10 Sci-Fi Movies Ruined By Terrible Twists

Ah, Carnosaur. This 1993 sci fi horror adventure will always have a certain place in the hearts of viewers who wanted a Jurassic Park knock off with a lot more gore and admittedly far less convincing dinos, and it’s a testament to the power of B-movie super-producer and Tinseltown legend Roger Corman that the flick is still fondly remembered despite being, for all intents and purposes, one of the earliest pre-Asylum mockbusters.

Yes, the flick was despised by critics, with Roger Ebert going so far as to single it out as the worst film of 1995. But Ebert also hated Silent Night, Deadly Night, so it’s fair to say some flicks were simply too sophisticated for his taste, and Carnosaur is still a guilty pleasure decades later.

That is, if you ignore its brutally nihilistic and tonally bizarre ending. After a series of increasingly goofy and undeniably fun action sequences (raptors rip their way through a town! Mad scientist gives birth to super-dino monster!) our hero finally secures the safety of the film’s small Nevada town by creating an antidote to the scientist’s experimental super-virus and injecting his infected love interest with it.

That’s when the government arrive, immediately killing our hero and his love interest and dumping their bodies in a fire. The end.

There’s an ending that certainly says… Something about society…