20 Horror Movies That Revealed TOO MUCH
Sometimes less is better.
While it's important for the audience to not feel short-changed by the end of a horror movie - or any movie, really - there's also always the potential for filmmakers to end up revealing too damn much for their own good.
Sometimes less can be more, and by overwhelming the viewer with information and visuals, it can actually end up detracting from the impact of a scene or even the overall story. And that's absolutely the case with the following 20 horror films, each of which ultimately revealed way, way too much to us all.
Perhaps they gave away the backstory of a classic genre villain who was better left mysterious, or showed something that could never live up to the image in our own minds, or simply got greedy and tried to get away with one plot twist too many.
Whatever the reason, these films all would've benefitted from pulling back the reins and giving us a little less, as just might've helped them out in the long run.
It's often said that subtlety is for cowards, but there is such a thing as giving the audience too much.
20. The Strangers - Chapter 2
The entire point of The Strangers franchise is right there in the title - the antagonists are strangers who neither the victims nor the audience ever learn much about, and whose motives amount to nothing more than pure random sadism.
The recent The Strangers - Chapter 2 decided to toss this mantra away by offering up a wholly unasked-for deep dive into the backstories of two of the masked killers, Pin-Up Girl and Scarecrow.
Through laughable flashback sequences that reek of "we added this in reshoots," we learn that, as a child, Pin-Up Girl beat another girl, Tamara, to death at school in a fit of jealous rage over her friendship with the boy who would become Scarecrow.
Beyond needlessly pathologising the villains from their youth, it also lent a totally pointless origin story to the Strangers' iconic catchphrase, "Is Tamara home?," which is revealed to be a knocking game played by Tamara and Scarecrow at school.
When a franchise is coming up with fresh nonsense like this, you know it's totally run out of juice.