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Nothing beats a jaw-dropping twist you never saw coming! Join us as we count down the most unsettling plot twists found outside of horror cinema, spanning thrillers, dramas, sci-fi, and mysteries. Spoiler warning: these reveals range from deeply disturbing to downright devastating, and some may be harder to stomach than others. Which cinematic gut-punch left you speechless?
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00:00What's our next move?
00:03You tell me.
00:05Welcome to WatchMojo,
00:06and today we're looking through some of the most disturbing twists in cinematic thrillers,
00:10dramas, sci-fi, and mysteries.
00:12Anything goes, as long as it's not horror.
00:15It goes without saying that there will be major spoilers,
00:17some harder to sit through than others.
00:20Aw, come on.
00:21Don't go.
00:26Number 30.
00:27The not-so-happy ending, Atonement.
00:29You'll go to your parents as soon as you can,
00:31and you'll tell them everything they need to know to be convinced that the evidence you gave was false.
00:36You'll meet with a solicitor, make a statement, have it signed, witnessed, send copies to us as they claim.
00:40When she was younger, Bryony Tallis had falsely accused Robbie Turner of committing a heinous crime.
00:45Caught in the middle of World War II,
00:47Bryony gets a chance to atone for her deed against Robbie and her sister Cecilia.
00:51Cecilia and Robbie live happily ever after.
00:54At least, that's what Bryony wrote in her autobiography.
01:12In reality, both Cecilia and Robbie died during the war.
01:16Their reunion and Bryony's atonement were all fictitious.
01:19She wrote the ending in the book to give them the happy ending they were robbed of,
01:23and it would be her final act before her death.
01:25Unfortunately, the past can never be rewritten.
01:28And in fact, could never have happened.
01:30Nothing ever.
01:32Because...
01:34Robbie Turner died of septicemia of Bray Dunes on June 1st, 1940.
01:42Number 29, The Lucid Dream, Vanilla Sky.
01:46If you're just dreaming right now, that means I don't exist.
01:49Are you listening to me or are you just waiting to speak?
01:54I'm sorry.
01:56I'm just imagining you.
01:57David, I am real.
02:00I am too real.
02:03Life had gotten more than a little rough for David Ames Jr.
02:06An accident had caused his face to become disfigured,
02:09and the love of his life Sophia had just left him.
02:12But then one morning, he wakes up, and everything seems to be right with the world.
02:16However, a few cryptic clues hint that not everything is as it seems.
02:20Digging deeper, it's discovered that David had nearly died in that accident
02:24and was put in cryonic suspension to save his life.
02:27We erase what really happened from your memory.
02:30Erase?
02:31Replaced by a better life.
02:34Under these beautiful Monet-like skies.
02:39Your mother's favorite.
02:40A better life because you had Sophia.
02:44For 150 years, he had been living a lucid dream
02:48where his traumas and mistakes all had a happy ending.
02:51Unfortunately, his subconscious wouldn't let him erase his mistake
02:55and transformed his dream world into a nightmare.
02:57It was she who somehow knew her best.
03:02Unlike you, she never forgot that one night where real, true love seemed impossible.
03:11Number 28.
03:12Doe's Twisted Life
03:14Predestination
03:15Did you report that your decommissioned field kid didn't decommission?
03:22Right?
03:23Some people say that it's fate.
03:26But you and I, we know.
03:29Some things are predestined.
03:31It's probably for the best that we haven't figured out time travel,
03:35as it can lead to too many confusing and even tragic paradoxes.
03:38Arguably, the biggest example is temporal Agent Doe.
03:42At first, it looks like a simple case of him going through time to chase a dangerous criminal.
03:46However, the investigation reveals a twisted spiraling paradox
03:50in which Agent Doe is not only his own parents,
03:53but also the very criminal he's been chasing,
03:55having been driven mad by being stuck in a never-ending cycle.
03:58They say that the journey of a thousand miles
04:02starts right at your feet.
04:08My feet sure could use a rest.
04:11But rather than finally break the loop,
04:13Agent Doe just accepts his fate,
04:15doomed to remain trapped in a destiny he did not choose for himself.
04:19Number 27.
04:20The Right Decision
04:21Gone Baby Gone
04:22The police officer was killed today.
04:25That's not looked on lightly.
04:26Is corruption looked on lightly?
04:29Is a little girl getting killed looked on lightly?
04:31Detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro
04:33are on the case of finding a kidnapped child
04:35and returning her to her mother.
04:37The kidnapper is brought to justice
04:38and the child is presumed dead.
04:40Case closed, right?
04:41Not exactly.
