Badmovies.org Forum

Mention the film but try not to mention the twist...

Fight Club.

The Others.




Sixth Sense gives itself away with the wife scenes.

You just see The Others recently by any chance?

Yeah, Fight Club was a good twist. I also didn't see the ending of The Mist coming.

At the end of "To Live & Die In L.A.", when Chance and Vukovich go to make their deal with Masters (and to nail him), Chance gets shot in the face. It is so unexpected and sudden, as he was the main protagonist of the film and it was at the very end. You think the good guys finally get their guy at that point, but no. Chance wanted revenge for the death of his original partner. It is then Vukovich that kills Masters. This film also has a massive twist bang in the centre which I thought was incredible.  :smile:

Here's the scene w/ alternate (crap) ending too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6B7UiTcRvM

SLEEPAWAY CAMP definitely has a WTF? ending...

YES




The ending of The Mist was less of a twist, more of a kick in the face !

The first SAW had an ending that absolutely caught me by surprise . . . . I was stunned and speechless! :buggedout:

Totally!!!! :thumbup:

I didn't see THE SIXTH SENSE coming, but I did see THE OTHERS coming.  Didn't see THE CRYING GAME coming (amd I kinda wish I hadn't seen it after I did).

The Original SAW definitely had one of the better twist endings that I've seen. 

Planet Of The Apes has the greatest twist ending of all time.  However, I was a late comer to the movie so I kind of knew about it.  Its one of those situation where I wish I didn't know.  My jaw would have dropped.

Haute Tension's ending comes to mind along with some already mentioned. 

The usual suspects.

Also very nicely done job revealing the actual twist...

The ones I would have mentioned have already been mentioned. SIXTH SENSE and CRYING GAME. I didn't see either one coming. Or FIGHT CLUB.

When I saw the discussion about THE OTHERS I thought at first you guys were talking about THE OTHER (1972). I didn't see the ending coming of that one either. I haven't seen THE OTHERS so no spoilers please.

Only other recent movie that comes to mind is THE SWIMMING POOL, which I mentioned in the WTF? thread. They threw a twist in at the end that still doesn't make sense to me. Rather than make me review the events of the movie and say "Oh, is THAT what was happening!" It makes me review the movie and say "Now none of that makes any sense at all!"

Ah, I just remembered another oldie with a twist: THE STING (1973), a Robert Redford-Paul Newman flick. Great cast, excellent story, very satisfying movie. I didn't see that one coming either. I immediately watched the whole movie again to study the actors and see a different interpretation of every scene.

Maybe I just am really wide-eyed and innocent and never see these things coming.

DIRTY MARY,CRAZY LARRY...that ending p**sed me off!
VANISHING POINT....though Kowalski's fate was kinda a given...still a bummer.
DEAD AND BURIED
TWO LANE BLACK TOP had a non-ending to it.
BURNT OFFERINGS. No happy ending there.

Wild Things had a whole pile of crazy plot twists, and I loved every one  :teddyr:

The House With Laughing Windows

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38DNA7Vh3LY

How about MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL??


Did anyone who watched the movie, spoiler-free, see that end coming?

It REALLY ticked me off the first time I saw it, at age 14.

Good point!!!

It's a comedy so it doesn't really matter. :wink:

Yeah, I hated that. I was so grateful that they figured out how to end a movie by the time they got to LIFE OF BRIAN. I always suspected they literally didn't know how to end GRAIL and just kind of gave up.

I remember when this was first released on VHS - and the twist ending was given away on the cover!

Spoiler below!
























(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Y6SJ2HR1L._SL500_AA280_.jpg)

 :lookingup:

THE LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE (1973) The reason for the hellish haunting is - unexpected.

Carnival of Souls (1962)
Les Diaboliques

MONSTER A-GO GO.  Was that a twist, or just the screenwriter suddenly giving up?

The last 10 seconds or so of Phantasm were a bit of a shock  :buggedout:

I think they ran out of film.

I agree with both of you and I think it was a combonation of both of those things.

I thought the ending to The Mist had a sweet twist to it.  I didn't see it coming at all, it was pretty good.

I read the book first, but the ending of Choke really got me by suprise.

The ending of Andrew Davis' The Package with Gene Hackman caught me by surprise ~ I never saw that coming. "Sorry, sir, just checking the map."  :buggedout:

The surprise twist as the killer is revealed in The Crimson Rivers ~ the shot of the detectives seeing the truth appear in front of them and the cut to the killer is quite scary.  :buggedout:

I didn't see the ending of Running Scared coming, which was nice.

Acacia had a pretty nasty twist at the end

Twisted had a decent one.

As did Session 9.

Happy Birthday To Me had a total Scooby Doo type twist a the end.

"And I would have gotten away with it too, if it hadn't been for that b%$# from little house on the prairie!"

Fight club definatly
Feast 3
Sixth Sense
The Mist

The mention of Diabolique -- which is great, by the way -- made me think of a similar film that I also didn't see the electric shocks and psychic surprises coming in:  Ingmar Bergman's "The Magician".  Bergman is a funny guy -- he championed atheism and reason throughout his life, but was never comfortable with his own position, and strongly suspected that mystery and the supernatural was just around the corner waiting to jump on him or observing him from a distance & laughing at him --

peter johnson/denny crane

The end of the Mist was not part of the original story. It was just Darabont (sp) masturbating.upon and ruining what would have been the best King adaptation ever.
I edited my dvd copy to remove his spooge and restore the story to it's former excellence.

The Village though all M Night Shyamalan movies are like that except Lady in the water.
Blade Runner
Fallen
Star Wars (if you lived on a deserted island and knew absolutely nothing about it) I mean think about it it makes sense.

Bah, humbug! I was angry about that. Do they expect me to leave my brains at the entrance? A man deadly ill lying on the floor, playing dead for hours a few steps away from a doctor? Did You ever try to pretend You're dead? If You manage 10minutes You're good.

Interesting thread. I've been able to see some endings and not others I think based more on the state of mind I was in at the time, and things like maturity as well. When I first saw Angel Heart (1987), when it came out, I didn't see it coming, but if I had seen it years later with a more mature (and jaded) mind I probably would have figured it out. I did not see Jacob's Ladder coming, although the clues were all over the place. I saw The Village coming, but I still liked the film (many did not and that's fine).

Overall, though, I think most twist endings are cheesy. It's very hard to pull such things off well.

Persopolis, made me angry.

I was shocked by Sleepaway Camp
Didn't see that coming.

Oldboy was also a real shocker.

And Unbreakable is one of Shamalan's best imo.

One that made my stomach drop was the one in, The Ring.

And one that made me cry *in a macho way* ... Memento!! *sobs*

How about these ones: 
Passengers,  Mindhunters, The Illusionist, Dead End (not a good movie but definitely annoying end), Revolver (ending just doesnt make sense),

April Fool's Day (the original) had a nice and clever twist at the end. 

It's revealed in one of the later movies that he was able to do it because he was drugged.

The Sixth Sense I didn't guess.  I remember thinking something was off, but I didn't catch on in time.  This is opposed by The Village, where I guessed the twist FROM THE TRAILER.

Fight Club, that was definately a great twist. Fantastic movie, didn't see it coming. Although I did suspect A twist because there were these flashes of Tyler Durden during the movie

The Mist blew me away.  I was shocked and saddened at the ending.

Rogue Assassins with Jet Li and Jason Statham.  Didn't see it coming.  Maybe I'm a little too innocent for my own good?

The Sixth Sense.  But I sussed out The Village pretty quickly before I even saw it.

I'll post more as I think of them.