Horror movie fans, get ready for a mind-blowing journey through 30 fan theories that were actually confirmed! From hidden universes to shocking character revelations, we're diving deep into the most incredible movie theories that turned out to be true.
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00:00Hello.
00:01Hello, Gale.
00:02Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the 30 fan theories
00:07from horror movies that were either confirmed by the filmmakers or the movie itself.
00:11There will be some major spoilers ahead, so a spoiler warning is in effect.
00:17Come on, man, the little guys with the big eyes.
00:20Yeah, there's lots of theories.
00:23Number 30, It's a Setup, The Cabin in the Woods
00:26So you wanna come over Monday night? I'm gonna pick up some power drills.
00:29Liberate my cabinets.
00:33Are you even listening to me?
00:37A clever subversion of the classic Cabin in the Woods movie,
00:40the, uh, Cabin in the Woods, is all about one big setup.
00:43You see, these scientist guys lure teenagers to a fake cabin
00:47and then sic all sorts of creepy monsters on them in an effort to kill them,
00:51harvest their blood, and satiate subterranean demons.
00:54As you do.
00:55While the extent of the twist wasn't guessed beforehand,
00:57people correctly assumed that it was all a setup.
01:00There are numerous shots in the trailer showing some type of lab,
01:03and that, combined with the very tropey nature of the story,
01:06had some correctly deducing that not all was as it seemed.
01:10They have to choose to ignore him, and they have to choose what happens in the cellar.
01:13Yeah, we rig the game as much as we need to, but in the end, they don't transgress.
01:18They can't be punished.
01:19Number 29, It's a Simulation, Don't Worry Darling
01:23Do you consent to the physical and medical requirements for entry to victory?
01:27Yes.
01:28While it's more of a psychological thriller, Don't Worry Darling still contains some disturbing imagery
01:33and follows many classic horror movie tropes.
01:35It's very Black Mirror, and that includes the presence of outlandish technology,
01:39including simulations.
01:41We learn that Alice is a modern woman living in an idealistic simulation of the 1950s.
01:46Once again, this twist was correctly guessed beforehand by many people,
01:49based solely on the evidence in the trailer.
01:52In fact, the movie received a middling reception,
01:54with many people criticizing its too obvious twist.
01:57A twist we all knew was coming, and one that the movie was way too late in introducing.
02:04Welcome to the Victory Project.
02:06There are currently 72 active users.
02:10Your re-entry has begun.
02:12Number 28, The Candyman Hive, Candyman
02:15So?
02:18He's real?
02:19Atlas real, Samuel Sherman, Daniel Robitaille, they're all real.
02:25Candyman is how we deal with the fact that these things happened.
02:28That they're still happening.
02:30What if Daniel Robitaille wasn't the only Candyman?
02:33This is what some fans have been theorizing for years,
02:36and the answer was finally given in the 2021 requel.
02:39This movie had a fresh cast of characters and a modern setting,
02:42and it was also co-written by Jordan Peele,
02:45who loves him some social commentary.
02:47Add the two together, and fans were theorizing that the Candyman legend
02:51could actually relate to some type of social justice theme.
02:54This theory was confirmed through the Candyman Hive,
02:57which is where the souls of murdered black men go to be reincarnated as vengeful killers.
03:02Daniel is seemingly the figurehead of this collective hive,
03:06as evidenced by the resurrected Anthony morphing into him at the end of the film.
03:11Tell everyone.
03:15Number 27. Imposters. The Visit.
03:18It's definitely some sort of late onset schizophrenia.
03:21They're both in bad shape.
03:23Great. Our Pop-Pop has schizophrenia,
03:25and our Nana becomes Michael Myers when the sun goes down.
03:28Hey look, another trailer. Another twist we all correctly theorized.
03:32M. Night Shyamalan is known for his wild stories,
03:35but this one is refreshingly simple.
03:37Some kids go to visit their grandparents,
03:39and Nana and Pop-Pop sure are acting weird.
