movies/tv Thrillers/Horror and their cliche endings

[IridscentNionios 1,420]

Warning this topic might or might not contain spoilers about several movies. Proceed at your own discretion.




I can't understand this... i seriously can't... Don't know what i am talking about? Why Thrillers, Horror Movies and their cliche "Evil wins" endings.

Where do i start? The "Saw" series? The "Final Destination"? Where somehow everyone dies? Like... i've seen it in SO many movies it has become insufferable and i am issuing a veto to my friends wherever we are to watch a movie like this.

Let me elaborate... i understand that some movies no matter what will put a cliffhanger to continue their story in their possible sequels... I understand that most of the movies i have mentioned so far do have said sequels. But my protest is that it is used in EVERY... SINGLE... ONE!!! When is the "Final Destination" going to end? ((if it hasn't ended by now since i was seriously too fed up with this to continue watching it)). How many sequels is "Saw" going to have? Don't we like have... 7 so far? Jeez even Harry Potter decided to finally end after the 8th movie! 

Let me describe you some other cases.

But oh no! It's not only the movies that have sequels that do it! I recently saw ((well most of since it was on TV and i missed the start)) the movie about Freddie Krouger ((I am spelling it wrongly now aren't i?)) and i was like "YEAH! KILL THAT *@#%$!" and i was finally satisfied that this idiot had died but i still felt that this movie was going to use that stereotypical "Not over yet!" ending... when the final scene before the credits showed Krouger was alive and killed that girl's mom i was like "Called it!" and then i was like "I'm threw with thrillers..." i regretted the moment and day i decided to sit down my couch and watch this overrated movie that the Internet had made me interested in... 

We watched the "Descent" with some friends. I was happy whenever the girls kicked some monster butt and satisfied that at least one of them had escaped. But then there was that last scene that showed everything was a hallucination and that in fact she was dead or soon to be hallucinating. I was like "COME ON!" the movie would have been perfectly fine without this BS ending! Why did they have to do that? What the hell is wrong with Thrillers these days!!!

There are more cases i could talk about like "The Hills have Eyes" or whatever. I was at least satisfied that the movie 1408 ((2007)) did this but it at least did this in the middle of the movie... not in the ending allowing for closure, allowing for the case to be rested and stuff. 

Not all of these movies that used this cliche ending will have or had continuations... so why do it? Why do it EVERY... SINGLE... TIME? Is it so much to ask for closure after a good thriller? Is it because it loses the tittle "Thriller" or "Horror" when something like this happens? I can't understand this... so please by all means explain to me what this stupid stereotype is about! Because i don't get it! I really Don't!!!

[Darker 1,352]

The best Horror Movie ending I've seen is the one in the first Friday the 13th. It keeps you thrilled, and the mystery is... Was Jason still alive?

 

 

[IridscentNionios 1,420]

@@Darker, Thing is the hero in these movies NEVER lives. EVER. I would be satisfied with an ending of the tale in any movie. But the evil in these movies always wins somehow. It's boring... predictable. 

[Dashie23 103]

I noticed this too. One thing is that if the movie performs well, they want the ability to make a sequel. But movies like the original Dracula had a finalized end, because it was based off a novel that had a closed ending. most horror movies are no longer based on novels. another with a finalized ending is the Exorcist, based off a novel as well

[Darker 1,352]

@@Darker, Thing is the hero in these movies NEVER lives. EVER. I would be satisfied with an ending of the tale in any movie. But the evil in these movies always wins somehow. It's boring... predictable. 

Actually, she lived. She was killed on the sequel, but still, many people survive in these movies. Just not as many as you think.

[IridscentNionios 1,420]

Actually, she lived. She was killed on the sequel, but still, many people survive in these movies. Just not as many as you think.

Well not the ones i watched. Its many... Plus the thing is there aint no finality in these movies. And the evil as far as i have seen almost always survives.

[Darker 1,352]

Well not the ones i watched. Its many... Plus the thing is there aint no finality in these movies. And the evil as far as i have seen almost always survives.

Take the Mist, based on the Stephen King book for example, the evil dies and the protagonist lives. But not after killing his own family because he had no other option.

 

So in this case, both good and evil win.

[IridscentNionios 1,420]

Take the Mist, based on the Stephen King book for example, the evil dies and the protagonist lives. But not after killing his own family because he had no other option.

 

So in this case, both good and evil win.

In "The descent" something similar happens only its proven in the end all is an illusion.

 

Why? Why play jokes on the audience?

[Gracefilly 117]

Maybe it is because if they have the cliff hanger endings then you will pay to watch another blood bath the next time around. Until that is when they start beating a dead horse with the villain. Then they need to create another series of movies to get you to pay to watch.

[Darker 1,352]

In "The descent" something similar happens only its proven in the end all is an illusion.

 

Why? Why play jokes on the audience?

Pure dramatic effect. They ALWAYS do that.

[11th Doctor Whooves 794]

Another series where the hero never dies is Halloween, depending on which timeline you wanna watch, lol.  First movie, Laurie Strode lives, second movie, Laurie Strode lives......and then you can either continue with 4-6, or skip to 7.  In 4, Lauria Strode is dead in a car accident, and Michael Myers wants to kill her daughter.  She lives, and he comes back in the 5th movie to kill her, she lives.  She gets killed off in the 6th movie, but that movie makes so little sense at all that they had to pretty much retcon 4-6 with Halloween: H20 (7).  In it, Laurie Strode is alive and well in California under a new identity.  Michael finds her, kills people, but in the end, she kills him, and I thought it was the perfect end to the series.  Good triumphs over evil and the hero got to live.  Then they came up with the convoluted "Oh that wasn't him" story, and made an 8th movie where Laurie dies, but I like to pretend that didn't happen, lol.

 

Not all horror movies/thrillers have the cliche ending, but a lot of them do simply to have more movies made about them, and as I've demonstrated, even when they do try to give a series some finality, studios will find a way to make more, even if that means a remake or reboot.

 

P.S. Don't get me started on the Rob Zombie remakes.........

Edited September 15, 2014 by 11thDoctorWhooves

[Snow Frostflame 3,568]

...and they kill the monster the man and woman do stuff and the monster comes back and kills them THE END

 

I don't watch enough horror movies but I know that is the most cliche ending of all time

[IridscentNionios 1,420]

Maybe it is because if they have the cliff hanger endings then you will pay to watch another blood bath the next time around. Until that is when they start beating a dead horse with the villain. Then they need to create another series of movies to get you to pay to watch.

Only most of the time they don't create any sequels. But in the case they do... it becomes immensely boring.

 

See "Saw" "Final Destination". Those things got over 6-7 sequels. All they are is splatter. I am bored of splatter.

Pure dramatic effect. They ALWAYS do that.

I loathe drama. A lot. I feel like thrillers troll me with their endings.

[CT-1138 3,184]

But oh no! It's not only the movies that have sequels that do it! I recently saw ((well most of since it was on TV and i missed the start)) the movie about Freddie Krouger ((I am spelling it wrongly now aren't i?)) and i was like "YEAH! KILL THAT *@#%$!" and i was finally satisfied that this idiot had died but i still felt that this movie was going to use that stereotypical "Not over yet!" ending... when the final scene before the credits showed Krouger was alive and killed that girl's mom i was like "Called it!" and then i was like "I'm threw with thrillers..." i regretted the moment and day i decided to sit down my couch and watch this overrated movie that the Internet had made me interested in... 

To be fair, A Nightmare on Elm Street was made long before the "killer comes back" was cliche. Halloween (1978) established the trope, and it became a staple of slasher flicks ever since. 

Edited September 16, 2014 by Dinos4Ever