04:42As it's revealed,
04:43that the kidnapping had all been a ruse
04:45orchestrated by police captain Jack Doyle
04:47to rescue the child from her mother,
04:49who was shown to be very neglectful
04:50and reliant on substance use.
04:52It wasn't your life to give.
04:54Elaine's her mother.
04:56Thought she was a bad mother.
04:57You should have gone to social services.
04:58Short of that,
04:59she's her mother
04:59and that's where she belongs.
05:01The film has a bittersweet ending
05:02where Patrick does return the child to her mother,
05:04but the morality of everything
05:06is put into question.
05:07When did doing the right thing
05:09become such a muddled mess?
05:10Oh, my heart is brimming.
05:13And just God bless everyone.
05:16Thank you to all the policemen
05:20and the firemen.
05:22I feel like 9-11 right now.
05:25Number 26.
05:26Frank's Long Game.
05:27Matchstick Men.
05:28Your ex-wife doesn't know well enough
05:30not to give out your home address.
05:32We only hurt the ones we love, huh?
05:35Despite struggling with his mental health,
05:37life seemed to be going well
05:38for con artist Roy Waller.
05:40That is,
05:40until a young woman named Angela
05:42enters his life
05:43claiming to be his long-lost daughter.
05:44So, you're in school, right?
05:47Not now.
05:48It's summer.
05:49Oh, yeah, okay, that's right.
05:51School's real important.
05:52If I had anything to do over again,
05:53I would have worked harder in school.
05:55Suddenly, Roy's entire worldview
05:57is put into question
05:58as he tries to bond with his child.
06:00Or so it seems.
06:01Near the end of the film,
06:02it's revealed that not only
06:04is Angela not his daughter,
06:05but she's been working
06:06with Roy's partner Frank
06:07on a long-term scam
06:08to rob him of his life savings.
06:10If anything,
06:11this fiasco motivated Roy
06:13to turn his life around
06:14after being betrayed
06:15by his so-called loved ones.
06:17If it makes any difference,
06:18you're the best I ever saw.
06:20I'd never find a better partner.
06:22And now I won't have to.
06:23I love you, man.
06:25Frank.
06:26Number 25.
06:28Nick's birthday present,
06:29The Game.
06:47It's Nicholas Van Orton's 48th birthday,
06:49and he's been given the opportunity
06:51to participate in The Game.
06:53What The Game is,
06:54we're still not sure,
06:55but it involves several bizarre incidents
06:57that take a toll on Nick's sanity.
06:59He's unable to tell
07:00what's real and what's not,
07:02leading to him shooting
07:03his brother Conrad
07:04before leaping to his death.
07:05Oh, God.
07:08Stick along!
07:11However,
07:12not only does he survive,
07:14but he ends up dropping in
07:15on his own surprise party
07:16where Conrad,
07:17who is alive and well,
07:18reveals that the whole thing
07:19was an elaborate trick
07:20for his birthday.
07:21Nothing says happy birthday
07:22like psychological trauma
07:24to the point
07:24where even the audience
07:25can't differentiate
07:26between reality and fiction.
07:27Ladies and gentlemen,
07:29my brother Nicholas Van Orton.
07:35Number 24.
07:37Corrupt Justice.
07:38The Secret in Their Eyes.
07:49Judiciary agent Benjamin Esposito
07:51is hell-bent on hunting down
07:53a young woman's assailant
07:54and murderer,
07:54Isidoro Gomez,
07:55and bringing him to justice.
07:57Unfortunately,
07:58Benjamin's obsession
07:59ends up ruining his own life
08:00and causes his best friend's death
08:02while Gomez slips away.
08:04However,
08:05it turns out
08:05there was someone
08:06even more obsessed,
08:07the victim's husband,
08:08Ricardo Morales.
08:20The widower took matters
08:21into his own hands
08:22and had Gomez imprisoned
08:23in his home
08:24for two decades
08:25as his own form
08:26of punishment.
08:26While Benjamin learned
08:28the price of revenge,
08:29Morales allowed
08:30his grief to consume him,
08:31blurring the lines
08:32between justice
08:33and vengeance
08:33in the worst ways.
08:35It's worth it.
08:38Don't think more.
08:39Don't think more.
08:42What's important?
08:44My wife is dead.
08:46Her friend is dead.
08:48Gomez is dead.
08:49They're all dead.
08:50Number 23.
08:51Banks' past
08:52and or future.
08:54Arrival.
09:05The movie opens
09:06with a heartbreaking flashback
09:08as linguist
09:08Louise Banks' daughter
09:09dies from an incurable disease.
