When a film pulls the rug out from under you, it can leave lasting psychological scars. Join us as we count down our picks for the most sinister reveals that completely change everything about these movies! Our countdown includes shocking family secrets, brutal betrayals, and mind-bending revelations that left audiences gasping in horror.
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00:00You tell everybody. Listen to me, Hatcher. You gotta tell them!
00:05Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the most sinister reveals
00:10that change everything about these films. We'll be getting into some scary spoilers,
00:15so consider this your warning. I'm gonna open it.
00:22Number 30. John was heading to the wolves all along. The Grey. The theme of man versus nature
00:29is the focus of this movie, where a group of plane crash survivors must navigate the harsh
00:34territory they've landed in. You think there's more of them? Wolves? Maybe. Yeah, most likely.
00:43But we shouldn't be worrying about them right now. The journey isn't for the faint of heart,
00:47as many in this ragtag crew are picked off by bloodthirsty wolves.
00:51If you didn't think things could possibly get worse, just wait.
00:59John Otway, the group's leader, shockingly discovers that he wasn't guiding the survivors
01:06away from danger. He was actually leading them towards the wolves' main turf the whole time.
01:12By the time he realizes this, he's the only man left standing.
01:21It's a fatal error that means the chance of escape was always non-existent.
01:26Safe to say, he screwed up big time.
01:30Number 29. Esther was a grown woman. Orphan.
01:34When the Colmans adopt a young girl named Esther, their failed attempt to expand their family takes
01:39a drastic turn.
01:41Two girls get into a fight, there she is. Someone gets caught stealing, there she is again.
01:46It's established very quickly that something's not right with their new daughter,
01:50but nobody could have predicted the truth.
01:52Then tell him the little girl in the picture is not really a little girl.
01:56She's a grown woman.
01:57What?
01:58As it turns out, this sweet little girl is actually a psychopath named Lena,
02:03who's in her mid-30s.
02:05Diagnosed with hypopituitarism, Lena used her condition to masquerade as a child.
02:11The serial killer would then put the Colmans through hell.
02:14The adoption process can be a nervous experience all on its own,
02:18but something as terrifying as this takes things to the next level.
02:27Please. Don't let me die, Bobby.
02:31Number 28. The visions were of his death. Don't look now.
02:35When a grieving couple experiences strange events in Venice that suggest their daughter could still
02:40be alive, their trip abroad becomes a psychological minefield.
02:44Maybe I should start taking my pills again.
02:47On the desk, right there. There.
02:49The father, John Baxter, gets odd glimpses of a girl in a red jacket,
02:54who he begins to think might be her.
02:56When he confronts her, John gets the shock of a lifetime.
03:00Wait. Wait.
03:02The girl is actually a little person responsible for multiple murders earlier in the film,
03:07who then kills John.
03:08It's certainly a bleak ending, but what makes it worse is that the visions he had were of his own
03:13death, meaning he unknowingly got a sneak peek into his demise.
03:18Don't look now isn't just a catchy title.
03:20It's a warning for the protagonist.
03:31Number 27.
03:33Sarah dreamt her escape.
03:35The descent.
03:35Spelunking is already dangerous under normal circumstances.
03:40So when you add monsters called crawlers in the mix, you've got a recipe for disaster.
03:48At the end of the descent, Sarah has escaped from this hellhole and got to safety.
03:53But this is soon revealed to be a dream.
03:55She then wakes up still in the cave, with the threat of more crawlers soon on their way.
04:00It's a grim way for the movie to wrap up, and kills any hope for a happy resolution.
04:05It's actually so dark that this ending was only released in the UK.
04:15It was then replaced by a new one where she does get out.
04:18Either way, this twist was bleak.
04:20There's a lot to unpack with this film, but the main takeaway is that Madison May has serious
04:35family issues.
04:37The cause for the strange occurrences that happen is a man named Gabriel, who we learn
04:41is her twin.
04:43But what exactly is Gabriel?
04:45Gabriel is an extreme version of a teratoma.
04:50A tumor consisting of tissues, hair, teeth, muscles, bones.
04:53But more specifically in this case, it's a parasitic twin.
04:57He was a parasitic tumor that latched onto the back of her body.
05:01Even though a surgery was done to separate them, Gabriel still lingered in her mind.
