22 Movie Endings So Bad They Ruined The Entire Film
22 Movie Endings So Bad They Ruined The Entire Film
Salimah McCulloughSun, September 6, 2026 at 3:16 AM UTC
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Nothing hurts more than when you're watching a movie that you're loving, only for it to end on the flattest, most disappointing note imaginable, leaving you pissed off and emotionally scarred for years.
Null / ©Walt Disney Co./courtesy Everett / Everett CollectionSo, when Reddit user u/Anass_Es-rasked people to share what movie ending instantly ruined the entire movie? Sadly enough, people had a lot to say!
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1. “The tesseract scene in Interstellar (2014). After all the pains taken to create a realistic, scientifically accurate space adventure, they throw all that away at the end. It really kills the movie for me. It would’ve been better to bake fantastical elements into the rest of the movie and ignore realism than to slap viewers across the face with a bait and switch.”
Universal Pictures / Viayoutu.be2. “The ending of The Substance (2024) is so atrocious that it gave me secondhand embarrassment.”
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3. "I was disappointed by the whole second and third act of Law Abiding Citizen (2009) because I expected the movie to follow Clyde Shelton as he plans and executes his revenge, and would end with him going to trial. I didn’t realize the whole movie was between him and the district attorney."
Overture Films / Viayoutu.be4. “Avengers: Endgame (2019) felt like they just threw away everyone’s character development. What do you mean Steve left Bucky behind? What happened to ‘to the end of the line?’ What do you mean Thor left all his remaining people behind and the planet he’d fought so hard to protect? And everyone else just went off somewhere where they could conveniently begin a TV show.”
Marvel Studios / Viayoutu.be5. “In Longlegs (2024), using the excuse of 'a demon did it' is always the worst answer to a horror film. It completely cuts the mystery. It's a damn shame, too, because I was super into that movie until the ending."
Neon / Viayoutu.be6. “I still like the movie, but I know a lot of people hated the ending of Sunshine (2007). I think the reveal is pretty interesting, but I will say I wasn't a big fan of the visual styling they used to show the revealed character, but that only detracted from it a little bit for me.”
Fox Searchlight Pictures / Viayoutu.be7. “I genuinely hated the framing device in Marty Supreme (2025). The opening was needlessly vulgar, the closing was maudlin, and the whole movie would have been better without it.”
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8. “Spider-Man (2002). When Peter Parker ended the film by telling Mary Jane (obviously vital to the plot) that he could only be friends, I spoke up loudly in the cinema by saying, ‘You dick!'”
Sony Pictures Releasing / Viayoutu.be9. “The Last Broadcast (1998) is a found footage horror movie that predates The Blair Witch Project and is really good...until the last 10 minutes or so. Then it shits the bed so hard it retroactively makes the preceding parts of the movie suck, too.”
Wavelength Releasing / Viayoutu.be10. “The ending of The Open House (2018) literally just makes the entire movie pointless. It's somehow simultaneously both way too predictable, and yet it's still kinda out of left field. It feels tonally at odds with the rest of the film and its themes. It completely undoes all the character development by tacking on a lame ‘lol, it's a horror movie so everyone has to die!’ finale.”
Netflix / Viayoutu.be11. “In 30 Days of Night (2007), as soon as the guy turned into a vampire to save what was left of the fellow survivors, he says, ‘I can hear your heartbeat.’ How in the hell did the vampires not hear or sense them hiding in the damn attic then, or anywhere for that matter? It pissed me off, and I hate-watched the remaining minutes of the film. What a plot hole.”
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12. “In How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003), Andie has a revelation that she had been doing things that she knows men hate, and had unwittingly driven away a guy she really likes. He chases her; they meet on the bridge; he fights for her, even despite her behavior. She changes her mind, they reconcile, etc, hooray! Right? Wrong! The first thing out of her mouth after they reconcile is the cutesy baby mock outrage shit that drove him away in the first place. She didn’t learn a god damn thing.”
