4 Confusing Horror Movie Endings Explained

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  • Опубліковано 17 сер 2024
  • There are plenty of horror movies that don’t like to show you everything, leaving some of the scariest moments to your imagination. Many of these will have endings that didn’t quite make sense the first time you saw them, and you might have left the film confused instead of horrified. However, all the details you need are right there in the films, and we’ve got the explanations of their final shots for you.
    From the infamously perplexing final photograph in The Shining to the symbolism of Jacob’s Ladder, let’s take a look at the explanations of four confusing horror movie endings.
    #Horror #Movie #Film
    The Shining | 0:00
    Jacob's Ladder | 1:32
    In the Mouth of Madness | 2:36
    Let the Right One In | 3:56
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  • @horrorveronica724
    @horrorveronica724 7 років тому +213

    I've always interpreted the end of The Shining as though Jack became a part of Overlook after he died. So he would be a ghost there as well.

    • @jontraz5993
      @jontraz5993 6 років тому +19

      Veronica Sandström that is correct. I highly recommend reading the book and also the sequel, Dr sleep. Jack Torrance became part of the evil that resides in Overlook, as he let it manipulate his mind.

    • @ashakydd1
      @ashakydd1 5 років тому +8

      I personally read the ending of The Shining as Kubrick saying "all of this has happened and it will happen again", like Jack's spirit is forever trapped in this loop of horror.

    • @laneythelame
      @laneythelame 4 роки тому +1

      Same

    • @jontraz5993
      @jontraz5993 2 роки тому

      @Dalaileah he didn't say that. He didn't appreciate Kubrick's take and rewriting and artistic freedoms he applied. He changed key aspects to King's dismay but he didn't detest it with his whole being, man 🙄

    • @jontraz5993
      @jontraz5993 2 роки тому

      @Dalaileah hahaha the Simpsons parody was so good! 😂 Did you also see the Family Guy parody of Shawshank Redemption? 😂

  • @meagan8631
    @meagan8631 7 років тому +406

    Isn't the Shining ending supposed to mean he's stuck in the hotel forever with the rest of them?

    • @WAVP371
      @WAVP371 6 років тому +3

      Meagan Rose Yes exactly...

    • @yamatoingramtv2285
      @yamatoingramtv2285 6 років тому +16

      Jake Mealue because he's always been the caretaker

    • @maggyfrog
      @maggyfrog 5 років тому +12

      well, it could be the case that:
      - jack has always been the caretaker / the evil in the hotel
      - jack was just another viable soul collected by the evil in the hotel
      - the same thing happens over and over in the hotel, but played out by different people throughout the years, the host in the last photo who looks just like jack could simply mean that jack is playing a role that has always existed in the hotel but he's not literally the host in the photo.
      - the timeline / continuity in the hotel isn't linear and that all the evil are happening at the same time, hence all the evil and creepy things that are juxtaposed with one another from different decades.
      - the hotel is playing tricks on the people and making them snap, just to see who falls for the trap and gets trapped in the hotel. it just needs some kind of conflict or schism to create all the distortions and make the people turn on one another. rinse, repeat.
      there are all sorts of theories out there. i can't list them all. but i think here are some that could explain the movie.

    • @Nostalgio
      @Nostalgio 5 років тому +2

      You got it.

    • @washburn11000
      @washburn11000 5 років тому +2

      Yes lol

  • @GaryBarker-cartoonist
    @GaryBarker-cartoonist 7 років тому +395

    This clip should be titled 'films that confused audiences because they had to actually think and instead of just being spoonfed'

  • @Looper
    @Looper  7 років тому +55

    What other horror movie endings confused you?

  • @graytlo
    @graytlo 7 років тому +71

    That...didn't explain The Shining at all. It was ONE fan theory.

  • @jackoo666
    @jackoo666 7 років тому +301

    you didnt explain anything about the shining lol

    • @icry8020
      @icry8020 6 років тому +2

      Jackson Langford ikr

    • @Mant111
      @Mant111 6 років тому +53

      It's also painfully clear what happens in the end. Jack fails and dies and goes to join the other damned ghosts of the hotel. Easy.

    • @lisaleone2296
      @lisaleone2296 6 років тому +21

      Jack was one of the souls trapped there. Reincarnated but doomed to live out the same fate.

    • @nkirukaj2384
      @nkirukaj2384 6 років тому

      Because he doesn’t know

    • @tokiwartooth7809
      @tokiwartooth7809 6 років тому

      agreed.

