r/movies • u/leyy_pink1997 • 19h ago
Spoilers Which movie twist completely blew your mind the first time? (Spoilers allowed) Spoiler
For me, it has to be The Sixth Sense. I remember watching it for the first time not knowing anything about the plot, and when the twist finally hit—that Bruce Willis’ character was dead the whole time—it honestly flipped my brain. I sat in silence for a good five minutes just replaying the whole movie in my head. Suddenly, all those little details made sense, and I realized how carefully the film was crafted to hide the truth in plain sight.
What I really appreciate is how the twist doesn’t feel cheap. Some movies throw in a random reveal at the end just for shock value, but The Sixth Sense actually becomes a richer film after you know the ending. Rewatching it feels like a completely different experience, almost like you’re seeing it from another perspective.
Another one that stuck with me was Fight Club. I didn’t see it coming at all that Tyler Durden and the narrator were the same person. It completely reframed not just the character interactions, but also the movie’s commentary on consumerism and identity. Again, it’s the type of twist that rewards rewatching—you pick up on so many subtle clues that you just miss the first time around.
So my question is: what’s that one movie twist that left you stunned the first time you saw it? And more importantly, did the twist make the movie better for you, or did it feel like a gimmick?
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u/alcohol_and_irony 19h ago
The twist in the Prestige is set up masterfully throughout the movie and once revealed, clicks the entire plot into place.
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u/Rare_Hydrogen 18h ago
I've watched it several times and always seem to pick up on some new subtle hint. Masterfully written and acted.
For me, it's about as close as you can come to a perfect movie.
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u/lliKoTesneciL 15h ago
It's one of those movies you need to watch a second time just to watch it from the new perspective of the reveal.
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u/fenwayswimmr 8h ago
There are better films with twist endings, but The Prestige has the best twist in any film. Brilliantly done, and makes the film so much more impactful with multiple viewings. It's a completely different experience the second time.
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u/Dr_Colossus 14h ago
I ruined it for myself because I said if this is about cloning, this is dumb.
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u/ihatekopites 8h ago
Not as dumb as the fact that one of the greatest illusionists in the world can't figure out that his main rival uses a double in his biggest trick. Absent real magic or teleportation technology ( which he isn't aware exists yet), that's literally the only way to do it.
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u/Frifelt 19h ago
From around the same time as the two you mention, Memento had a couple of really good twists.
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u/SuburbanInstinct 19h ago
Moon.
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u/GiovanniVanBroekhoes 18h ago
I think the great thing about Moon, at least for me. The reveal doesn’t spoil repeat viewings. I will happily sit and watch moon again.
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u/GIjokinaround 9h ago
I think Moon is even better on the second and third watch. I find a lot of metaphor in it.
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u/pm_me_judge_reinhold 17h ago
What’s the Moon about
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u/Twist_of_luck 17h ago
It starts and ends with one dude operating the lunar mining base in corpo-ruled future. It gets a little complicated in the middle.
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u/LezEatA-W Scott is a stupid science bitch and thus deserving of death. 19h ago
The twist of Saw (2004) is the one twist where if somebody told me they figured it out before the reveal, I simply wouldn’t believe them.
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u/LegendaryOutlaw 17h ago
The Saw theme, building to a crescendo while Jigsaw shouts ‘Game Over!’ while he slams the door shut….it was just overwhelming. I remember I was shook.
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u/chichris 18h ago
It was amazing. I didn’t have a clue.
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u/MyLatestInvention 15h ago
It was amazing! I didn't have a clue either! I felt like a dumbass for not having said clues, walking out of the theater!
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u/Admirable-Cat7434 19h ago
This has to be my all time favorite, shit blew my mind in theaters at the time. Also the very first scream finding out there was actually two killers and not just one.
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u/Maximum-Falcon8340 13h ago
I only watched Saw last year as a 28 year old. Somehow I didn't know anything about the plot twist. It was mind blowing. I am so glad I didn't know about it.
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u/parietal_lobe 13h ago
I was going to the theater to see a different movie and ran into a friend who had just seen Saw. He convinced me I needed to see it instead (since he knew I loved scary movies) and ended up going in to watch it for a second time just to watch my reaction during the final reveal… 😝
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u/HalxQuixotic 18h ago
The guy in the medical bed during a Carey Elwes flashback had distinctive facial hair. I kinda figured that he would come back in the story.
But the twist reveal about that corpse in between them in the torture room. Holy shit that tripped me out!