09:11But no time
09:12to reflect on that
09:13as aliens have landed
09:14and Banks must try
09:15to communicate with them
09:16to figure out their intentions.
09:17Near the end,
09:18she learns a shocking discovery
09:19about her flashbacks.
09:21They're actually flash-forwards.
09:42The aliens gifted her
09:43the ability to see the future
09:44and she sees
09:45that she will have a child
09:46who will eventually die
09:47at a young age.
09:48Despite the inevitable,
09:50Banks still decides
09:51to have the child,
09:52believing it's better
09:53to experience
09:54even a fleeting moment
09:55of happiness
09:55rather than try
09:56to fight fate.
09:58Despite knowing the journey
09:59and where it leads,
10:05I embrace it.
10:20In the not-too-distant future,
10:23Lunar Industries found
10:24an alternate energy source
10:25on the moon
10:25and engineer Sam Bell
10:27was sent to help maintain
10:28the harvesting process
10:29for three years.
10:30Finally,
10:31his contract is almost up
10:32and he can leave
10:33this life of isolation.
10:34However,
10:34things take a turn
10:36for the eerie
10:36when Sam discovers
10:37a clone of himself.
10:39He already says
10:39you're Sam Bell.
10:42I'm Sam Bell too.
10:45What?
10:46You got that going for us.
10:48Down the line,
10:49the two make
10:49a frightening discovery.
10:51Neither of them
10:52is the real Sam Bell.
10:53In reality,
10:54they're just two
10:55of the many clones
10:56that Lunar Industries
10:57secretly creates
10:58in the base
10:59to harvest on the moon
11:00at no cost.
11:01When the clone's
11:01three-year contract is up,
11:03the clones are cremated
11:04and the process
11:05begins anew.
11:07The new Sam and I
11:07will be back
11:08to our programming
11:09as soon as I
11:09have finished rebooting.
11:13We're not programmed.
11:15We're people.
11:17You understand?
11:18Number 21.
11:19Tyler Durden.
11:20Fight Club.
11:21Is this about you and me?
11:22Yeah, I thought
11:23we were doing this together.
11:24You're missing the point.
11:25This does not belong to us.
11:27We are not special.
11:28Our nameless narrator's life
11:30is turned upside down
11:31thanks to his new friend,
11:32Tyler Durden.
11:33What started as a fight club
11:34between them
11:35turned into an extremist
11:36cult-like group
11:37causing anarchy
11:38throughout the city.
11:39As the narrator
11:40tries to find a way
11:41to stop Tyler,
11:41he discovers
11:42the horrifying truth.
11:43He is Tyler.
11:45You're just letting yourself
11:46become
11:49Tyler Durden.
11:50You are not your child
11:51for how much fun
11:52I'm having to make.
11:53No.
11:54You have a house.
11:55Rent it in your name.
11:55You have jobs.
11:56You have a whole life.
11:57You have night jobs
11:58because you can't sleep.
11:59Why do you stay up
12:00and make soap?
12:00More specifically,
12:02Tyler is a split personality
12:03brought on by the narrator's insomnia,
12:05meaning that all the destruction
12:07around him was caused
12:08by his own hands
12:09and the second personality
12:10won't stop
12:10until he's completely
12:11taken over his life.
12:13The only way to end
12:14Tyler's reign
12:15is for the narrator
12:16to shoot himself,
12:17barely making it out alive,
12:19while the second persona
12:20is snuffed out.
12:32M. Night Shyamalan
12:33quickly became known
12:34for twists early
12:35in his career,
12:36but they weren't
12:37precluded to horror,
12:38as evidenced by
12:39the terrific Unbreakable.
12:41In this proto-superhero thriller,
12:43Bruce Willis'
12:44David Dunn discovers
12:44his body is virtually,
12:46well,
12:46Unbreakable,
12:47when he survives
12:48a devastating train crash
12:49with nary a scratch.
12:51The kind of person
12:53these stories are about,
12:56a person put here
12:58to protect the rest of us,
13:01to guard us.
13:02Upon meeting
13:03Samuel L. Jackson's
13:04Elijah Price,
13:05whose brittle body
13:06is the exact opposite of his,
13:08David comes to accept
13:09his new identity
13:10as a do-gooder.
13:11However,
13:12it's eventually revealed
13:13that Elijah deliberately
13:14caused the crash,
13:15among others,
13:16just to find someone
13:17like David.
13:18You killed all those people,
13:21but I found you.
13:25So many sacrifices,
13:29just to find you.
13:31To think,
13:32all those countless lives
13:33lost just for someone
13:34to find their place
13:35in the world.