  • @kadiebeex
    @kadiebeex 6 років тому +5

    Jacobs ladder Ending in my opinion : HE NEVER LEFT VIETNAM. THE SEQUENCES WE SEE WHEN HE IS IN NEW YORK ARE A DREAM HE HAS AFTER BEING INJURED IN THE WAR(what we see at the start) and all those demons he sees are actually a reminder to him to face the fact he is dying, because he's trying to imagine living in the future and surviving but the discomforts and disturbing things he sees are projected to remind him this isn't real,
    he switches between the actual past reality of him with his wife and kids and then with his new girlfriend, like dreams do, constantly switching realities, and this is actually explained in the movie by the doctor / science guy who says when you hold onto life even though you're dying, you'll see demons, but when you face the fact you are dying and stop holding on to life, they're actually angels trying to save you, and take you to heaven, that's why the ladder/staircase appears and his son comes to take his hand leading him up the stairs. so it's the film is basically a dying dream
    ..... there's more in depth explanations online but that's what I gathered.

  • @quinnrollen
    @quinnrollen 7 років тому +33

    Jacob's Ladder is one of the best, creepiest horror movies of all time, next to The Exorcist.

    • @guccigucci5002
      @guccigucci5002 7 років тому +1

      lmao the exorcist? you havent seen much scary movies. jacobs ladder also isnt even top 10

    • @julz3tt3
      @julz3tt3 7 років тому

      Agreed. it's well acted and very good

    • @theScytheofGod
      @theScytheofGod 7 років тому +8

      People don't understand history, so let me explain. The 1970's is when horror movies changed. If you were born before then and watched the movie as a child or even an adult, it was the scariest movie ever.
      40 years later, they make 10 possession movies a year, but this was the first, and so no other movie of its type can even compare. And the same principle applies to all other horror movies.
      No horror movies are actually scary anymore and haven't been for decades, simply for the fact that it's all been done before, and we know, most of the time, exactly what's going to happen.
      That movie fucked me up as a child, and gave me nightmares well into college, and is the reason I love and sometimes write horror movies today. History lesson over.

    • @quinnrollen
      @quinnrollen 7 років тому +1

      Adam K What do you recommend?

    • @guccigucci5002
      @guccigucci5002 7 років тому

      Quinn Rollen start off with "sinister" if you like that, which you will, message me back for more

  • @mgoodmanjoe
    @mgoodmanjoe 7 років тому +59

    why is looper so terrible at explaining the endings of movies?

    • @benjames4063
      @benjames4063 6 років тому

      dale looper is my dad

    • @shek431
      @shek431 4 роки тому

      IKR! HE IS SO BAD!

    • @shek431
      @shek431 4 роки тому +1

      @@benjames4063 sure...

    • @knuckle12356
      @knuckle12356 2 роки тому

      Ive got a few theories...

  • @jedaaa
    @jedaaa 7 років тому +28

    There's nothing complicated about the ending to Jacobs ladder!!!.....
    the movie only works BECAUSE the ending makes things clear!
    up until the ending the rest of the film is confusing and dissorientating
    and the ending spells out what happened. LITERALLY spells things out!!!
    Why is this in the list ?
    but hats off to you for including 'Let the Right one In'
    such an overlooked film.

    • @mrgault100
      @mrgault100 7 років тому +1

      That's exactly what I thought! It was clear as hell as to me when I saw it at the theater ages ago! Great movie, I thought. None of these actually were very confusing at all, really.

    • @jedaaa
      @jedaaa 7 років тому +4

      yeah, for years it was one of the only horror films i found genuinely disturbing.
      it just peels you apart like an onion. love it.

    • @ncshuriken
      @ncshuriken 7 років тому

      That was my first thought exactly. There was nothing confusing about the end of Jacobs Ladder. Its the ending that ties the whole film TOGETHER so IMO its only confusing if you MISSED the ending because you were in the kitchen making a cup of tea! Yea it was a brilliant movie, one of my all time faves!

  • @EmeraldCave1
    @EmeraldCave1 5 років тому +4

    Jacob's Ladder had an ending I figured out the second time I watched it. He was leaving his body when going up those stairs. It actually got me to cry at the end.

  • @maxb9167
    @maxb9167 7 років тому +12

    For The Shining I like to believe that the curse of the Overlook Hotel keeps the souls of those it takes, and that's why Torrance is in the photo. He's become just another miniscule part of the history to stay.

  • @JakeDriver
    @JakeDriver 7 років тому +113

    The guy doing voice over for this video sounds alot like dexter manning.

    • @6151jeppe
      @6151jeppe 7 років тому

      it's probably him then..

    • @JakeDriver
      @JakeDriver 7 років тому +1

      Irrelevant Couldn't find out so not a clue.

