15 Potentially Awesome Films Undermined By Their Terrible Endings

This one was heart-breaking.

Hereditary is great for much of its run-time and makes for a brilliantly directed and hauntingly sad meditation on grief and family trauma, bolstered by an incredible performance from Toni Collette; frankly, she should've won Best Actress at the Oscars yet she wasn't even nominated.

So, at first Hereditary seemed it would join the ranks of the decade's finest horror films, until the last half hour, at which point the film collapses. Hereditary's final scenes are, to put it very, very kindly, f**king awful.

After the unsettling psychological drama the film displays before this, Hereditary abruptly introduces a coven of witches and then descends into ridiculous, unintentionally hilarious supernatural shenanigans involving beheadings, a demon possessing people and corpses flying around like they're in Mary Poppins or something.

To make matters worse, it simply isn't scary in any way and Alex Wolff's terrible performance as the protagonist's son, who is ultimately possessed by the demon the coven worships, only increases the unintentional hilarity. At the screening I was at, the entire cinema was roaring with laughter throughout the film's final act.

Hereditary would be a modern classic if not for this final half hour; now, it'll be forgotten about in a few years at most.