10 Awful Endings That Screwed Great Movies (And What Should Have Happened Instead)

4. Scream 2

It's the mother! Really? Scream 2 might be paying homage to the original Friday The Thirteenth serial killer, Mrs Vorhees, but that film wasn't any good either. The mother from the Brady Bunch turns up and runs after Alice with a knife? A reason enough to add that film to this article, except that the original Friday The Thirteenth isn't a patch of fellow slasher movie originals Halloween and Nightmare On Elm Street. Scream 2 however was a great film. A cool, sexy, slick sequel, it really had audiences jumping with shock in the cinema. The killers however were just a bit bizarre, Mrs Loomis for being over-the-top deranged and making you wonder how she could have possibly slaughtered Randy and Mickey for being a non-entity in the film up to that point. Laurie Metcalf and Timothy Olyphant were fantastic... it's just a shame about their character reveals. It's like the film didn't know who the killer(s) were and had to pick two characters at random to fill those shoes at the end. They certainly lacked the impact that the original Scream's killer-reveal had. How It Should Have Ended: Mrs Loomis shouldn't have been a killer. Instead, she should have hired Mickey to do all the work. Better still, given his own knowledge of horror movies (and their sequels), Mickey could have taken on the mantle of 'Dark Randy,' sicker and deranged than Billy and Stuart before him. After all, who better to kill uber-nerd Randy then an evil version of himself?