10 Most Disturbing Movie Endings Of All Time
2. Audition (1999)
Director Takashi Miike has said that he wanted the first half of this film to be border-line boring to make the second half, and particularly the ending, all the more disturbing. Whilst the first half certainly isn’t boring, it doesn’t give any indication of the level of horror that awaits you in the final thirty minutes.
Much like Kill List, the story that ends the film is a very different one from the one that started it. As a result, a re-watch is necessary to unpick all of the details that now have so much more meaning and relevance. Although, unlike Kill List, some answers are as alluding as Asami Yamazaki is to obsessive Shigeharu Aoyama.
Though it is distressingly violent, the ending is more unsettling due to the ambiguity and weirdness it employs. There is a sense that what we are witnessing is not at all based in reality. Equal parts frustrating and fascinating; Audition is one of those films where just when you think you’ve figured it out, it throws you a curve ball.
In the end, you’ll almost wish you hadn’t watched it as the finale is very difficult to shake once the credits have rolled.