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u/Sivy17 16h ago
Nobody saw it coming because it has basically nothing to do with the story.
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u/G_Force 19h ago
The Usual Suspects. It blew my mind that everything is laid out right in front of you and the dots are connected only in the last few minutes of the film. I was in a high school film club when I first saw it and I thought it was the best movie ever made at the time.
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u/Hermiona1 17h ago
I'm fighting for my life to not see this spoiler at this point lol. I have to watch the movie someday
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u/G_Force 16h ago
I don't think I actually spoiled anything, partially because I liked it so much. Seriously, just watch it - even without the twist, it's a very enjoyable crime flick.
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u/leraygun 4h ago
I'm always reminded whenever I watch the parody of that scene in 'Wrongfully Accused'
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u/E_Blofeld 17h ago
The Empire Strikes Back (1980). Finding out our plucky farmboy hero's dad is basically Space Hitler was quite dramatic. I saw it on opening day, so that reveal was...something else.
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u/not_an_Alien_Robot 17h ago
Same. I was in denial for a fair amount of time. Then Return of the Jedi happened. Lol.
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u/ItsCowboyHeyHey 12h ago
Right? We nine year-olds did not accept that shit until 1983. Why would anyone believe Darth Vader?
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u/MythresThePally 12h ago
Your comments are really interesting. My dad told me that, at the time, him and his friends just totally thought Vader was lying and didn't put a lot of thought on it. The true shock for them was when Yoda confirmed it.
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u/MuNansen 18h ago
Ice Cube is the father in 22 Jump Street.
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u/SanDiablo 16h ago
Ohhhh shhiiiittt! Schmidt fucked the captaiin’ss daaauughterrr
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u/peetar 16h ago
The "ding" sound effect when it finally clicks is just one of the funniest things I've ever seen in a movie. Loved ice cube manually adjusting the gun on his desk so it's pointing at Schmidt too.
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u/SanDiablo 16h ago
You bragged to him to his face. To his actual face. This face right here. You bragged to that face.
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u/Kaldricus 13h ago
I like to imagine Tatum had no idea what the twist actually was, that the script just says his character figures out the twist and reacts, and that's Tatum's genuine reaction. Obviously it's not, but it's funny to think about.
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u/MuNansen 15h ago
Yup. Was a kitchen baking timer's "ding," too, reinforcing that the epiphany needed to cook for a few seconds. Perfect.
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u/Localone2412 18h ago
No way out with Kevin Costner. I truly thought he was the good guy right up until he stood In front in the two way mirror and started speaking Russian. Maybe others guessed earlier but I was gobsmacked
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u/Drachenfuer 14h ago
No one saw that coming. Because communism was the red herring (to quote Clue) and they had all the other little twists and was a hell of a thriller in and of itself. To find out the red herring was REAL was crazy. Not even a bog Costner fan but that movie was absolute perfection.
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u/SWMovr60Repub 17h ago
I really like that movie and years later on a re-watch I had forgotten about it.
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u/Eurekaday 10h ago
Also because it was a remake of a movie where the main character was not the bad guy and I had seen that one. Great twist.
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u/sgtbb4 18h ago
The Game was amazing to watch in theatres.
It may seem a little overdone, that kind of “everyone is in on it” revelation, but when it came out in 1997 there was nothing like it.
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u/Fishfisherton 14h ago
I love this movie but in a way you also have to turn your brain off for. There's a lot of setups that were downright unreal or hinged on pure luck.
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u/sgtbb4 12h ago
I think interpreted logically the film falls apart. But as a representation of a phycological condition it’s fascinating.
I also think the most interesting scene is when Sean Penn shows him the bill and he agrees to pay it. The entire film he thinks this is a scheme to get his money and then he just willingly pays it at the end. Amazing
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u/threwitaway763 13h ago
From what I recall the movie did a pretty good job of keeping the viewer off-balance enough that they didn’t really have time to think about how unlikely certain scenarios were.
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u/ihaveadarkedge 15h ago
This was one of my most rewatched dvds/videos back in the day. Love the film, love seeing it praised in any way too. It definitely felt like an intelligent "everyone is in on it or are they" movie like nothing else. Plus, surely peak Michael Douglas adds points...
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u/spellbookwanda 9h ago
I love this movie and have watched it a few times but I don’t see it as a twist at all, it seemed obvious to me watching it that it was all a tailored, expensive game, but he thought his life really was falling apart. When I heard there was a twist I was expecting him to be in a coma or something.
