10 Sequels That Ruined Great Movie Endings

4. The Descent Part 2

Neil Marshall's The Descent has one of the spookiest horror endings ever. After fighting for her life in a cave full of monsters, lead Sarah claws her way to freedom and flags down a car. After a jump scare though, it's revealed that she never escaped at all, and hallucinated the victory. Instead, she's still stuck deep in the cave, with only an imagined vision of her dead daughter to comfort her, as the monsters close in.

Sadly, that ending was only included in the UK cut of the film, and the US received the 'happier' version where Sarah actually does escape. The general consensus was that the UK cut was the intended edition of the movie... but all that changed when a sequel was greenlit and brought Sarah back.

This new movie confirms the escape as canon, and then contrives a reason to put Sarah back into the cave, to endure another round of pain and suffering. It retreads everything from the original, bringing back characters just to kill them off again, and overall diluting the power that the original ending held for more of the same.