10 Brilliant Movie Endings That Give You The Finger

10. In A Violent Nature

Horror has always been a genre reliant on tropes, and nowhere more so than within the slasher film. This Canadian Art-House horror takes the subgenre and flips it on its head in more ways than one. 

First up, it is shown from the killer's perspective and the teenage victims are mostly periphery figures. Secondly, unlike the overwhelming majority of slasher films, it actually wraps things up and doesn't hint at a sequel. 

In the last fifteen minutes, the focus switches to a young woman named Kris (Andrea Pavlovic) who flees Johnny (Ry Barrett), the movie's undead killer, and eventually gets picked up by a female driver (Lauren-Marie Taylor). For the next little while, viewers will be waiting nervously for Johnny to burst out of nowhere or for this creepy woman to attack Kris, but it never happens. Instead, Kris is driven away to apparent safety and the closing shots imply that Johnny retrieved the supernatural locket he was searching for and has returned to his peaceful slumber. 

So yes, it's a totally anticlimactic ending but it's anticlimactic in the very best kind-of way, as it rejects the idea of a sequel-bait ending, a tiresome trope that's always plague slasher cinema. It's a real shame that a sequel is now in the works. It would've been much better to leave it like this.