Random Shocking Horror Movie Endings That Took You by Surpris (20 items)

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  (#16) Videodrome

  • Debbie Harry, James Woods, David Cronenberg, Jayne Eastwood, Leslie Carlson, Sonja Smits, Kay Hawtrey, Peter Dvorsky, Jack Creley, Julie Khaner, Lally Cadeau, David Tsubouchi, David Bolt, Lynne Gorman, Henry Gomez, Sam Malkin, Reiner Schwartz, Bob Church, Franciszka Hedland, Harvey Chao

  In this body-horror by David Cronenberg, James Woods plays Max Renn, television producer of “softcore porn and violence.” He haphazardly stumbles on to Videodrome, an underground broadcasting of a disturbing nature. He discovers these aren’t fictional programs and Videodrome is sending out hidden signals that cause insane hallucinations and physical manifestations.

  Renn’s grip on reality crumbles; he’s infected and becoming increasingly violent. He is told "death is not the end... to become the new flesh, you must kill the old flesh." He watches himself commit suicide on the television and then mimics what he just saw in an infinite reflection of television screens. “Long live the new flesh” are his final words. He kills the old flesh.
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  (#4) Psycho

  • Alfred Hitchcock, Janet Leigh, Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Martin Balsam, John Gavin, Ted Knight, John McIntire, John Anderson, Lurene Tuttle, Simon Oakland, Jeanette Nolan, Frank Albertson, Pat Hitchcock, Virginia Gregg, Vaughn Taylor, Sam Flint, Mort Mills, Fred Scheiwiller, George Eldredge, Francis De Sales, Kit Carson, George Dockstader, Pat McCaffrie, Frank Killmond, Fletcher Allen, Paul Jasmin, Helen Wallace, Harper Flaherty, Lillian O'Malley, Lee Kass, Prudence Beers

  Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho ends with the unassuming mama’s boy Norman Bates revealed as a killer with a split personality who has been hanging out with the mummified corpse of his mother. Norman has been wearing his mother’s clothes, speaking in her voice, and taking on her personality traits the entire time.

  After being apprehended Norman waits in his cell. As the camera slowly zooms in on Norman, we realize he isn’t there. It’s "mother" who has fully taken over now. A fly lands on his hand, but he doesn’t bat it away. In voiceover, Mrs. Bates can be heard insisting Norman was the guilty one. With that sly smile and iconic line, “She wouldn’t even harm a fly.”
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  (#15) Kill List

  • MyAnna Buring, Ben Crompton, Emma Fryer, Michael Smiley, Alice Lowe, Neil Maskell, Sara Dee, Steve Oram, Struan Rodger, Mark Kempner, Robin Hill, Lee Steele, Gareth Tunley, Gemma Lise Thornton, Janice Bird, Robert Hill, Lucie James, Frenchie Cowley, Ann Turner, Alex Blake, David Bowen, Josh Honeybourne, David Mares, Zoe Thomas, Chaelyn Allcock, Harry Simpson, Jimmy May, Lorna Gladhill, Katya Galiana-Philip, Ann Lomax, Rebecca Holmes, Gareth James, Richard Stocks, Lauren Maile-Wilson, Dennis Turner, Niki Jones, Emily McKinley, John Chappell, Shane Fitzsimmons, Josh Moore, Hannah Murton, James Bateson, Esme Folley, Alex Janczenia, Andy Stirling, Ciaran Humphries, Simon Smith, Janice Worsley, James Nickerson, Dave McKinley, Richard Mileham, Lora Evans, Brian Gaugan, Glynn Davies, Keith Lomax, Jamelle Ola, Damien Thomas, Stuart Webb, Aahid Rasool, Jennifer Andrews, Lyn Wesson, David Charles Denwood, Nadine Lloyd, Sharron Hardy, Pat Kelly, Joy Palmer, John Striker, Stephen Preston, Lynn Copperfield, Ken Birch, Joan Cooper, Dorothy Webb, Edward Booth, Alice Harrand, Nick Lea, Tom Adcock, Daphne Eland

  Sure, technically Ben Wheatley’s Kill List is more of a thriller, but in the final half hour, it certainly takes a pretty horrific turn. Jay (Neil Maskell) manages to escape the cultists that are after him, but he is knocked unconscious once he reaches the cottage where his wife and son are hiding. Once he regains consciousness, he realizes he’s in a field surrounded by the cultists.

