15 Good Horror Films That Totally Lost It By The End
4. A Tale Of Two Sisters
The Film:
A ghost story from South Korea - one of the best foreign cinemas in the world - directed by Kim Jee-woon, who directed I Saw the Devil. These particular ghosts haunt a family affected by some past tragedies. It's often seen as a 21st century horror classic, and was remade unsuccessfully in the USA (like always) as The Uninvited.
The Ending:
This has all the ingredients to be a modern horror classic. It's got strong acting, fine visuals, a great use of mise-en-scene and some effective scares. So why isn't it a horror classic? Why isn't it up there with Let the Right One In and Ring (1998) as one of the best foreign horror movies of the last 20 years?
The answer is simple: it's one of the worst bits of story-telling in recent memory. It is near-impossible to recount what actually happened in this film; it was something to do with split personalities, certain characters being hallucinations and a death from the past which is only actually shown at the very end.
It's conveyed in an extremely confusing manner and it's all entirely jumbled up and out of order. When the big twists hit, you won't notice them since you're already trying to piece everything else together to work out what the hell is going on.
A proper explanation isn't provided until the end, but by that point you're unlikely to care. Sadly, the incomprehensible narrative does drag the film down.