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u/Rugby-Fanatic1983 8h ago
I came here to nominate The Game. First watch and it blew my mind. I would have never guessed the twist ending. I love showing folks who’ve never seen it before. The reactions at the end of the film from them always make me smile.
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u/zom105 19h ago
For Me it was Dusk till dawn...I saw it blind,Having no idea the twist,Blew my mind...
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u/IamSithCats 19h ago
Same here. I was enjoying a perfectly intense and interesting kidnapping movie, and then... that happened. And I had absolutely no idea it was coming.
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u/Shoddy-Ad7306 14h ago
lol Bro, I went in blind too. I had borrowed a burned copy of the dvd from a friend when I was in high school. Knew nothing about it. I actually thought the vampire thing was a dream sequence until enough time went by when it clicked that, “Oh, yeah, okay, this is the actually the plot.”
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u/Volvulus 19h ago
Shutter island. Even at the time of reveal, I was still questioning it.
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u/chichris 18h ago
I read the book first so that blew my mind. The movie even already knowing was still great.
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u/nofallingupward 19h ago
Arrival.
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u/TheKittyPie 16h ago
Not knowing that movie would even have a twist made it even better
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u/GreatTragedy 11h ago edited 9h ago
I'll die on this hill: telling someone a movie has a twist is ruining the twist.
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u/Surprise_Fragrant 13h ago
I watched that movie thinking it was a run of the mill "alien movie." I had NO IDEA what I was in for!
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u/wiggle987 14h ago
Really makes a second watch hit hard as well.
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u/TricoMex 13h ago
Man. Rewatched with my wife, who hadn't seen it before. And there are no some crazy hints and amazing writing all around.
My absolute favorite is when they're getting the vaccinations in the army med bay.
They ask her if she's pregnant and she responds "No" immediately and without an ounce of emotional noise.
That is NOT how anyone that had lost a child in such a horrible way would be able to answer.
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u/samefacenewaccount 10h ago
It gets better every time. I was crying at the end of my first watch. Now I cry at the beginning. And also the end lol. But also the beginning.
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u/WideLight 11h ago
I just watched this again for like the 4th time yesterday. Such a fantastic movie and really speaks to the anthropologist in me.
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u/spellbookwanda 9h ago
I read the short story before seeing the movie and is beautiful. Well worth a read for a different way of experiencing the story
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u/Rooney_Tuesday 9h ago
I bought the short story collection because I watched the movie. It’s phenomenal and now Ted Chiang is one of my favorite authors.
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u/Xerosnake90 16h ago
Is this the alien movie where she dreams about a future that's going to happen?
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u/Thalassicus1 9h ago
Yeah, flash-backs revealed to be flash-forwards. Only ever seen that done on Lost before.
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u/ZachWondersr 17h ago
Old Boy (2003)
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u/nom_of_your_business 15h ago
Yup. Took some peeps that hadn't seen it to the recent re-release and got hit with a "What the f*ck did you just make me watch?!!" Hee hee
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u/EazyE1699 19h ago
Somehow I was able to watch Fight Club at the age of 19 without the twist having been spoiled for me… needless to say I was shook.
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u/sharrrper 16h ago
I borrowed the DVD from a friend, I was also around 19, and I didn't even know was a twist. I'd just heard it was a good movie.
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u/WinterFellYesterday 19h ago
I never thought a Marvel movie would surprise me, but the reveal that Vulture was the dad of Peter Parker’s crush in Spider-Man: Homecoming was excellently done.
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u/msprang 16h ago
There were a lot of actual gasps in the theater for that. It was awesome.
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u/Downside190 14h ago
The reveal matching the changing colour of the traffic lights is also well done
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u/amievenrealrightnow 12h ago
One of the best parts is that he's not an idiot, he puts it together quickly when Liz mentions Spider-Man being at Washington, really feel the stakes change in just a few minutes
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u/Doombah 13h ago
The scene where he threatens Peter in the car at the dance is far more frightening than anything he did in the Vulture costume.
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u/Sorillion 19h ago
Lucky Number Slevin, when they tied everything together at the end I was in a state of holy shit for a week and it is to this day still my favorite movie.
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u/ICUMF1962 19h ago
Malignant: Gabriel being a parasitic tumor was nowhere close to my guesses
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u/weberster 18h ago
Oh my God this movie was so much fun. I started to point out to my husband that they "filmed the actress moving backwards/playing it in reverse" to make the movements jarring, but the reveal was 1000% better!
