Top 10 Most Shocking Reveals in Whodunit Movies

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Just when you thought you had it all figured out... Join us as we uncover the most jaw-dropping plot twists in mystery cinema history! From characters who aren't what they seem to killers hiding in plain sight, these shocking reveals left audiences gasping. Warning: major spoiler alert for some of the greatest whodunits ever made!

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00:00Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the iconic and surprising

00:10plot twists in Whodunit Films.

00:13Naturally, there will be spoilers ahead.

00:30This dark comedy horror movie sees a group of friends play a pretend killing game during

00:35a hurricane.

00:36After they find David dead with a knife nearby, the party-goers turn on each other as they

00:40try to get to the bottom of who did it.

00:42Old grievances and new suspicions see the body count rise as the night goes on, however, when

00:54Bea and Sophie accidentally look at David's phone in the morning, they find out that David

00:58accidentally killed himself trying to use the knife to open a bottle.

01:02All those bodies, bodies, bodies dropped over a misunderstanding.

01:19The fact that the bad guy or this classic blend between live action and animation ended up

01:23being Judge Doom was not unexpected.

01:26To anyone over five years old, at least.

01:28I mean, he's called Judge Doom, for crying out loud.

01:31Of course, he framed Roger Rabbit.

01:36No.

01:40What's surprising is that the villainous Toon-killing baddie is not only himself a Toon, but also

01:45the Toon who killed protagonist Eddie Valiant's brother, setting off his dislike of Toons in

01:50the first place.

01:51Judge Doom's transformation and grisly downfall are almost as shocking as that reveal, though.

01:56Ah, what a world.

02:11The disappearance of Amy Dunn does not look good for her husband, Nick.

02:15The guy was having an affair, and all of Amy's diary entries paint him in an appalling light.

02:20That plus the overwhelming evidence against him, and your positive Nick killed her.

02:24That is, until it's revealed that Amy is not only still alive, but that she went through

02:28elaborate means to frame her husband.

02:39Nick diary entries, pretending to be pregnant, even drawing her own blood to make it seem

02:43like she was attacked.

02:44As bad as Nick is, the sheer psychopathic lengths Amy goes to in order to get back at him are

02:49much worse and still have us shook.

02:56In this underrated slasher thriller, a group of strangers are stranded at an isolated motel

03:13during a storm.

03:14This plot is juxtaposed with a hearing for convicted killer Malcolm Rivers.

03:18At the motel, the bodies start falling, and then mysteriously disappear.

03:22There are also strange coincidences, like everyone there having the same birthday, and having

03:26names similar to States.

03:37Eventually, Ed Dakota finds himself at the hearing, where he's confronted by the psychiatrist,

03:42who reveals that he, as well as everyone at the motel, are disassociative identities

03:46within Malcolm Rivers.

03:48The concept of a murder mystery within one person is so unique that it's borderline impossible

03:53to see coming.

03:55I want you.

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04:00I want you.

04:01So bad.

04:02Everyone is guilty.

04:05Murder on the Orient Express.

04:16Agatha Christie basically popularized the whodunit story, and several of her books movie adaptations

04:22have some fantastic reveals.

04:24Although Simon and his old flame Jackie's scheme in Death of the Nile was pretty clever,

04:29our pick goes to the iconic murder on the Orient Express.

04:32Famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is stranded on the titular train when a murder

04:36occurs during the night.

04:37As usual in Whodunit, Poirot uncovers likely motives for all of them, deducing that they

04:51all had connections to either the victim or each other.

04:54But unlike most stories in the genre, the twist is that it wasn't just one killer, they

04:58all did it.

04:59Even more surprising, Poirot is willing to look the other way.

05:03The victim was just that awful.

05:21The inaugural Benoit Blanc mystery features several incredible reveals.

05:25Although Marta's apparent accidental overdosing of Harlan and his subsequent decision to help

05:30her get away with it were wild, the finale turns the whole movie on its head.

05:34Through a classic interrogation scene, Blanc puts together the murder, revealing that the

05:38family's black sheep, Hugh, aka Ransom, tried to kill Harlan by mixing up the vials Marta

05:43administered.

05:52Except, Marta delivered the correct dosage.

05:55It was a self-inflicted wound, and Ransom's admission of killing the housekeeper, who told

06:00Marta, Hugh did this, is recorded, ensuring he'll still be put away.

06:04Quite the doughnut of a scene.

06:05This meta-slasher film has everyone guessing who the Ghostface Killer is, given his masked

06:29appearance.

06:30The final confrontation at a disastrous house party sees several guests killed.

06:34Protagonist Sidney Prescott is initially overjoyed to see that her boyfriend, Billy, has survived.

06:39At least, until he shoots Randy.

06:47Billy reveals that he and his accomplice, Stu, are both the Ghostface Killer.

06:51The duo's back-and-forth explanation of their crimes and how they accomplish them is deranged

06:56and a little comedic.

06:57And while we're not as traumatized by the reveal as Sidney is, it's still a memorably

07:01excellent twist.

07:08A hilarious whodunit based on the classic board game, Clue has several endings, each

07:29with laughs and reveals a plenty, but the third is probably considered the definitive one.

07:33In it, Wadsworth, the butler, reveals that each of the guests, besides the closeted Mr.

07:38Green, was responsible for one of the murders that night, each for their own reasons.

07:42All that's left is the singing telegram, whom Wadsworth killed himself.

07:45He further reveals that he's the real Mr. Body, with the presumed Mr. Body being the actual

07:50butler.

07:58As if that wasn't shocking enough, Mr. Green proceeds to shoot him, revealing he's an

08:02FBI agent.

08:03And also, straight, only Mrs. White can properly describe how this rapid-fire series of reveals

08:08made us feel.

08:28Told out of order, Memento follows Leonard Shelby, whose frequent loss of short-term memory makes

08:33his search for his wife's supposed killer difficult to follow.

08:36However, in a climactic scene, Leonard's friend, Teddy, reveals that Leonard already

08:40found the man he blamed for his wife's death a year ago, but he didn't remember.

08:45Since then, Teddy has been using Leonard to kill people and giving him a reason to live,

08:49hunting a dead man.

08:53Further, he reveals that the story Leonard often tells of the amnesiac Sammy accidentally

09:01giving his wife an overdose is Leonard's own story, which he repressed.

09:06Leonard lying to himself, and then targeting Teddy, which brings the film full circle, is

09:10a shocking way to top off this train of reveals.

09:19Before we unveil our top pick, here are a few honourable mentions.

09:22Jigsaw was closer than we all thought, Saw.

09:31Police captains, you can't trust them all, L.A. Confidential.

09:40Which persona was real, and which was fake, Primal Fear.

09:48A shocking family secret, Chinatown.

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10:16Yep, unlike everyone who's never seen this movie, you probably all saw this coming.

10:28Verbal Kint is browbeaten by an FBI agent, deducing that Keaton, whom Verbal idolised, was Kaiser

10:34Soze, the mastermind behind their disastrous failed job and the underworld's bogeyman.

10:39But then, after Verbal leaves, the FBI agent realises that Verbal made up parts, or all

10:44of the story, from things in the room.

10:53Furthermore, the massacre's lone survivor was provided a sketch of Kaiser Soze, and

10:58it's Verbal himself.

10:59This may not be the greatest trick the devil ever pulled, but it's still one of the most

11:02impressively constructed and shocking reveals in cinema history.

11:14So, is there a whodunit shocker your shock didn't make our list?

11:20Don't leave them as red herrings, share your picks in the comments!

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