    • @VaultMike
      @VaultMike 7 років тому +2

      On Dexters twitter account the pinned tweet shows you a youtube playlist with all the videos he was a part of but aren´t on his channel there you can see this was acutally the 13. time he narrated a video on looper ^^

    • @astove6624
      @astove6624 7 років тому +1

      VaultMike thank you

    • @farmerwithashotgun8523
      @farmerwithashotgun8523 6 років тому

      +VaultMike dam

  • @r3v4n21
    @r3v4n21 7 років тому +47

    Jacobs Ladder is a bit tricky because the theory that Jacob died in Vietnam in 1971 isn't completely solid.
    Near the end of the movie Jacob sits in a taxi and the driver has a sticker from the 1972 "Nixon Now" presidential campaign on his dashboard. It's a blink and you miss it detail that changes everything.

    • @SexyButCurious
      @SexyButCurious 7 років тому +11

      revan21 Interesting. I have to watch the film again to catch it.

    • @saucethaboss1011
      @saucethaboss1011 7 років тому +6

      a thought had even ran through my mind as he is dying but is just literally trippin. Our body produces tha most powerful hallucinagin dmt and it is released wen we die. Who knows if this really happens but i do. So maybe he is just havin a horrible trip on his way out idk.

    • @cajuncoonass5053
      @cajuncoonass5053 7 років тому +2

      I think the drug they use in Jacobs Ladder is really about agent orange because many veterans are have long term effects from it. like my dad. it's a terrible chemical

    • @Al_Bundy_1966
      @Al_Bundy_1966 7 років тому +1

      You don't need to catch that.
      It's been a while since I've watched it but I remember taking issue with the fact there were certain things he couldn't have recounted about his friends or certain events he did recount which would've been impossible if he had died before those events happened.

    • @r3v4n21
      @r3v4n21 7 років тому +1

      It could very well be that "The Ladder" is a methaphor for agent orange. There is a cut scene in whch Jacob gets the antidote for his hallucinations from the chemist who made The Ladder. It was cut out because it was too intense and disturbing for test audiences.
      While I haven't seeen Jacob's Ladder (Im saving it up for Halloween), I watched a very well done video on UA-cam about it. The channel is called RagnarRox. I suggest everyone who is interested in finding out what the movie is about, or at least hear one good explanation, to watch the video

  • @pendragonshall
    @pendragonshall 7 років тому +12

    I honestly didn't know they were confusing to people??
    The Shining for example. He's in the picture because he's ALWAYS been the caretaker..
    Jacob's ladder. Great surprise ending with him reconciling and finding his way to Heaven.
    The mouth of madness.. I suppose maybe this one. I was under the impression he was the authors last bit of sanity and this was all in the authors mind. His "sanity" knows if you read the book or watch the film you go insane. So he gives in and watches the film.

  • @Tetrahcodom
    @Tetrahcodom 7 років тому +29

    In the Mouth of Madness was Clive Barker's nod to Lovecraft and King. The author title font is like King's but the titles are a play on Loveraft stories. ie In the Mouth of Madness is a play off of In the Mountains of Madness and Hobbs End Horror is a play off of The Dunwich Horror, etc. Obviously the deities from Sutter Caine's books are a play off of the Cthulhu Mythos character's. It's the best Lovecraft movie made to date.

  • @NicolasSilvaVasault
    @NicolasSilvaVasault 5 років тому +2

    jacob's ladder is one of my favorite films ever, and the ending was shocking, mostly because i didn't knew about that scene where he literally dies, meaning that all he saw was part of the journey from hell to purgatory and lastly to heaven when he meets his son, that particular scene wasn't there when i watch it the first time, only the scene where he meets his son and then a prologue says the whole thing related to drugs in vets and stuff like that

  • @rockthestrand
    @rockthestrand 7 років тому +57

    How is Jacob's Ladder confusing to anyone?

    • @blondwiththewind
      @blondwiththewind 6 років тому +5

      It's been quite a while since I saw the movie....but as I recall I was VERY impressed with it. I also remember that there were several possible meanings of the ending. There's a lot of background detail that could support any of the three possible endings that I still recall. In any event: I don't think I've ever heard of the actual makers of the movie state which ending is the correct one. A lot of these supposedly proposed "endings" are just other people's opinions......unless it is based on the author's work, or statements from the producers of the film.

    • @Fat_Vegan
      @Fat_Vegan 5 років тому +6

      Great film. He was near death and saw both heaven and hell.

    • @danielw.7705
      @danielw.7705 4 роки тому +5

      @@blondwiththewind There are NO other possible endings. Everything that happened in the movie after Jacob is rescued happened in his mind. He kept fighting for his life, refusing to die, it wasn't until the chiropractor told him that once he accepted what was happening the demons would become angels. Jacob died in Vietnam, he never came back home. And after be died the army medic said he put up one hell of a fight.

    • @lauriesmith4575
      @lauriesmith4575 4 роки тому +1

      Is it good? It's one of only a few movies I haven't watched, I'm planning on watching it tomorrow.

