The Greatest Movie Plot Twists Of All Time

Maybe that mild-mannered guy in the corner really was the big bad. Maybe the hero was dead all along. Or maybe everything we've seen is someone's hallucination. Whatever the reveal, these memorable

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moments took us by surprise and left us talking for years. Spoilers below. Films are usually told in chronological order, but like its protagonist, Dr. Louise Banks, Arrival is not limited to a single moment. At the beginning of the film, we see Louise lose her beloved daughter to an illness. Naturally, we assume this is happening early in her life, long before the renowned linguist is asked by the military to contact the mysterious heptapod aliens who have landed on Earth.

Her job is to translate her complex language so that humans can talk to these otherworldly visitors. However, as she delves deeper into her circular alphabet, the heptapod language changes her perspective on

time

, allowing her to experience the past, present, and future at the same

time

. Before long, we discover that Louise has not actually had her child yet. Those flashbacks are actually flashforwards, visions of what's to come, courtesy of alien language. Louise now exists outside of time, or more accurately, in every moment simultaneously. As a result, her perspective on concepts like love is radically altered by the gift of the heptapods.

Sure, she now knows that heartbreak is coming, but she heads to the future anyway, because she knows there's a lot of joy waiting for her there, too. It might just be the most emotional twist in all of science fiction, and one that will leave you thinking and wiping away a few tears. A Beautiful Mind finds Oscar nominee Russell Crowe playing John Nash, a real-life Nobel Prize-winning mathematician who lived a rather unusual life. Early in the film, Nash is recruited by Department of Defense agent William Parcher to analyze magazines and newspapers for hidden Russian codes. "You are, quite simply, the best natural code-breaker I have ever seen." It's an intense task, but when he's not involved in high-risk espionage, John seems to lead a normal life with a supportive wife and an incredibly close best friend, Charles.

Every time Charles comes to visit, he brings along his adorable niece, Marcee, who always makes John smile. Unfortunately, of the four most important people in John's life, only one of them is actually a living, breathing human being. In reality, John suffers from paranoid schizophrenia and the incredibly creepy Parcher is just a hallucination. There are no secret messages, no Soviet spies lurking in the shadows, no radio implanted in his arm. The real kicker, however, is that Charles and Marcee are also figments of his imagination. Unless you know the real story, the twist is a devastating surprise and sends this Academy Award-winning film in a disturbing direction.

Colossal is one of the strangest films ever made. This fantasy film finds Anne Hathaway as alcoholic Gloria, newly single and returning to her hometown. But as she soon discovers the self-destructive woman, her problems are much bigger than just the bottle. Gloria is psychically linked to a giant Godzilla-like monster, and every time she stumbles upon a particular playground, the kaiju mysteriously appears in the city of Seoul, South Korea. "What are you doing?" "She is dancing!" "Is he dancing like...?" Luckily, Gloria has a good friend to help her with all the alcohol and oversized beasts. Jason Sudeikis plays her childhood friend, a good boy named Oscar.

The moment Gloria returns to town, Oscar does everything he can to make him feel at home. He gives her furniture for her empty house, showers her with all kinds of praise, and even gives her a job at her bar, which is probably not the best place to work for an alcoholic. But then Gloria realizes that there is a lot of darkness behind that Oscar-winning smile. For one thing, he's also linked to another giant creature that appears in the South Korean capital. And although he pretends to be a good guy, we quickly realize that he is a violent and manipulative control freak, more monstrous than any kaiju.

And when Gloria tries to get away from this creep, he threatens to murder countless Koreans with his robot avatar. "Either you drink that beer or I'm going to take a walk in the park later." This change from best friend to bully is quite shocking, thanks in large part to Sudeikis's affable personality. That said, there were probably plenty of women who saw this coming, aware that the real world is full of Oscars. Ex Machina, one of the most disturbing science fiction films ever made, finds a mild-mannered computer programmer named Caleb winning the contest of a lifetime. He's been chosen to spend a week performing a strange Turing test with his billionaire boss, Nathan, played here by a super-creepy, show-stealing Oscar Isaac.

