20 Worst Endings In Recent Horror Movies

20. The Strangers - Chapter 2

The big hook of The Strangers franchise is that we don't know anything about the masked killers - they're simply anonymous psychopaths who only attack people "because they're home."

But in a desperate bid to justify its own existence, the recent The Strangers - Chapter 2 ill-advisedly detailed the backstory of two of its three killers, Pin-Up Girl (Ema Horvath) and Scarecrow.

At the very end of the film, after protagonist Maya (Madelaine Petsch) kills Pin-Up Girl, we cut to a flashback showing Pin-Up Girl aka Shelly as a child, where she beats a fellow student to death at school out of jealousy of her hanging out with Scarecrow.

And because this isn't needlessly revealing enough, it also gives us an origin story for the series' iconic phrase, "Is Tamara home?," which was a playground game played by Tamara - the girl Shelly killed - and Scarecrow.

Trying to give dimension to these characters is to miss the point entirely, and ensures interest couldn't be lower for the already-shot Chapter 3.