This is actually a great topic as bad endings seriously grind my gears - Pretty much the ones that bother me the most have already been said...
Haute Tension - It felt like a ridiculously cheap cop-out for me that was absolutely unnecessary. I hate unnecessary "twists;" would have served as a straight-out serial killer/slasher film (because those bits were fantastic).
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The Last Exorcism (I found the vast majority of this film to be surprisingly entertaining, creepy and well acted, but then along comes an ending that is a completely different tone to the rest of the film and looks cut and pasted onto the end from a different movie)
Insidious (started so promisingly for me - genuinely scary and a cool idea, but then we are shown too much, and what we see is not as scary as it should have been, and the pacing seemed to be off, leaving a very poor, disappointing final act, in my opinion).
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I found the ending to Last Exorcism to be just such a big letdown... I mean, it made sense, and tried to tie things together, but it fizzled.
And Insidious is 1/3 phenomenal and 2/3 awful - Can't believe how poorly it went after it started out so strong.
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The Mist: Done differently it could have been great but i didnt like the way they went about it. He jumped to that decision way too fast for me.
The Devil Inside: Abrupt, confusing, and ends right when the movie is starting to get interesting
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HAHAHAHAHAHA - TOTALLY agree about The Mist. I found the end actually kinda laughable... WE HAVE BEEN ON THE ROAD FOR TWO MINUTES THERE IS NO OTHER WAY... Have you read the novella? It was really really good. After reading the story, the movie just sucks even more.
Agree absolutely with Devil Inside, and a lot of reviewers were saying that as well - Just started to pick up and get awesome aaaaaaaaand - Guess they ran out of money?
The Deaths of Ian Stone: Man, here's one that was 2/3 phenomenal and 1/3 awful - The end was just so so silly - It's a shame because it could have been fantastic. All I could think of was Ghost of Fabio Fighting for the Right
Tale of Two Sisters: Aggg! Again with another lame "twist"
How about the ending of this season's American Horror Story? Just found it a huge letdown...
That's it for now; I'll probably think of more later...