Nathan, a brilliant inventor, has created an artificial intelligence named Ava and wants to see if his creation can convince Caleb that he is a sentient being. Caleb quickly falls under Ava's spell and soon, the programmer plans to free his crush from Nathan's clutches. "Do you have people who test you and can disconnect you?" "No." "Then why do I do it?" After all, the tech mogul has her locked up and basically plans to kill her. Plus, Nathan's interest in Ava isn't just scientific: this guy loves building female robots that he can imprison and control. Using his own technological knowledge, Caleb frees Ava and seconds later, the freed android slices through Nathan as if he were a piece of hot butter.

If this were her typical sci-fi

movie

, Ava and Caleb would probably run away together, but in Ex Machina, things take a sharp left turn when Ava locks Caleb up and leaves the screaming programmer to starve. It's a shocking ending, especially since Caleb seems so understanding. Unfortunately, it is very likely that he would have jeopardized his chance at freedom in the outside world. In the end, it had to be tested and disconnected. It's no surprise that the Armitage family are the bad guys in Get Out. When Missy Armitage and her husband Dean first meet our mutual hero, Chris Washington, they're overly friendly and overly polite, which is never a good sign in a horror movie. "By the way, I would have voted for Obama for a third term, without a doubt the best president of my life." "I agree." Then there's his super creepy son, Jeremy, who oozes menace every time he sneaks up on screen.

But with all these racists surrounding poor Chris, his girlfriend Rose seems totally on his side. She will definitely help him escape from the clutches of his family, right? Unfortunately, Rose is probably the most evil member of the entire family. After finding a box of incriminating photographs, Chris begins to realize that he is the victim of truly cruel catfishing, but he still desperately hopes that Rose will be on his side when the Armitage clan blocks his path. He begs Rose to give him the car keys so he can escape from her, and for a moment, it looks like she might choose her boyfriend over her own blood.

She does not do it. "Where are those keys, Rose?" "You know I can't give you the keys, right, baby?" The casting here is what makes the twist work so well. According to Allison Williams and director Jordan Peele, Williams was chosen because audiences would associate her with the much less evil roles she had played before her. Sure enough, she seems harmless enough... until she isn't. Playing with creepy European cults is never a good idea. That's a lesson our murderous antihero learns the hard way in Ben Wheatley's Kill List. This disturbing horror film centers on Jay, a family man whose marriage falls on hard times.

And, oh yeah, he makes a living as a hitman. You have to put food on the table somehow, and Jay can earn a nice paycheck by killing three people for a mysterious client who wants his contract signed in blood. The strange thing is that the targets do not behave like typical victims. Instead of begging for their lives, they actually thank Jay when he shows up to hang out. Things go from disturbing to downright hellish when Jay tries to kill his third victim. Instead of finding his goal, he stumbles upon a cult straight out of The Wicker Man.

This entire murder

plot

was part of an elaborate occult ritual, and it comes to a bloody end when the pagans capture Jay, put a mask on his face, and force him to fight a hooded hunchback. The killer takes out his opponent in no time, but after turning this guy into a shish kebab, Jay discovers a horrible truth: the hunchback is actually his wife and son, kidnapped by the cult and tied together, with his son on his wife's back. Jay has just murdered his own family, much to the delight of the deranged cult, capping a gruesome movie with a truly gruesome ending.

Bong Joon-ho's Mother has a pretty standard

plot

for a murder mystery. A young man with a mental disability is accused of murdering a teenager. The police don't have any solid evidence against him, but they need to arrest him, so they imprison the disabled man and trick him into confessing. Needless to say, her devoted mother knows her son is innocent and she goes from a mild-mannered widow to South Korea's Sherlock Holmes, chasing clues, interrogating suspects and building a case to free her son. her from jail. He even discovers a possible plot involving blackmail and a mysterious old man.