Paramount Pictures / Viayoutu.be13. “I might get crucified for this, but I have to say Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023). The movie was great. Maybe not as good as the first, but man, I was loving it. Then it just ended. It ended right in the middle of everything, and then they had friggin' Gwen be like, ‘Bet you're hyped for the next movie to find out what happens, huh?!’ like...no, actually. Not anymore. I'm fine with a film ending on a cliffhanger, but that wasn't a cliffhanger. The film just ended in the middle of the plot, and I was left sitting there in a half-dead theater with a loud, droning AC unit, wondering what the fuck I just watched and why it felt like I was just slapped in the face?”
Sony Pictures Relessing / Viayoutu.be14. “The first 80% of Hereditary was mind-blowingly good. But to reduce it all to some demon possession witchy stuff? It cheapened the whole experience for me.”
A24 / Viayoutu.be15. “Ghost Stories (2017). In general, I am not against ‘it was all a dream’ endings. I think it's fine to want your audience to enjoy the journey even if the destination is fake. But in the case of Ghost Stories, the whole movie was setting up a mystery, and it felt like the viewer was supposed to look for clues. The revelation that it was all a dream not only makes the destination fake, but it ruins the journey because the journey was largely about putting together clues — clues that, it turns out, were meaningless and fake as well.”
Lionsgate / Viayoutu.be16. “The way Bugonia (2025) ended annoyed the shit out of me. I was fine with the CEO turning out actually to be an alien. It was the twist of her being benevolent that pissed me off. The message of the movie seemed to me that the 1% are keeping society running out of the goodness of their hearts, and the rest of us would self-destruct immediately without their leadership. It felt like a justification for fascism.”
Focus Features / Viayoutu.be17. “The ending of Backrooms (2026) was really bad in my opinion. The pirate monster was just really stupid-looking and not one bit scary. Clarke turning evil just felt generic and sudden. It would have worked a lot better if we got to see him slowly going insane.”
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18. “I don't know if this is a hot take, but the post-credits scene of Sinners (2025). I just feel like having Stack and Mary living happily as vampires 100 years later completely cuts the legs out from under all the sacrifices folks made to not become vampires in the body of the film.”
Warner Bros. / Viayoutu.be19. “Glad I didn't see Repo Men (2010) in theaters cause that ending had me PISSED. I HATE it when movies pull the ‘it was all a dream’ nonsense; granted, in this case, it wasn't the whole movie, but it felt way too M. Night Shyamalan-esque and felt like it was thrown in just for the sake of having a twist.”
Universal Pictures / Viayoutu.be20. “The Forgotten (2004). Fuck that movie! Really interesting premise. Kids are disappearing, and no one seems to remember that they ever existed, but a couple of parents can't shake the feeling that they used to have kids. They put together enough pieces to recognize that they definitely did have kids, no matter what anyone else says, and uncover government agents covering up the existence of these kids under some external threat with the intention of keeping people safe. But obviously the parents don't care; they want their kids back, so they unravel the whole thing and... it's aliens.”
Sony Pictures Releasing / Viayoutu.be21. “Him (2025). I would’ve genuinely enjoyed this movie for the vibes, the messaging, and a surprisingly good performance by Marlon Wayans. Still, the ending felt like the director had no idea how to finish his movie and decided to do a complete tonal shift from slow-burn psychological horror to dark comedy slasher while not really wrapping up any of the plot threads or any of the ideas around the sacrifices that athletes make to be the best.”
Universal Pictures / Viayoutu.be22. And finally, “Shutter Island (2010). I despise the unreliable narrator trope. Essentially, any film that pulls this is saying you just wasted your time watching a bunch of stuff that never really happened. This is fiction. I'm well aware that none of it happened. I still think it's reasonable to expect a story to be coherent and to have an ending that pays off the various plot threads. ‘It was all a dream,’ and ‘they imagined everything/they've not been honest’ aren't deep artistic twists; they're cop outs. It doesn't matter how many hints you give throughout that; this is the case. It’s a deeply unsatisfying ending every time.”
Paramount Pictures / Viayoutu.beWhat’s a movie that ended so terribly in your opinion that it still annoys you to this day? Let us know in the comments or the anonymous form below!
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