20 TERRIBLE Horror Movies With INSANE Endings
5. The Turning
2020's The Turning is a new adaptation of Henry James' 1898 gothic novella The Turn of the Screw, and while it's well-made and solidly acted, it's also one of the most energy-devoid studio horror movies of the past decade.
To take James' beloved source material and render it such a stamina-obliterating bore is almost impressive, no matter how many lousy jump scares are listlessly shoved into it.
And then we have the matter of the film's ending - an ending which left just about everyone watching either pissed off or confused, if not both.
Protagonist Kate (Mackenzie Davis) appears to flee the haunted house with the children she's been employed to protect, before it's revealed that this was actually just a vision, and the entire 10-minute climax we just sat through didn't really happen.
A few moments later, we then cut to Kate imagining herself in the mental institution where her mother (Joely Richardson) resides, and as she approaches a figure, said figure turns around, causing Kate to scream. Cut to black, The End.
In the five-plus years since The Turning came out, its nonsensical ending has puzzled just about everyone who's ever seen it - an apparent attempt to deliver a nerve-janglingly ambiguous finale that's really just more of an annoying head-scratcher.