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#1
"I see dead people". When Bruce Willis realizes that he has been dead all along.
Final score:
59points
Hagen Radcliffe 3 years ago
Saw it in a packed theater opening weekend. Nobody knew the twist! It was a total shock… the entire audience gasped, some people even screamed. It was amazing 😳
Rae Richardson 3 years ago
The ending of Unusual Suspects starring Kevin Spacey..... when he literally turned into Keyser Sose!
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#2
The reveal of Norman Bates' dear old mom!
Final score:
23points
Stephanie Goadsby 3 years ago
It was certainly ahead of it's time in more ways than just the reveal.
#3
Saw - the Jigsaw killer was lying on the floor in the room with them all along, pretending to be dead. Simple, but it blew me away.
Final score:
23points
Hagen Radcliffe 3 years ago
Didn’t see it coming at all & I usually have at least a feeling. Nope, totally blindsided!
Stephanie Goadsby 3 years ago
That was a thing of beauty. Such a masterful piece of engineering. Jigsaw is my hero.
#4
First time I watched the usual suspects thought I hadn't all figured out I was wrong
Final score:
21points
Hagen Radcliffe 3 years ago
Watching it the second time you can’t believe you missed all the clues
MJLstrd 3 years ago
Right — watched it IMMEDIATELY after the first viewing WOW!
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#5
Coco actually surprised me when we find out that Ernesto De La Cruz murdered Hector and stole his music and guitar. Also, the reveal that Hector was actually Miguel's great great grandfather, not Ernesto. Usually I'm on the ball on plot twists, but this one was surprisingly dark and the reveal suddenly turns Hector, who up until then, seemed like the comedy relief in this film, into a tragic character.
Final score:
21points
glowworm2 (Submission author) 3 years ago
My boyfriend turns into a sobbing mess when he watches this movie. This one actually didn't do this to me, but Up definitely had that affect on me. That and the end of Toy Story 3 when Andy gives Bonnie Woody.
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#6
Tyler Durden's actual identity.
Final score:
20points
Stephanie Goadsby 3 years ago
If you ever get the chance, watch it with descriptive video. Adds a whole other level to it.
#7
"Soylent Green is people! Soylent Green is people!!!"
Final score:
17points
InfiniteZero 3 years ago
The taste of which, much like Soylent Cola, varies from person to person.
#8
The Crying Game Plot twist is still most shocking I can recall. Can't say it without totally ruining the movie but considering the time in the 1990's and the love story involving IRA soldiers before 9/11.
Final score:
16points
Joanne Hudson 3 years ago
Agree totally. A friend who had already seen it dragged me to see it for the pleasure of seeing my face when the twist was revealed. Except it wasn't totally revealed. Everyone had to wait until the Academy Awards for that. THE BEST.
#9
One of the best plot twists I've seen is from an 80s film called The Telephone. Whoopi Goldberg spends 2 hours in her apartment talking on the phone. The end comes when the phone company comes to confiscate her telephone for nonpayment. She tells the guy how badly she needs her phone but when he tells her the service has been cut for 2 weeks, she kills him with the phone. Terrible movie, great end.
Final score:
16points
Vicki Cooper 3 years ago
I don’t no anyone (including myself) that got through more than 20 mins of that movie
#10
There's this amazing movie from 1996 called Primal Fear starring Edward Norton and Richard Gere. ***SPOILER ALERT*** So basically this kid is found running from an apartment with blood all over him, and in the apartment is the body of a well-respected priest (or maybe a bishop or something idk). Throughout the movie you find out that the kid has split-personality disorder, and you are led to believe that his split personality is who killed the guy. Come to find out, the priest was forcing him into $exual activities with his girlfriend. So the kid brutally murdered him and then pretended it was because of his other personality. TL;DR: A kid pretends to have split-personality disorder so he can kill someone.
Final score:
15points
Bittersweetie 3 years ago
Oh man! I totally forgot about this! Thank you so much! Ed Norton's shift at the end gave us the willie's for weeks!! Incredible performance 😱
Hagen Radcliffe 3 years ago
BTW- the book is amazing & so is the SEQUEL! Get them, read them, you won’t be sorry!
#11
When I went to see "Terminator 2: Judgement Day" I hadn't seen any of the previews yet, so I was pleasantly surprised to see Arnold's T-800 be the good guy when he said "Git Daown!"
