Horror fans have certain expectations and hopes for the ending of a movie. Hopefully, if it's a slasher, the final girl saves herself, maybe some of her friends or family, and defeats the killer. If it's a supernatural story, then the protagonist solves the mystery and figures out how to lift a curse or make an evil ghost happy.
Sometimes, a horror movie has a particularly thrilling, perfectly told, and smart ending. The film is wrapped up with no questions left unanswered and the main character is finally happy. These endings definitely stand out.
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When A Stranger Calls is a timeless 1970s horror movie and also has one of the most satisfying conclusions. Seven years after a killer murders the kids who she is babysitting, Curt Duncan (Tony Beckley) terrorizes Jill Johnson (Carol Kane). At the end of the film, Jill thinks that her husband Stephen (Steven Anderson) is in bed next to her, but instead, it's Duncan. John Clifford (Charles Durning) shows up and kills Duncan. After a harrowing experience, Jill is relieved to see that her kids are fine and her husband is in the closet but unharmed.
It's easy to like Jill and hope that everything works out okay for her, and it's nice to see that after so much pain and suffering, she and her family get a happy ending.
Kate Siegal starred in Hush, one of the most underrated 2010s horror movies, as a deaf writer named Maddie, who finds herself in terrible danger when an intruder tries to kill her. At the end of the movie, he comes into the bathroom and she scares him with her smoke alarm and insecticide. As the killer tries to strangle her, Maddie kills him with a corkscrew in his neck, a shocking and satisfying moment. Maddie sits outside her
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