10 Great Horror Films Ruined By Terrible Endings

Honestly, this movie has been spoken about so many times you all know the gist by now - the choice to use an unreliable narrator and make our protagonist the killer all along is a cheap, ineffective twist that undoes all the good work the movie sets up otherwise. There are a million things to love about this movie, but the ending isn’t one of them.

What otherwise serves as a solid horror story sees Marie and her friend Alex travel to Alex's parents house for the weekend, only to be accosted by a deranged killer that unleashes all sorts of hell on the household. The parents are killed, Alex is kidnapped, and Marie is on the hunt to find her - only for it to be revealed that Marie is delusional and has committed all the crimes we've seen throughout the movie.

This would be a fine rug pull if there were literally any thread of continuity to pull this whole thing together, but as it stands, it just doesn't make sense. You can brush it away with the excuse of an unreliable narrator in Marie, but really, it's best just to focus on the wonders (or rather horrors) of New French Extremity that take place for the majority of this excellent movie and ignore the finale completely.