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u/DigMeTX 18h ago
This probably isn’t really a twist but I had no idea that I Am Legend was a zombie movie so I was very surprised when monsters showed up. I just thought it was general post-apocalyptic.
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u/Huge_Following_325 17h ago
Not actually zombies. They are vampire adjacent.
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u/DigMeTX 17h ago
Oh ok. Well, I didn’t realize there were any mythical monsters at all in the movie.
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u/sharrrper 16h ago
In the source material, the vampire connection is much more explicit. It's a disease that was likely isolated to a few cases in the past and gave rise to the modern vampire myths but goes global in the book.
The monsters are mostly mindless but retain some knowledge of former lives. Going to places they've been before, seeking old acquaintances etc. They are killed by sunlight, allergic to garlic, and can't stand to see their own reflection to the point they aggressively smash mirrors and such (as opposed to the supernatural literally having no reflection). They are also hard to kill at night, but stakes through the heart seem to be reliable.
The big twist in the book is set up in the Will Smith movie but no paid off. (It was filmed and is an alternate ending on the DVD)
It's been made into a movie a few times, by far the most faithful is The Last Man on Earth starring Vincent Price. I recommend that one.
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u/YounomsayinMawfk 14h ago
Nate Bargatze has a great joke about The Sixth Sense. Men are so used to getting the silent treatment that it made more sense to him that Bruce Willis was getting the silent treatment than that he was dead the whole time.
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u/Runningraven513 14h ago
I don’t know if it blew my mind in sense of some more dramatic films, but was not expecting twist at all in Crazy, Stupid, Love. That was a great plot twist I never saw coming, and then the whole chaotic scene that followed was great.
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u/Better-Presence6654 19h ago
The Crying Game. I was young. Didn't see it coming.
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u/OtterLarkin 18h ago
Yeah, that was a doozy... started as some IRA drama then went WTF in a hot minute.
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u/EntertainerMany2387 19h ago
The Sixth Sense
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u/chichris 18h ago
Saw it opening night and blew the audiences mind. Such a great experience.
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u/DAVENP0RT 18h ago
I think The Sixth Sense has been the definitive twist-ending film for over two decades now.
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u/Lumpy-Marsupial-6617 18h ago edited 9h ago
And I. Jizzed. In. My. Pants.
Edit: Relax, it's just a reference to SNL Lonely Island's song lyric: https://youtu.be/VLnWf1sQkjY?feature=shared&t=106
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u/Big_Kahuna_69 18h ago
Yep, didn’t see it coming despite Shyamalan laying out all the clues. The bastard played me like a violin at the annual saps convention. 😣
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u/chichris 18h ago
I went back the next night to watch it again. Night really knocked this out of the park. It’s so well constructed.
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u/Big_Kahuna_69 18h ago
The galling thing to me is that I always figure this shit out, but damned if he didn’t slip it right past me, and then he did it again with Unbreakable!
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u/dmh165638 17h ago
Book of Eli
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u/sandm000 13h ago
I keep meaning to watch that again to pick up the clues that he can’t see coming…
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u/Intrepid_Hat7359 17h ago
Split. When the credits rolled I thought, "wow, Shyamalan managed to make a good movie, and it didn't have a twist." Then we get the mid credits scene, and my jaw dropped.
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u/griz75 16h ago
The village. From strange time period piece with supposed monsters to wtf modern day and lies!!! Great movie for the 1st watch and even more so on a 2nd noticing the little things that are out of place.
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u/chyld989 14h ago
I still maintain it would be an even better movie if the monster twist was saved until the end of the film, but I did enjoy it still.
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u/Innsmouth_Swimteam 14h ago
The Matrix
I went in blind, and was floored when I found out Neo was a copper-top. After the movie we went to dinner and we all sat silent for about ten minutes before we started talking about a truly jaw-dropping film.
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u/COtheLegend 12h ago
Parasite. About halfway through, the premise of the movie changes.
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u/Legbender 5h ago
Literally halfway. The timestamp of the movie is exactly 50% when the doorbell rings. Once that ring happens.... Play time is over.
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u/Charles_Bukkinowski 19h ago
The Prestige.
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u/WaluigiIsTheRealHero 16h ago
The fact that the entire thing is given to you in the opening act when they’re explaining the trick with the doves is insane.
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u/OreoSpeedwaggon 19h ago
"The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" (1920) got me good. I wasn't expecting a twist in a movie that old.