13:37Number 19,
13:38The Wrong Coffin,
13:39Buried.
13:40In this one-man show,
13:41Ryan Reynolds plays
13:42truck driver Paul Conroy
13:44in the Iraq War,
13:45who finds himself,
13:46well,
13:47buried in a coffin.
13:48He's then forced
13:49to negotiate his own ransom
13:50over a dying cell phone.
13:52One of the people
13:53Paul regularly speaks to
13:54is Dan Brenner,
13:55head of the hostage
13:56working group.
13:57At one point,
13:58to boost Paul's morale,
14:00Brenner tells him
14:01of a man named Mark White,
14:02someone they supposedly
14:03rescued from a similar situation.
14:05Is he...
14:07Did he?
14:07Yeah.
14:08Yeah,
14:09he's alive.
14:10Where is he now?
14:12Home.
14:13Probably happy
14:14to be back at school.
14:15At the climax,
14:16with Paul's coffin
14:17rapidly filling with sand,
14:18Brenner's team
14:19seems to have found
14:20the burial site.
14:21But instead,
14:22both Paul and Brenner
14:23are horrified
14:24to discover
14:24it's the coffin
14:25of Mark White.
14:26Oh my God.
14:28I'm so sorry, Paul.
14:30What is it?
14:30I'm sorry.
14:31What is it?
14:32It's Mark White.
14:34He brought us
14:35to Mark White.
14:36Paul learns
14:37Brenner lied to him
14:38about his rescues
14:39before suffocating.
14:40I'm sorry, Paul.
14:42I'm so sorry.
14:43Number 18,
14:45Ava Escapes,
14:46Ex Machina.
14:47This brilliant sci-fi thriller
14:48keeps you guessing
14:49as to who the real villain is.
14:51Is it Nathan,
14:52the unscrupulous tech CEO
14:54who's cracked
14:54artificial intelligence?
14:56Or is it Ava,
14:57his greatest creation?
14:59Even knowing
14:59who's pulling the strings
15:00in hindsight,
15:01we're still not sure
15:02who to root for.
15:03What, you want me
15:04to talk about myself?
15:07Yes.
15:18Ultimately charmed
15:20by Ava's demure disposition
15:21and captive state,
15:23the naive Caleb
15:23takes steps
15:24to break her out
15:25of Nathan's facility.
15:26But this proves
15:27to be his undoing,
15:28as it's revealed
15:29Ava was merely
15:30playing him
15:30to ensure her freedom.
15:32Ava kills Nathan,
15:34leaves Caleb to die,
15:35and absconds
15:36to civilization.
15:37Part of us
15:37is happy for her,
15:38but the other part
15:39shivers for humanity
15:40with a rogue AI
15:42in its midst.
15:43Number 17,
15:44A Little Emphasis,
15:46The Conversation.
15:47This paranoia thriller
15:48was way ahead
15:49of its time
15:50in regard
15:50to audio surveillance,
15:52but it's the period's
15:53dated technology
15:54that allowed
15:54for this gobsmacker
15:56of a twist.
15:56Gene Hackman
15:57plays Harry Call,
15:58a private wiretapper
16:00who becomes obsessed
16:01with a recording
16:01of a man and a woman,
16:03specifically the phrase,
16:04He'd kill us
16:05if he got the chance.
16:06Believing the couple
16:07to be under threat
16:08from his client,
16:09Call goes to great lengths
16:10to protect the tape.
16:12But when it's his client
16:13who ends up dead,
16:14Call realizes
16:15simple emphasis
16:16on the word us
16:17completely changes
16:18the line's meaning
16:19and the couple's intentions.
16:20He'd kill us
16:21if he got the chance.
16:23Call is unable
16:24to stop the real crime,
16:25and by getting too involved,
16:27he's now the one
16:28under surveillance.
16:29We know that you know,
16:29Mr. Call.
16:31For your own sake,
16:32don't get involved
16:33any further.
16:34We'll be listening to you.
16:37Number 16.
16:39Waking Nightmare,
16:40The Machinist.
16:41Speaking of paranoia thrillers,
16:43The Machinist gets
16:44our anxiety levels up
16:45every time we watch it,
16:47much of which
16:47can be attributed
16:48to the transformative performance
16:49of Christian Bale.
16:51Here, he plays
16:51an emaciated insomniac
16:53named Trevor,
16:54whose waking life
16:55is a living hell,
16:56as he believes
16:57he's being deliberately
16:58driven insane.
16:59He tries to get
17:00to the bottom of it all,
17:01which includes tracking
17:02down a co-worker
17:03named Ivan,
17:04whom no one seems
17:05to acknowledge exists.
