… a shocking climax can stay with you for the rest of your life.” Truer words were ne’er spoken.
Honorable Mention: Pieces. It made no sense but it's the perfect ending! Plus, one could argue it's kind of deep (depending on if you think it counts if it was intentionally done).
Also, the original One Missed Call... but that movie didn't really give many reasons for anyone to want to try to figure it out.
I came here to mention Pieces as well. Crazy ending!
I would include The Borderlands (Final Prayer in the U.S). That was definitely a WHAT?!! ending!!.
That was pretty WTF
@@MrSpade5150 that was basically my worst nightmare made about a thousand times worse!!.
@@rebeccamcdermott9259 you've had nightmares about dying that way?
I was _very_ disappointed in _Krampus,_ considering a) Michael Dougherty did such a great job with _Trick 'R Treat,_ and b) the _Krampus_ film completely ignores the actual Krampus origins and/or backstory.
I liked _The Shining_ enough when it came out. A year or three later I read the novel and thought _Wow, this'll make a good movie someday..._
Isn’t Krampus PG-13? Gotta take those “neutered” horror movies w/ a grain of salt 😏
@@djCatScanRL While a good point (I checked that _Trick'R Treat_ indeed is rated R), one could do a PG-13 of Krampus that actually follows his backstory and character, _and appearance,_ none of which are addressed in the _Krampus_ movie...
A far better dark Christmas movie is the feature film _Rare Exports_ (particularly if one has seen the dark comedy _Rare Exports_ short videos on CZcams, on which the feature version premise is based).
One might almost get the impression that fictional films are not documentaries.
@@fortifarse My point is, ignoring easily accessable (and substantial), Source Material and you could end up with similarly painful narrative fiction "adaptations" such as the agonizing Percy Jackson films, or the anti-Tolkien series about to launch on Amazon Prime...
@@realbadger which nobody is forced to watch, and also does nothing to ruin the existence of said source material.
Cool list👍
Krampus - There's an alternate theory that the snowglobe is just Krampus's way of keeping tabs on the family to make sure that they behave.
Drag Me to Hell - I never for a second thought that Christine was going to live. Why? Because that's not how horror movies work any more. The villain ALWAYS comes back in the end. What started as a twist has now become so obligatory that NOBODY is surprised by it anymore. And while the 'villain' didn't technically come back in this film, they won in the end, which still counts.
Yeah, I remember when a post credit scene where the evil survived (like in "critters") was a surprise.
Now I just yawn at it, and roll my eyes ('ugh, not again')
Somehow this reminds me of the evolution of the general jumpscare design.
First there was the tension build up to a normal jumpscare, later came the suppose to be jumpscare, but it isn't one, and results in a relief.
And jumpscare mk 3 does the tension, then the relief, and then suddenly, oh no, it's a jumpscare!
Like in "it follows", near the end, where the camera lingers on the hole in the wall.
Great list! All fantastic choices. Somewhat surprised that The Sixth Sense isn't on here though.
That's not a horror film.
@@idathomasdotter9806 tell that to the people who run this horror channel. Sixth Sense has been used in several of their lists, including their most recent video.
@@ManicTinCan oh really? This is one of the first videos I've seen from them, so I'm new. I'm surprised they would count Sixth Sense as horror frankly. In terms of story and pacing I would say it's a drama as primary genre, with thriller as a secondary genre simply because of the twist. Genres aren't as clearcut nowadays, but Sixth Sense is definitely a drama thriller, not a horror film.
Literally can't watch The Devil Inside without thinking about "A Haunted House" by Marlon Wayan
That wasn't how I interpreted the ending of American Psycho. I assumed the fellow who said the one character was alive was lying to maintain a status quo, and that's why Bateman feels trapped, without the easiest exit to his situation.
I was curious about the ending of Krampus. Were they all trapped in a snow globe forever or is the snow globe Krampus's way of keeping an eye on them with the bell being their reminder?
AfterLife with Christina Ricci and Liam Neeson got a 'What the fuuuu....' from me.
I hated that movie
Prince of Darkness could be added to that list.
The last three's endings are not "What?" moments. They were all great and damn near perfect (even though #2 did not deserve it).
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You left something out about the ending of American Psycho - the final line is Patrick looking into the camera and saying, "This confession has meant nothing." So it's even more of a WTF moment.
6:00 Hearing "Isabella becomes possessed" while I'm rewatching s3 of Gotham 😂😂😂
Didn't know the devil could get possessed LOL 😂
My only issue with the Shining ending is that Jack's face looks green. He looks sick, not like he froze to death
Drag Me to Hell ended so awesome
I forgot that the end of Christine was nothing like the book
The alternative ending to Army of Darkness was insane yet totally fitting to the character of Ash
Really!...... the book has a different ending 😃..... I'll have to read it.....so I can get the disgusting taste of disappointment out of my mouth from the films ending 😃😃
DMtH wasn't based on a book...
@@fortifarse how
@@djmreacts5808 by...not being based on a book?
Bruh why no dead silence
Yes , some very good choices these horror films definitely give you that “WTF” feeling…! Horror is life!!!!!
Just an idea, but what would be cool is a list of non-horror movies that are so terrifying they may as well be considered horror (i.e. Seven, Watership Down, From Hell, Mindhunter, etc.).
Salvage (2006) has one of those kind of endings. A college student who works nights at a convenience store/gas station is killed only to wake up the next day. Unnerved by the nightmare, she goes through her day only to meet the same fate at the hands of the same killer. This continues like a dour version of Happy Death Day or Groundhog Day. Until the ending where she's trapped in her basement by her mom and the killer. That's when it's revealed (SPOILER ALERT) that the girl is actually the killer in his hell, reliving the girl's last day over and over again. At the end, "she" awakens with little memory of what happened. Just an uneasy feeling.
