The ending of Dirty Harry is a perfect note to close on - but Clint Eastwood himself very nearly ruined it. Eastwood made his name with Westerns such as the Dollars trilogy or Hang 'Em High, but by the end of the '60s, it was clear the genre was dying. After stars like Paul Newman, Frank Sinatra and John Wayne passed on Dirty Harry, Eastwood signed on as the titular character. Not only was it a huge success upon release in 1971, it essentially underlined that cop movies had replaced the Western for audiences.
Bob Clark's 1974 horror film Black Christmas is one of the most influential slasher movies of all time, and it has an unforgettably chilling ending. In Black Christmas Billy is considered the villain as he picks off victims one by one, and after almost 50 years, his identity is still debated. The story takes place in a sorority house, where the residents are throwing a Christmas party before they depart. Little do they know, however, that a perverted killer has made his way into the house, and is preparing to pick them off one by one. The Billy Black Christmas character remains in the shadows for most of the movie, that is, until the chilling ending.
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