15 Good Horror Films That Totally Lost It By The End
2. High Tension
The Film:
A film from the New French Extremity movement, this is a ridiculously gory and violent film about a truck driver who attacks a family. A friend of the family daughter tries to stop him.
The Ending:
High Tension, or Switchblade Romance as it's known outside of North America, is watchable for most of the run-time. It's devoid of character development and largely lacks suspense, but it is frightening in a brutish, intense sort of a way. The gore effects and performances are strong as well, and the film's use of Muse's New-Born is inspired. Unfortunately, the film falls apart with the twist.
If you've ever read worst plot twist lists or bad movie ending lists, this film probably appeared somewhere. Believe the hype: the twist really is as awful as they say. In fact, it could be the single worst plot twist in the history of cinema.
It's revealed that protagonist Marie was the killer all along, and the truck driver killer we'd been seeing was just a hallucination. Not only is this a completely unnecessary twist that adds absolutely nothing to the film, but it's also quite simply one of the most nonsensical things ever seen in a film. It makes absolutely no sense and given that we now no longer know which parts of the film were real or imagined, the entire story feels completely pointless.
It's better to know the twist before watching it, just in case angry viewers smash their TVs in a rage.