Primal Fear
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ElizaB27 — 11 years ago(January 15, 2015 09:29 PM)
I'm surprised no one even mentioned Presumed Innocent. To me, that was a slap in the face and I love how his wife just sat down and talked about how she murdered the woman.
But, The Usual Suspects got me going Wtf?!?
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. -Gandalf the Grey -
ObscureAuteur — 10 years ago(April 23, 2015 06:10 PM)
No better than one of the best I have ever seen, for twists at least from start to finish, a forgotten made for TV movie called
The Borgia Stick
. Perhaps we need to qualify these discussions as restricted to "major features" inside the experience of people under 30 or 40.
CB
Good Times, Noodle Salad -
Forlorn_Rage — 10 years ago(June 23, 2015 05:39 AM)
Not all of these involve endings per se, but they do contain great twists and turns regardless. I've separated them according to genre. If I'm repeating any that have already been mentioned, it's because I enjoyed them immensely (and spoiler-free, thank goodness).
Scream
Friday the 13th
The Last Man on Earth
(What
I am Legend
should've been)
Carnival of Souls
Antichrist
The Descent
Night of the Living Dead
Diabolique
The Stepford Wives
Citizen Kane
A Passage to India
A Beautiful Mind
Turkish Delight
Perfume
American Beauty
Abre Los Ojos
Mask of the Phantasm
True Grit
Mysterious Skin
Eastern Promises
Katalin Varga
A Letter to Three Wives
After the Thin Man
Charade
(So, so many twists in this one, it'll make your head spin)
Arabesque
Dog Day Afternoon
(if you didn't know the story ahead of time)
LA Confidential
The Manchurian Candidate
Mildred Pierce
Laura
The Blue Dahlia
No Country For Old Men
Le Samourai
Infernal Affairs
Vertigo
Elevator to the Gallows
Brighton Rock
Safe in Hell
The Letter (1929)
Three on a Match
I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Dead Ringer
The Silence of the Lambs
These were spoiled for me, but they're great twists, regardless.
Jane Eyre
Field of Dreams
Don't Look Now
Rosemary's Baby
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Wicker Man -
Gabe1972 — 10 years ago(July 25, 2015 10:17 AM)
For me, I don't know if I really have a best one, but this film is great, along with The Sixth Sense, The Empire Strikes Back (at release, as the prequels ruined it), Brazil, The Prestige, Atonement and Jacob's Ladder.
I just saw Snowpiercer and that had a pretty good plot twist, as well, though not on the same level as the previously mentioned films.
If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure. - George W. Bush -
charlzonder-es-maas — 10 years ago(July 28, 2015 07:59 PM)
Just to throw in an unorthodox choice: Disturbia.
Not an enormous twist but it was so heavily and intensely executed that it almost make me puke out of fear.
Oh, and
What lies beneath
left my lying sleepless for about two weeks when I was a kid and the twist(s) in that one didn't do my insomnia any good either! -
drystyx — 10 years ago(September 01, 2015 12:18 PM)
That's the best twist ending on this thread. Thanks for brightening up a dull list of weak twists.
I would say the king of twist endings is a B Western AMBUSH AT TOMAHAWK GAP:
The stolen money they searched for was in the gunpowder sack that blew up
Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time! -
stewart_shipley — 10 years ago(October 06, 2015 02:26 PM)
I saw 'The Usual Suspects' on the same weekend as seeing Hitchcock's Frenzy, which made for an interesting comparison. Frenzy does not have a twist in the ending, but does take the viewer through a series of micro-twists in the last two minutes, as you think that this has happened, and then you think that that has happened, and then you realise that's not it, but that happened instead, and so therefore the finish will be oh wait, that finish is what's going to happen.
I'd say it's my favorite ending, of a movie. A very interesting two minutes!