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⌈ Secret Post #5846 ⌋

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Re: SPOILER WARNING IN EFFECT: Horror endings you liked; horror endings you didn't like

[(Anonymous)]

Spoilers for Slither, Haunting Of Hill House, Cabin In The Woods, It Follows, 28 Days Later, Rec., Jennifer's Body, Oculus, The Ritual.

ENDINGS I DISLIKE:

SLITHER - Hate, haaaaate the “It LIVES!!!” ending. I especially hated it in Slither because the threat in Slither is so overwhelmingly virulent and propagates so quickly that it’s not like, “Oh no, the threat will return some day!” It’s like, “The threat will be back in force by tomorrow and will have wiped out the entire planet within a month, tops.”

HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE (tv show) - Honestly, it felt like a joke. I found it so jarringly rose-tinted that I was low-key offended. Like, yeah, lets just play the “wistful reconciliation” montage over footage of the housekeepers visiting the trapped spirit of their dead child inside the soul-devouring mansion, to say nothing of the “it’s okay now,” tone it took with Nell who gets to be eternally trapped and fed off of by the house that devoured her life slowly from the inside out for two decades before finally having tenderized her enough to reel her in. Apparently the original intent was to have them all be stuck inside the red room, complacent in the belief that they’d escaped, as the house slowly devoured them. I admit that would’ve been too bleak and also too predictable for my liking, but it would’ve tracked a hell of a lot better with the first three quarters of the story. Just my opinion, YMMV, yadda yadda yadda.

CABIN IN THE WOODS - If the movie had can two seconds earlier, with just a faint rumbling, I would have LOVED it. The ambiguity of that would have be absolutely glorious. It would have absolutely slayed thematically. But instead Joss went for the ultimate schlock of the giant hand, and it completely ruins it for me.

ENDINGS I LIKE:

IT FOLLOWS - Perfect ambiguous ending. Exactly the ending the movie called for. Not the bleakest possible ending, but much more deeply unsettling for its ambiguity.

28 DAYS LATER - Perfect ending; simple but existential. Can almost be deemed a twist, except the twist is human optimism. Poignant and beautiful.

REC. - So dark, but extremely fitting. Structurally the entire narrative is like a horrifying vortex. The first couple of circles are so broad and leisurely that you don’t even realize you’re in it until it’s too late and everything is being funneled tighter and tighter, faster and faster towards an increasingly inevitable, increasingly claustrophobic conclusion. (I know that there are sequels and that the final girl actually survives to be in at least one of them. I actually find that kind of comforting tbh--while simultaneously disregarding it entirely.)

JENNIFER’S BODY - Schlocky, but in such a fitting way. Really honors the thematic nature of the movie but avoids becoming too self-serious and muddling the established tone of the movie.

ENDINGS I’M AMBIVILOUS ABOUT:

OCULUS - The bleakest possible ending. Fitting for the story, but I wanted something just slightly less bleak. I would’ve preferred if the mirror had been destroyed at the same time as it took out the sister, and the brother had been left alone with nothing; just an ugly broken mirror, the body of his sister, and absolutely nothing to indicate (even to himself) that he hadn’t just been crazy all along.

THE RITUAL - IDK about this one. I was relieved it wasn’t an “everybody dies” ending, and from one perspective the final dude’s character arc makes sense. But from another perspective, I feel like the movie regards “final dude makes it out of the woods” as a lot more meaningful and triumphant than it is. I think we’re meant to feel that he’s made it out of the woods both literally and figuratively, but that feels like a tone-deaf way of framing the story. I mean talk about Main Character Syndrome.