03:42Unfortunately, simple stories tend to breed simple twists,
03:45and this had to be one of Shyamalan's easiest.
03:47Once again, people theorized from the trailer that Nana and Pop-Pop were impostors,
03:51and, well, yep, that's exactly what they were.
03:54The elder couple are actually escaped patients from the psychiatric hospital
03:58in which the real grandparents worked,
04:00having assumed their identities after murdering them.
04:03Becca, Tyler, babies. I need you to listen to me very carefully.
04:08Becca, Tyler, just listen to me.
04:12We aren't.
04:16Those aren't your grandparents.
04:18Number 26, A Co-Conspirator, Saw II
04:21I'm gonna ask you again, how do you know all this?
04:28Because I've played before.
04:30The first Saw was a simple enough movie,
04:32but, like most sequels, Saw II ramped up the production values.
04:37Rather than a decrepit bathroom, this one takes place in a massive house
04:40and involves numerous elaborate traps,
04:42not to mention a side plot going on with Detective Matthews.
04:45The first movie established that Jigsaw was sick,
04:48and in this film he can barely stand.
04:50Naturally, many theorized that the killer had an accomplice,
04:53as he couldn't possibly have done all this by himself.
04:55And, wouldn't you know it, it was the woman from the first movie.
04:59In the climax, Amanda reveals that she has been working with Jigsaw
05:02ever since her first game, and that she has helped him set up the elaborate test.
05:07It is I who will carry on John's work after he dies.
05:10Daniel!
05:12So go ahead, destroy him.
05:15And you...
05:16Daniel!
05:17...are my first test subject.
05:20Number 25, Incarnation of God, Shin Godzilla
05:33No one really knows where the name Godzilla came from,
05:35but it's widely thought to be a portmanteau of the Japanese words
05:39gorira, meaning gorilla, and kujira, meaning whale.
05:43Yep, Godzilla is a gorilla whale.
05:45When the title was translated to English, it morphed from gojira to Godzilla,
05:50and many people thought that it meant God Lizard, or something to that effect.
05:54This in keeping with the movie's themes of divine retribution,
05:57as Godzilla serves as a warning against nuclear war.
06:00This theory was confirmed, or at least acknowledged,
06:03in the 2016 film Shin Godzilla.
06:06Shin can translate to new, true, or even, you guessed it, God.
06:10This is also confirmed in-movie by Patterson,
06:13who explicitly refers to Godzilla's divine origins.
06:21Number 24, Teddy is a Patient, Shutter Island
06:24Which would be worse?
06:27To live as a monster, or to die as a good man?
06:31The twist ending of Shutter Island is often praised,
06:34but some people nailed it solely from the trailer.
06:36So, here's the deal.
06:38A detective goes to an isolated psychiatric hospital
06:40to inquire about a missing patient.
06:42These types of mysterious remote location movies
06:45almost always have a twist, so viewers were already on edge.
06:49Furthermore, the trailer shows Teddy having visions
06:51and suffering from some type of delusion.
06:53There are also numerous shots of a blonde-haired woman and a child,
06:56including one where the woman disappears,
06:59one where they're engulfed in fire,
07:01and one where Teddy is screaming over a body.
07:04Put them all together, and you've guessed the twist.
07:06Teddy is the patient, having murdered his wife
07:09after she drowned their children.
07:11My name's Andrew Leidas.
07:20And I murdered my wife in the spring of 52.
07:24Number 23, Resurrection Gone Wrong, Puppet Master 2
07:28Where you been all this time, Chaney?
07:31In Bucharest,
07:34endeavoring to do something about this.
07:37This franchise has a weird chronology,
07:39with the third, fourth, and fifth movies
07:42serving as prequels to the first and second.
07:45In the latter, the titular puppet master, Andre Toulon,
07:48is reanimated by Pinhead and walks around in the guise of Enrique Chenet.
07:53He is violent and murderous in this film,
07:55which contrasts highly with his characterization in the prequels.
07:58This led many fans to believe, as is often the case in horror,
08:01his resurrection went wrong and he came back different.
