12 Disturbing Sci-Fi Movie Endings That Haunt You
1. The Crazies
Remember Return of the Dead’s hilarious “And then the military dropped an a bomb on the cast” ending?
And Carnosaur’s “Then our heroes were merc’d by trigger happy troops” punchline?
And Night of the Living Dead’s—look, the point is, in attempting
(and succeeding) to satirise the amoral actions of America’s military and
police at home and abroad post the Patriot Act, Breck Eisner’s 2010 Romero
remake The Crazies managed to out-disturb all three of its predecessors.
The flick ends with a combination of the earlier endings mashed up together as our heroes, small town sheriff Timothy Olyphant and his love interest Radha Mitchell, escape their small home town before it's bombed into oblivion to neutralise an outbreak.
And zoom out to reveal the government is not only still tracking them, but is doing so in order to strike wherever they next arrive, murdering scores of civilians to kill two people who’ve done nothing wrong and are no danger to anyone.
Who knew the director of Sahara had it in him?