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u/mariojlanza 17h ago
Great pick! Also check out Arlington Road, which was written by the same guy and has a similar narrative.
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u/AggressivelyMediokre 4h ago edited 3h ago
Arlington Road is a great film
Tim Robbins is so good at playing someone whose eyes convince you he is fixated on one goal and will stop and nothing.
Subtle intensity through micro expressions.
Was so happy to see him in Silo. Absolutely perfect role for him.
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u/ImmediateHospital9 16h ago
The Game. When I tell you that that's the only movie EVER to have me walking out of the cinema, jaw still dropped in shock from the reveal...
From comments I've seen elsewhere about the movie this is probably a super hot take, but for me it's up there with Saw and The Usual Suspects.
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u/Verylazyperson 19h ago
Hereditary hit me oddly on a funny day. For better or worse i believe my jaw was on the floor for the last 15 minutes! It was a memorable film experience
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u/Mswarmbooobs 19h ago
Triangle movie. I wasn’t expecting it. I rewatched it so many times looking for more details.
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u/Secure_Librarian4871 17h ago
Upgrade.
Went with zero expectations and didn't see any trailers. Went blindly trusting one random review to support this movie. But man, I was blown away by the ending. It felt satisfying and dystopian at the same time.
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u/she_never_sleeps 16h ago
The Matrix blew my mind in the theatre. Less recognized films that did it were Identity and Frailty. The Skeleton Key is a favorite too. My husband and I still reply to questions with "Fine now, Justify" lol
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u/reluna 17h ago
Is not a twist but the ending of The Mist did that for me, I enjoyed re-watching the movie with friends/family just to watch their reactions.
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u/Sudonator 14h ago
I'm going for Identity. May not have been a blockbuster but still a decent twist
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u/sharrrper 14h ago
People have convered most of the big classics in the twist world. Let me offer one I almost never hear talked about: The Spy Who Came in From the Cold(1965). Probably my favorite spy movie twist of all time. I highly recommend you just go watch it. If you want to know though:
British Spy, we'll call him James, is caller by his superior. They have a problem in East Germany: a hardliner we'll call Asshole has been making things difficult for them with his ruthless crackdowns. They'd like to get rid of him. He has a much more liberal and reform minded subordinate, we'll call him Hans. They want to remove Asshole and have Hans replace him.
James is "fired" from the agency and apparently becomes a drunk and starts up a relationship with a member of the British Communist Party, we'll call her Lucy. Eventually (as planned) he is approached by East German agents as a possible defector.
Once in Germany James works to subtly implicate Asshole as a British agent and provide Hans with evidence to back it up. It seems to work until Asshole has both James and Hans arrested for plotting against him. However, they use the hearing against them to present the evidence against Asshole. It's seems like it may work and Asshole is done for. Then suddenly, James shock, he calls Lucy to the stand, who thought she was on a "cultural exchange". She reveals she's been receiving money from James' agency which outs James as still active. Lucy, James, and Hans are all arrested and Asshole is vindicated. James is crushed, having failed his mission and been arrested.
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That night Asshole shows up and lets James and Lucy out of their cells and gives them a car and an escape plan. The truth is now revealed: Asshole actually IS a British asset. He's every bit the cruel tyrant he appears, but he's completely amoral and happy to sell secrets to the British for money. His subordinate Hans was beginning to get suspicious of him. James superiors lied to him about his mission. He was sent explicitly with the intention that he would be unmasked. By doing so, in one action, the innocent and kind Hans has been disposed of as an apparent British dupe. Asshole, the apparent target of a failed smear is more trusted than ever and his position as a double agent is secure.
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u/Cw2e 19h ago
Incendies (2010)
Watched on a plane for the first time and just had to sit for another hour or so waiting to land pretending that I was fine afterwards.
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u/Nice_Letterhead4460 19h ago
Primal Fear probably hit me the hardest. Can't go wrong with Saw or Fight Club.
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u/rhntr_902 17h ago
"Running Scared" (2006) with Paul Walker.
Fantastic movie, and then the twist near the end was the cherry on top.
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u/revchewie 10h ago
“No. I am your father.”
Hearing Darth Vader say that completely blew me away at 12 years old!
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u/jjack0310 12h ago
Most recently, Parasite. The housemaid hiding someone in the basement blew my mind.