08:04This was finally confirmed in the Puppet Master comic books,
08:07a canonical series made by Action Lab Comics,
08:10between 2015 and 2018.
08:14You, poet.
08:17You will deal with his burning desires
08:21in a most appropriate way.
08:25Number 22. Norman Killed The Ghost
08:28What Lies Beneath
08:29You had an affair with a girl who killed herself,
08:32and now she's trying to hurt you.
08:34If you learn one thing from this list,
08:36it's that you shouldn't watch trailers for horror movies.
08:38The marketing for What Lies Beneath
08:40makes it seem like a simple haunted house story,
08:42only with one major twist.
08:44A twist that the trailer essentially revealed.
08:47It makes explicitly clear that Norman ended an affair.
08:50The woman took her own life,
08:51and her ghost is now haunting Norman out of vengeance.
08:54It straight up tells us that.
08:56Yes, it leaves out the detail that Norman actually killed her,
08:59but this twist was instantly theorized
09:02by virtually everyone who saw the trailer.
09:04The film ended up receiving mediocre reviews,
09:07with many critics calling out its painfully obvious story beats.
09:11You have no idea what it was like.
09:14Colder underwater.
09:19Watch your life slip away.
09:2121. Alien and Blade Runner Share a Universe
09:24Alien and Blade Runner
09:35How much do easter eggs and director statements matter
09:38to the established lore of a franchise?
09:40If they're highly regarded,
09:41then it's a fact that Alien and Blade Runner
09:44exist within the same universe,
09:46a theory that fans have suggested for years.
09:48They both share themes of dystopia
09:50and artificial intelligence,
09:52and they both have established interspace colonies.
09:54Furthermore, easter eggs seemingly connect the two franchises,
09:58including an identical computer screen
10:00shared by Ripley and Gaff,
10:02and the Alien DVD confirms that Dallas once worked for Tyrell.
10:07Finally, Scott confirmed the connection
10:09in his Blade Runner commentary,
10:11claiming that the Alien crew might live
10:13in the same city as Deckard.
10:15A new life awaits you in the off-world colonies.
10:19The chance to begin again
10:21in a golden land of opportunity and adventure.
10:2520. The Thing Has No True Form
10:28The Thing
10:30As you surely know,
10:31The Thing's key feature is its ability
10:33to mimic any form of life it assimilates.
10:36This led fans of the 1982 classic to wonder
10:39what it would look like if stripped of all of its glamours,
10:42if anything.
10:43Director Mateusz von Hanyan Jr.
10:45answered this one question
10:47by claiming it's less like an actual creature
10:50and more like a virus.
10:52It's like a virus.
10:55So what do we do with any virus?
10:57Quarantine.
11:00We isolate it,
11:02and then we kill it.
11:04Sure, we'd prefer info from the OG maestro,
11:06John Carpenter,
11:08but he's been deliberately cagey about details,
11:11saying that he knows who The Thing is
11:13at the end of his film,
11:14but that we never will.
11:16If you're worried about me...
11:18If we've got any surprises for each other,
11:23I don't think we're in much shape to do anything about it.
11:2519. Nope Is About Aliens
11:29Nope.
11:30Since Get Out,
11:31Jordan Peele movies have inspired
11:33endless analyses and theories,
11:35even when they have yet to be released.
11:37Promotional materials have loved
11:39to tease in this way too,
11:41with the first posters featuring certain motifs.
11:43While the first one for Us
11:45showed a character holding a pair of scissors,
11:47Nope's poster only gave us a cloud
11:49with a kite tail to go off of.
11:51With story details pending,
11:53fans immediately began to speculate
11:55that inside that cloud
11:56was an unidentified flying object.
11:59OK, or maybe you're in a UFO hotspot.
12:02No one believes in that.
12:04Sure enough, the movie ended up featuring
12:06just such a UFO,
12:08only no one could have predicted
12:10its true, beastly nature.