    • @walterbarber2482
      @walterbarber2482 3 роки тому

      Well; to anyone who hasn't seen the film at least two or three times. Enjoyable, but waaay too disconnected and obtuse

  • @jimartymcfly5061
    @jimartymcfly5061 7 років тому +18

    the ending of Jacobs Ladder was the clearest part of the movie, everything up till then is what was confusing but the ending is what made you go "ooh, that makes scenes". i watched it for the first time yesterday IT WAS SO GOOD.

    • @danielw.7705
      @danielw.7705 4 роки тому +2

      I watched it for the first time 2 days ago. And I was surprised that there were people who commented that PTSD had caused Jacob's hallucinations. -_-

    • @shaungreen4756
      @shaungreen4756 4 роки тому

      Good film, all will be revealed at the end. 👍👍👍

  • @glenaladar
    @glenaladar 7 років тому +14

    Let the right one in is one of my favorite movies ever

  • @andrewquick4176
    @andrewquick4176 6 років тому +30

    How do people do not know what the ending of The Shining mean
    He’s become part of the hotel..
    ITS NOT BLOODY HARD

    • @maggyfrog
      @maggyfrog 5 років тому +3

      that's not the part that confuses people. yea, obviously he became a part of the hotel.
      but...
      was he always a part of the hotel? hmm? there's that last photo shown with the host conspicuously looking exactly like jack torrance, and it was taken from the early history of the hotel.

    • @Blorp52
      @Blorp52 4 роки тому +2

      Well the way Kubrick put it was that jack was a wandering soul that finally made it back home in the end

  • @theskoolmustard00
    @theskoolmustard00 7 років тому +167

    The Shining ain't that confusing

    • @jhnsn1485
      @jhnsn1485 7 років тому +13

      The Skoolmustard then explain please, cause I've heard a bunch of different theories about the ending

    • @adamgray1753
      @adamgray1753 7 років тому +12

      I'm with you, Skoolmustard. The Shining isn't that confusing.
      My two theories on the ending to The Shining:
      1. Jack was always owned by the Hotel no matter what. He indeed lived during the time when that lobby photo was taken, but the Jack in the movie is reincarnated as he somehow got away from the Hotel. In the end, the Hotel won and Jack is forever trapped in the Hotel as one of it's many, many guests.
      2. Jack simply went on a murder and highly destructive spree after having a complete psychotic break from nothing more than having malicious ghosts and the single worst case of cabin fever ever. Because Jack goes off and does precisely what the ghosts told him to do without much of a fight at any given time, then up and tries to murder his family in the Hotel and then unsuccessfully tracks them in the Hotel Maze. So when Jack freezes to death the Hotel then owns Jack's soul once and for all.
      The lobby photo where Jack is in the foreground of most likely showcases literally everyone the Hotel successfully has as "guests". Chances are the reason why Jack is in the foreground is his sheer willingness to murder his family. So with that in mind everyone in the photo is positioned based on their willingness to follow the Hotel's orders, and/or importance to the Hotel itself

    • @benjames4063
      @benjames4063 6 років тому

      Yes it is grow up

    • @Mant111
      @Mant111 6 років тому +3

      It's a haunted hotel dude. Jack loses it due to the seclusion, oppressive environment and the ghosts actively pushing him to insanity. Eventually he snaps and tries to kill everyone, fails, and goes to join the other ghosts of the hotel.

    • @Mant111
      @Mant111 6 років тому

      ...what?

  • @mrdth1987
    @mrdth1987 7 років тому +31

    Let The Right One In is one of the best books out of the 21st Century

    • @lonniedwayne576
      @lonniedwayne576 6 років тому +1

      Darren Turner, Agreed. My favorite book and one of my top favorite movies. Along with the remake. I like them both.

    • @triciac6531
      @triciac6531 5 років тому +1

      And Hakan definitely didn't start helping Eli in his childhood :/

  • @existenceisrelative
    @existenceisrelative 7 років тому +143

    Eli wasn't a girl, he was a castrated boy.

    • @KevinR1138
      @KevinR1138 7 років тому +22

      existenceisrelative
      Yes there are several "confusing endings" listed here that I don't think he quite gets. Ellie was a castrato which partially explains the older man with the younger "girl/boy" set up from history past with the vampire angle folded in.
      Jacobs ladder was also about the LSD experiments performed on troops during the war which had been widely speculated upon since the end of the war.
      In the mouth of madness is a harder nut to crack, I didn't get the impression that he was always a character in the story from the beginning just that Sutter Cain had merged reality with fiction to the point where he forced Sam Neill into becoming a character in his book that's replacing reality.
      And the shining ending I don't understand all the speculation on, the hotel possessed him and eventually absorbed him along with all the other people over the years that it had "taken".