05:05And after Madison was injured by her abusive husband, he was reawakened.
05:16He's like an R-rated mashup between Voldemort from the first Harry Potter movie and Jonas
05:22Jr. from The Venture Bros.
05:24While the twist is admittedly convoluted, it's still ripe with horror.
05:28Seriously, a secret twin brother that shared your body and wanted to kill you?
05:32Yikes.
05:32You don't get to control me ever again.
05:37It's over, Gabriel.
05:39Number 25.
05:41Aunt Helen was abusive.
05:43The perks of being a wallflower.
05:45Growing up never looked as intense as it did in this indie coming-of-age story.
05:49Why do I and everyone I love pick people who treat us like we're nothing?
05:56We accept the love we think we deserve.
06:03Throughout the movie, it's clear that Charlie Kalmekis is dealing with depression.
06:08The troubled high schooler and self-described wallflower goes through a series of lows that
06:12spiral until he's in the hospital.
06:15While there, a psychiatrist starts a dialogue with Charlie about the buried memories he had
06:20of abuse he experienced as a child from his late Aunt Helen.
06:24Understandably, this is a heavy moment as it forces him to relive his painful past.
06:29You said some things about her in your sleep.
06:31I don't care.
06:33It also recontextualizes how he sees his aunt.
06:36This twist is uncomfortable, but fortunately, Charlie learns to not let his trauma define him.
06:42By coming to terms with it, he begins to forge his future.
06:46And in this moment, I swear, we are infinite.
06:52Number 24.
06:54Howie was the sacrifice.
06:55The wicker man.
06:57While trying to investigate a young girl's disappearance,
07:00Sergeant Howie's time in the island of Summer Isle has him confused to say the least.
07:05Now, for the last time, where is Rowan Morrison?
07:12Howie eventually finds the girl alive, but believes that the islanders want to kill her
07:16as a ritualistic sacrifice.
07:19Howie is half right.
07:20The islanders do plan to kill someone.
07:22But the thing is, the girl isn't the sacrifice.
07:25Howie is.
07:26Oh God!
07:27Oh Jesus Christ!
07:29Unfortunately, he discovers this too late, as he's cornered by the islanders and set ablaze.
07:34This was a movie with no happy ending in sight.
07:38In the 2006 remake, the twist turns into a bit of a joke,
07:41thanks to Nicolas Cage's over-performing.
07:44Oh no!
07:44No, not the beast!
07:46But the twist in the original remains haunting to its core.
07:50Number 23.
07:51Louise's daughter dies in the future, not the past.
07:55Arrival.
07:56When aliens land on Earth, it's up to linguist Louise Banks
07:59to find a way to talk with them and learn their intentions.
08:02I don't understand.
08:05Who is this child?
08:07However, time acts weird throughout this film.
08:10Many key scenes actually play out of order.
08:13That includes the scenes we get of Louise's daughter Hannah,
08:16which appear to the audience to be flashbacks.
08:19While we know Hannah died from an illness,
08:21we later learn that this moment actually happens in the future.
08:23So, Hannah, this is where your story begins.
08:31Hannah's scenes aren't flashbacks, they're flash-forwards.
08:34Despite knowing the journey and where it leads,
08:39I embrace it.
08:45And I welcome every moment of it.
08:49They're a grim teaser for what's to come in Louise's life.
08:52Number 22.
08:54The monsters were defeated.
08:56The Mist.
08:57Bleak doesn't even begin to describe this plot twist.
09:00Creatures who cloak themselves in mist take over the world.
09:03And as the pandemonium grows, people get desperate.
09:12Deciding that they've had enough of this hell,
09:15a group of survivors choose to end their lives.
09:18Yes, that's incredibly dark.
09:20But wait, there's more.
09:21Their de facto leader, David Drayton,
09:24Mercy kills most of the group.
09:26But there's no bullet left for David himself.
09:28Come on!
09:30Come on!
09:31Come on!
09:32He steps out of his car and surrenders to the monstrosities of the Mist,
09:37only to shockingly discover that the crisis has been averted.
09:41David murdered his allies, and his own son, for nothing.
09:45This twist shows how the Mist definitely isn't for the faint of heart.
09:49Number 21.
09:59Evelyn is Catherine's mother.
