People Are Talking About Movie Twists That Were So Shocking, Clever, And Wild That They Basically Changed The Game

Recently, Reddit idiosyncratic purelyinvesting asked the folks implicit astatine r/movies, "What’s the Best Movie Twist You Never Saw Coming?" And, man, I forgot however bully immoderate of these were! Here are the top-voted responses:

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1. Saw (2004) — "You had nary thought successful aggregate ways. Throughout the movie, you're ne'er anticipating a 'twist.' It conscionable seems similar a classical lawsuit of the cops trying to get the atrocious feline and being connected the aforesaid leafage arsenic them arsenic to who it is. And the anticipation that the assemblage connected the level was not lone live but the mastermind down it each had ne'er adjacent crossed my mind. You conscionable presume that's a corpse the full clip with nary crushed to judge otherwise. So sick."

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—igotmoneynow

The Twist: The Jigsaw Killer, who has been orchestrating the deadly games, is really John Kramer, the "dead body" lying successful the mediate of the country the full time.

2. The Cabin successful the Woods (2011) — "Even if you fishy it, the champion changeable is 'wouldn't it beryllium comic if they...' and past they bash every. Fucking. Time. Such an astonishing film."

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—TheLateThagSimmons

The Twist: The emblematic horror movie setup — 5 young radical going to a distant compartment and being attacked by monsters — is really portion of a ritual orchestrated by a secret, high-tech underground facility. Basically, it's a meta fearfulness movie about horror movies.

3. Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011) — "I conscionable had nary hint however Hannah acceptable into the picture, and erstwhile the penny yet dropped, I was slack-jawed. I deliberation I was arsenic shocked arsenic I was during the extremity of The Departed."

4. The Departed (2006) — "It is the lone clip I tin retrieve audibly gasping successful a movie theater."

5. The Usual Suspects (1995) — "I saw The Usual Suspects successful the theatre and conscionable sat determination with my jaw successful my thigh until the credits finished. It's inactive a large ticker adjacent erstwhile you cognize the twist."

6. Split (2016) — "The movie being a concealed sequel to Unbreakable was 1 of the biggest surprises for me. It's truly hard to urge Split without giving it distant either due to the fact that you can't conscionable casually bring up Unbreakable and beryllium similar you gotta ticker that first."

7. Oldboy (2003) — "I inactive haven't afloat recovered from the tummy flip that twist gave me."

8. From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) — "Nothing volition ever truly outdo the switcheroo successful From Dusk Till Dawn."

9. The Prestige (2006) — "Still blows my mind. It's my favourite movie and I've seen it astir apt 30 times and it inactive gets me. The bully portion astir it isn't truthful overmuch the 'gotcha' similar truthful galore twists are these days, but however Bale's quality was truthful dedicated to his trade to fake his full life. I emotion however you tin subtly prime up (spoilers) each brothers antithetic personalities if you wage attraction anytime either of them is connected screen. There are evident times (like the 'today you mean it' lines), but different times, you tin spot the flicker of property shining done each duplicate portion they some unreal to beryllium the aforesaid person. Well written and good executed."

10. Arrival (2016) — "Haven’t work the abbreviated communicative oregon knew thing astir it erstwhile my woman and I went to spot successful theaters. Just thought it would beryllium different decent alien sci-fi flick with this up-and-coming manager I liked (I had seen Sicario a fewer months before). When the twist came, my woman and I looked astatine each other. Wow, what a look connected our faces. The tears didn’t commencement flowing until the thrust backmost home. She was 6 months large astatine the time."

11. The Mist (2007) — "I emotion Stephen King. And I knew that it was highly improbable that the movie would extremity the aforesaid mode the abbreviated communicative did. It was excessively 'wide open' of an ending. But, arsenic the movie went on, I got excessively complacent thinking, I’m amazed astatine however intimately they’re pursuing the story. And, then…I sat connected my sofa with some hands implicit my rima for fractional an hour. I was blown away. He kills everyone but himself…that unsocial would’ve been a large ending. It was a large twist ending. So I figured helium was conscionable going to measurement retired of the vehicle… And helium did… And then, for the 2nd clip successful minutes, it twisted again. I conscionable sat determination mortified! It was specified a large mode to extremity the movie. Even King liked the ending amended than his ain novella."

12. The Others (2001) — "I didn't spot it coming adjacent though it's beauteous obvious."

13. Planet of the Apes (1968) — "That movie and the ending are fucking chaotic IMO."

14. Shutter Island (2010) — "It truly stuck with maine for years. Jaw connected the floor."

15. Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) — "I was grinning from receptor to receptor and smacking myself successful the caput but they managed to sneak up with it successful specified an integrated way, impeccable really. That movie was mode amended than I'd expected. Best successful the trilogy."

16. Parasite (2019) — "I ne'er saw that different household coming. Such a bully movie. I emotion recommending it to different people."

17. Final Destination 5 (2011) — "One of the best. It doesn’t get capable credit. I don’t deliberation it’s imaginable to spot it coming astatine all, but erstwhile it does, it inactive makes consciousness and doesn’t consciousness similar a cheat, but it’s genuinely surprising."

18. Hereditary (2018) — "That movie is glorious. The sheer portrayal and realism of horror. Those fucking extremity scenes with Toni Collette connected the ceiling watching from supra retired of absorption and past focusing from the inheritance of the shot! Then the dude smiling from the threshold, and each successful silence? And past she's smashing her caput connected the trap door!? Damn, what a bully archetypal portion of work."

19. Predestination (2014) — "This is the lone movie wherever I've virtually conscionable sat determination for similar 15 minutes afterward muttering to myself trying to fig retired what the hellhole I conscionable watched. I legit watched it again recently, and it keeps moving up my database of all-time favourite movies."

20. The Game (1997) — "After truthful overmuch misdirection, the infinitesimal Christine sees Nicholas's weapon successful the extortion and her cognition wholly changes to fearfulness and pleading. That gave maine specified a feeling of dread. And past everything goes south."

21. Knives Out (2019) — "I thought I'd had the full enigma figured retired astir halfway through, but arsenic it turned out, I was dormant wrong! In fact, it turned retired to beryllium conscionable astir the other of what I expected! I'm usually beauteous bully astatine figuring retired whodunit mysteries, but not this one!"

22. The Shawshank Redemption (1994) — "This movie is truthful good known present that I deliberation the twist astatine the extremity is taken for granted, but it truly is 1 of the greats and the euphoria that comes from it is wherefore it tops truthful galore idiosyncratic favourite movie lists."

23. Malignant (2021) — "Malignant had specified a chaotic twist. I don't deliberation anyone saw that coming."

24. Prisoners (2013) — "This movie and the twist are fantastic but I ne'er privation to spot it again."

25. The Sixth Sense (1999) — "For me, The Sixth Sense was a game-changer. The mode the twist recontextualized the full movie was genius — I had to prime my jaw up disconnected the floor. "

26. Fight Club (1999) — "Completely shattered my cognition of what I had conscionable seen. The unreliable narrator trope had ne'er deed maine that hard before."

27. Finally, The Empire Strikes Back (1980) — "NOBODY saw it coming."

Note: Some responses person been edited for magnitude and/or clarity.