    • @miked9466
      @miked9466 7 років тому +3

      I thought that was the book, not the movie. I know movies are based off books but sometimes they change things a bit. Or was it in the movie too.

    • @existenceisrelative
      @existenceisrelative 7 років тому +16

      Mike Dobinson Next time you watch the movie, watch for the line "I'm not a girl". They leave it unexplained in the first movie, spell it out explicitly in the book, and completely change it in the remake.

    • @miked9466
      @miked9466 7 років тому +9

      OH, I have noticed that but I thought they were trying to explain that she/he is not human. I see what that means now. THANK YOU

    • @existenceisrelative
      @existenceisrelative 7 років тому +1

      Mike Dobinson I think that was part of it. Because it's still included in the remake where the vampire is a girl.

  • @GardenOfLucius
    @GardenOfLucius 7 років тому +49

    Ely wasn't a girl though..

    • @henrik8386
      @henrik8386 7 років тому

      Lucius Blackwood lol yes she was

    • @francoburciaga5912
      @francoburciaga5912 7 років тому +14

      he was a boy, but they cut his dick

    • @henrik8386
      @henrik8386 7 років тому +1

      Franco Burciaga lol nah she was a vampire so she didnt have a vagina or a dick

    • @GardenOfLucius
      @GardenOfLucius 7 років тому +17

      Zero well, actually it was manually cut off.. so you're wrong lol

    • @MultiJustloveme
      @MultiJustloveme 7 років тому +17

      Henrik in the book and a throwaway scene in the movie you hear "I'm not a girl" and can see a scar running across where the genitals would be. As far as I know it's not a vampire stereotype to castrate new blood suckers

  • @andrewsmith74
    @andrewsmith74 7 років тому +5

    You don't explain how Jack Nicholson's character could have been photographed in 1921. There's no indication that the 1980 film The Shining was set in the past, so how could a man who was in his early 40s in 1980 have been an adult in 1921? He wouldn't have been born.

  • @rosekruegger
    @rosekruegger 5 років тому +2

    I was searching about other final of movie, but you made me to watch "in the mouth of madness" and omg its really amazing

  • @somberrose85
    @somberrose85 7 років тому +5

    jack torrence was always the care taker...there u have it

  • @guibox3
    @guibox3 6 років тому +1

    Jacob's Ladder messed with my mind so badly. Still one of the craziest psychological mind f*** movies I've ever seen. And a damn good one too.

  • @IzumiSafi
    @IzumiSafi 7 років тому +2

    For the shining ending, I think I can explain it on how "Hotel" season of AHS was inspired by it in a sense that the "hotel" is in a state where it houses/trap souls throughout time, by the end where johnny died, his soul was accepted by it and therefore acknowledges him.

  • @CharlieJLiu
    @CharlieJLiu 7 років тому +19

    Why explain 'let the right one in' and still call him Oscar's girlfriend?

  • @lubbi0156
    @lubbi0156 6 років тому +11

    You can't explain The Shining, thats a movie where the only think you can do is interpretate it yourself. And I would say the same thing about Jacob's Ladder even though it's not as big it's still a movie you need to see to understand and think for yourself when it comes down to it all.

    • @Mant111
      @Mant111 6 років тому

      It's really clear what happens at the end of The Shining, especially if you read the book from which it was inspired.

  • @viktorreznov4803
    @viktorreznov4803 7 років тому +57

    Can't Wait to watch old man logan.

  • @leongodhania1335
    @leongodhania1335 7 років тому +6

    When did Dex start narrating looper :0?

  • @ncshuriken
    @ncshuriken 7 років тому +1

    Jacobs Ladder didn't have a confusing ending, unless you didn't pay attention. The film actually made it quite clear what was going on, especially at the end. Again, I think that films conclusion would only be confusing if you didn't WATCH the conclusion lol.
    If you want confusing, check out Lost Highway. Its a time loop, or is it?

  • @manhuntAC
    @manhuntAC 7 років тому +6

    The only thing about let the right one in, is that the vampire girl is actually a dude

  • @theScytheofGod
    @theScytheofGod 7 років тому +1

    Let the right one in: the novel explains that Ely WASN'T a little girl, but a boy who had been castrated by the vampire who turned her. In the movie, they only hint at it, especially with the scar over her "vagina".

  • @BooGulley
    @BooGulley 7 років тому +4

    Instead of the endings.. how about the whole movie? cause Dreamcatcher was pretty damn confusing

  • @dorianthegray253
    @dorianthegray253 6 років тому +1

    Eli makes it clear in both the book and the Swedish film that in spite of the fact he was castrated he does not identify as female. He also recruited Hakan as an adult to pass as a parental figure but was dissatisfied with the arrangement because Hakan was needy and jealous.