17:07You look like
17:07you've seen a ghost.
17:09Funny you should say that.
17:11The guys at work
17:12don't think you exist.
17:15That's why
17:16I can't get a raise.
17:17Trevor learns
17:18that at the root
17:18of all these happenings
17:19is a repressed memory
17:20of him accidentally
17:22running over
17:22and killing a little boy.
17:24Ivan is the manifestation
17:25of his guilt,
17:27which also led
17:28to his deteriorating
17:29physical state.
17:30I just want to sleep.
17:31Number 15,
17:33The Real Kaiser Soze,
17:34The Usual Suspects.
17:36When your number is called,
17:37step forward
17:37and repeat the phrase
17:38you've been given.
17:39For that one person
17:40who's yet to watch
17:41this award winner,
17:42after a drug heist
17:43gone wrong,
17:44Roger Verbal Kint
17:45is taken into custody
17:46to assist a detective
17:47in identifying
17:48the mob boss
17:49Kaiser Soze.
17:50In a truly shocking zinger,
17:52Kint is revealed
17:53to be Kaiser Soze
17:54mere seconds
17:55after leaving
17:56the police station.
17:57Even after
17:57close examination,
17:58the usual suspect's twist
18:00holds up to scrutiny
18:01and is so awesome
18:02that you'll want to go back
18:03and re-watch the film
18:04almost immediately.
18:06Simultaneously chilling
18:07and badass,
18:09the filmmakers inserted
18:10just enough hints
18:11to make the revelation
18:12plausible.
18:13I'm smarter than you
18:14and I'm going to find out
18:16what I want to know.
18:17Number 14,
18:18The Nature of Rebellion,
18:19Snowpiercer.
18:21Bong Joon-ho knows
18:22how to bake
18:22an unexpected twist
18:23into films
18:24with socioeconomic themes.
18:26As evidenced
18:26by the best picture
18:27winning Parasite.
18:28But it's Snowpiercer's
18:30various turns
18:31that recontextualize
18:32the whole thing.
18:32We control the engine,
18:33we control the world.
18:35Without that,
18:36we have nothing.
18:37All past revolutions
18:39have failed
18:39because they couldn't
18:40take the engine.
18:40The driving force
18:41of the film
18:42is a rebellion
18:42stemming from
18:43the lower class
18:44of a train
18:44that's housing
18:45the last of humanity
18:46in a new ice age.
18:47Leading the charge
18:48is Curtis,
18:49who towards the end
18:50reveals that he and his people
18:51actually resorted
18:52to cannibalism long ago.
18:54I know what
18:54people taste like.
18:56As if that's not enough,
18:58he then learns
18:59that his mentor
18:59was conspiring
19:00with the train's leader
19:01to spur the rebellion
19:02in the first place
19:03to keep the population down.
19:04I mean,
19:05as Gilliam
19:06well understood,
19:07we need to maintain
19:08a proper balance
19:09of anxiety
19:10and fear,
19:11chaos,
19:12and horror
19:13in order to keep life going.
19:15And if we don't have that,
19:18we need to invent it.
19:20Knowing even dissent
19:21can be a tool
19:22for oppression
19:22is a heavy pill
19:23to swallow.
19:24Number 13.
19:26Guilt Reset
19:27Memento
19:28Another filmmaker
19:29who knows how to pull off
19:30a twist
19:30is Christopher Nolan.
19:32Heck,
19:32the prestige has multiple
19:33and yet none of them
19:35weigh down the movie.
19:35But if we're talking
19:37unsettling,
19:38it's gotta be Memento.
19:39The non-linear narrative
19:41follows Leonard,
19:42a man with
19:42anterograde amnesia,
19:44meaning he can't
19:45form new memories.
19:46Regardless,
19:47he remains determined
19:48to solve the murder
19:49of his wife,
19:50using photos
19:50and tattoos
19:51to guide his resetting mind.
19:53However,
19:54he eventually learns
19:55that he accidentally
19:56killed her himself
19:57and has been repressing
19:58the memory ever since.
20:00You don't want the truth.
20:01You make up your own truth,
20:03like your police file.
20:06It was complete
20:07when I gave it to you.
20:08Who took out the 12 pages?
20:09You, probably.
20:10No, it wasn't me.
20:11See, it was you.
20:12Why would I do that?
20:13To create a puzzle
20:14you could never solve.
20:15Despite this otherwise
20:16life-changing revelation,
20:18the film ends
20:19with Leonard accepting
20:20that he will continue
20:21to lie to himself.
