10 Horror Movie Endings That Get Worse The More You Think About It
7. Us - Hands Across America
In a similar circumstance to a former entry, The Invitation, what starts as a satisfying end for our main family turns into a cataclysmic ending for the rest of the USA.
Us follows a family of Americans as their seemingly average vacation takes a turn for the worst. Turns out the government have been hiding "tethered" clones of every American citizen underground, and for our entertainment's sake, their years-in-the-making uprising coincides with the Wilson family holiday to Santa Cruz.
Throughout the movie, besides the scenes in the Tyler household, we only really experience the brutality of the tethered through the eyes of the Wilsons. This is for obvious reasons, as Adelaide Wilson herself has a dark and twisted past with the tethered.
So, in the end, when we see The Wilson's fight and kill their own doppelgangers and drive off into the sunrise, we are filled with relief right?
Wrong. Because as mentioned, Adelaide herself has a secret. As her son stares knowing at his mother, the audience gets to finally see what happens the day Addy went missing at the beach years earlier. That Addy that went down to the hall of mirrors is not the one that comes back, and for the whole movie we had actually been following the tethered Adelaide, who had kidnapped and stolen the life of the little girl all those years ago. Then we get to see a short but chilling glimpse at the true carnage the tethered have caused.
What is a short panoramic shot of thousands of tethered stood hand and hand across the rolling hills of America, is actually a brutal representation of the global massacre we only got a very closed perspective of. It's a chilling shot to leave off on, and it successfully sticks with you well after the end credits.