Do you have examples of movies that have a huge spike in stakes almost at the end?
Examples: Se7en, Rogue One
Please use spoilers if you want to explain why
Hereditary
From Dusk Til Dawn
Eh not really the last 15 minutes, more like the second half.
Bone Tomahawk is a great example of this even if not necessary the last 15 min. Most of the movie is a pretty ok western. Bad stuff starts happening and it’s still a pretty ok western. Then there is 1 specific scene that goes so hard, you’ll want to forget you ever laid eyes on it. Then it’s back to western movie but now you have to remember the shit you just saw 🤣
I watched this without knowing anything about it, & the flip of tone took me totally by surprise. Will never forget ‘that scene’!
I had to rewind three times cause I swore I kept missing something important that made that significant or something. Needless to say I was glued to the screen until the credits rolled.
Maybe mother! I feel like it gets exponential more chaotic towards the end but that might take place over more than 15 minutes
Like a fever dream that just keeps getting worse…loved this movie!
If you are interested I asked !moviesuggestions@lemmy.world about movies similar to mother! and The Fall where things kind of spiral apart and people had a lot of decent suggestions. Here is a link to the post.
Thanks for this!
Great link!
Videodrome was on the ol’ VHS replay list for sure!
Not the last 15 minutes, but Sunshine really takes a turn.
I feel like paranormal activity fits this. Most of the movie is pretty light with activity until the end when it ramps up.
House of the Devil. And it’s fucking awesome.
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. It’s a Sorkin TV series that was interrupted by a Hollywood writers strike and cancelled so they had to wrap it up. And it was an amazing ending.
Some of these are debatable, just went through my collection and considered the ones that I remember having an exciting end.
Akira, Burn After Reading, Children of Men, Chronicle, The Departed, The Room (unironically), Smile (maybe? The whole movie is kind of building anxiety attack), There Will Be Blood
A Cure For Wellness goes from a slow burn mystery/thriller into a B-movie shlockfest in the 3rd act
I swear once he found out what the treatment was and he was given it, that the movie was over, cut to credits, fin. But there’s another half hour after that, and it’s wacky.
Parasite.
Maybe even Joker.
Taxi Driver
The rental. It goes from being a drama into a horror hard at the end.
I would say, the Invitation. It’s quite slow, a bit bizarre in its set-up, and took me years to watch it after checking it out once and thinking “This is the movie people are excited about?”
But hang in there for the last 25-30 mins, and it really pays off. I think about it all the time now.
The newest Candyman starts to really go for it at the end. I feel like missing another 15 minutes, though