20:23We all need mirrors
20:23to remind ourselves
20:24who we are.
20:27I'm no different.
20:29Number 12.
20:29Sister and Daughter
20:31Chinatown
20:32I want to know
20:32how it happened
20:33and I want to know why
20:34and I want to know
20:35before Escobar gets here.
20:36What happens in Chinatown
20:38stays in Chinatown.
20:39This twisted classic
20:40starts as a case
20:42of a woman scorned,
20:43but quickly spirals
20:44into murder
20:45and nihilism.
20:46Puzzled by Evelyn
20:47Cross-Mulray's
20:48strange relationship
20:49with her younger sister
20:50Catherine and her
20:50slimy father,
20:51Jack Nicholson's
20:52private investigator
20:53unwittingly unveils
20:54a disgusting family secret.
20:56Evelyn is Catherine's
20:57mother and sibling.
20:59She's my sister
21:00and my daughter.
21:02To make matters worse,
21:03the film ends
21:04with Evelyn's death
21:05and Catherine
21:06falling into the hands
21:07of Daddy Dearest,
21:09while Nicholson's
21:09Jake Gittis
21:10hopelessly watches
21:11from a distance.
21:12Forget it, Jake.
21:13It's Chinatown.
21:15Number 11.
21:16Fear thy neighbor.
21:18Arlington Road.
21:19Sir, step out of the-
21:20Michael!
21:21It's got a goddamn bomb!
21:22Michael, wait!
21:23Whit!
21:24Whit!
21:24That's the man!
21:25Hey, it's only paranoia
21:27if you're wrong.
21:28Directed by Mark Pellington,
21:30Arlington Road stars
21:31Jeff Bridges
21:32as a widower
21:32in a post-Oklahoma City
21:34bombing world
21:34who suspects his neighbors
21:36to be extremists.
21:37Even though Tim Robbins
21:38and Joan Cusack
21:39deliver reasonably
21:40creepy performances,
21:41Michael's unfounded fears
21:43seem like the ramblings
21:44of a madman
21:44and are completely dismissed.
21:46The twist arrives
21:47in two parts.
21:48First, it confirms
21:49the protagonist's suspicions,
21:51but the true
21:52holy crap moment
21:53happens later
21:54when Michael is framed
21:55for the attack itself.
21:56Preliminary reports
21:57indicate the bombing
21:58was the work of this man,
22:00Michael Faraday
22:01of Reston, Virginia.
22:02Number 10.
22:03Dying a Good Man.
22:05Shutter Island.
22:06We're telling you the truth.
22:07At first,
22:08Martin Scorsese's film
22:09plays out like a typical
22:10neo-noir detective story.
22:12U.S. Marshal
22:13Edward Teddy Daniels
22:14is sent to Shutter Island
22:15to investigate
22:16the disappearance
22:16of a woman
22:17imprisoned for drowning
22:18her children.
22:19Except that is
22:20pretty much all a lie
22:21as Daniels is actually
22:22a Shutter Island patient
22:24and the whole investigation
22:25is merely an act
22:26to try and resolve
22:27his delusions.
22:28But you're violent,
22:29trained, dangerous.
22:30You're the most dangerous
22:31patient we have.
22:32Sadly, the plan fails
22:33and the patient
22:34is slated to be lobotomized.
22:36Although a final plot twist
22:38suggests Teddy
22:39might be faking his relapse
22:40to avoid dealing
22:41with the truth.
22:42This is the sort of twist
22:44that really stays with you
22:45after the credits roll.
22:46Which would be worse?
22:49To live as a monster
22:52or to die as a good man?
22:54Number 9.
22:54Splitting the Pot.
22:56Malice.
23:05With this insane
23:07neo-noir flick,
23:08director Harold Becker
23:09and writers Aaron Sorkin
23:10and Scott Frank
23:11asked whether there's
23:12such a thing
23:13as too many plot twists.
23:15Following an unnecessary
23:16surgery that resulted
23:17in Nicole Kidman's character
23:18Tracy being unable
23:19to have children,
23:21the central couple
23:21wins a malpractice suit
23:23against Alec Baldwin's
23:24arrogant Dr. Jed Hill.
23:25I am God.
23:27But Tracy later
23:28divorces her husband.
23:30Jam-packed alongside
23:31a slew of red herrings
23:32and head-scratching revelations,
23:34the biggest twist reveals
23:35that Kidman and Baldwin
23:36were actually working together
23:38and planned to split
23:39the $20 million cash windfall
23:41from the lawsuit.
23:42I earned this money.
23:44This money is mine.
23:45Number 8.
23:46Envy and Wrath.
23:477.