10:01Chinatown.
10:02This is a gripping story about politics, water, and, as it turns out, extreme familial trauma.
10:09Private investigator Jake Gittes gets roped into Evelyn Cross's whirlwind of a life.
10:14Thank you for going along with me back there.
10:17I just didn't want to explain anything.
10:21I sent you a check.
10:23A check?
10:24To make it official that I've hired you.
10:27The two find each other at odds with Evelyn's wealthy father, Noah,
10:30but they also end up at odds with each other.
10:33She tells Jake that she has a sister named Catherine, but her story keeps changing.
10:38She's my sister.
10:45Take it easy.
10:48She's your sister?
10:49She's your sister.
10:51Why all the secrecy?
10:53This leads him to accuse her of lying and holding Catherine hostage.
10:56That's when Evelyn drops the bombshell that Catherine isn't her sister.
11:01Not entirely.
11:02She's my sister and my daughter.
11:05She's her sister and her daughter,
11:07having been the byproduct of Noah's abuse of Evelyn when she was a teenager.
11:12It's a heartbreaking reveal that cements how much of a monster Noah Cross is.
11:17Number 20.
11:18Darth Vader is Luke's father.
11:20Star Wars Episode 5, The Empire Strikes Back.
11:23There are famous plot twists, and then there's learning that Darth Vader is Luke's father.
11:29He told me enough.
11:32He told me you killed him.
11:35No.
11:36I am your father.
11:38The mother of all movie twists, this one threw everything into question,
11:42and ended the second Star Wars film on a delightfully dark and ambiguous note.
11:48It's really messed up when you think about it.
11:50Luke has essentially been recruited to kill this man,
11:53only to learn that he's family,
11:55which means he'll have to fight his own blood.
11:57That's not true.
12:00That's impossible.
12:02Search your feelings.
12:03You know it to be true.
12:06No!
12:08And speaking of blood,
12:10Luke comes to the realization that,
12:12yes, his own dad just severely wounded him.
12:16Furthermore,
12:16he learns that his father wasn't some heroic martyr who died fighting the Empire,
12:21but the ruthless leader of said Empire.
12:24Needless to say,
12:25the realization sends him reeling.
12:28Number 19.
12:29It was an accident.
12:31Bodies, Bodies, Bodies.
12:32Another huge success for A24,
12:35Bodies, Bodies, Bodies is a wickedly smart horror comedy
12:39that produces,
12:40well,
12:40a lot of bodies.
12:42A man named David is presumably murdered during a party,
12:45resulting in a Christie-esque mystery.
12:48If you do come across a body,
12:49you have to yell,
12:50Bodies, Bodies, Bodies.
12:51And then once that happens,
12:53we'll turn all the lights back on,
12:54and then we'll try to figure out who did it.
12:56The body count begins to pile up
12:58as the party guests suspect
12:59and ultimately kill each other in a fever of paranoia.
13:02But it's eventually revealed
13:04that David accidentally ended his own life
13:06while filming a video for TikTok.
13:08The bruised and battered survivors realized with horror
13:11that there was never a murder mystery
13:13and that the resulting bloodshed was all for nothing.
13:17It's a brilliant subversion,
13:19and the implication that these people killed each other
13:21over an accident is a startling one indeed.
13:24Number 18.
13:26Jacob Never Left Vietnam.
13:28Jacob's Ladder.
13:29This cult classic opens in Vietnam
13:31with soldier Jacob Singer getting stabbed with a bayonet.
13:35He then wakes up in New York
13:37where he experiences all sorts of nightmarish delusions.
13:41That is, until he meets a man named Michael Newman
13:43who essentially tells Jacob that he's dead.
13:46Where do you want to go?
13:48Home.
13:50This is your home.
13:51You're dead.
13:52Dead?
13:53No.
13:55Oh, I just hurt my back.
13:58I'm not dead.
13:59What are you then?
14:00I'm alive.
14:01Michael produced a drug called the Ladder
14:03which turned soldiers aggressive.
14:05It was tested on Jacob's unit,
14:08and he was stabbed by one of his fellow comrades.
14:10Everything in New York was just some kind of purgatory-like fantasy
14:14as he transitioned beyond.