The twist in that made up for some of the other short comings in that movie. It was great
@@sslssg247 Completely agree.
Err…that’s weird. I don’t remember the Devil Inside at all, but I _do_ remember seeing that non-ending ending. Is there perhaps another movie that “ended” by telling you to go to a website like that, or was the movie just that forgettable?
Pretty much all the blair witch ripoff did this thinking it made them cooler.
Krampus said "f*ck them kids"
Also, I LOVE Saint Maud so much.
omg Eli on Netflix. I swear to god that was a weird ending that came out of left field.
The happy ending you describe in Krampus is actually the alternative ending. Thank goodness that wasn’t the true ending. The ending to Krampus is perfect.
What's the true ending? Because the happy ending is what was played in theaters.
Awesome and cool!
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The Collector
Friday the 13th
Sleepaway Camp
The Mist
Frality
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You missed a very crucial point at the end of American Psycho. During the dizzied montage that follows Patrick learning about Paul Allen, his secretary Jean (Chloe 70) is looking through a notebook from his desk. The notebook is filled with over the top, violent doodles, which heavily suggests that it was all in his mind.
So wait.....What about the ending of: The Mist
hunter hunter definitely did it for me
I effing loved the ending of the Suspiria reimagining, there are so many things to unpack and reflect upon. Props to Tilda Swinton for playing THREE roles.
She had three roles? 🤔
i never understood saint maud, if she was THAT faithful she would know that suicide is a mortal sin and sends you straight to hell
*edit* technically in drag me to hell it wasnt the refusal that brought about the curse, it was throwing her out while she was begging that did
The ending of Saint Maud wasn't that confusing. In her own twisted mind she became an angel and the people kneeled before her while in reality she served herself up flambé. If the ending made you go, "what?" than you didn't pay attention the rest of the film.
I feel like they haven’t seen half the movies they talk about
@@johnblaze2665 yeah, it's a common theme on What Culture. The gaming channel is just as bad. It feels like they have to make stuff up or twist things around a bit to pad out their lists.
@@jeezycreezy4220 I feel like every video has at least some kind error. Pretty irresponsible for such an established page.
Bruce Campbell is so freaking cool.
Besides the obvious in the new Evil Dead about heroin abuse and/or addiction it's kinda like the whole movie is a PSA about the worse side effects of heroin use especially IV ...just saw this movie last week I can remember thinking a lot of this was written by a hopefully ex heroin abuser from what I remember and saw in the clips the GF loses her arm by cutting it off...the vomiting... the hallucinations... actually using a syringe as a weapon (right thru the eye)...ect ect bc I can't remember other metaphorical and physical symptoms that made me think about it the way I do but these all relate to withdrawals and negative consequences of heroin abuse... almost sent me into recovery unfortunately still stuck in the cycle but it made me think the writer or director is in recovery themselves and kinda use the flick as sort of releasing their own demons with this horrible disorder...my doctor at the methadone clinic finally gave me a legit explanation of addiction in that I exposed my brain to this drug and it liked it too much...now I'm immune to it and just use to avoid withdrawal symptoms...please never try this drug it is definitely Evil...dead???
I really liked the ending of Drag Me to Hell! It wasn't super shocking but I still liked that they killed her off.
I liked it too but I don't see why it's on this list. The movie is literally called "Drag me to Hell" and that exactly what happens. I agree there's nothing confusing about it.
I watched Honeymoon on Netflix one day and literally 2 minutes into the credits I was like "wtf did I just watch?"
The lobster should be on this list
I think the director of Krampus said that the family is not sealed away, but Krampus is watching the family through the snowglobe in case they'll go astray again.
The second one makes sense
Yes The Neon Demon love that ending
Jack is taken by the hotel, trapped there for all time.
How many times has all this happened before? There's a _lot_ of people in that photo.
I heard a theory in krampus that he did let them go but the snow globe is to keep an eye on them to make sure they don't lose the spirit of Christmas again
Evil Dead (the originals) were, are, and will always be amazing. The remake was a mixed bag. Now when it comes to Ash vs The Evil Dead that's in a league of its own and if those asshats at Starz wouldn't have canceled it we may still have a chance to have Ash back in a movie. Bruce aka Ash you are AWESOME
in the mouth of madness i love that movie
and the shining
Y’know what was an odd ending? Ingmar Bergman’s Hour of the Wolf. Just cut off mid-sentence out of nowhere.
Sleepaway camp martyers the french og one and terrifer split down the middle scene and the mist always gets a wtfffdd
The OG Martyers got a big WTF from me! 🤣🤣
Krumpus that made sense
I have told others about The Mouth of Madness that its a great movie if you stopped right before the ending. I got to see it when it came out in the theaters with some other people in the Army and we all was like WTF at the ending. We all agreed that it was a great movie till the ending showed up.
You missed a huge point of In the Mouth of Madness - it is stated in the film if you watch the film you become infected and turn into one of the monsters. Going to the cinema was the protagonist committing suicide and turning into one of Kane's monsters.
Only Important Question:
HOW MUCH was Patrick Bateman HOPING the kitten was worth!??!?!
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what is it with whatculture horror putting Drag Me To Hell in every single video
Saw 1 should be on this
The table of contents is missing a couple
i didn't know bruce campbell retired the role of ash, man that sucks
What’s your interpretation of Shining?
Hmph. I thought the sno-globes were the Krampus's crystal balls that he uses to keep tabs on who's been naughty or nice...
Mary! Love krampus