My first post on movies with bad endings was kind of a hit and generated some good discussion in the comments.

So just like last time, here are a few more movies that have bad endings. Not saying they’re horrible movies, but I just do not like their endings.

The Abyss

About thirty minutes into the film, we all knew that there were aliens involved. So, theoretically speaking, viewers were all anticipating the movie getting a little too sci-fi near the finale.

Can someone seriously explain to me why aliens hiding in the deepest depths of an ocean trench would appear and expose themselves to the whole Earth just to save a few people?

I don’t get it, I just don’t get it. I didn’t see the logic in this film, and I think that ruined what would have otherwise been a very enjoyable film. I think someone could have made this movie better without all the “sci-fi crap”, then it undoubtedly might have been a better picture.

The Mist

This ending angered me so much that it made me question why it was done, and in fact, what was wrong with the original ending?

The story begins with a deadly storm; nothing like this small island community has ever had before. In the morning while cleaning up the aftershock, Thomas Jane’s character, David Drayton takes his eight-year-old son, Billy, acted by Nathan Gamble, and his “argumentative” neighbor Brent Norton played by Andre Braugher to town to get supplies to repair the destruction. The fog descends and unleashes a strange version of hell that only Stephen King could fulfill.

Unlike the book, the movie, however, found a more unpleasant and insightful way to end it.

They travel through the mist until they run out of gas and the ominous sounds approach. David Drayton shoots and kills his son and the three adults in the car apparently “saving” them from an awaiting fate.

What?

And only to see that the approaching sound was actually a military carrier that would have been their redemption… the David falls to his knees… screaming… and roll credits.

Yes, that’s how it ends.

Hide and Seek

This movie had me tricked.

I was sure the little girl was the killer, right up till the end. But we learn that it was actually her dad. Sounding good in theory, but this movie makes my “horrible ending list” simply because of how anti-climactic it was done.

“Charlie”, Robert De Niro’s character, had an evil personality and he decided to kill his own kin. They run to the cave where Emily, Dakota Fanning’s character, first met “Charlie”, and la, la, la, Emily diverts “Charlie” allowing Famke Janssen’s character, Katherine to snipe Charlie/David.

But it was just a BIG disappointment. There was no suspense and no upsurge. Just bang, okay, let’s go home and live happily.

Then Emily lives with Katherine and all is good, Katherine soon finds a picture Emily drew that has two heads, suggesting that she too has a split personality… oh no, oh no! Roll credits. Frustrating and unacceptable.