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These movies ended up in a completely different place from where they started.
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00:00It's fair to say that most movies let you know precisely what they're about from the first few scenes establishing a style
00:14Expect it's a risky trick to shift genre reinvent style or just take the story to a wholly unexpected realm
00:20Which of course threatens to alienate less adventurous punters who may end up feeling manipulated
00:24But when it works, it really works. I'm cypherwhatculture.com and these are 10 movies that are totally different by the end
00:33Number 10 from dusk till dawn
00:35Robert Rodriguez's from dusk till dawn begins as a modest yet pulpy thriller in which two criminal brothers Seth and Richie Gecko
00:42Take a family hostage while fleeing to Mexico
00:44It's as grimy and foul-mouthed as you'd expect from any Tarantino penned thriller
00:48Yet that first half is ultimately just setting the stage for one of the most legendary genre shifts in cinema history
00:54At the midway points Rodriguez's film reveals itself to be a secret B movie
00:59That is an action horror film filled with bloodthirsty vampires and cartoonish supporting characters who look like they fell straight out of a comic
01:11It couldn't seem much more divorced from the opening sequence in which the geckos hold up a liquor store no vampires in sight
01:18For many movies such a stark shift would simply tick the audience off yet in from dusk till dawn's case
01:23The second half is such an absurdly entertaining no-holds-barred blast that few have ever bothered to complain
01:29Number 9 audition
01:31Takechi Miike's filmography is so absurdly eclectic spanning from yakuza thriller to war epic to family comedy
01:37That you can't ever be fully sure what you're about to see from him until the end credits have actually rolled
01:42His 1999 film audition for example begins a seemingly down-the-line romantic drama in which a lonely widower
01:48Shigahara Ayama holds a series of mock auditions in an attempt to find a new wife
01:53One gets the sense that Miike thoroughly enjoys toying with the audience throughout the film's first act
01:58Which is basically played entirely straight as an earnest melodrama
02:01Though the object of Shigahara's affection Asami certainly acts oddly throughout the film
02:05It isn't until the third act that Miike lets loose with a full-on stomach-churning horror show
02:10Asami who is revealed to be a jealously deranged psychopath drugs Shigahara with a paralytic agent
02:15Tortures him and then uses a wire saw to cut off one of his feet
02:18The nightmare scenario only ends when Shigahara's son returns home and kicks Asami down the stairs to her death
02:24That's quite the escalation from a bereavement dramedy that Miike offered us in the opening 40 or so minutes
02:31Number eight million dollar baby
02:33When you start watching million dollar baby
02:35It looks like the most typical Clint Eastwood movie ever made a well-crafted if familiar drama that sends the masses home happy
02:41From its very first scenes
02:43We're led to expect a conventional yet robust underdog sports tale in which an amateur boxer Margaret Maggie Fitzgerald
02:49Attempts to reach the ranks of professional with the help of her grizzled old trainer Frankie done yet to the end of the second act
02:55There's a jaw-dropping turn where Maggie is sucker punched from behind by an opponent between rounds and hits her head on a corner stall
03:02Breaking her neck the rest of the film becomes a devastating drama
03:05Which rather than have Maggie recover from her injury and return to the ring segues into a meditation on euthanasia as Frankie wrestles with Maggie's request to help her die
03:14Ultimately, he complies ending the film on a heart-wrenching yet brilliantly executed down note
03:20Which couldn't be further from the rocky-esque underdog yarn most surely expected from the beginning number seven the guest
03:27Adam Wingard's tenacious the guest was largely sold as a horror film and in fact one of the very first sights in the movie is of a jack-o'-lantern
03:34The establishing scenes in which a grieving family are visited by David an apparent army buddy of their dead son
03:40Set audiences up to anticipate a twisted seemingly horrifying reveal involving David's true identity
03:46Yet by act three the guests slaloms seamlessly into vaguely sci-fi action thriller territory
03:52When we learn that David was actually a test subject in a military super soldier experiment and is programmed to kill anyone who might compromise his identity
04:00What follows is a blood bath as David mows down anyone who gets in his way before the film morphs again into a slasher flick when David chases remaining family members
04:08Anna and Luke through a haunted house
04:10Hilariously though Wingard defies our expectations once more as the film ends with Anna and Luke making it to apparent safety
04:16Albeit while a presumed dead David resurfaces once more having somehow survived a brutal stab wound and disappears into the night
04:24Needless to say audiences considered many possible endings for the guests
04:27But a third act that weaved between three distinct genres sci-fi action and horror probably wasn't on their minds
04:34Number six miracle mile
04:36Cult 80s thriller miracle mile does a frankly magnificent job of luring the audience into a false sense of security
04:43The first 20 ish minutes introduced us to lead Harry and his love interest Julie without even a hint of the horrors awaiting them
04:50The establishing scenes are styled in the vein of a corny cutesy rom-com as Harry and Julie meet quickly fall for one another
04:56And agree to meet at a coffee shop after her work shift ends
04:59But oh shucks a power cut means that Harry doesn't wake up on time
05:03It sounds like a totally banal misunderstanding on which to hinge a perfectly mediocre indie rom-com and yet writer-director
05:10Steve Dijonette has something else in store
05:12All together as it turns out Harry answers a payphone at the coffee shop and is informed by the person on the other end of the line that
05:19nuclear war is apparently set to break out within 70 minutes at this point miracle
05:24Mile morphs into a paranoid suspense thriller in which Harry attempts to entertain the truth while
05:28Making contact with Julie
05:30And as almost polar opposite to their adorable date at the start of the movie
05:34It ends with the pair trapped in a helicopter that's sinking into La Brea Tar Pit
05:38The very place they met at the start of the film
05:40With no means of escape they resign themselves to their fate
05:43Their only solace being that a direct hit from a nuke would turn them into diamonds