  He is then forced to fight a cloaked figure out to murder him. Jay kills his adversary, however, once uncloaked, he sees the bloody mess of his wife and son. This was the ultimate sacrifice, last on the kill list. He stands there in shock. The cultist crown him.
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  (#13) Halloween

  • Jamie Lee Curtis, Kyle Richards, Donald Pleasence, Sandy Johnson, Charles Cyphers, P. J. Soles, Nancy Kyes, Nancy Stephens, Nick Castle, Brian Andrews, David Kyle, John Michael Graham

  Just as Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) thinks it’s safe to stop and breathe, a presumably dead Michael Myers rises silently and attacks her once more. Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence) shoots Myers repeatedly and he falls out of the window (presumably to his death).

  Lori sobs, “It was the Boogeyman.”

  “As a matter of fact, it was,” Dr. Loomis confirms.  

  When Loomis looks for Myers's body, it's nowhere to be found.
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  (#1) The Mist

  • Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Laurie Holden, Alexa Davalos, Toby Jones, Andre Braugher, Samuel Witwer, Melissa McBride, William Sadler, Jeffrey DeMunn, Frances Sternhagen, Buck Taylor, Chris Owen, Andrew Stahl, David Jensen, Ritchie Montgomery, Julio Cedillo, Louis Herthum, Juan Gabriel Pareja, Nathan Gamble, Ron Clinton Smith, Jackson Hurst, Ted Ferguson, Amin Joseph, Robert C. Treveiler, Ron Fagan, Kim Wall, Cherami Leigh, Eric Kelly McFarland, Jimmy Lee Jr., Ginnie Randall, Brian Libby, Chuck Vail, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0339472/, Dodie Brown, Tiffany Morgan, Jay Amor, Amy McGee, Walt Hollis, Travis Fontenot, Cindy McBride, Kip Cummings, Kevin Beard, Steven E. Williams, Tammy Eaton, Gregg Brazzel, Kristin Barnhart, Brandon O'Dell, Mike Martindale, Michaela Morgan, John F. Daniel, Brian Scott Hunt, Derek Cox-Berg, Taylor E. Brown, Kelly Lintz, Walter Fauntleroy, Sonny Franks, Susan Malerstein, Darrick Mosley, Pamela Houghton

  Frank Darabont’s adaptation of Stephen King’s The Mist was both brilliant and brutal. Brilliant in the sense that no one saw that coming because what kind of deviant would come up with that ending? This ending pissed off a TON of people, but no one can say it was bad or ineffective – unnecessary, sure, but incredibly powerful nonetheless.

  After watching their town being invaded by a mist full of Lovecraftian creatures that are devouring the town and its occupants whole, it’s not really shocking when the last remaining townsfolk decide they’d rather kill themselves than be torn apart by beasts. The problem is the sleeping child who doesn’t know his own father (David Drayton) is going to shoot him in the head to keep the monsters from him.

  He opens his eyes just in time to see his dad pointing a gun. You can see the fear, confusion, and betrayal play across his face before the gun sounds. The kick in the gut doesn’t end there. It ends with Drayton first hearing and then seeing with his own eyes that the cavalry has arrived.

  The mist is clearing and it seems the military has won the war against the monsters. He killed his son for nothing. If he had just waited seconds, mere seconds before pulling that trigger... Brutal. Absolutely brutal. 
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  (#17) Audrey Rose

  • Anthony Hopkins, Marsha Mason, John Hillerman, John Beck, Norman Lloyd, Robert Walden, Philip Sterling, Stephen Pearlman, Susan Swift

  The Templeton family is turned upside down when a stranger begins stalking them and their daughter Ivy (Susan Swift) starts having memories that don’t belong to her. Elliot Hoover (Anthony Hopkins) finally stops lurking and approaches the family, claiming that Ivy is actually the reincarnation of his daughter Audrey Rose. You can guess what kind of drama a claim like that would cause.

  By the time the film begins to come to a close, Janice Templeton (Marsha Mason) believes Hoover is right as Ivy’s nightmares worsen, but Bill Templeton (John Beck) still refuses to accept the possibility. He has Hoover arrested for allegedly trying to kidnap her. Janice actually testifies for Hoover, stating she believes her daughter is, in fact, Audrey Rose reincarnated. Bill and the Templetons' lawyer arrange for a hypnosis session to prove that Ivy is really just Ivy. During the hypnosis, Ivy ends up reliving the car crash as Audrey Rose and dies during the session from the trauma.

  In the last scene, it’s revealed through Janice writing a letter to Hoover that Audrey/Ivy’s ashes were taken to India, and she implies her husband is starting to come to terms with their daughter’s identity.

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