best sequel-teasing movie endings

i really think back to the future has maybe the best ending ever... "where we're going, we don't NEED roads!" i mean, how fuckin excited were you when you saw that for the first time?! and this was in an age where you didnt already know there was going to be a sequel so it was like doubly OMG.

what other movies actually tease their sequels well?

Evil Dead 2! Although I've still never seen Medieval Dead, is it any good?

Back to the Future's really the only one I would've been able to think of.

"Ironman", the post credits crawl scene
"Batman Begins", where Gordon asks Batman to investigate you-know-who
"Star Trek II", that shot of Spock's casket on the surface of Genesis

"Empire Strikes Back"

evil dead 2 was pretty awesome

Breakin'

gotta get an amen to batman begins

this was in an age where you didnt already know there was going to be a sequel

I'm pretty sure Back to the Future has a title card right after "We don't need roads" that says "To Be Continued..."

ya but you didn't know that going IN to back to the future

as compared to this age of trilogies

"Coming Soon: Buckaroo Bonzai vs. The World Crime League!"

A bit out of favor, but the ending of Pirates of the Caribbean where Geoffrey Rush says, "What's this I hear about my ship?" and bites into the apple.

er, Banzai

and Against

"James Bond will return in For Your Eyes Only Star Wars band-wagon-jumping cash-in Moonraker"

I came in here to post Back The The Future as well

"Coming Soon: Buckaroo Bonzai vs. The World Crime League!"

― Velma can stay (Oilyrags), Saturday, January 17, 2009 4:59 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

YESSSSSSSS

Wasn't there some Darth Vader breathing at the end of the credits scroll of Episode I?

Oh yeah, how could I forget:

GREAT call

i think i talked endlessly about that one

At the very end of the film, there is a teaser trailer for History of the World: Part II, narrated by Brooks, which promises to include Hitler on Ice, a Viking funeral, and Jews in Space. Unless bringing Josephus to the French Revolution means that Miracle the horse is a time traveller, The Viking Funeral is chronologically impossible, as the viking age was skipped. The melody for the “Jews in Space” song was later recycled by Brooks for the “Men in Tights” musical number in Robin Hood: Men in Tights. The music that underscores the Viking Funeral segment is Vorobyaninov’s Theme, composed for an earlier Brooks film, The Twelve Chairs. The “Jews in Space” sequence is thought by some to be a harbinger of the later Mel Brooks science fiction movie spoof Spaceballs.

lol wikipedia

is there a more wikipedia phrase than "is thought by some"

and the chronological nitpicking

Great thread -- this one doesn't quite count since no sequel was made, but the end of the original Italian Job is a classic (and literal) cliffhanger. In the commentary producer Michael Deeley talks about how it was conceived of at the last minute to improve on the original ending, which was apparently just a bit of 'well hey we did it' dialogue, and also to lead directly into a sequel, sketching out how the second movie would have started and where things would go from there.

it totally counts--we included buckaroo banzai and history of the world!

not really a sequel teasing ending but i was always sad the adventure never continued for remo williams

The original slasher pic endings were fantastic: Michael Myers' bullet-riddled, presumably dead body disappears & Jason Vorhees pops out of the lake to seek revenge on his dead mother.

Quite surprised to learn that that Italian Job scene was meant to start a sequel - I think it's sort of a perfect self-contained ending, it'd have been bullshit to take the story up from there. As opposed to the Buckaroo Banzai sequel, which totally should have happened! :(

Worst attempt at this, btw: League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

btw i googled 'sequel tease' and this thread was the fourth result O_O

the end of Super Mario Bros.

j/k

"Batman Begins", where Gordon asks Batman to investigate you-know-who

I think that's also one of the few examples where the sequel actually lived up to the teaser

Hellraiser

Because it's entirely human evil depicted... only hinting at the hellish underworld of torture and demonic beings, you know, the one as DISPLAYED ON THE POSTER.

Hellraiser II definitely delivered in that respect, even if it failed on so many more.

^^^ some serious backstory to JTS's hellraiser experiences here i'm not sure i want to know about

I'm pretty sure Back to the Future has a title card right after "We don't need roads" that says "To Be Continued..."

They only added the "To Be Continued" text to the movie afterwards, I guess at the point they were actually sure that there was gonna be a sequel. It wasn't in the original release.

most inadvertantly lol: Godzilla

Not really, just my experiences with a group of friends who watched it who expected the wife to die in the first 5 minutes, then got very disappointed on finding out she was pretty much the main character. She was the main character in the second one as well, but it did have more of the pinheaded dude and showed more of 'hell' in gruesome detail (even though it looked like the opening titles of 'Blockbusters' to me, complete with zappy blue hexagons)

Terminator was pretty good - Sarah driving off into the oncoming storm

(xxxpost) BTTF II for worst sequel teaser ending, becuase it's a five minute trailer for BTTF III (both movies were filmed at the same time). "TO BE CONTINUED!!!" audience: "ZZZZZZ... well thanks for saving us the trouble of going to see it then..."

Terminator was pretty good - Sarah driving off into the oncoming storm

Ringu kind of did this too.

I thought Ringu's ending was just a regular horror movie end twist, not necessarily a teaser for the sequel. On the other hand, since most successful horror movies tend to get sequels, I guess a typical horror movie end twist often functions as a sequel teaser also.