Final score:
14points
#12
Saw "The Blair Witch Project" before it was widely known to be a dramatisation rather than actual found footage at a small indie festival in my home town. So I guess the plot twist was 'it was all faked' but dang, it was so convincing at the time.
Final score:
14points
Laura Kelly 3 years ago
I knew it when the girl walked out of her tent in the morning. Her missing friend's heart play outside her tent door. Her long black hair was down. She freaks out holding the heart, getting blood all over her hands. Next shot shows her down at the creek, still freaking out while she washes the blood off of her hands in the creek. Her long hair was in a perfect french braid. Anybody who has long hair that she french braids herself knows that it takes a steady, clean hand to do this time consuming act.
Peej Maybe (Submission author) 3 years ago
That is why I never made detective :)
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I was thinking of The Prestige, a movie so well made that the twist happens after you stop watching it. There never was any magic. The transporting machine was simply a distraction, and the whole movie is a magic act. Are you watching closely?
Final score:
14points
#14
The Game with Micheal Douglas and Sean Penn. Without spoiling it. Sean Penn plays Douglas' character bother. Douglas' character has all the money he need so he buys what he wants Penn's character is less wealthy and buys his brother in this thing called the Game. Craziness ensues and it you aren't really sure what is happening is it real or not just to lead to that ending.
Final score:
13points
#15
Yeah, I read the books. For me it would be: Sirius Black dying in "Order of the Phoenix". I mean, Harry has finally something near a father and then Sirius dies!!!! So unfair...
Final score:
12points
Laura Mende (Human) (Submission author) 3 years ago (edited)
But the movie was shocking too. I love Gary Oldman!
JESSIE WENTWORTH 3 years ago
I LOVE that book series. yes the books are way better than the movies but the movies are still good
#16
The most famous one, I always thought, was ruined by becoming a cliche long before I saw it. The space alien lands in a strange world where apes rule and people are kept in zoos, circuses, etc. At the very end, he discovers something terrible which makes him realize he isn't where he thinks he is at all: the Statue of Liberty, half buried in the sands of time. Earth has been over-run.
Final score:
12points
Hagen Radcliffe 3 years ago
“Damn you all to hell” I saw it as a kid in a theater. The place went wild !
#17
Titanic. They were supposed to make it to New York... 😭
Final score:
11points
David Furritus 3 years ago
I didn't see it, but I heard that they did a great job of setting up for a sequel...
Boris Norris 3 years ago
I still believe in the theory that The Titanic is actually a sci-fi movie. If you go to TheFilmTheorists Youtube channel there's a great video that explains why >:3
#18
Book of Eli. I’m not going to spoil it, but it’s a movie where you think you understand what’s going on until the end, then you go Holy hell…WTF, and watch it again to actually understand the main character. Blew my mind.
Final score:
11points
Stephanie Goadsby 3 years ago
Yes and yes. Both my husband and I watched it and neither of us picked up on it. It wasn't until we were talking about it with someone and we both looked at eachother like "nooo" how did we miss it? And promptly watched it again eyeing every detail and wondering how we didn't catch it from the start as we are the type to notice the unseen details. There are so many clues! Though there may have been some intoxication involved first time around.
#19
The baroness is cruella’s mother
Final score:
9points
#20
In ' Rocky Horror Picture Show ' when it was found that everyone except for Janet and Brad were aliens from another Galaxy.
Final score:
8points
Mattie 3 years ago
wait, even Dr. Scott?? ("Janet! Brad! Rocky! hm. Janet! Dr. Scott? Janet! Brad! Rocky! hm." repeat 😉)
censorshipsucks 3 years ago
i don't think so, I think he was terrestrial as well
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The Original Bruno 1 year ago
I can't tell; is this a joke? Because this is much more similar to Dude, Where's My Car than anything on this list. If a "twist" merely means this the plot going in unforseen directions, than every episode of the Simpsons is a twist.
Stephanie Goadsby 3 years ago (edited)
Pretty sure only Riff Raff, Magenta, and Dr. Frank n Furter are aliens from the planet Transylvania.
#21
bridge to Terabithia. i cried
Final score:
8points
Rachel Ratty 3 years ago
I thought this was a kids film when I started watching was was really not prepared AT ALL!!!!
Daniel Marsh 3 years ago
Also throw a warning label on "My Girl." When the title uses a first-person pronoun, you don't usually expect that character to die half-way through.
