Primal Fear
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kcornelg — 12 years ago(November 07, 2013 05:39 PM)
Fifteen of my favorites (in no particular order):
Psycho (1960)
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
Se7en (1995)
Field of Dreams (1989)
Chinatown (1974)
Dont Look Now (1973)
Primal Fear (1996)
No Way Out (1987)
Shutter Island (2010)
The Conversation (1974)
Citizen Kane (1941)
SPOILERS
And as a bonus, of course, St. Elsewhere
and Newhart
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Cine-Freak — 12 years ago(December 30, 2013 02:26 PM)
Surely, the usual suspects has one of the best twist endings along with sixth sense, both of whom really made me gasp.
I also was quite amazaed by jacobs ladder and love the sinister reveal of angel heart (although somehow quite predictable).
However, the "mother" of all twist endings is psycho (even if it still keeps running for some time before the movie really ends). -
IrinaOma — 12 years ago(January 13, 2014 10:09 AM)
I loved The Usual Suspects but the ending is so overrated. I predicted the main 'villain' after first 15-20 minutes. It wasn't hard at all.
My favorite Twist Endings:
The Others
The Prestige
High Tension
Fight Club
House of 9
Identity
Scream 3
Tenebrae
Sleepaway Camp
Reeker
A Perfect Getaway
The Bird With the Crystal Plumage
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MrFilmJunkie — 12 years ago(February 27, 2014 03:18 PM)
greatest plot twists:
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Cine-Freak — 11 years ago(December 30, 2014 12:12 PM)
Ugh, how right you are! The final scene from planet of the apes has become so iconic and well known by now that i completely forgot that back in its day (and when i first watched the movie) it was a twist ending
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milstar — 11 years ago(December 30, 2014 01:09 PM)
Heh, the first time I saw the movie, and I was 16, how it shell-shocked me to the core. I was like "WOW"!Not to mentioned the somewhat disturbing effect it had on me. But that's why I like twist endings, God bless them!
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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
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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
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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!