12:2218. Sydney and Mark Got Together
12:25Scream 3
12:26Sydney Prescott has not had
12:28the best of luck with relationships,
12:30even though she deserves a happily ever after.
12:32She finally got it,
12:34but we didn't know about it for some time.
12:36In Scream 3, the franchise's final girl
12:39seems to have some chemistry
12:41with LAPD detective Mark Kincaid,
12:43but nothing is explicitly stated or acted upon.
12:46What's your favorite scary movie?
12:53My life.
12:54Mark's last scene in the film's epilogue,
12:56getting chummy with the gang,
12:58leaving fans to wonder
12:59if this is only in a friendly capacity,
13:01or something more.
13:03When it seemed like no sequel
13:05would ever be acknowledged,
13:06the fifth entry, 22 years later,
13:09finally confirmed that Sydney and Mark
13:11were not only married, but had kids.
13:27Now, what are the odds of getting
13:29McDreamy back on a Scream set?
13:3217. Michael Bay's Shared Universe
13:35Friday the 13th and Transformers franchise
13:38This one's a little tenuous,
13:40so bear with us.
13:42As many will know, Michael Bay directed
13:44the first live-action Transformers movie.
13:46As less will know,
13:48he also produced several horror remakes,
13:50including 2009's Friday the 13th.
13:53What both films share is actor
13:55Travis Van Winkle,
13:57who plays characters named Trent in each.
13:59So you don't want to be friends after this?
14:01You don't want to hang out?
14:02Let it go, Trent.
14:03It's not me, this guy's being a dick.
14:05Granted, the characters have different last names
14:07in novelizations and deleted scenes,
14:09which will let you decide if it's a canon killer.
14:12But the characters' same-jerky attitude
14:15has led many to believe they're one in the same.
14:17Why doesn't my little bunny just hop in the back seat?
14:20Oh, God, I can't even tell you
14:23how much I'm not your little bunny.
14:25Several publications have reported on Bay
14:27confirming this, but the primary source
14:29seemingly can't be found.
14:31Still, Michaela was right to dump him.
14:33Else she'd too end up at Crystal Lake.
14:41Number 16.
14:42Midsommar is a fairy tale.
14:44Midsommar.
14:45This one delves more into themes than plot dynamics,
14:48but remains fascinating all the same.
14:51Ari Aster's visually arresting film Midsommar
14:54follows Dani, a young woman
14:56who suffers the tragic loss of her family
14:58in the opening minutes.
14:59She later joins her boyfriend and his pals
15:01on a trip to Sweden, where they study
15:03and ingratiate themselves into a pagan cult.
15:06Things, of course, don't go well,
15:08as Dani's friends are killed
15:10before she's crowned the May Queen.
15:12You are our May Queen.
15:15Me? Yes! Why?
15:18You won!
15:20What does that mean?
15:22Early viewings had many likening it
15:24to themes of old-school fairy tales,
15:26and it wasn't long before Aster
15:28shared the same sentiment.
15:30Now that it's a fairy tale,
15:31there's only one thing to do.
15:33Wait for the Disney version.
15:35Number 15.
15:36Clover is a deep-sea creature.
15:38Cloverfield.
15:40The Cloverfield franchise has embraced mystery,
15:43even going back to the first film's
15:45marketing campaign.
15:46Naturally, being a found-footage POV movie,
15:49Cloverfield focuses more on the character's
15:51first-person experiences in the monster attack
15:54and less on creature backstory and exposition.
15:57This prompted fans to come up with
15:59their own explanations,
16:00like Clover being from outer space,
16:02but this was denied by producer J.J. Abrams.
16:06Rather, the alternate theory,
16:08that it came from the Atlantic Ocean
16:10after being awakened by humans,
16:12was confirmed in supplemental material.
16:15So what? It's been down there this whole time
16:17and nobody noticed?
16:18Sure! Maybe it erupted from an ocean trench,
16:20you know? Or a crevasse.
16:22Crevasse? It's just a theory.
16:24I mean, for all we know,
16:25it's from another planet and it blew here.
