Top 10 endings to a movie!!!

 Top 10 endings to a movie!!!

Welcome to Camp Staystillreviews! Tonight around the campfire we're talking our top ten favorite endings to a movie. Sure there's tons. (The Mist, Empire Strikes Back, The Godfather, The Sixth Sense, Se7en, To Live And Die In LA, etc.) But what we want to focus on are films that you feel truly are the best of the best and a huge portion of that is because of the endings. Here are ours...

The Exorcist - 

For me what really packs a punch for this film is the final ten minutes. An emotional exhausted Father Karras is sent downstairs by Father Merrin while trying to perform the exorcism on Regan, a 12 year old girl who's possession has resulted in ugly sores and wounds forming on her face. When Karras returns he finds Regan has freed her from the straps holding her down in her bed, and the elderly Father Merrin dead from a heart attack on the ground. Karras tries to help Merrin, only to be mocked and laughed at by the possessed Regan. Overcome by rage, Karras jumps up, grabs Regan, and throws her to the floor shaking and punching her before screaming..."Come into me! Take me! Damn you! TAKE ME!" Suddenly the demon leaves Regan's body and goes into Karras. His eyes glow, ready to harm the poor scared and crying child left on the floor, when at the last second Karras has enough strength to fight against the demon now taking over his soul. He screams "NO!" Before throwing himself out the second story window of the bedroom before the demon takes over again to hurt Regan. Here his body goes flying down to seventy or so cement steps that lead down to the street below. His body hits every single step before falling to the ground. Hearing the screams, Regan's mother, and Lt Kinderman race upstairs to find Regan on the floor weeping, crying for her mother. Father Merrin dead on the floor, and as Kinderman approaches the broken window, horrified to find Karras body laying in a pool of blood down below at the bottom of the steep stairs, it's Regan's mother who sees the exorcism worked. As police sirens sound and people start running to Karras, his friend  Father Dyer who was just happen to be walking by, runs over stunned to kind his friend laying there. Sobbing, he holds Karras' hand and gives the dying man his last rites. A few days later the window is boarded up, and Regan and her mother are leaving Georgetown. Father Dyer comes by and  Regan's mother explains that Regan doesn't remember anything. Regan steps out, and suddenly stares at Father Dyer's priest collar. On instinct, she hugs Dyer and kisses his cheek. Before they leave, Regan's mother hands Dyer Karras' St. Christopher necklace, and leave. Here Dyer stares down at stairs that Karras had fallen down, before he runs into Lt. Kinderman. Both decide to go to the movies and walk away, leaving the townhouse behind him. 

Road To Perdition -

When it comes to one of the most beautiful endings of all time, Road To Perdition is always my first choice. After Michael Sullivan has killed the men who have been responsible behind the deaths of his wife and younger son, he feels his eldest child Michael Jr is finally safe. The two drive to his wife's sister's house in Perdition which is off the shore of Lake Michigan. It's a clear beautiful day, and they walk the beach before Michael ventures inside the house while Michael Jr plays with a dog outside. Michael walks inside and goes to the bay window which over looks the water. Suddenly he's shot twice from behind by Maguire, the crazed hitman who was originally hired to kill Michael and his son. As Michael lays there bleeding, Maguire takes his camera and photographs him when suddenly Michael Jr. appears and points a gun at Maguire, who starts to walk towards him, telling him to give him the gun. Suddenly Maguire is shot dead by Michael laying on the floor. Michael Jr. admits that he just couldn't bring himself to shoot. Michael smirks and whispers "I know..." before his son hurries over and cradles his father's head. Michael stares up at his son and says he's sorry before dying. Afterwards Michael stands on the shore, before he takes the dog and returns to the elderly couple who took Michael and his father in before. As a voiceover Michael says that his father's biggest fear was him following in his footsteps, and was actually proud he couldn't shoot Maguire, and that since then he hadn't held a gun since. As he walks with the dog towards the farm house his voiceover continues and states that when people asked if his father was a good man, he only replies "He was my father."

