Final film shot

The one that I and others swear they’ve seen, but there’s no evidence of it on any current release. At the end of Vanishing Point (1971) the car is shown driving through the desert obscured by the heat waves, then suddenly disappears! Speculation is that’s it the Mandela Effect because of the photographer disappearing at the end of Blow-Up (another great ending shot), but I swear I saw it!

From the handful of Western movies in my collection:

Repulsion - The zoom into the photo of Carol and the look she’s giving her father.

*Rollerball *- The freeze frame of Jonathan E.

Two Lane Blacktop - The slow motion shot of The Driver and film getting caught in the projector and melting. Kids nowadays wouldn’t get it. Same with the film breaking in the projector in Gremlins, that I seem to recall they replaced in some of the video releases.

The Andromeda Strain (1971) - The rapidly increasing zoom in to the virus, then flashing 601

Gallipoli. From the whistle, to the charge, to close up of running without a rifle, to the final shot. Freeze frame. Roll credits.

not a movie but the final shot of Blackadder Goes Forth, when the men go over the top from the trenches then it fades to the fields of poppies is one I’ll remember for a long time, specially as it came quite unexpectedly in what was up to then completely a comedy

Great poster/post combo! :slight_smile:

Another funny one, at the end of Frenzy, as we hear “Mr. Rusk…You’re not wearing your tie”, a large trunk - containing a likely dead body - slams to the floor as the final image.

Yeah that kid’s face always gave me the willies.
Chief running off (and disappearing into) the early morning darkness in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Also really like that saw melody in the Indigenous music score.

When I first saw the movie in the 80’s, I thought Carol’s stare was to show the insanity that would come later. It was only when I rewatched the movie when it was released on Blu-Ray I realize it was madness, but not the insanity kind!

Not a final scene, but Carol slashing at the landlord, then stopping and continuing freaks me out even now. OMG, the look in her eyes!. I watched *Repulsion *during the time when I was into gore films, but this scene bugged more me than anything else.

Edit: I really encourage everyone to watch the full movie, especially on the gorgeous Blu-Ray so I’ll just leave the look as, when you step on a bug and it’s still moving no matter how many times you think you’ve positively squished it! That look! :eek:

At the end of the The Terror ('63), Jack Nicholson’s kissing resulted in a molten-beyond-recognition face!:eek:

I like the shot of JN looking like he’s about to gag.:stuck_out_tongue:

[Homer] mmmmmm ca-ra-melllllllll… [/Homer]

The final couple of minutes from “The Long Good Friday” Zero words, tons of dialogue.

And for just a few quick frames, there is a skull superimposed over his face…

Roger Ebert downgraded the film from four stars to three and a half due solely to this shot not being held long enough before cutting to the credits.

The end of “Silence of the Lambs,” with Hannibal slowly walking behind his “old friend for dinner…”
“Invasion of the Body Snatchers” - Donald Sutherland’s scream.

Came on this morning to mention this one. I keep forgetting Veronica Cartwright is in that movie. Her characters have been through some wringers, especially at the hands/claws of aliens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUXHB5U-Vl4

Heh - always wondered if that was borrowed from the scream in The Tenant.

“No!!! What happens next???” - my reaction the first time I saw The Birds as the car slowly drives away and “The End” shows up.

Actually it doesn’t say “The End” - it just … ends.

Can’t remember the exact final frame, but the last shot of Brazil works pretty well.

The last shot of Cop Hater (based on the first 87th Precinct novel). The killer is taken off to be processed, and the cops just continue going their more mundane tasks - answering phones, doing paperwork, etc - as the credits roll. It’s like the movie never really starts or ends, we just kind of sit in while they work on one case.

The original “The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3”: Walter Matthau saying “gesundheit!”

I loved the end of Edge of Tomorrow when Tom Cruise approaches Emily Blunt to explain the time loop for the last time, then he just pauses and chuckles.

Norma Desmond’s close-up at the end of Sunset Boulevard

“Silencio.”

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