16:27Abrams also confirmed that this clover was a baby,
16:31which explains why the one seen in
16:33The Cloverfield Paradox is so much bigger.
16:43Number 14.
16:44Killer Count.
16:45Scream 6.
16:47This isn't the first Scream entry,
16:49and it won't be the last.
16:51While beforehand not a constant,
16:53it seemed like the franchise had gotten
16:55comfortable with having two killers per film.
16:57There are always two killers.
16:59But upping the count to three
17:01has been a popular theory for each sequel,
17:03so it makes sense that the fans
17:05would eventually be right.
17:07While Scream 2 originally went this way
17:09before a script leak forced them to pivot,
17:11it finally happened in Scream 6,
17:14when it's revealed the Bailey family
17:16is behind the killings in New York City.
17:18You did this as a family?
17:19Hell yeah, bitch.
17:20You should know better than anyone.
17:22They're still not getting it.
17:23Look, I don't know what you believe,
17:25but I didn't commit those murders in Woodsboro.
17:27It wasn't me.
17:28How do we know that?
17:29Of course you didn't.
17:30What, do you think this is based on
17:31some bullshit conspiracy theory?
17:33Technically speaking though,
17:34you could count four killers
17:36if you include Jason from the film's opening.
17:39Now I see something red.
17:43Number 13.
17:44Jason is a Deadite.
17:46Jason Goes to Hell, The Final Friday
17:49Again, this is just one sequel director's interpretation,
17:53but it still counts for this list.
17:55Well, I was actually referring to your claim
17:56that Jason Voorhees is not truly dead.
17:59What you think of as Jason is not Jason.
18:04That body he's wearing, that's just me.
18:07That boy knows how to dress.
18:09In the ninth Friday the 13th film,
18:11Jason Goes to Hell,
18:12spotted can be the Necronomicon,
18:15aka the Book of the Dead,
18:17along with the Candarian Dagger
18:19from the Evil Dead franchise.
18:21It's just an Easter egg,
18:22but according to director Adam Marcus,
18:25it's an entire explanation.
18:27His reasoning for Jason's evil and undead nature
18:30stems from Mrs. Voorhees' reading from the book
18:33to bring her son back to life.
18:35Whether you believe this or not,
18:37it did reportedly get the approval
18:39of Evil Dead creator Sam Raimi,
18:41and like as not,
18:43the closest to an actual crossover we'll get
18:46is the comic book miniseries
18:48Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash.
18:51Groovy.
18:52Number 12. Predators Breed Aliens.
18:56Alien vs. Predator.
18:58Sure, the AVP movies exist firmly
19:00in their own branch of the universe,
19:02but it undeniably answers a few questions
19:05regarding the two species.
19:07In Predator 2, fans noticed a trophy xenomorph skull
19:11aboard the Yauja ship.
19:13Given the animalistic nature of the former
19:15and hunting nature of the latter,
19:17this essentially confirmed that one species
19:19preyed on the other.
19:21But some fans speculated it went deeper than that.
19:24Given that xenomorph breeding can be a controlled process,
19:27some thought that the predators might have been doing so
19:30for the express purpose of hunting them.
19:33Sure enough, the first crossover movie
19:35reveals they've been doing this for thousands of years,
19:38with human incubators, no less.
19:40Every hundred years, the gods would return.
19:47And when they did, they would expect a sacrifice.
19:51Humans were used to breed the ultimate prey.
19:55Whether the predators created the xenomorphs outright
19:58is a whole other theory.
20:00Number 11. Time Travel. The Blair Witch Project.
20:04The Blair Witch Project is a film better left ambiguous,
20:07but what are you going to do when sequels come along?
20:10With the few details given regarding the first film's actual plot,
20:13some fans have come to the conclusion
20:15that the three characters were transported back to the 1940s
20:19by the titular witch before coming across Rustin Parr's cabin.
20:23Finally one day old Mr. Parr come down into the market
20:26and said, I'm finally finished.
