10 Recent Films That Totally Blew The Ending

This "sidequel" to the 2004 American Grudge remake is a pretty poor movie on the whole, thoroughly squandering both a talented cast and skilled director on a grimy carousel of horror tropes.

Though one gets the vague sense that writer-director Nicolas Pesce was trying to deliver a more restrained, anti-Hollywood take on the original franchise, in the end The Grudge 2020 was a shocking bore, at least until an ending arrives that's both hilarious and infuriating.

After it appears that protagonist Muldoon (Andrea Riseborough) has triumphed over the titular curse, she hugs her son Burke (John J. Hansen), only for the real Burke to appear in the hallway behind them, before Muldoon is dragged away by Fiona's (Tara Westwood) ghost.

It would've actually been refreshing for a singular indie filmmaker like Pesce to end the film without any sort of added "gotcha!" moment, but whether by his own volition or mandated by the studio, the film instead ends on a howlingly predictable, lame-as-hell final "scare."

Yet because this isn't lousy enough, the end credits then quietly roll over a static exterior shot of Muldoon's house, seeming to suggest that another scene is yet to come.

But once the movie's logo flashes up after the main credits, the shot simply fades to black and that's all she wrote. What a waste of two minutes - on top of all the rest, of course.