23:47Oh, what's in the box?
23:49Everyone knows
23:50what's in the box.
23:51David Fincher's 7
23:52centers on two detectives
23:54portrayed by Morgan Freeman
23:55and Brad Pitt
23:56who are hot on the trail
23:57of a serial killer
23:58murdering people
23:59according to the
23:59seven deadly sins.
24:01By the time
24:01John Doe turns himself in,
24:03five murders
24:04have been committed
24:05but the killer promises
24:06to reveal the last corpses
24:07if the cops
24:08take him to the desert.
24:10Once there,
24:11Detective Somerset
24:12finds a box
24:12containing the head
24:13of Mills' wife Tracy
24:14before Mills retaliates
24:16by killing John Doe.
24:17Oh, God!
24:19Oh, God!
24:21Representing Envy and Wrath,
24:22these two deaths
24:23complete Doe's plan
24:24and the twist spawned
24:26countless
24:26What's in the box parodies.
24:28What's in the box?
24:29What's in the box?
24:31What's in the box?
24:32Number 7.
24:33Equi Sapiens.
24:34Sorry to Bother You.
24:36Sorry to Bother You
24:37is a scathing
24:38indictment of capitalism
24:39and just when you think
24:40it's peaked
24:41in terms of absurdity,
24:42it pushes the pedal
24:43straight through the floor.
24:45One more thing, Cassius.
24:46Stuss.
24:48Stuss.
24:50S-T-T-S.
24:52Stick to the script.
24:54Stick to the script.
24:55Its rising action
24:56follows Cash,
24:57a young Oakland native
24:58who transcends his job
24:59as a telemarketer
25:00by becoming
25:01a corporate shill.
25:02Despite realizing
25:03that his parent company
25:04is using people
25:05like slaves,
25:05sometimes literally,
25:07Cash remains blinded
25:08by the, well, Cash,
25:10until he discovers
25:11the plot to make
25:11workers more efficient
25:12by turning them
25:13into horse people.
25:14Yes, really.
25:15So you're making
25:16half-human,
25:18half-horse
25:19f***ing things
25:20so you can make
25:21more money?
25:21Yeah, basically.
25:22As if the image
25:23of the Equi-Sapiens
25:24wasn't unsettling enough,
25:25the implications
25:26the allegory has
25:28for the capitalist machine
25:29are all too real.
25:31Number 6.
25:32Father and Brother
25:33Incendie
25:34Denis Villeneuve
25:35is another director
25:36who's mastered
25:36the art of the twist.
25:37Take Prisoners,
25:39for instance,
25:39whose twist
25:40makes the movie
25:41even darker.
25:42But if there's one
25:43from which we expected
25:44a twist the least,
25:46it's Incendie.
25:50The film centers
25:51on a pair of twins
25:52shortly after the death
25:53of their mother,
25:54Nawal,
25:54an Arab-Canadian immigrant.
25:56In her will,
25:57they're prompted
25:58to track down
25:58their father and brother
26:00and present each a letter.
26:01However,
26:02as we learn
26:03Nawal's tragic backstory,
26:04everything becomes
26:05more complicated
26:06and simpler.
26:07When Nawal was young,
26:09she was separated
26:10from her first son
26:11who grew up
26:11to be a vicious soldier
26:13in a civil war
26:13and unknowingly
26:14forced himself on her.
26:16The estranged father
26:17and brother
26:17are the same person.
26:29Number 5
26:30Home Sweet Earth
26:31Planet of the Apes
26:33My God!
26:35I'm back!
26:36As a franchise,
26:38Planet of the Apes
26:39has made a habit
26:39of ending
26:40on a shocking revelation
26:41or explosive climax.
26:42but there's no topping
26:44the original.
26:44After sleeping
26:45for a good two millennia,
26:47Charlton Heston's tailor
26:48crash-lands
26:49on a strange planet
26:50that is overrun
26:50with apes
26:51and is taken captive.
26:53A couple of ironic lines later,
26:55Heston manages
26:56to escape
26:56with the aid of some apes
26:57but soon learns
26:58that this crappy planet
26:59is actually Earth.
27:01Apparently,
27:02humanity engaged
27:03in a global war
27:04and wrecked
27:05the entire thing,
27:06leaving apes
27:06to take over
27:07as the new
27:08dominant species.
27:09You maniacs!
27:12You blew it up!
27:14Number 4
27:15Aaron Who
27:16Primal Fear
27:17Clearly,
27:18there have been
27:18a lot of memorable twists
27:19that center
27:20on dissociative personalities.
27:22But what makes
27:23this one great
27:24is the exact opposite.
