10 Horror Movie Trilogies That Have The WORST Endings

Once upon a time, before the string of soft reboots, there was just Wes Craven's original Scream trilogy, three films that told the story of Sidney Prescott, a young woman who can't seem to shake her ghost-face killer. Reviving the slasher movie, the trilogy put a postmodern spin on the genre's conventions, calling attention to the gaps, inadequacies and glaring errors that fans had been shouting at the screen for decades.

Scream is set in Woodsboro, California, with Ghostface - a figure with a large knife, black cloak and Edvard Munch-inspired mask - picking off high schoolers one by one around our leading lady. Following the unmasking of a pair of Sidney's classmates, Scream 2 takes us with her to Windsor College, where a new Ghostface does much the same to her university classmates, before yet another pair of killers is revealed - one the mother of one of the first film's killers. So far, so convoluted; but that's kind of the point.

Scream 3 takes place around the Hollywood set of Stab, a film replicating Ghostface's killings for a mainstream movie audience. Wah-wah. While the movie brings back Sidney and a host of other familiar faces, it fails to pack the punch of the first two, feeling tired and familiar despite the uber-meta setup. To make matters worse, the film retcons the entire trilogy by having the newly introduced and deeply pathetic villain Roman revealed as Sidney's half-brother and the instigator of all the killings from the beginning...