Best/Most Shocking Movie Twist of all Time..

Best Twiste ever?

  • Witness For the Prosecution(1957)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Vertigo(1958)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Psycho(1960)

    Votes: 4 5.3%
  • The Planet of the Apes(1968)

    Votes: 12 15.8%
  • The Sting(1973)

    Votes: 2 2.6%
  • Chinatown(1974)

    Votes: 4 5.3%
  • Empire Strikes Back(1980)

    Votes: 24 31.6%
  • Sleepaway Camp(1983)

    Votes: 3 3.9%
  • No Way Out(1987)

    Votes: 2 2.6%
  • Jacob's Ladder(1990)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • A Pure Formality(1994)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • The Shawshank Redemption(1994)

    Votes: 3 3.9%
  • Se7en(1995)

    Votes: 6 7.9%
  • The Usual Suspects(1995)

    Votes: 25 32.9%
  • Primal Fear(1996)

    Votes: 3 3.9%
  • L.A.Confidential(1997)

    Votes: 2 2.6%
  • Fight Club(1999)

    Votes: 8 10.5%
  • The Sixth Sense(1999)

    Votes: 17 22.4%
  • Memento(2000)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Unbreakable(2000)

    Votes: 1 1.3%
  • The Others(2001)

    Votes: 2 2.6%
  • Oldboy(2003)

    Votes: 4 5.3%
  • Saw(2004)

    Votes: 4 5.3%
  • The Prestige(2006)

    Votes: 6 7.9%
  • Orphan(2009)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Shutter Island(2010)

    Votes: 2 2.6%
  • Incendies(2011)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Gone Girl(2014)

    Votes: 2 2.6%
  • Predestination(2014)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Us(2019)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    76

Tkachuk4MVP

32 Years of Fail
Apr 15, 2006
14,793
2,675
San Diego, CA
Oldboy is always the first movie I think of when I think of shocking twists. My jaw was on the floor and I kept saying “No way” over and over.

HM to Usual Suspects. I saw that movie around when it came out and didn’t even know there was a twist. Needless to say, that was pretty memorable.
 

WingsMJN2965

Registered User
Oct 13, 2017
18,106
17,699
Us was so predictable that it doesn't even really deserve to be on the list.
That twist was obvious once it was apparent that the woman's double was the only one who could speak.

Then again, I loved Shutter Island and I had friends who called the twist 20 minutes in.

I think as far as iconic movie moments go, you have to have Empire Strikes Back and Sixth Sense as the top 2. I loved Se7en and Shawshank Redemption, but I don't really feel like either of those movies have a twist.

Not a movie, but the season 3 Finale of LOST is probably the biggest, "Holy shit" moment I've had with any form of entertainment.
 

wedge

Registered User
Oct 4, 2004
6,143
86
victoriaville
Darth Vader is probably the most famous. Usual suspects was incredible too and it made you want to watch the movie again. The sixth sense is also a very good one.
 

SSF

Registered User
Oct 5, 2017
1,278
276
Came to my mind too, but I would still go with Spoorloos, which really should be a choice here.

God, that movie has stuck with me.

I would propose the twist of the Crying Game was unexpected, especially seeing it as a 15 year old with my mom.
 

KallioWeHardlyKnewYe

Hey! We won!
May 30, 2003
15,508
3,330
God, that movie has stuck with me.

I would propose the twist of the Crying Game was unexpected, especially seeing it as a 15 year old with my mom.

The Crying Game is the first one that came to mind for me as well. It would probably get my vote too in part because you're not really expecting or looking for a twist, as opposed to a lot of the horror movies and thrillers on this list where you're at least somewhat on guard for a surprise whether or not you deduce what that surprise is.
 

kihei

McEnroe: The older I get, the better I used to be.
Jun 14, 2006
42,550
10,140
Toronto
God, that movie has stuck with me.

I would propose the twist of the Crying Game was unexpected, especially seeing it as a 15 year old with my mom.
That made me laugh. That's one of the most classic inappropriate moments at the movies that I ever heard of. How did you both react, I wonder? I had a friend whose parents took him to his first movie when he had just turned five years old. The movie: Jaws.
 

SSF

Registered User
Oct 5, 2017
1,278
276
Kihei-Silence mostly is all I remember.

Kallio-correct on the unexpectedness of it being key to me about why the movie should be on the list.
 

Blackhawkswincup

RIP Fugu
Jun 24, 2007
186,842
20,299
Chicagoland
Its been a while, but I don't really remember a twist to The Mist. Remind me?

Very, very end of the movie. The group of sympathetic, relatable characters escape the toxic situation of the grocery store where everyone is going hysteric and turning on one another by siding with the overly religious lady. As they're driving through the mist they see how widespread it is and that there are horrific things beyond anything they've seen (such as a leviathan monster). Deciding there's no hope, they all agree to take the easy way out (except for the main character's kid, who's sleeping). Main character shoots everyone in the car but doesn't have enough bullets for himself. As he goes back out into the mist he screams for the monsters to take him, but the army comes out of the mist to save the day, with trucks filled with survivors (you can speculate people from the grocery store included).

 

izzy

go
Apr 29, 2012
86,760
18,732
Nova Scotia
the original saws ending is the most f***in wild ending ever

im actually a fan of the entire series kinda, but just because i like any movie franchise where they link a lot if seemingly unconnected shit and nobody is safe
 

Pranzo Oltranzista

Registered User
Oct 18, 2017
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2,673
Not on the list but I am going to go with Night of the Living Dead

Such a bleak ending for a film of its era when the usual result would be survival of main character but not in NOTLD



It real shocker for its time


Great pick, and not only for its time. Who would dare ending a film that way today? It's just not the level of shock that Spoorloos delivers, but still a top-5 pick.
 

lud

Registered User
May 27, 2009
1,243
18
Croatia
Hmm,lots of comments here.

In my opinion The Mist,Night if the Living Dead and Spoorloos aren't really plot twists, Neither is Se7en for that matter. Dark,disturbing ending yes,but not plot twist. That being said I saw Se7en ending miles away. Fantastic movie,but ending was utterly predictable.

As for The Crying Game,I can surely understand how shocking that was,again I saw this coming in the middle of the movie. It was pretty obvious,if you ask me.
 

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