27:25Do you trust me?
27:28Do?
27:29Yeah, yes.
27:30Yes, of course I do.
27:32Good.
27:33Because I don't trust you.
27:34In Primal Fear,
27:36Richard Gere stars
27:36as defense attorney
27:37Martin Vail,
27:38who takes the case
27:39of the meek Aaron Stampler,
27:41a teenage altar boy
27:42who murdered
27:43an archbishop.
27:44Aaron's body
27:45definitely committed
27:46the crime,
27:46but it comes into question
27:47as to whether
27:48his mind did,
27:49as an alternate,
27:50more abrasive personality
27:51named Roy
27:52soon reveals itself.
27:53It sounds to me
27:54like they're gonna
27:54shoot old Aaron
27:55so full of poison
27:55it's gonna come
27:56out his eyes.
27:58Where is Aaron?
28:00Aaron's crying off
28:01in some corner somewhere.
28:02You scared him off!
28:03Through this revelation,
28:04Vail is able
28:05to get Aaron acquitted,
28:06but just when he thinks
28:07he's done good,
28:08the truth slips out.
28:10Aaron doesn't have
28:11dissociative identity disorder,
28:13or should we say Roy?
28:14So there never,
28:16there never was a Roy.
28:19Jesus Christ, Marty,
28:21if that's what you think,
28:22I am disappointed in you,
28:24I don't mind telling you.
28:28There never was
28:30an Aaron counselor.
28:33That's right.
28:33Roy played everyone.
28:36Number three,
28:37an unconventional revenge.
28:39Old boy.
28:43Revenge is a dish
28:45best served cold.
28:47The second entry
28:48in Park Chan-wook's
28:48vengeance trilogy,
28:49old boy sees a drunken father
28:51kidnapped and locked
28:52in a room for 15 years
28:53before being suddenly let free.
28:56Desperate to get revenge
28:57on the person responsible,
28:58Ode-su learns this was done
29:00as punishment
29:00for something he did
29:01in high school.
29:02He revealed that two siblings
29:04were having an inappropriate
29:05relationship,
29:05which led to
29:06the sister's death.
29:16However,
29:17in addition to being imprisoned,
29:18Ode-su was also tricked
29:20into an inappropriate
29:21relationship with his
29:22own daughter.
29:23Unable to live
29:24with this knowledge,
29:25Ode-su attempts
29:26to get his memory wiped.
29:27But whether this is successful
29:29is open to interpretation.
29:31I love you,
29:34my brother.
29:40Number two,
29:41cool girl gone bad.
29:43Gone girl.
29:44My lazy, lying, cheating,
29:46oblivious husband
29:47will go to prison
29:48for my murder.
29:49David Fincher is at it again.
29:51Based on Gillian Flynn's
29:53novel of the same name,
29:54Gone Girl sees Ben Affleck's
29:56Nick become the prime suspect
29:57in the disappearance
29:58of his wife, Amy.
30:00The first half slowly
30:01builds a case against Nick
30:02before Gone Girl flips
30:04everything on its head
30:04with a single monologue.
30:06Amy is not dead
30:07or missing
30:08and planned this entire thing
30:10to frame Nick for murder
30:11as punishment
30:12for his infidelity.
30:13In the span of five minutes,
30:15the film's cool girl
30:16turns into a deranged psychopath
30:18while Nick shifts
30:19from perpetrator
30:20to victim.
30:21He took and took from me
30:23until I no longer existed.
30:25That's murder.
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30:42Number one,
30:43what Soylent Green
30:44is made of?
30:45Soylent Green.
30:46Soylent Green.
30:47The miracle food
30:49of high-energy plankton
30:50gathered from the oceans
30:52of the world.
30:52Killing two birds
30:53with one stone.
30:54Soylent Green
30:55takes place
30:56in the then distant future
30:58of 2022
30:59where New York City
31:00is suffering
31:01from overpopulation
31:02and a severe shortage
31:03of rations.
31:04As a means
31:05to feed the masses,
31:06the Soylent Corporation
31:07distributes massive amounts
31:08of rations
31:09with the Green iteration
31:11being the most popular.
31:12Unless someone belongs
31:13to the upper class,
31:14everyone willingly
31:15eats this substance
31:16and is borderline
31:18addicted to the stuff.
31:19So what is Soylent Green?
31:21Well, let's just say
31:22that Hannibal Lecter
31:23would love it.
31:24You gotta tell him
31:25Soylent Green
31:27is people!
31:29Which plot twist
31:30gave you the heebie-jeebies?
31:31Let us know
31:32in the comments.
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