How does it end?


I taped this film when it was shown on ITV3 recently, but somehow someone recorded over the end of it. Doh!

I saw up to the part where Minster Cathedral is collapsing around them, I guess it was very close to the end anyway. Can someone tell me how it ends please?

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hi there

i wont tell you how it ends, though you can buy it on dvd for about 5 quid.

well worth buying just for the jumbo jet crash.

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Thanks a lot!

No Christmas card for you this year.


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oh...ok then.
when the abbey starts collasping, the french copper races to the hospital to turn off burtons life support. after doing this, burton comes back to life, and writes"windscale" on a sheet of paper(the nuclear power station in cumbria). the end.

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And then "find me the man with the ability to cause disasters". Or something to that effect:)

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no, it is "im the man with the power to create catastrophy"

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Yes, it well can be (I saw only dubbed - Czech - version).

Most Recent film I've seen:
Andreas Hofer 1809 (2002)
by Xaver Schwarzenberger
4/10

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It ends chillingly..... "...w..i....n....d...s...c..a...l....e...."

An ending that's haunted me since I was six.




"They're making a new film of Moses.It's not finished,but the baby looks great in the rushes"

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After windscale and the voice-over, we see the eeg reading spiking again, just as it did when the cathedral collapsed.

Funnily enough, windscale did have a fire in the reactor in 1957 that was brought to light again after chernobyl.

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I recently got a copy of this film. I haven't seen it since 1978, and it gave me the creeps.

Watching it today, it creeps me out even more.

Yes, the dialog, acting and special effects are laughable by today's standards, but it makes you think.

And the jet scene? Watching it now, I thought about 9/11, and it just made my skin pop up in goosebumps.

The ending now...

SPOOKY!

You get Superman in a truckstop men's room, you won't need kryptonite to bring him to his knees!"

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I agree, it is a very frightening and somehow disturbing film - a modern horror classic, if you ask me - but I completely disagree on one thing, domino:

the dialogue, acting and special effects are supposed to be laughable by today s standards?

You have Burton, Remick, Ventura, Hordern, Jacobi, Andrews, Badel, Brett and so on and so forth - you call that laughable acting by today s standards? You do not mean that, do you? It s not even cheesy (which these group of actors even could manage! they do not have to, because it is a pretty cleverly written script).

Why is it that movies are considered ageing, because they are more than fifteen years old? The age of a picture does not have anything to do with it s quality at all.

Considering the effects - it is not an effects movie - however - the crash is pretty well done; get rid of the impression, that CGI could balance an unbalanced story. Mostly it is about three characters circling each other and a great riddle of the human mind which is not solved.

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You do have a valid point.

Think I'll sit down and watch it again tonight.

You get Superman in a truckstop men's room, you won't need kryptonite to bring him to his knees!"

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Great, do that! I did see it again yesterday, and I think that, although you can see that it has been made in an other time, it still is very athmospheric and special. This is what I liked about it. It is kind of unusual, isn t it? Hope you have fun, watching it again :)

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same here! a very disturbing film to watch when one is young

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me too :-)
this movie still scares me so many years later.
The only ending that was as scary to me was Carrie's (De Palma).

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It doesn't end.

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