10 Horror Movie Endings No One Understands

Diva director Anna Biller’s The Love Witch is a stylish and strange tribute to the colourful visual palette of seventies horror, and its blackly comic tale of the eponymous anti-heroine's bloody search for love is a subverted pastiche of both British and Italian horror tropes of the period.

So, eh, what's up with that ending then?

The film's story, which sees our heroine attempt to find love with a string of interchangeable men only to off them when she can't meet their fantasies, is an exploration of gender politics through classic horror tropes. The flick utilizes a seventies aesthetic to comment on the way the titular character is expected to conform to gendered norms throughout the story, with the outdated look representing the old fashioned views she's been conditioned to accept.

As for that strange ending sequence? It sees our heroine imagine a happy ending wherein she is an object of desire, whilst in reality her search for meaning through this external validation has doomed her and those around her to death.

The heroine retreats to her mind because she's unable to imagine a world wherein aesthetic validation isn't her sole source of self-worth, and the bloody trail left behind illustrates the brutal cost that sticking to rigid gendered norms has for society's attempts at progress.