10 Horror Movies That Ended Too Soon

10. World War Z

The film adaption of World War Z takes the book's highly original presentation, subtitled 'An Oral History of the Zombie War', and turns it into an action film that doesn't do nearly as much to distinguish itself from other zombie stories. It's far from an awful movie but its ending has garnered negative attention from more than a few critics.

Former UN operative Gerry Lane fights his way through hordes of zombies around the globe in his efforts to help synthetize a vaccine for the plague. After successfully completing his mission, he returns to his family in Nova Scotia and tells us in a monotone voiceover that people all over the world are now rising up against the undead.

And that's exactly the problem: we are told in a quick montage about people fighting back against the zombies and not actually shown the fighting in the detail it deserves. This makes the movie feel like it just ran out of time and decided to wrap everything up in a quick voiceover, rather than dedicating more time to exploring these new ideas.

This makes more sense when you discover that there was meant to be a climactic battle set in Moscow and filmed in Budapest, before legal issues with Hungarian authorities and weapons permits derailed the shoot. So it's no wonder that the fans felt a little robbed by this cobbled together ending they got instead.