05:47Lovely
05:48Number five kill list
05:51Ben Wheatley's 2011 crime flick kill list offers a straightforward yet intriguing premise
05:55As two former british soldiers jay and gal take a job to carry out three killings in exchange for a hefty payday
06:02Though weirdness soon enough abounds as it becomes clear there's something more to jay and gal's mission
06:06One of their target thanks them for killing him
06:09It isn't until the final 15 minutes that things finally come into focus
06:13As the pair prepare to carry out their third hit they observe a cult ritual in the woods
06:17Which culminates in a human sacrifice prompting an alarmed jay to open fire on the assembled crowd
06:23Gal is then mortally wounded by the cultists while jay is knocked unconscious and wakes up in a field
06:27Where he's stripped fitted with a mask and told to kill his final target the hunchback who is armed with a knife
06:34Jay complies only to learn that the hunchback was in fact his wife shell and son sam hidden under a mask and coat
06:40The film then ends ambiguously with the cult seemingly crowning jay as their new king
06:45For a film that was lastly presented as a gritty low-budget crime thriller the sharp left turn into folk horror
06:51Even with the preceding weirdness leading up to it was a bracingly effective shock
06:55Number four hancock
06:57Hancock starts off as a damn fun time an incredibly silly and puerile comedy in which an alcoholic superhero
07:03John hancock causes all manner of destruction across la before pr specialist ray embree steps in to try and help rehabilitate his image
07:11Though that basic setup sounds like the recipe for an entertainingly broad comedy
07:15The script co-written by breaking bad's vince gilligan had something else in mind
07:19At the start of the third act we learn that ray's wife mary is also a superhero and more to the point
07:24She and hancock were previously married until hancock lost his memory in an accident 80 years earlier and she left him
07:31Moreover the closer together hancock and mary are the more mortal they become and in order to maintain their powers
07:36They must again split up and so hancock's finale becomes a far more dour and earnest story than the hour of silly fun
07:43Times that preceded it offering up a mawkish pondering on the nature of godlike entities and a thoroughly sappy ending in which hancock takes
07:50Leave so that mary and ray can reconcile number three bone tomahawk
07:55S craigzana's bone tomahawk is a western quite like no other despite the fact that it seems to be a totally
08:01Conventional entry at first sight even with a bloody opening sequence in which two brigands are brutally murdered by a local native
08:08Zala's film seems to be operating fully within the tradition of a good old-fashioned pulpy western romp
08:13At the end of the first act sheriff franklin hunt forms a rescue party to retrieve a number of locals believed to have been kidnapped by troglodytes
08:20That is a tribe of inbred murderous cannibals
08:23Even with the troglodytes nature being clearly described to us so early on
08:26Most of the movie's remainder plays out as a fairly familiar albeit well crafted western journey
08:32That is at least until we reach act three and hunts party finally comes face to face with the troglodytes themselves
08:38At this point bone tomahawk mutates into a nauseatingly violent horror film
08:43In which hunt is forced to witness deputy nick be scalped ripped in half and eaten
08:47The remainder of the movie is a glorified slasher joint as hunt and his fellow survivors escape their imprisonment
08:52An attempt to murder the troglodyte horde which they largely do in wildly grisly fashion
08:57Number two
08:58sorry to bother you
09:00Sorry to bother you starts off as an apparent workplace satire in the vein of office space
09:04Albeit from the perspective of the black experience as our protagonist cash gets a job as a telemarketer
09:09And begins to mask his personality in order to perform better for most of the movie
09:13We observed cash rising through the company's ranks and as he becomes wealthy seemingly abandoning his prior pro-worker idealism
09:20But writer director boots riley pulls a sharp handbrake turn in act three when cash attends a party held by his company's ceo steve lift
09:29And discovers a group of human horse hybrids shackled up bet you didn't see that one coming
09:34It turns out lift is using a gene modifying power to transform his employees into epic turn in act three
09:40When cash attends a party held by his company's ceo steve lift
09:44And discovers a group of human horse hybrids shackled up bet you didn't see that one coming
09:49It turns out lift is using a gene modifying power to transform his employees into equi sapiens
09:55Who are stronger and more obedient and therefore generates more money for the company
09:59At film's end cash himself begins to sprout three horse-like nostrils and then leads an army of revolting equi sapiens to break down the front door of lifts home
10:08Did a single living soul see such an insane shift coming from black comedy to surreal fantasy sci-fi?
10:14Number one 10 cloverfield lane
10:17Even with the word cloverfield in the title paramount and producer jj abrams decided to market their spin-off 10 cloverfield lane as a claustrophobic
10:25self-contained thriller largely taking place in a single location and indeed it kicks off with protagonist michelle crashing her car and waking up in an underground bunker
10:34Alongside survivalist howard and another resident emmett
10:38Howard claims that apocalyptic situation above ground makes it impossible for them to leave the compound for a few years and both michelle
10:44And we as viewers are basically immediately distrustful of him yet 10 cloverfield lane veers suddenly off course in the last 10 minutes when michelle
10:52Escapes howard to the outside world and learns that he was basically sort of right
10:57She soon enough spots an alien biomechanical craft in the distance and spends the movie's remaining minutes battling a creature which drops from it
11:03Even though many expected to see an alien monster at some point in the film by this time
11:07It was so close to wrapping up that many had just assumed that 10 cloverfield lane would indeed be a mere psychological thriller set within the cloverfield universe
11:16It finally shifted gears at the very end in a move which some criticizers tacked on and unnecessary while others appreciated it as fans of the original cloverfield
11:24And that's the list let us know what you thought this video down in the comments below and any other films that you can think of that change genre halfway through
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