  • @nathanbeer3338
    @nathanbeer3338 6 років тому

    I actually believe that Jack Torrance was in the picture because as Delbert Grady told Jack "You've always be the caretaker here". Jack Torrance was always the caretaker and inside him always lived the Indian spirit which hunted that hotel, searched for any family which had a child who shines as it did to Grady who killed his daughters who also shined and tried to set the hotel on fire to break the unending chained murders but had no availed and so I believe that Tony was a child who once shined and was killed in the hotel by his father who had the redrumous Indian spirit in him, Tony can discuss with Danny without ever opening his mouth.

  • @aleksandrdowd
    @aleksandrdowd 7 років тому +2

    "Stay" pretty much ripped off Jacobs ladder

  • @Jellycakelap
    @Jellycakelap 5 років тому

    Jacob's Ladder is "Occurance At Owl Creek Bridge".
    In the Mouth of Madness is a Roman a Clef of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth".
    Let The Right One In's ending is "Renfields are hard to replace."

  • @arserobinson7118
    @arserobinson7118 5 років тому

    Jacob lived with the guilt of his child dying, for which he blamed himself and he was afraid of dying hence the visions and demons that accursed him. He receives Gabe's forgiveness at the bottom of the staircase and is finally able to conquer his fear of dying, the demons disappear and the bright light appears. The very last scene he ascends "Jacobs ladder" with Gabe finally able to "let go" of his life and die in peace.

  • @MegaDoom89
    @MegaDoom89 6 років тому +5

    Man was i the only one who liked "in the mouth of madness" and got its twist ending? Everybody i've showed that film to have all said "it's boring" "the acting is atrocious and the ending is nonsensical"

  • @bleachsanchoblastk
    @bleachsanchoblastk 7 років тому

    God the ending to the book version of the shining is much better. It's a final parallel between Jack's self destructive anger and the real life dangers of maintaining a hotel in bleak, isolated winter. The book is a masterpiece, and even though I love the movie, I consider them to be completely separate works.

  • @Fat_Vegan
    @Fat_Vegan 5 років тому +1

    Jacobs ladder wasn’t confusing. He was dying and was stuck between life and death. He saw both heaven and hell.

  • @illXplicit
    @illXplicit 7 років тому

    DEX!!!! Congrats on new work!!!!

  • @santiagoslaby7578
    @santiagoslaby7578 7 років тому +19

    "In the end he goes to the light, meaning he´s dead" - holy fuck, americans really need this kind of explanation...

    • @peepslostsheep
      @peepslostsheep 7 років тому +10

      No, not really. I don't know anyone who didn't understand that about the film. I don't know who made that list, but several things were obvious, and not at all confusing.

    • @TrackerRoo
      @TrackerRoo 7 років тому +3

      There are people in America who think chocolate milk comes from brown cows. Sadly they need all the explanation they can get.

    • @astroturfmatador9119
      @astroturfmatador9119 6 років тому +4

      So, are you saying that strawberry milk doesn't come from pink cows? NOOOOOOOooooo...

    • @JT-lw1oh
      @JT-lw1oh 6 років тому +3

      Whoa I didn’t know this channel was only meant for Americans!? C’mon Santiago

  • @GenericProtagonist7
    @GenericProtagonist7 3 роки тому +1

    I want to mean whoever was "confused" by these endings, their IQ must be staggering.

  • @pepsicola3498
    @pepsicola3498 7 років тому +3

    The ending Kubrick agreed with was Jack was a reincarnated form of the man in the photo. Generations repeat. Delbert Grady, the butler, said Jack was always the caretaker. And he was always the butler.

  • @silverkiss37
    @silverkiss37 7 років тому

    Great video!!

  • @psychedelichere3930
    @psychedelichere3930 7 років тому +2

    looper I don't understand the ending of chuckey

  • @VanLat7
    @VanLat7 7 років тому

    Well I saw The Shinning back in 1980 and what I deduce about the end is that the character of Jack is that he lived there before and he was re-incarnating sometimes in order to continue killing , remember the line when the bartender from the old days told Jack "you've been always here since day one" , besides remember that according to the movie it said that the Hotel-Cottage was build on top of a Native Indian Burial place so it was indeed a doomed place

  • @badfox1962
    @badfox1962 6 років тому

    Excellent,thank you.

  • @ObscuredByTime
    @ObscuredByTime 6 років тому

    Everyone seems to think they understand the ending to The Shining. Newsflash: even Kubrick never understood it. He once admitted to a friend that he just tacked it on as a sort of "finisher," to end the movie on a note of mystery and make people talk. Hey, keep talking!