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The Village. It took me ages to see what was going on, and when she climbs over the fence around the forest, I was like OMG i did not see that coming! I suppose there is a hint/giveaway when the councillors of the village call a meeting to discuss whether she must go get medicines from "the towns", and you see something subtly different about their clothing style.
Final score:
8points
The Original Bruno 1 year ago
I didn't grasp the fullness of twist, but I was guessing that they were in modern times. It made me furious that people who knew the truth sent the blind girl.
Daniel Marsh 3 years ago
I didn't quite expect that to be exactly what had happened to the village, but they pretty much told you much earlier that these were modern-day drop-outs from society. But I could never understand why they sent the person least likely to succeed.
#23
Not the most shocking plot twist, but one of the most profound: Even Frodo couldn't destroy the ring. But he -- and Bilbo -- had shown mercy towards the most pitiable, wretched creature in the world. And that creature, even in the very throes of its villainy, destroyed the ring. Gandalf even telegraphed it: "Pity? Pity was what stayed Bilbo's hand... The pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of us all."
Final score:
7points
Vorknkx 3 years ago
In the original book, Gollum just accidentally slips and falls down into the lava... I suppose they thought it was anticlimactic for the movie, so they made Frodo push him.
The Original Bruno (Submission author) 1 year ago
Well, for a twist that the movie flubbed by having Saruman a servant of Sauron the whole time, how about the reveal that Saruman was being tricked into achieving Saruman's goals for him the entire time?
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“The Illusionist”, with Jessica Biel and Edward Norton. Jessica Biel is not “what” you think she is!
Final score:
6points
#25
*spoilers alert* There is a good movie called now you see me, the fumbling police or fbi officer is actually the lead of the magic group!
Final score:
5points
#26
One not being said yet is The Life of David Gale Great movie and great ending
Final score:
5points
Daniel Marsh 3 years ago
I'm kinda disturbed that that movie has nothing to do with David Gale, a real university professor and political activist. The title makes it sound like it's biographical.
#27
it was Agatha all along!
Final score:
5points
#28
(SPOILERS FOR RED NOTICE WHICH IS AN AWESOME MOVIE!!!) It was when Hartley and the Bishop were working together and just using Booth to get to Cleopatra's third egg. I was NOT expecting that. I also wasn't expecting Ryan Reynolds to say, "WHAT THE FFFFFFFFFFF**K?!?!?!" in a PG-13 movie.
Final score:
4points
Kimberley McMillan 3 years ago
Well you're allowed one f-bomb in a pg13 movie, so it was a good use. Not the best one... that title goes to Wolverine in XMen First Class. XD
#29
"Capricorn One": When the (real) spacecraft burned up in Earth's atmosphere and the astronauts realised that they are "dead" now.
Final score:
4points
The Original Bruno 1 year ago
That movie crossed a line when the government killed John Walker's wife IRL. Well, I mean Walker didn't do it, right? The glove didn't fit?
#30
A movie called The Linguine Incident. Old movie from the 1980s starring David Bowie. I can't find it now, but would love to share it with my wife.
Final score:
3points
#31
Surprise! He planned on you killing him all along, so his sacrifice could conquer death and destroy evil. OK, it's the most ripped off plot twist of all time, but still a doozy.
Final score:
3points
Daniel Marsh (Submission author) 3 years ago
One of the thousands of rip-offs.
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A movie called The Linguine Incident. Old movie from the 1980s starring David Bowie. I can't find it now, but would love to share it with my wife.
Final score:
2points
#34
Old boy. The original movie. When you see at the end that the main character is being punished for a rumour he spread as a teenager about a brother and sister having sex (in his defence, they were actually having sex). The punishment is letting him fall in love and having sex with his own daughter. Oh yeah and killing his wife and keeping him trapped for 15 years in a room. So yeah.
Final score:
1point
#35
Harry Potter (whole story/series)... specifically right at the end when you realise Harry himself is a horcrux and therefore has to die.
Final score:
1point
#36
Predestination, all of it!
Final score:
0points
#37
When people found out Bambi was a girl
Final score:
-2points
Angela Philp 3 years ago
Bambi's not a girl though? Doesn't he grow up to take over as prince, and he meets Faline, the doe
Daniel Marsh 3 years ago
PLEASE STOP DOWN-VOTING THIS! It's a joke feigning being a submission, so OK, bad judgment, but SaltyPotato doesn't deserve to be cancelled. You THINK that when you pile on downvotes that you're disagreeing or disliking, but you're really cancelling people.