14:16It's tragic knowing that Jacob is dead,
14:32but the knowledge that he was secretly experimented on
14:35and killed by a member of his own unit
14:37makes it all the more devastating.
14:40Number 17.
14:41Faking the Good Side.
14:43Primal Fear.
14:43This legal thriller introduced the incredible talent
14:47that is Edward Norton
14:48and earned him his first Oscar nomination.
14:51He plays Aaron Stampler,
14:53a young altar boy who is accused of killing an archbishop.
14:57Aaron suffers from dissociative identity disorder,
15:00and his other personality, a man named Roy,
15:03claims responsibility for the killing.
15:05So your name is Roy.
15:07Oh, jeez, I'm sorry.
15:09What is it, Marty?
15:11Listen, Marty, I'm dying for a smoke.
15:13Aaron is found not guilty by reason of insanity
15:15and sent to a psychiatric hospital.
15:18But the proud man can't help himself,
15:21and he reveals to his lawyer that he faked the identity disorder
15:24to get a lenient sentence and avoid prison.
15:27There never was an Aaron counselor.
15:31He was actually the sociopathic Roy all along,
15:39and completely manipulated the justice system with the fake Aaron persona.
15:44Number 16.
15:46The Homicidal Personality Survives
15:48Identity
15:49This James Mangold thriller takes us inside the mind of a killer.
15:53No, seriously, most of it takes place inside someone's brain.
15:56The story begins in the vein of Agatha Christie,
16:00with 10 strangers stranded in a small Nevada motel.
16:03Long as we stay calm, everything's gonna be alright.
16:05Officer Rhodes is outside right now.
16:08He was transporting a convict.
16:10Who escaped.
16:10What are you doing?
16:11What is it?
16:12But the characters inside the motel are actually personalities of a killer named Malcolm Rivers.
16:18And Rivers' psychiatrist is attempting to find the homicidal personality.
16:22He's seemingly successful as the killer is removed,
16:26and the cured Malcolm is sent to a psychiatric hospital.
16:29In the matter of Rivers v. Nevada,
16:32it is the recommendation of this court that Mr. Rivers' execution be stayed.
16:38I'm transferring Mr. Rivers to state psychiatric services under the care of Dr. Melton.
16:43Only, that's not the case.
16:45The homicidal personality faked its death and re-emerges,
16:49causing Malcolm to kill everyone involved in his transport.
16:53Not only does the treatment fail,
16:55but it allows a killer to quite literally walk free.
16:58Number 15.
16:59A Creature in the Basement.
17:01Barbarian.
17:02This is one of those movies that goes in a completely different direction in its second half.
17:07The first act is a character-based thriller,
17:10as Tess and Keith are accidentally double-booked at the same Airbnb.
17:14This is unbelievable.
17:15What am I supposed to do?
17:22I don't know.
17:23I don't know.
17:25Why don't you come inside?
17:27Tess is hesitant around Keith,
17:29and much of the drama is centered around her initial mistrust.
17:32But her questions are rendered moot at the end of the first half,
17:36when Keith is killed by a creature in the basement.
17:39The rest of the film delves into the backstory of this creature,
17:42and its attempts to kill both Tess and the house's owner.
17:46The film turns into a creature feature,
17:48involving death, kidnapping, and a host of other twisted occurrences.
17:52You're safe.
17:53You got out.
17:55You should count yourself as lucky, you hear?
17:57You should have never went in that house to begin with.
18:00That's a bad place.
18:02So, yeah, it goes in a pretty dark direction.
18:04Number 14.
18:06The narrator was Tyler.
18:08Fight Club.
18:09This is one of those plot twists that everyone knows,
18:12even if they haven't seen the film.
18:14It's famously revealed that the destructive and anti-consumerist Tyler Durden
18:18was a concocted persona of the narrators.
18:21Say it.
18:24Because we're the same person.
18:27That's right.
18:28And now we're realizing that the Edward Norton character
18:31has been involved in many fake personality plot twists.
18:34The narrator created Tyler to act out his subconscious desires,
18:38like rebelling against the system
18:40and destroying entire buildings with explosives.
18:43This is, this is bullshit.
18:45This is bullshit.
18:46I'm not listening to this.
18:47You are insane.
18:48No, you're insane.
18:50And we simply do not have time for this crap.
