Odd List Simon Brew Ryan Lambie 17 Feb 2014 - 06:24
Whether they're bleak, shocking or sad, the endings to these 22 movies have haunted us for years...
Warning: There are spoilers to the endings for every film we talk about in this article. So if you don't want to know an ending for a film, then don't read that entry.
It's probably best to start by talking about what this article isn't. It's not a list of the best movie endings, the best twists, the most depressing endings or anything like that. Instead, we're focusing here on the endings that seeped into our brain and stayed there for some time after we'd seen the film. The endings that provoke in an interesting way, and haunt you for days afterwards.
As such, whilst not every ending we're going to talk about here is a flat out classic - although lots of them are...
Whether they're bleak, shocking or sad, the endings to these 22 movies have haunted us for years...
Warning: There are spoilers to the endings for every film we talk about in this article. So if you don't want to know an ending for a film, then don't read that entry.
It's probably best to start by talking about what this article isn't. It's not a list of the best movie endings, the best twists, the most depressing endings or anything like that. Instead, we're focusing here on the endings that seeped into our brain and stayed there for some time after we'd seen the film. The endings that provoke in an interesting way, and haunt you for days afterwards.
As such, whilst not every ending we're going to talk about here is a flat out classic - although lots of them are...
- 2/14/2014
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
In the second of our Favourite Bond series, Philip French falls for the unselfconscious charm of Dr No: a modest thriller with Sean Connery as the tough, stylish hero
Someone once said that the best Raymond Chandler novel is the first one you read, because between the debut of Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep (1939) and his last significant appearance in The Long Good-bye (1953), the books are pretty even in quality and there's nothing quite like the initial impact of Chandler's style, Marlowe's company and their colourful southern California locale. The same is not true of his devoted follower, Ian Fleming, whose first half-dozen James Bond novels are far superior to those that followed – being more realistic, better plotted and altogether less fantastical. Casino Royale is arguably his best book, and when eventually it was filmed with Daniel Craig in 2006 (there had been a sad, jokey, non-canonical version in 1967), it...
Someone once said that the best Raymond Chandler novel is the first one you read, because between the debut of Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep (1939) and his last significant appearance in The Long Good-bye (1953), the books are pretty even in quality and there's nothing quite like the initial impact of Chandler's style, Marlowe's company and their colourful southern California locale. The same is not true of his devoted follower, Ian Fleming, whose first half-dozen James Bond novels are far superior to those that followed – being more realistic, better plotted and altogether less fantastical. Casino Royale is arguably his best book, and when eventually it was filmed with Daniel Craig in 2006 (there had been a sad, jokey, non-canonical version in 1967), it...
- 9/25/2012
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
★★★★★ The BFI follow up their release earlier this year of Volumes 1 and 2 in the classic BBC Christmas Ghost Story series with six more blood chilling tales for cold winter nights, produced by Rosemary Hill and directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark and Derek Lister. As well as three stories from the master of Victorian menace M. R. James, another period tale is included this time by Charles Dickens, as well as contemporary frighteners from Clive Exton and John Bowen.
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- 9/17/2012
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
William Peter Blatty tells Rue Morgue Magazine scribe John Bowen that it appears he'll be reuniting with ol' Exorcist chum William Friedkin on a new project, an adaptation of Blatty's latest novel "Demeter." "Dimiter, a supernatural suspense thriller set mostly in Jerusalem, is a novel that's been out and around since mid-March. Billy Friedkin is eager to direct it as a film, which would be our one and only other teaming since The Exorcist," said Blatty. Released by Forge Books earlier this year, "Dimiter" received a fair amount of praise. The publisher's synopsis can be found below. In 1973 Albania, Colonel Vlora (aka the Interrogator), the head of a team of torturers, questions the Prisoner, who the reader later learns is Paul Dimiter, an...
- 10/7/2010
- shocktillyoudrop.com
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