Now, in the typical murder mystery, the mother would discover the true identity of the killer and clear her son's name. However, Mother subverts all of those expectations when the titular mother makes a simple but shocking discovery: her son really did it. Yes, he's a sweet boy, and yes, he's mentally disabled, but that didn't stop him from giving in to a girl. It's a clever little twist that gets even more twisted when the mother murders a witness to protect her son. Mother turns every thriller trope on its head, but she also proves that no one loves you like your mother.

Every knife-wielding villain in a horror movie has a knack for taking out their victims when they least expect it, but Ghostface, the sinister slasher from 1996's Scream, looks like it could appear anywhere, anytime. When the masked killer first arrives in the opening scene after terrorizing poor Drew Barrymore over the phone, he seems to be lurking around every corner. There's no way anyone can move that fast, but as victim after victim learns, there's no way to escape Ghostface. This guy is everywhere. "Please don't kill me, Mr. Ghostface! I want to be in the sequel!" In the grand climax of Wes Craven's horror classic, we discover the secret behind Ghostface's teleportation powers.

The final girl, Sidney Prescott, runs to save his life. The masked killer showed up at a high school party and is cutting people up left and right. Sidney has no idea who's hiding under the mask and we have plenty of suspects. Ghostface could be his boyfriend Billy, horror movie fan Randy, goofy Stu or even Sidney's own father. There are so many suspects and it's impossible to know who to trust. And that's when Sidney makes a horrible discovery: her boyfriend Billy is Ghostface...and so is her best friend Stu. These two psychopaths work together to achieve the maximum number of deaths and provide each other with an alibi. "Movies don't create psychopaths!

Movies make psychopaths more creative!" With two guys running around in Ghostface masks, it's no wonder this bad guy was having such a good time. M. Night Shyamalan's extremely strange filmography has made him a punch line for many movie buffs, but he will always have one undisputed claim to fame: he made The Sixth Sense, an all-time great horror film with arguably the most famous twist in the history of cinema. . The film finds Bruce Willis playing Dr. Malcolm Crowe, an award-winning child psychologist. In the opening scene, he is shot by a distraught patient he couldn't save, but a couple of months later, Crowe is walking around and seems perfectly fine.

Well, his marriage is falling apart and his wife doesn't recognize his existence, so that's not great. But at least he has a chance at redemption by helping Cole Sear, a troubled boy who can... well, you know. "I see dead people." However, Cole isn't the only one who can see spirits. The audience has been staring at a dead man since the beginning of the film. After trying very hard to talk to his wife, Crowe finally realizes why she isn't responding: he's a ghost. That shot at the beginning of the movie was actually fatal, and ever since then he's been a dead man walking, even though he never realized it.

It was an ending that shocked Hollywood, and Shyamalan has been trying to recapture that glory ever since.But while one or two movies have come close, The Sixth Sense remains Shyamalan's perfect turn. Everyone knows the twist in The Empire Strikes Back. Even movie buffs who have never seen a single Star Wars movie know that Darth Vader is actually Luke Skywalker's father. The twist has permeated the pop culture consciousness and given us one of the most memorable and misquoted lines of all time. "la la la Luke... Luke... I'm your father! However, in 1980, the reveal of Luke-Vader completely shocked Star Wars fans.

Most of the cast and crew didn't even know the truth about Luke's family tree. According to Mark Hamill, the original script said differently "The way we filmed it... Vader said: You don't know the truth. Obi-Wan killed your father." Famously, only Hamill, James Earl Jones, George Lucas and director Irvin Kershner were aware of the twist. So when Vader finally announced his parentage, everyone gasped, from the audience Even the actors themselves. And this shocking moment did much more than provoke gasps. The reveal of Papa Vader sent the series in a completely new direction and set the stage for countless additional Star Wars movies. such a huge impact?

