10 Horror Movie Trilogies That Have The WORST Endings

10. Hostel

Long before Eli Roth was making disastrous sci-fi video game adaptations, he was known as something of a splatter legend, helming the likes of Cabin Fever and, of course, Hostel. Roth helped make the sub-genre mainstream, delivering shock and gore that global audiences lapped up, despite dividing critics down the middle. 

The first film plants itself in the place Americans fear most - rural Eastern Europe - and offers up some unsuspecting backpackers to an underground torture club. Part II returns to Slovakia with a new cast, more money and a few more elaborate set pieces. Despite not being as raw, surprising or inspired as the first, and killing off the first film's only survivor early on, it manages to put enough meat on the bone to sustain the series.

Enter Hostel: Part III. Roth has jumped ship and, recognising that yet another Slovakian nightmare might put audiences to sleep, new director-writer team Scott Spiegel and Michael D Weiss transplant the action to Vegas (with half the previous film's budget). Once again, there's no character continuity, and the direct-to-video vibe is strong from the outset, featuring a bunch of TV and no-name actors. The film feels more Saw than Hostel, with room after room of yawningly "creative" kills strung together on a string-and-Sellotape plot. Needless to say, this flaccid third entry killed the franchise for good.