10 Movie Endings That Left A Sour Taste In Your Mouth

1. The Quadruple Murder - The Tribe

Ukrainian film The Tribe is one of most disturbing films in recent memory, notable for the fact that all the characters in the picture are deaf and there's no spoken dialogue.

The plot concerns a young man named Serhiy who enrolls at a boarding school for the deaf - everyone who attends and works at the school is deaf and communicates with sign language (which isn't subtitled). Before long, Serhiy is caught up with a ferocious gang and is roped into helping in their criminal activities, one of which involves pimping out two female students to truck drivers. Eventually he's betrayed and decides to take revenge.

The ending of The Tribe, then, contains the most horrifying part of the picture; after being beaten and left for dead, Serhiy enters the rooms where his assailants are sleeping and, one by one, kills them all by crushing their dressing tables on top of them. He literally goes from room to room, methodically murdering them in succession. Of course, nobody hears what's happening, which makes it all the more eerie to witness.

It's incredibly hard to get this ending out of your head as a result, and so the sour taste persists for weeks (a feeling echoed by Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw). In this case, the taste comes down to the fact that the sequence is so realistically rendered; as a human being, it's impossible not to feel utterly disillusioned having watched such a horrific act of violence take place - especially when it's done so slowly, in such an unpredictable way. Like this article? What do you make of these endings? Did they leave a sour taste in your mouth? Let us know all your thoughts on the matter in the comments section below.