10 Sci-Fi Movie Endings No One Understands

Now, most of the entries on this list do have explanations which can untangle their initially impossible-to-decipher meanings. But your guess is as good as ours on 1979’s The Black Hole and its strange, surreal closing coda.

Your interpretation is as good as the director’s, too, as the film’s creators admitted they never had an ending in mind when working on this Disney flop.

All that can be said for sure is that yes, our heroic captain finds her father’s long-lost spaceship near a black hole and decides to board the vessel in order to solve the mystery behind his disappearance. But from thereon out, trippy seventies sci-fi psychedelia takes over proceedings, and maintains a stranglehold on the plot until the infamously enigmatic ending of this one.

No matter the elasticity of your interpretation, all that appears to be clear is that yes, the characters enter and later leave (what looks like) hell through the titular black hole at the film’s close.

The film then sees its characters plunging toward a faraway star that... might be Heaven? Might be the way back home to Earth? Might just be a star?