  • @PearlTheSpinster
    @PearlTheSpinster 3 роки тому

    In the Shining I always thought he was in the picture because he alone or the family was trapped in some loop, and they are doomed to repeat being at the hotel until something happens. Since it is just him in the photo, maybe he is some crazed demon serial killer trapped in the loop, and no matter the century, he finds a family or people or whatever and starts slicing and dicing. Those twins were probably his daughters in another life. Perhaps that group picture was a party that he had when he murdered all of his guests, which would explain the mass of blood coming from the elevator.

  • @Ghostie_pal
    @Ghostie_pal 6 років тому

    My theory for the shining is that since he died at the hotel his spirit joins with the hotel. So he was added into the group picture, because his spirit lives there now.
    Second, I think that maybe he came back after dying in 1921 and was naturally drawn to the hotel, where his old tendencies came back.
    Third, I think he became possessed with a spirit in the hotel, maybe a relative or something.
    These are just some theories I thought about.

  • @Rob2068
    @Rob2068 5 років тому

    In The Shining, jack was reincarnated. He was at the hotel is a past life and when he returned in a new life the hotel claimed him again. I didn’t think it was all that hard to understand.

  • @McGriddle69
    @McGriddle69 7 років тому

    Oh hey Dex. didn't expect you to do stuff for looper

  • @KpK1Cioby
    @KpK1Cioby 6 років тому

    Wow such explanations. So complicated to understand. Wow

  • @RustyRuh
    @RustyRuh 7 років тому +5

    ''girlfriend''

  • @WhatdidijustwatchHorror
    @WhatdidijustwatchHorror 7 років тому

    IIRC Eli is short for Elias and he was a little boy who was castrated before being made into a vampire, in the book. That is why he keeps saying "I'm not a girl." Harkan "loved" Eli because he was a pedo.

  • @hays76
    @hays76 5 років тому +1

    You sold Jacobs Ladder short af.

  • @EricaDennis88
    @EricaDennis88 6 років тому

    Let the right one in, Eli is discovered in the end of the film, is in fact a boy who was castrated before he was turned into a vampire.

  • @serpentsepia6638
    @serpentsepia6638 6 років тому

    The screenplay for Let Me In (American version) was written before the Swedish version, but was made a year after the Swedish version's release. So it's not really a remake, just a Swedish version and an American version, both of which the writer approved.

  • @Slarti
    @Slarti 6 років тому

    You missed one of the most important characters in Jacob's Ladder - the chiropractor.
    In the movie the chiropractor suggests that what appear as demons are sometimes those aspects that are freeing you.

  • @joeneway
    @joeneway 6 років тому

    The Shining is actually Jacks novel...note how Gradys kids were 8 and 10 but we see them as twins(novel form)and one is named Charles Grady and the other is Delbert Grady(novel),he went there to write a book and thats what we see...he never went crazy or died in the snow...all part of his novel.

  • @hays76
    @hays76 5 років тому +1

    Jacobs Ladder is not TOO confusing if you pay attention and have a decent grasp on certain religious ideas. Also, knowing some history and psychology doesn't hurt.

    • @hays76
      @hays76 5 років тому

      I went into Jacobs Ladder having heard a bit about it, and I figured I'd be shook afterward, but the ending, to me, was relieving. "If you're afraid of dyin, and you're holdin on, you'll see devil's tearin your life away. But if you've made your peace, you'll see the devil's are really angels, freein yuh from the world."

  • @Maikologi
    @Maikologi 7 років тому +5

    Is this dexter manning? the narrator

    • @fyetv4887
      @fyetv4887 7 років тому +1

      lol, i think

    • @user-js5iy6mb6z
      @user-js5iy6mb6z 7 років тому +1

      I don't see Spencer begging to be narrator of a youtube video about horror movie endings! It's definitely Dex.

  • @PhantomShadow224
    @PhantomShadow224 7 років тому

    I looked up 1408 and found this video, the thing is it's not mentioned or in the list at all. And yes I checked the description: the movie im looking for came out in 2007

  • @Crash64100
    @Crash64100 7 років тому

    Ok didn't find any of these all that confusing. But, I would like to hear an explanation of " Don't Blink", if there Is one. The best I could come up with was, someone had a cool idea for a movie, but couldn't come up with an ending!

  • @ObesePuppies
    @ObesePuppies 7 років тому +1

    let the right one in is my favorite vampire / live story movie

  • @cthulhu626
    @cthulhu626 7 років тому +1

    Re: In the Mouth of Madness, the reference is H.P. Lovecraft. Not Stephen King.

  • @antoniusbritannia8217
    @antoniusbritannia8217 7 років тому +1

    Do you read Sutter Kane?

  • @jasonbean1176
    @jasonbean1176 5 років тому

    "In The Mountains of Madness" was a superb short story by Lovecraft. The film imitation had nothing to do with the original story. It's set entirely in Antarctica. Read it for yourself.:)

  • @InfiniteUmbra
    @InfiniteUmbra 7 років тому

    I just realized that Alan Wake got some of it's inspiration from In the Mouth of Madness.