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u/komijul 19h ago
My Sassy Girl(2001). During the start of the film, the lead character is talking to his mom. She wants him to go visit his aunt. His aunt is sad because she just lost her son. and he and her son look a lot alike. Also, she wants to set him with a girl. He scoffs at the idea as he doesn't think it would be a good match. While in the city, he meets up with a drunk girl on the subway who calls him a term of endearment before she passes out and he is browbeat by the other passengers into taking her home. They start up a relationship and it gets revealed later that she had recently lost her boyfriend,
Fast forward to the end of the film, they have ended their relationship. The guy works hard to get his life together, while trying to get over the girl. After a period of a few years, he finally agrees to take up the aunt on her offer to set him up with someone. In walks the girl from earlier, as it turns out his dead cousin and the girl's boyfriend were actually the same person all along.
While watching, I thought the whole aunt thing was to set up why he was going to that particular city, and it was something I had forgotten very quickly once the plot started heating up. When I got the end of the film, my mind was blown as a bunch of small, seemingly unimportant details from the beginning of the film had set up the film's twist and it went completely under my radar.
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u/philophilo 11h ago
Not really a twist, but I didn’t realize it was Johnny Depp in Fear & Loathing until the credits rolled.
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u/Afraid_Chip3966 6h ago
Life. The end of Life with Jake gyllenhaal shocked and scared me worse than any other movie. There’s also another movie called Trance with Rosario Dawson and James McAvoy that had a twist that I LOVED that I didn’t see coming. And there’s the Uninvited, but I’ve found it’s only a good watch the first time around and it’s very obvious nobody else is seeing that girl lmao
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u/Internal_Chemist5757 17h ago
My adhd brain took it for granted that Bruce Willis was dead. I thought it was cool that the kid could see him and hear him when his wife etc couldn’t so the twist for me was other people asking me how the surprise twist affected me.
I was bamboozled. ‘But we saw him get killed….’
Another movie I understood first viewing was Tenet. So many people say it took three viewings to work out what was going on, I thought it was obvious.
Then, sometimes when I am watching a straight forward uncomplicated movie, I don’t get it at all, confusing one character for another, thinking two similar characters are the same person etc.
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u/onelittleworld 19h ago
Fight Club, The Sixth Sense, The Usual Suspects, and Shutter Island. Those are the top-tier choices here.
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u/TheDawiWhisperer 18h ago
The prestige, it's so well done and it still works after multiple viewings
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u/mattfryy115 12h ago
May sound like a silly one but Spider-Man Homecoming (2017) - When it’s revealed that Adrien Tomes(The Vulture) is Liz’s Dad. Our whole cinema was gagged, like genuine silence.
It’s done so well with the build up of Peter getting ready with the cheerful music to suddenly cut out as soon as the door opens!
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u/chichris 18h ago edited 18h ago
The Sixth Sense. Twilight Zone was my childhood so tons of those episodes.
Recently, Strange Darling.
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u/AceButcher 18h ago
Discovering why the violin was red in The Red Violin (1998). My brother and I watched it as an in-flight movie with no expectations, and were both open-mouthed at the end. Must rewatch now I think of it!
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u/JohnnyJayce 17h ago
I expected Fizzle Bomber to be Ethan Hawke in Predestination. Didn't expect all of them being the same person.
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u/Whitealroker1 17h ago
Lone Star. You’re lead to believe the parents don’t want the leads together because the parents are racist.
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u/_bahnjee_ 16h ago
Cant have a “twist” thread and leave out The Crying Game. Whadya mean she has a dick??!!
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u/Plane_Initial6944 15h ago
The twist in Transformers Rise of the Beasts when Bumblebee came back at the end of the movie
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u/the4thgoatboy 14h ago
Coherence didn't have a big finale plot twist that I recall, but so many "omg" reveals that added up to totally doing my head in by the end! Honestly really an achievement for such a low budget film.
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u/DropItLikeItsHotBear 12h ago
I mean, probably the same movies that blew the minds of most people's who saw those films. Oldboy, Sixth Sense, Memento, the Matrix, Inception, Pupp Fiction, etc.
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u/OtherwiseLab1115 10h ago
The Menu had many 360-McTwisties throughout. When it ended, I needed to watch it again!
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u/sillysocks34 10h ago
Shutter Island. I went in blind and had no idea it was a twist movie. Just thought some detectives were trying to solve a murder so when the twist was revealed it was pretty awesome.
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u/scrubbedx123 19h ago
primal fear got me good man the way edward norton plays it off and then bam you realize it was him all along just wild the acting was on another level and it made the whole movie feel more intense knowing what he was capable of all along it's def one of those movies that hits different on a rewatch