18:53The narrator is quite a likable character throughout much of the movie,
18:56but the dark twist reveals that he's actually the anarchistic leader
19:00of a terrorist organization.
19:02Like he tells Marla,
19:04this is a very strange time in his life.
19:06Number 13.
19:08The Armitage Family Secret.
19:10Get Out.
19:10Jordan Peele's masterpiece is a horror film based on race relations.
19:15Chris is in an interracial relationship with Rose,
19:17who takes him to visit her wealthy liberal parents for the first time.
19:21So how long has this been going on?
19:23This thing.
19:26How long?
19:29Four months.
19:31Four months?
19:33Five months.
19:34But it turns out they have ulterior motives.
19:37Rose actually befriends black men,
19:39only to take them to her family home to be experimented upon.
19:43These men are consciously sent to the sunken place,
19:46while their physical bodies are hijacked by Armitage family members.
19:49The transplant allows these ailing Armitages
19:53to live their lives inside of a healthy black body.
19:56So you won't be gone.
19:58Not completely.
19:59A sliver of you will still be in there somewhere.
20:02Limited consciousness.
20:03It's a fascinating twist that blends B-movie thrills with thoughtful social commentary.
20:09Peele would follow this with another delightful turn in Us,
20:12revealing that the real Adelaide was actually her tethered.
20:15Number 12.
20:17Gunsei in the Bunker.
20:18Parasite.
20:20Barbarian shares many similarities with Parasite.
20:23Like Barbarian, Parasite begins realistically,
20:26with the poor Kim family infiltrating the wealthy Parks as their personal employees.
20:30Then, the movie shifts focus in the second half
20:42and goes in a completely different direction thanks to a person in the basement.
20:47It's revealed that a man named Gunsei has been inhabiting a secret bunker inside the park home
20:52for the last four years.
20:54It's a pretty disturbing twist, but it gets even worse.
20:57In the bloody climax of the film, Gunsei breaks free from the bunker
21:01and causes a massacre at Dasong's birthday party.
21:09The genre switch-up is captivating,
21:11turning Parasite from a comedic social commentary to borderline horror.
21:16Number 11.
21:17Kaiser Soze Gets Away.
21:19The Usual Suspects.
21:21Directed by Bryan Singer,
21:22The Usual Suspects is a classic thriller about the mythical crime lord Kaiser Soze.
21:28Soze burned down a ship in San Pedro Bay and killed dozens of people.
21:33One of the survivors is con artist Verbal Kint,
21:36who provides information to the police about the crime boss.
21:39I'm smarter than you.
21:41And I'm gonna find out what I want to know.
21:44And I'm gonna get it from you whether you like it or not.
21:47I'm not a rat.
21:48But in the movie's famous twist ending,
21:50Verbal walks out of the police station,
21:53loses his trademark limp,
21:54and becomes Kaiser Soze.
21:57He made up the whole story.
21:59And Agent Kujan realizes with horror
22:01that he let the elusive crime lord slip right through his fingers.
22:05Soze escapes in style and fades back into anonymity.
22:09A huge grin of victory splashed across his face.
22:13After that, my guess is you'll never hear from him again.
22:22Number 10.
22:23Leonard killed his wife.
22:24Memento.
22:25Throughout Christopher Nolan's Memento,
22:28amnesiac Leonard Shelby leaves himself an intricate series of notes
22:32that will hopefully lead him to the man who sexually assaulted and murdered his wife.
22:37Don't believe his lies.
22:39He is the one.
22:40Kill him.
22:41I finally found him.
22:43We also learn of a fellow amnesiac named Sammy Jenkis
22:46who accidentally killed his wife by giving her too many insulin injections.
22:50However, at the end of the movie,
22:52we witness Leonard being told that he's the real Sammy
22:54and that he's the one who killed his wife.
22:56I took that picture.
22:59Just when you did it.
23:01According to Teddy,
23:02he repressed these memories out of guilt.
23:04His mission is fake and impossible to fulfill.
23:07Leonard is essentially an amnesiac serial killer being used by Teddy.
23:10Terrifying, right?
23:12I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there.
23:16Number 9.
23:17Jigsaw was in the room the whole time.
23:19Saw.
23:20The opening minutes of Saw certainly make an impression.
