10 Best Slasher Horror Movie Fakeout Endings

10. Hell High

Released in 1989, Hell High is a slasher that takes its time to properly get going, and is likewise a film overflowing with the familiar tropes of the subgenre.

We've got a bunch of high schoolers played by actors who are approaching 30, we've got a cast of key players and supporting characters who are all mostly dislikeable, and we of course have a masked menace at the centre of this Douglas Grossman-helmed picture. There's also an ending sequence that is utterly bonkers and very much serves up a rather unique fakeout.

Plot-wise, Hell High centres on a group of cocksure teenagers who decide to stick it to their stern biology teacher, Miss Storm (Maureen Mooney). In particular, Christopher Stryker's Dickens really has it out for this teacher, to the point that he follows her home one night and creepily watches Miss Storm take a shower.

That's only the tip of the iceberg for the creepy actions of these kids, mind, for Dickens returns to Storm's house with his buddies, where they all don horror masks and torment the mentally-fragile teacher. You see, Miss Storm caused the death of two people when she was just a child, and she's forever troubled by this fact.

In an extremely dark turn - that's actually bizarrely played in a light manner - Dickens and his friends sexually assault the drugged Storm, who eventually manages to gain enough consciousness to throw herself out of her bedroom window. And with that, Hell High seems about ready to wrap up its runtime as poor Miss Storm lays dead on the floor.

Only the film doesn't end there, for in a left-field swerve, Mooney's character reanimates as some sort of murderous zombie who soon offs each of her attackers.