20:29It's a little complicated to fully explain here,
20:32but the manipulation of time is at least confirmed
20:35in the 2016 sequel simply titled Blair Witch.
20:39In it, the main characters separate in the woods before reuniting,
20:43only there's significant disagreement in how long it's been.
20:46When was the last time you saw us?
20:48Earlier this afternoon. I'm not lying.
20:53It's been five days since we saw you.
20:55Since the existence of the witch is also seemingly confirmed,
20:58so too is its ability to manipulate one's perception of time.
21:0310. A Different Death – Pet Sematary
21:06When you're remaking a well-known horror movie,
21:09you often want to stay within the general confines of the original,
21:13but tweak a few small details to keep things fresh.
21:16With this in mind, fans foresaw a way that 2019's Pet Sematary
21:20could make the classic story its own.
21:23Don't let him go on the road, Lloyd!
21:25Get him, Lloyd! Get the baby! Get the baby!
21:29In the Stephen King novel and the 1989 adaptation,
21:33toddler Gage Creed is tragically killed by a speeding truck,
21:37and his father Louis revives him in the mystical grounds
21:41past the titular cemetery.
21:43Trouble is, nothing comes back the same.
21:46Seeing as Gage has an older sister, Ellie, in every version,
21:50fans figured it might be interesting if she was the one who turned.
21:54This was confirmed when the second trailer for the remake was released.
22:119. Michael Myers Is Cursed – Halloween Franchise
22:17The 80s were inundated with seemingly unkillable slashers,
22:22most of them of the silent lumbering variety.
22:25While fans are naturally going to come up with a slew of explanations,
22:29this 1995 sequel may be proof that some things are better left to the imagination.
22:35The years I've been convinced there must be some reason,
22:38some method behind Michael's madness,
22:41and the common link I've found is Thorne.
22:43In The Curse of Michael Myers, the producers cut anyway,
22:47it revealed that the titular villain was actually inducted into the cult of Thorne,
22:52whereby he's imbued with supernatural abilities and the drive to kill his family
22:58to ensure prosperity for the community.
23:01Michael, your final sacrifice.
23:05Michael, you can make him stop it.
23:10You can make him stop it.
23:12It's honestly bad storytelling whatever way you slice it,
23:16but thankfully, this is just one of the multiple Halloween continuities,
23:20so you're not beholden to it if you still want to enjoy the franchise.
23:25Wasn't it her brother who, like, cold-blooded murdered all those teenagers?
23:29No, that's just a bit that some people made up to make him feel better, I think.
23:338. Kirby's Survival – Scream 4
23:37Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa! 25, still alive!
23:45Perfect.
23:46The Scream franchise has so many fan-favorite characters
23:49that it became known for revealing at least one survivor sometime after the climaxes.
23:55However, one character's fate that was left up in the air for several years
23:59was Scream 4's Kirby Reed.
24:02Shh, shh, shh. I know, I know.
24:05It's okay, we'll take our time.
24:07It doesn't happen as fast as it does in the movies, I know.
24:09After being stabbed twice and left for dead by Charlie,
24:12it seemed likely she bled out before authorities arrived.
24:16Dewey later only informs Jill of Sidney's survival,
24:19but fans theorized that family confidentiality laws
24:23might have prevented him from mentioning Kirby.
24:26What? But I saw Trevor kill her.
24:30Look, we don't know yet, but she's hanging on.
24:35It seemed we'd never know when initial plans for sequels became shelved,
24:39but finally, 2022's Scream confirmed her survival with a subtle Easter egg.
24:46Hayden Pelletier then reprised the role in Scream 6,
24:49only her survival this time is much more definite.
24:53Oh my god, did you hear that? I'm gonna be next.
24:55Number 7. Get Out is a sequel to Being John Malkovich. Get Out.
25:00I know, I know, I know, I know.
25:02Okay, I'm trying to work towards this.
25:04Look, what I'm about to tell you is going to sound crazy.
25:07You ready?
25:08Fine. Try me.
25:11Okay, this one is almost too ludicrous to actually be true,
25:15but when the creator confirms it, can we really argue?