The Shawshank Redemption - 

Need an uplifting ending? This is your movie. A year after Andy's famous escape, Red makes parole after serving forty years. He struggles adapting to life outside of prison, working at the same market, and living in the same room at the boarding house as Brooks. Depressed, one day he remembers the promise he made to Andy shortly before he escaped, and ventures to Buxton and goes to the tree where the rock wall from Andy's story is. He finds the loose rock, and behind it is a tin can and wrapped inside is money, and a letter from Andy. He tells Red if he's reading this, he must have gotten out, and if he's gotten this far...why not go a little bit further? He asks Red if he remembers the town in Mexico Andy told him about? (Zjhuatanejo) That he could use a good man down there, and how he'll keep the chess board ready for him. In closing he reminds Red that hope is a good thing, maybe the best thing...and no good thing ever dies. Red decides to violate his parole and travel to South Texas and cross the boarder to Mexico. He finally admits over voiceover that he feels hopeful, and figures this is what a true "free" man would feel like. In the closing moments, he walks on a beautiful beach, and sees Andy working on a boat. They smile to each other and embrace. 

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood - 

Tarantino's endings have always been legendary, but this rewrite of history is one of his best. Rick and Cliff decide to finally part ways and have one last night of drinking together. They arrive back home where Cliff smokes an acid dipped cigarette that he had saved and takes his dog Brandy out for a walk. A drunk Rick stands behind making drinks. The Manson family members Tex, Sadie, Flowerchild, and Katie arrive outside, ready to murder everyone in the Tate household next door, when their loud car alerts Rick who storms out scaring them, demanding they leave the neighborhood. They drive back down the road, when suddenly it hits them they recognized  Rick from his old television show. Here Sadie comes up with the idea with instead of targeting the Tate house, why don't they murder Rick since he appeared on a TV show that featured people getting shot and killed constantly, which meant this was the show they watched as children, which taught them how to murder. The gang loves the idea and as they walk up the dark road, knifes ready, Flowerchild chickens out and steals the car driving away. Back at the house, Cliff is inside, the acid just hitting as he fixes Brandy her dinner. Outside Rick floats in his pool with his headphones on. Suddenly the front door gets kicked open and Tex and Katie charge in, as Sadie comes in through the rear door. A very high Cliff gets Brandy to attack Tex, and he throws a heavy dog food can right at Sadie's face, breaking her nose, causing her to fall to the floor screaming in pain. Cliff snaps his fingers, making Brandy to attack Sadie on the ground, before he stomps on Tex's head crushing it, before grabbing Katie and smashing her face against walls, the stone fireplace, and finally a coffee table after she attacked him resulting in him getting a knife to the hip. After he's killed her, Cliff passes out from the pain, before Sadie fires the gun she has blindly into the air, causing Brandy to run away scared. Here Sadie, a bloody screaming mess runs through a window, smashing through before falling into the pool. Here Rick who's been oblivious to the mayhem happening inside. Jumping out of the pool, he grabs his flamethrower used from a past movie of his from his shed, and fires it at Sadie who catches fire and falls back into the water dead. Afterwards the police arrive and paramedics take Cliff to the hospital. Rick tells him he's a good friend before Jay Sebring comes down the Tate driveway and invites him to have a drink with Sharon and the others. The film closes on the ending we all wished had happened. 

Sleepaway Camp -

 Want one of the most shocking endings to a horror movie ever? This is it! Ronnie and Susie, two councilors are searching for the missing campers after the horrifying discoveries found that night. The two hear humming before they reach the dark beach and see Angela, the poor shy withdrawn young girl who's just started camp for the first time this summer and has been constantly bullied and teased. She sits with her back to them Indian style stroking her boyfriend Paul's head softly humming. As the councilors approach, a flashback from Angela's mind is shown. Here her Aunt Martha who took her in after a fatal boat accident killed both her father and twin brother, welcoming her to her new home, raving about how excited she is to have a little girl finally. Here it's revealed that it was Angela, the female twin that actually died with her father, and that Aunt Martha raised Peter as his dead twin, a shocking secret that has been kept for years. Here in the present just as Ronnie and Susie approach, calling out Angela's name, she jumps up, and Paul's severed head falls to the ground. Here Ronnie and Susie stand back stunned as Ronnie says "How can it be? Oh my God she's a boy!" Here on the beach, Angela stands naked, covered in blood hissing like a wild animal, showing her male genitalia in full view. 

