10 Movies That Ended Way Too Early

Deep Rising may have been a critical and commercial flop, but it's pretty much the textbook example of a cult classic that found an audience years later on home video.

The unapologetically schlocky action-horror flick revolves around a luxury ocean liner being attacked by a gigantic, tentacled, man-eating monster, as happens to surprise the mercenaries intending to hijack the ship.

At film's end, the three remaining survivors (Treat Williams, Famke Janssen, and Kevin J. O'Connor) seemingly destroy the monster and make it safely to the shore, only for a closing stinger to reveal that the island they've washed up on contains both an active volcano and an unseen but evidently gigantic monster.

On one hand this was clearly the filmmakers hedging their bets on a sequel, but on the other, the movie is barely 100 minutes long at this point, and there was certainly enough room for an extended horror-show climax on the island.