25:19Can I be anybody that I want to be?
25:22Well, you... actually...
25:26You can be John Malkovich.
25:28Perfect. It's my second choice, but it's wonderful.
25:32This theory stems from the movie's inclusion of shared actor Catherine Keener.
25:36Supposedly, Keener plays the same character who,
25:39after having experience managing a business
25:42whereby people can enter and control the mind of John Malkovich,
25:46takes on a new identity and teams with the elders to shake things up.
25:50She marries into the Armitage family, who has experience with neurosurgery,
25:55and together they're able to perfect the process
25:58and start importing people into black bodies on a wide scale.
26:02Now, sink into the floor.
26:06Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
26:08Sink.
26:15Ludicrous, yes, but Get Out creator Jordan Peele
26:19has been quoted as saying,
26:21as far as I'm concerned, it's true.
26:23So, there you go.
26:30And don't ever, ever say that I don't do nothing for you.
26:37This theory actually goes all the way back to the original Stephen King novel.
26:41Hey, Eddie, these are birth control pills?
26:44Yeah, and I'm saving it for your sister. This is private stuff.
26:48Readers inferred Ritchie Tozier's playful ribbing of Eddie Kaspbrak
26:52as being more than friendly,
26:54even though King didn't intentionally write it that way.
26:57The theory resurfaced in 2017
26:59with the advent of the first theatrical adaptation.
27:03Are you serious?
27:04It doesn't smell like cacao to me, senor.
27:06Okay, I can smell that from here.
27:08It's probably just your breath walking back into your face.
27:10With the release of 2019's It Chapter Two,
27:13Ritchie's sexuality was indeed confirmed.
27:16Not only that, but it all but solidified the notion
27:19that Ritchie indeed had feelings for Eddie prior to the latter's death.
27:23Who stabbed Bowers with a knife he pulled out of his own face?
27:26Also me.
27:27Who married a woman ten times his own body mass?
27:31Me.
27:32Yeah.
27:36You're braver than you think.
27:38Though King's been known to criticise major changes in his adaptations,
27:42he actually approved of the official inclusion,
27:45calling the added character detail
27:47kind of genius.
27:48It just goes to show that stories are constantly evolving,
27:51often for the better.
27:53Be who you want to be.
27:56Be proud.
28:03For many, the release of 2016's Split
28:06marked a return to form for writer-director M. Night Shyamalan.
28:09For some, they suspected beforehand
28:11that it was a backdoor sequel to 2000's Unbreakable.
28:15I almost gave up hope.
28:18There were so many times I questioned myself.
28:21I killed all those people.
28:25But I found you.
28:27While Split is at heart a standalone psychological thriller,
28:30the fact that it centres on a killer with dissociative identity disorder,
28:34with one personality able to alter physical makeup
28:37and imbue superhuman abilities,
28:39had people wondering.
28:41This is so cool!
28:47They're gonna believe we exist now, right?
28:52They're gonna have to.
28:54Seeing as talks of a sequel to Shyamalan's grounded superhero movie Unbreakable
28:59were heating up around the same time,
29:01fans wondered if that and Split were one and the same.
29:05Thankfully, the secret was well-kept for most audiences,
29:08so the appearance of Bruce Willis' David Dunn at the end remained a surprise.
29:14He's just like that crazy guy in the wheelchair that they put away 15 years ago.
29:19And they gave him a funny name too.
29:22What was it?
29:25Mr. Glass.
29:30Number 4. Final Destination 5 is a prequel.
29:33Final Destination 5.
29:35You'd think a movie called Final Destination 5 would follow up the events of the first four,
29:41but that's just what producers were counting on when they released it in 2011.
29:46We all gotta get off.
29:48What are you talking about?
29:49The bridge is gonna collapse.
29:51What?
29:52We're all gonna die.
29:53Though the movie goes through the motions of a regular Final Destination film,
29:57the final scene reveals it takes place in the year of 2000,
30:01and that the main protagonists are actually on the doomed flight 180 from the original film.