The Thing - 

Master of horror John Carpenter has always made great endings that stay with you long after the movie is over. In my eyes this is one of the most powerful ones. MacReady lays in the show watching the station burn after he has killed The Thing. Suddenly Child appears, saying he got lost in the storm while looking for Blair. Exhausted, and freezing to death, both men sit and stare at each other. Childs sees MacReady closely watching him and begins to tell him he isn't "The Thing". MacReady, not looking that worried simply states that both aren't in any shape to really do anything about it even if he was. Sighing, Childs looks around and says the fires won't stay lit for long, and since there's nowhere to go both will freeze and die. MacReady tells him maybe they should. Here they share a bottle of scotch and when Childs asks what should they do? MacReady tells them why don't they wait there for a while...see what happens. Here both men continue drinking as the fires continue to burn. 

Inglorious Bastards - 

Another classic by QT in which history is rewritten and the ending shot is complete perfection. The following morning after Hitler and his men have been killed in the theater explosion rewriting history, Landa and his radio operator drive Raine and Utivich into allied territory in the forest. Once Landa surrenders, Landa shoots the radio operator, and orders Utivich to scalp him. Landa stands back stunned when Raine leans in close asking him now that he's made a deal, and is planning on retiring he's probably going to change out of his Nazi uniform. Here Landa is held down as Raine carves a deep nazi symbol into Landa's forehead, causing him to scream in pain. Both Utivich and Raine stare down smiling before Raine claims this is his "masterpiece." 

The VVitch - 

A chilling twisted ending that truly seems like the beginning for another untold story. After Thomasin's family has now all been killed, she enters the stable and it's revealed that Black Phillip is in fact the devil. Here he speaks to her and asks if she would like to "Live deliciously." Off screen he transforms into a handsome man clad in black and orders Thomasin to remove her clothes and sign her name in a book. Thomasin claims she doesn't know how, in which Black Phillip replies "I shall guide your hand..." After signing the book, Thomas walks into the forest naked where she comes upon a coven of witches all dancing around a bonfire. The coven suddenly starts to levitate and laughing. Rising up into the sky Thomasin laughs as well.

Inception - 

An ending that is just as epic and as much as an adventure as the entire film you have just experienced. After the job has been completed, Cobb awakes on the plane and makes eye contact with Saito who has been mentally trapped in that dream for decades. Making the leap of faith, and joining Cobb so they can be young men again, they are now in reality and know they have successfully accomplished the overall plan. Saito makes the phone call that makes it possible for Cobb to be allowed back into the states to finally see his children after years following his wife's death. The entire team part ways before Cobb returns home. Here he spins his totem, a top before he spots his two young children who finally turn around and show their faces. Hurrying out and embracing them, the camera pans over to the top that begins to wobble before cutting too black. Dream or no dream, Cobb is finally home. 

The Exorcist III - 

Yeah I know! A sequel! But still, it really truly packs a punch and is actually quite beautiful and bittersweet as well as heartbreaking. After the exorcism on Karras, Father Morning is wounded before Kinderman arrives to the cell, and is pinned up against the wall. Here frightening images are shown, before sunlight falls in and lands on Father Morning's cross. The priest looks up at Karras and begs his him to fight. Karras stares down at the cross, before he regains himself just enough to shout to Kinderman "BILL NOW SHOT NOW KILL ME NOW!" Kinderman shoots his friend several times, before standing up, staring at the slumped body. Here Karras softly whispers that they did it, and tells Kinderman to finally finish it and free him. Pressing the gun against Karras' head and fires. Shortly after as the sun rises, a beautiful church song is heard as Kinderman watches as Karras' body is buried.

So what are your favorite endings to a movie?