The Last Jedi is one of the most twisted chapters in the entire Star Wars franchise. We learn that Rey's parents are nobody. The big bad Snoke is cut in half! Luke was an illusion induced. the Force all the time! It's one crazy twist after another, but the biggest surprise comes at the beginning of the movie, when Luke Skywalker reveals that his days as a Jedi are over. To set the stage, we have to go back a long, long time. to 2015, when The Force Awakens was teasing audiences with the promise of Luke Skywalker. It had been over 30 years since fans had seen the beloved Jedi Knight, and the entire premise of Episode 7 involved a group of heroes searching for the legendary warrior.

Finally, at the end of the film, Rey finds the bearded Skywalker standing on a majestic cliff. As John Williams' music begins to swell, Rey hands the Jedi her long-lost lightsaber, and that's where the film ends with Rey approaching the silent, hooded hero. Audiences had to wait two whole years to see what would happen, but obviously, Luke was going to take up the lightsaber and lead the charge against the First Order... right? Not quite. In the years since we last saw him, Luke has turned his back on the Force and wants the Jedi to become extinct. This little twist went against fans' expectations, but really, they should have listened when Yoda told us all those years ago that Jedi were never meant to be great warriors.

If Terry Gilliam, Karl Marx, Spike Lee and Rod Serling got together to make a movie, it might look like Sorry to Bother You. Written and directed by Boots Riley, this movie is absolutely insane in every way and no description can do it justice. It is easily the most anti-capitalist film to ever come out of Hollywood and features perhaps the most deranged twist of the 21st century yet. The plot follows a promising young telemarketer named Cassius "Cash" Green, who achieves sales success by speaking softly to his customers using what the film calls his "white voice." “So, young blood” “Hello Mr.

Kramer, I'm Langston from Regal View. "I didn't catch you at the wrong time, did I?" Soon, Cash moves up to the big time, which involves selling slaves to giant companies, and eventually crosses paths with a psychopathic billionaire played by Armie Hammer with big plans for the future of business. Up to this point, the movie has been incredibly strange, but when Cash discovers the billionaire's plans, the movie completely loses its mind. It turns out that the billionaire is turning people into half-human, half-horse monsters in order to create a powerful but malleable workforce. That's how it is. Armie Hammer is turning people into horses.

And if that wasn't wild enough, the movie ends with Cash suddenly turning into an "equisapien." He's totally crazy, and no matter how good you are at guessing

twists

, you'll never see this nightmare coming. From the Mandarin's reveal in Iron Man 3 to Thanos' snap in Infinity War, the MCU has its fair share of shocking

twists

. One of his most amazing moments, however, comes in Spider-Man: Homecoming, when Peter Parker picks up his date for the Homecoming dance and finds something much more intimidating than the average suburban dad. Throughout this superhero movie, the wall-crawler tries to find a balance between homework and fighting crime, hanging out with friends and trading blows with bad guys.

You can't really go to parties or participate in the academic decathlon when you have to protect an entire neighborhood, and it's hard to get a date when you're constantly trying to fight the Vulture, a winged thief who sells weapons made with alien technology to local thugs. Finally, Peter puts his crime-fighting on hold and works up the courage to ask his crush, Liz Allan, to the dance. He gets his suit, learns to dance, buys Liz a pretty corsage, and shows up at her house, ready for a fun evening. That's when the door opens to reveal the Vulture himself.

It turns out that this murderous villain turns out to be Liz's father. Suddenly, Peter isn't worried about making a good impression. He's just worried about getting through the night alive, which becomes even more difficult when the Vulture realizes why Peter is acting even more nervous than the typical high school kid who meets his girlfriend's father. "It was very lucky that he was there that day." "Good old Spider-Man." As Uncle Ben always used to say, "with great power comes a really complicated love life." Check out one of our newest videos right here! Plus, more Looper videos about your favorite movies will be coming soon.

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