15 Potentially Awesome Films Undermined By Their Terrible Endings

Time for an obscure one. This is a fascinating genre-blending work from British filmmaker Carol Morley with two brilliant performances from Maisie Williams and Florence Pugh. The film concerns an outbreak of fainting at a repressive all-girls boarding school and while it largely makes for a haunting work, this is another case where it would appear the writer (Morley in this case) just didn't quite know how to end it.

After a brilliant scene in which many of the pupils faint during a school assembly, the film loses focus. The fainting outbreak isn't ever really resolved or explained while the film then randomly focuses on one of its subplots: protagonist Lydia's (Williams) troubled relationship with her mother (Maxine Peake).

After a bizarre scene in which Lydia has sex with her own brother, the mother reveals Lydia is actually a product of rape and Lydia has a complete breakdown over both this and the death of Abbie (Pugh), her best friend, earlier in the film. She then jumps from a tree into a lake, her mother rescues her, they embrace and the film ends out of nowhere.

While this resolves the mother-daughter relationship it resolves nothing else and It's probably thanks to this unsatisfying final act that the film has an unfairly low IMDb score of just 5.4.