23:25Two men wake up chained to a dilapidated industrial bathroom
23:29with a bloody corpse lying between them.
23:31Fun stuff.
23:32We also learn that the Jigsaw killer likes to watch his victims.
23:35And while we know deep down that Zep wasn't Jigsaw,
23:38we certainly weren't expecting the corpse to be.
23:40At the end of the movie,
23:41the corpse arises from the floor
23:42and reveals himself to be Jigsaw right before locking Adam in the bathroom.
23:46It's a massive shock that reinforces the true depravity
23:49and psychopathic methods of Jigsaw.
23:51While the Saw movies would decrease in quality,
23:54that final game over is legendary stuff.
23:56But not you.
23:59Not anymore.
24:04Game over.
24:10Number 8.
24:12Malcolm was dead the whole time.
24:13The Sixth Sense.
24:15At the beginning of the movie,
24:16child psychologist Malcolm Crowe is shot by a psychotic former patient.
24:20Since it appears as if he's recovered,
24:22our minds are shattered when it's revealed that he has been dead the whole time.
24:25I see dead people.
24:28It's certainly a dark realization to find that the protagonist is a ghost,
24:31but it's still an ultimately happy ending
24:33when Crowe is sent to heaven after rectifying his failures.
24:36Two years later,
24:37the others would provide another brilliant ghost-centric twist
24:40by revealing that the family are the actual ghosts haunting the house.
24:44Both movies successfully flipped the conventional ghost story on its head
24:47and provided some of the greatest twists in the horror genre.
24:50How often do you see them?
24:53All the time.
24:55Number 7.
24:56Teddy slash Andrew killed his wife.
24:58Shutter Island.
24:59Movies love to utilize the protagonist-actually-killed-their-wife twist, don't they?
25:04Throughout Shutter Island,
25:05we watch as U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels
25:08investigates the disappearance of a patient with mental health issues.
25:12What's in there?
25:13More patients?
25:14But when Teddy enters the lighthouse,
25:16everything changes.
25:17We learn that Teddy is actually Andrew Latis,
25:19an institutionalized man who killed his wife after she murdered their children.
25:24Your wife drowned them at the cabin by the lake.
25:28And here, the little girl, the one you dream of, every night.
25:34We never had a little girl.
25:35The one who tells you over and over that you should have saved her.
25:38As if philicide and uxoricide weren't dark enough,
25:41we also learn that the girl Latis dreams about is his murdered daughter,
25:44proving that his mind has been irreparably damaged and racked with guilt.
25:48Furthermore, Latis becomes aware and conscious enough to plan for his own lobotomy.
25:52Shutter Island is a bleak experience start to finish.
25:56Which would be worse?
25:58To live as a monster?
26:01Or to die as a good man?
26:03Number 6.
26:04Norman is Mother
26:05Slash the Killer
26:06Psycho
26:07Psycho has perhaps one of the greatest twists in cinematic history.
26:14Throughout the movie,
26:15we believe that Norman Bates is nothing but a repressed man-child
26:18who protects his domineering, psychotic mother.
26:20Well, a boy's best friend is his mother.
26:23However, the famous ending reveals that his mother is long dead
26:26and that Norman is the true psychopath.
26:28After killing his mother and her boyfriend out of jealousy,
26:31he took on the persona of his mother to alleviate his loneliness and guilt,
26:34and he uses this persona to murder those he feels attracted to.
26:38The twist made Norman one of cinema's most iconic villains
26:41and left 60s audiences with the fear that danger could be lurking anywhere and behind any facade.
26:47They'll see.
26:48They'll see and they'll know and they'll say
26:51why she wouldn't even harm a fly.
26:55Number 5.
26:56Head in a Box
26:57Seven
26:58Seven's twist may not be as iconic as Psycho's,
27:01but it's arguably more depraved.
27:03After John Doe turns himself in
27:05and takes the two detectives to the final murder location,
27:08a delivery man brings them a mysterious box.
27:10Put the gun down.
27:11I saw you with a box.
27:12What was in the box?
27:12Because I envy your normal life.
27:14Put the gun down, David.
27:15It seems that envy is my sin.
27:17No, what's in the box?
27:19After a few incredibly tense minutes,
27:21we learn that the box contains the head of David's pregnant wife,
27:24representing the killer's envy.