30:07Get on the ground, you punk!
30:09Get on the ground!
30:10Do what I say!
30:12Everybody just do what you want!
30:16What's all that about?
30:17I have no idea.
30:19It's a neat twist, and the movie surprisingly earned the highest marks of the franchise.
30:24Still, you can't keep deductive fans down,
30:27as this plot point became a popular theory online beforehand.
30:31By the time they saw the movie and noticed subtle clues like out-of-date license plates,
30:36they knew the reveal was imminent.
30:42Oh my God!
30:48Sam!
30:49Number 3.
30:50Lawrence Gordon became an accomplice.
30:52Saw.
30:58The Saw franchise Saw seven movies released every October between 2004 and 2010.
31:06But it wasn't until the supposed final chapter that the most long-standing question got answered.
31:12What happened to Dr. Gordon?
31:15I'm gonna kill you, you sick asshole!
31:20Lawrence!
31:21In one of the most shocking endings in movie history,
31:24the original Saw sees Gordon amputate his foot and crawl away in search of help.
31:30The idea of Gordon bleeding out seemed anticlimactic to fans,
31:33so his survival made the most sense.
31:36However, seeing as he'd need immediate medical attention,
31:39and the fact that the bathroom never gets discovered,
31:42led fans to believe he was helped by his very captors.
31:46And since Jigsaw recruits multiple victims,
31:49it made sense Gordon would join the team with a new lease on life.
31:53Sure enough.
31:54No!
31:55Game over.
31:56No!
31:58Number 2.
31:59Jesus Christ was an engineer.
32:01Prometheus.
32:02This revelation doesn't actually come about in the film itself,
32:06and it would frankly be quite crazy if it did.
32:09But it has been confirmed by director Ridley Scott all the same.
32:13Can you imagine how disappointing it would be for you to hear the same thing from your creator?
32:23I guess it's a good thing you can't be disappointed, I think.
32:25In this sci-fi-slash-horror prequel to the Alien franchise,
32:29it's revealed that humanity was planted by a biologically similar extraterrestrial race
32:35known as the Engineers.
32:37About 2,000 years before the film's events,
32:39Engineers attempted to wipe out humanity,
32:42but failed to even make the trip to Earth.
32:44How long has it been dead?
32:482,000 years, give or take.
32:50Timeline-wise, fans theorize this was in conjunction with the days of Jesus Christ.
32:56Indeed, Scott later clarified that the attempted genocide
32:59would have been in response to humans crucifying an Engineer in misery.
33:04But Scott later removed this detail for being a little too on-the-nose.
33:09It is New Year's Day, the year of our Lord, 2094.
33:14My name is Elizabeth Shaw,
33:17last survivor of the Prometheus,
33:20and I'm still searching.
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33:391. Jack Torrance is the reincarnated caretaker, The Shining
33:44Here's Johnny!
33:50The Shining is one of those movies that transcends any one interpretation,
33:54perhaps even of its writer-director.
33:57But for the sake of this list, we'll defer to Stanley Kubrick's statements circa 1982.
34:03Words of wisdom, Lloyd, words of wisdom.
34:07Though the film's classic status took time to develop,
34:10hardcore cinephiles were already dissecting it.
34:13In this case, some took Jack Torrance's appearance in a photograph
34:17taken at the Overlook in 1921
34:20as an indication that he was a direct reincarnation of a previous caretaker.
34:25I'm sorry to differ with you, sir.
34:30But you are the caretaker.
34:36You've always been the caretaker.
34:39While others infer other things, like Jack was instead absorbed into the hotel,
34:44Kubrick was actually a proponent of the reincarnation theory.
34:48While his take certainly holds more weight than others,
34:51we'll always love ruminating on multiple interpretations with this endlessly mystifying film.
34:58Midnight, where the stars and you
35:04Midnight, and a lonely moon
35:11Did you personally think that any of these theories were true?
35:13Let us know in the comments below.
35:15It's just a theory of mine.
35:16That's it.
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