  • @elizableu5104
    @elizableu5104 6 років тому

    man Jacob's Ladder was one WTF after another. It was a great inspiration for Silent Hill

  • @aidanborchert6328
    @aidanborchert6328 3 роки тому

    I thought the shining ending meant that everyone in the picture was a caretaker over the winter and tried to kill their families at one point

  • @nathanielbeven9052
    @nathanielbeven9052 4 роки тому

    Let the right one in, that little "girl" is actually a boy who was neutered. it was written in the book and even shows HIM in the shower missing privates.

  • @fatdad64able
    @fatdad64able 6 років тому

    Jacob's ladder is the type of film that really makes the hair in my neck raise.....

  • @JackalopeBunny
    @JackalopeBunny 7 років тому

    You forget the mention that in the novel Let the right one in, which I read. Eli is actually a boy. If you have not read the novel then do so. Because its really messed up. I never got to read the short novel that takes place after, but I would love too. The american release was not half bad. I enjoyed it.

  • @theFINNISHmonster1
    @theFINNISHmonster1 7 років тому +3

    Please tell your background song?

  • @chanelhenderson8460
    @chanelhenderson8460 5 років тому

    The Shining ending wasnt confusing to me. As jeeves said "youve always been the caretaker here" the hotel knew they would take Jack. the overlook took him like it did the others he became a part of thr hotel. Jacobs Ladder wasnt confusing either beautiful and heartbreaking but hes been dead the whole time like the sixth sense only more painful.

    • @arserobinson7118
      @arserobinson7118 5 років тому

      In the video he says Jack goes to hell, which he obviously doesn't because his soul is trapped in the hotel forever.

  • @solopractitioner
    @solopractitioner 7 років тому

    Jacobs Ladder is about edgewood testing , true story.
    "BZ" chemical.
    His girlfriend in the movie "Jessie?*" died of scoliosis of the liver a few years ago.

  • @connorshaw896
    @connorshaw896 7 років тому

    I think you might have missed on the Shinning. That was a real photograph from the period with Jack Nicholson's head inserted over the head of another person.

  • @kingofbubbles6220
    @kingofbubbles6220 7 років тому +7

    You guys compared pedophilia to adultery in your to catch a predator episode.

    • @blondwiththewind
      @blondwiththewind 6 років тому

      Then why did you make your comment HERE, instead of on THAT video???

  • @abrahamdeleon2445
    @abrahamdeleon2445 4 роки тому

    I interpreted the shining as Jack is a ghost who always lures ppl back to the hotel to murder them there

  • @peterpratsch2195
    @peterpratsch2195 6 років тому

    In Jacob's Ladder, the governed was testing LSD on the solders. They were attempting to create a savage killer with no remorse. Instead the solders freak out and start killing each other. This explains his out of body experience and why he keeps having such horrific hallucinations. But what do I know?

  • @mollieraye1174
    @mollieraye1174 6 років тому

    The Shining literally scarred me for life

  • @Warcrime_
    @Warcrime_ 7 років тому +3

    Oh shit whaddup Dexter Manning

  • @bubbadagger
    @bubbadagger 7 років тому

    "finishing a horror movie is like polishing a turd"

    • @hillninja
      @hillninja 7 років тому +1

      but you can roll it in glitter

  • @tinfoiltreasurer
    @tinfoiltreasurer 6 років тому

    Why has no one considered the fact that maybe everyone in the photo was an ex and dead victim of the hotels insanity and all murdered their own families too

  • @brightworld1148
    @brightworld1148 7 років тому +5

    Have a nice day. ; )

  • @justinringer7450
    @justinringer7450 6 років тому

    i always thought that Jack Torrence being in that photo ment that he was a reincarnation of the person who originally killed his family.

  • @diegomeneghello9799
    @diegomeneghello9799 6 років тому

    A LINK TO WATCH JACOB'S LADDER, PLEASE??

  • @Paul_The_Spaceman
    @Paul_The_Spaceman 5 років тому

    I think the hotel was reclaiming jacks soul, maybe he died outside it, and fate took him home.

  • @luciaseacreature8705
    @luciaseacreature8705 5 років тому

    Let Me In ... the vampire finds underdogs to care for her

  • @threeone6012
    @threeone6012 6 років тому

    Please do a retrospective on Cop And A Half.

  • @darkknightfanboy3185
    @darkknightfanboy3185 7 років тому

    I freaking love 'Let The Right One In'

  • @MrJdcirbo
    @MrJdcirbo 5 років тому

    Why did this come up in a search for Cube Zero ending? And why aren't any of the Cube movies mentioned? Talk about confusing...