10 Recent Movies That Should've Ended Earlier
2. Death of a Unicorn
Death of a Unicorn arrives at a hilarious natural stopping point when the villainous Shepard (Will Poulter) is killed by a unicorn, and the unicorns use their magical abilities to bring a dying Elliot (Paul Rudd) back to life.
As Elliot embraces his daughter Ridley (Jenna Ortega), their tender moment is interrupted by the arrival of the police.
With the unicorns nowhere to be seen, the implication is that the cops will believe Elliot and Ridley to be responsible for the many corpses littered around the Leopold family's estate.
Though this would've been a hilariously dark note on which to end the film, it actually goes on for another five minutes, with Elliot and Ridley being arrested.
As the pair are being driven to a police station, however, the unicorns return and ram the cop car off the road, implying that the cop is either dead or critically injured in the crash, allowing Elliot and Ridley to escape.
Ultimately, the arrival of the cops five minutes earlier made for a much punchier and more amusingly ambiguous finale, whereas this messy final scene only left the audience questioning things - namely, did those unicorns really just kill a totally innocent cop?
And before our final entry, know that MAJOR SPOILERS will follow for Until Dawn if you haven't seen it yet...