🥔SaltyPotato🥔 (Submission author) 3 years ago
Thank you!!!! I have already had my account suspended on here twice because of all the downvotes. Thank you for saying something!!!
Load More Replies... 🥔SaltyPotato🥔 (Submission author) 3 years ago
I have some terrible humor... that was the joke. im so sorry!!!🫤
David Furritus 3 years ago
I don't think that you were watching the same "Bambi" as the rest of us...
#38
I cant remember the name of the movie but it was your typical action movie with some soldiers racing to stop a runaway train with a nuke on it reaching denver. They failed and the city was destroyed
Final score:
-2points
Rodney Bernhardt 3 years ago
Broken Arrow. John Travolta & Christian Slater.
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Boris Norris 3 years ago
You know what's also good? The Others with Nicole Kidman. The whole time you think the house is haunted, and then you realize; it is haunted. But Nicole's character and her kids are the ghosts...
Cindy RS 3 years ago
Omg. Not a horror story but! I about died in Something About Mary when Ted is on his first date with Mary and she sees his “hair gel” hanging from his ear. THEN she proceeds to use it in her hair making her hair stand up. Shocked? Yes? Laughed so hysterically, my abs hurt.
The Original Bruno 1 year ago
Who'd've thought that whatsherface would be such a rotten person until the bitter end?
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LadyManx 3 years ago
By far the worst, the most shocking was the ending of Krull, when we found out the kidnapped princess has magic shoes that would have helped her escape the evil whatever. I turned to my boyfriend and said: She had the power to make this dreck of movie go from 2 hours to 10 min. and she didn't do it? If I was the hero, I would turned right around and gone home without her.
Jane Alexander 3 years ago (edited)
'Witness for the Prosicution' Agathat Christie s story ruined by the 'code' (spoiler) "You see you thought he was innocent, I knew he was guilty" The film, the should have ended there, instead they tack on an an assinine endling to appease the 'code'.
Daniel Marsh 3 years ago
Long before anyone had any notions of a movie, Agatha Christie re-wrote the short story as a play. She had long been dissatisfied with her quickie ending, so added to it. The movie includes the longer ending. It had nothing to do with the "code" (presuming you mean self-censorship standards of Hollywood movies).
Load More Replies... Captain America 3 years ago
Sweet Girl on Netflix with Jason Mamoa and Isabela Merced… the twist comes when He’s on the roof of the stadium and the agent tries to talk him out of jumping! Crazy! My mouth dropped at the twist reveal!!
Boris Norris 3 years ago
You know what's also good? The Others with Nicole Kidman. The whole time you think the house is haunted, and then you realize; it is haunted. But Nicole's character and her kids are the ghosts...
Cindy RS 3 years ago
Omg. Not a horror story but! I about died in Something About Mary when Ted is on his first date with Mary and she sees his “hair gel” hanging from his ear. THEN she proceeds to use it in her hair making her hair stand up. Shocked? Yes? Laughed so hysterically, my abs hurt.
The Original Bruno 1 year ago
Who'd've thought that whatsherface would be such a rotten person until the bitter end?
Load More Replies... LadyManx 3 years ago
By far the worst, the most shocking was the ending of Krull, when we found out the kidnapped princess has magic shoes that would have helped her escape the evil whatever. I turned to my boyfriend and said: She had the power to make this dreck of movie go from 2 hours to 10 min. and she didn't do it? If I was the hero, I would turned right around and gone home without her.
Jane Alexander 3 years ago (edited)
'Witness for the Prosicution' Agathat Christie s story ruined by the 'code' (spoiler) "You see you thought he was innocent, I knew he was guilty" The film, the should have ended there, instead they tack on an an assinine endling to appease the 'code'.
Daniel Marsh 3 years ago
Long before anyone had any notions of a movie, Agatha Christie re-wrote the short story as a play. She had long been dissatisfied with her quickie ending, so added to it. The movie includes the longer ending. It had nothing to do with the "code" (presuming you mean self-censorship standards of Hollywood movies).
Load More Replies... Captain America 3 years ago
Sweet Girl on Netflix with Jason Mamoa and Isabela Merced… the twist comes when He’s on the roof of the stadium and the agent tries to talk him out of jumping! Crazy! My mouth dropped at the twist reveal!!
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