27:26So,
27:28I took a souvenir.
27:31Her pretty head.
27:33David then becomes wrath by shooting Doe
27:35in an act of uninhibited rage.
27:37John Doe wins,
27:39David goes insane,
27:40and Somerset can only look on in defeat.
27:43While the movie is absurdly dark,
27:45this final twist somehow ratchets the depravity to Eleven,
27:49reinforcing the idea that humanity is inherently flawed.
27:52No!
27:53Just throw it all away, you know.
27:55No!
27:56She begged for her life, detective.
27:58Shut up!
27:59She begged for her life.
28:00Shut up.
28:00And for the life of the baby inside of her.
28:03Number 4.
28:04Amy framed her husband,
28:06Gone Girl.
28:07I thought we weren't going to be that couple.
28:08Gone Girl isn't your grandmother's murder mystery.
28:11The first half of the movie plays out like a typical crime drama,
28:14as Nick Dunn searches for his missing wife,
28:16and is falsely accused of her murder.
28:18However,
28:18the movie does a complete 180 halfway through,
28:21when it reveals that a jealous Amy intricately framed her husband
28:24after learning of his affair.
28:25Nick and Amy will be gone,
28:27but then we never really existed.
28:29The twist not only works incredibly well as a dramatic story development,
28:33but it also strengthens the movie's morose themes regarding manipulation and abusive relationships.
28:38Gone Girl goes from a relatively conventional murder mystery,
28:41to a haunting first-hand account of a cunning sociopath.
28:44And you know what?
28:45That's even scarier.
28:47So Nick, how does it feel to have your wife back?
28:51That's fantastic.
28:53Number 3.
28:54Soylent Green is People,
28:56Soylent Green.
28:56Like Norman Bates being mother,
28:58the fact that Soylent Green is made from people is not a surprise to modern audiences,
29:03but that doesn't make it any less impactful.
29:05Soylent Green is people!
29:08In this dystopian society,
29:10a green wafer called Soylent Green is created,
29:13said to be a highly nutritious food source created from plankton.
29:16However,
29:17we later learn that Soylent Green is actually made from human remains,
29:20as humans are a great source of protein for a starving society.
29:24It's a horrifying reveal,
29:26but it also fits perfectly with the movie's themes of overpopulation,
29:30resource management,
29:31and climate control.
29:32It's a much-needed slap in the face that remains relevant and disturbingly prophetic nearly half a century later.
29:38How could I ever imagine?
29:44Number 2.
29:45Apes have taken over the world.
29:46Planet of the Apes.
29:48That bright eyes is remarkable.
29:51He keeps trying to form words.
29:53You know what they say,
29:55human see,
29:55human do.
29:56While Planet of the Apes is a long-running franchise,
29:59nothing beats the original's twist.
30:01After landing on a planet ruled by sentient talking apes,
30:04Taylor escapes from their grasp,
30:06only to come upon a half-buried Statue of Liberty.
30:09He discovers that he was on Earth all along,
30:11and that modern humanity had wiped itself out in some kind of nuclear war.
30:15I'm home.
30:17All the time.
30:21We finally really did it.
30:24It's not only a devastating ending that caps the story in theatrical fashion,
30:28but also a dismaying comment on the Cold War,
30:31and the possible future of humanity.
30:33It's not as dramatically relevant as it once was,
30:35but it's still a distressing ending that captures the fears of its time.
30:39You maniacs!
30:42You blew it up!
30:45Oh, damn you!
30:48God damn you all to hell!
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31:08Number 1.
31:09Odei Su and His Daughter
31:12Old Boy
31:12Murder and nuclear war may be scary topics,
31:16but nothing feels worse than learning that the protagonist
31:19unknowingly had relations with his own daughter.
31:27The movie opens with Dae Su being kidnapped and imprisoned for 15 years.
31:31After escaping and embarking on a campaign of revenge,
31:34he befriends a young chef named Mido,
31:36and the two become intimate.
31:38However, it's later revealed that Dae Su was hypnotized into falling for Mido,
31:42who was revealed to be his now-adult daughter.
31:45It's equal parts shocking and horrifying,
31:47eliciting a visceral bodily reaction of revulsion from most viewers.
31:57Are there any brutal bombshell moments we missed?
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