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(#1) The Sixth Sense
- Bruce Willis, Mischa Barton, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette, M. Night Shyamalan, Donnie Wahlberg, Olivia Williams, Firdous Bamji, Angelica Page, Trevor Morgan, Glenn Fitzgerald, Samia Shoaib, Peter Anthony Tambakis, Greg Wood, Lisa Summerour, Jeffrey Zubernis
Troubled and scared Cole (Haley Joel Osment) sees dead people in M. Night Shyamalan's 1999 psychological thriller that forever changed the way we tell ghost stories. Renowned child psychologist Dr. Malcom Crowe (Bruce Willis) is hired to help Cole with his ghost-issues.
The big twist that no one saw coming is that Crowe is a ghost himself, killed in the home invasion that took place at the beginning of the film.
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(#2) Seven
- Brad Pitt, Gwyneth Paltrow, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, R. Lee Ermey, Charles S. Dutton, John C. McGinley, Richard Schiff, Richard Roundtree, Mark Boone Junior, Leland Orser, Michael Massee, Richard Portnow, Bob Stephenson, John Cassini, Reg E. Cathey, Peter Crombie, Emily Wagner, Endre Hules, Richmond Arquette, Lennie Loftin, Hawthorne James, Daniel Zacapa, Alan Migicovski, George Christy, Andrew Kevin Walker, Dominique Jennings, Harris Savides, Gene Borkan, Shannon Wilcox, Alfonso Freeman, Lexie Bigham, Charles A. Tamburro, James Deeth, Heidi Schanz, Michael Reid MacKay, Brian Evers, Tudor Sherrard, David Correia, Duffy Gaver, Pamala Tyson, Evan Mirand, Bob Collins, Paul Eckstein, Rachel Flanagan, Mario Di Donato, Julie Araskog, Grigori, Martin Serene, Jimmy Dale Hartsell, John Santin, Beverly Burke, William Davidson, Ron Blair, Cat Mueller, Bob Mack, Charline Su, Harrison White, Sarah Reinhardt
“What’s in the box? What’s in the box?” John Doe (Kevin Spacey) completes his serial killing spree of following the seven deadly sins by forcing Detective Mills (Brad Pitt) to shoot him, when it’s revealed in a jaw-dropping twist that he decapitated Mills's wife (Gwyneth Paltrow) out of envy.
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(#3) The Usual Suspects
- Kevin Spacey, Benicio del Toro, Gabriel Byrne, Stephen Baldwin, Giancarlo Esposito, Kevin Pollak, Pete Postlethwaite, Clark Gregg, Chazz Palminteri, Dan Hedaya, Peter Greene, Suzy Amis, Paul Bartel, Christopher McQuarrie, Louis Lombardi, Christine Estabrook, Michelle Clunie, Cástulo Guerra, Frank Medrano, Ron Gilbert, Vito D'Ambrosio, Bert Williams, Dave Powledge, Phillipe Simon, Jaime Campos, Carl Bressler, Scott B. Morgan, Jack Shearer, Smadar Hanson, Michael McKay, Michael Robert Nyman, Peter Rocca, Robert Elmore, Grace Sinden, Billy Bates, Ken Daly, Morgan Hunter, Gene Lythgow, Bob Pennetta, John Gillespie
Who is the ruthless criminal genius Keyser Soze? No way is it that bumbling, handicapped, feeble criminal Verbal Kint, who can barely look the detective in the eye during questioning. Oh wait, yeah it is. Kevin Spacey earned an Academy Award with his trickery, and The Usual Suspects is widely considered the greatest twist ending of the modern day neo-noir.
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(#4) Fight Club
- Brad Pitt, Jared Leto, Helena Bonham Carter, Edward Norton, Meat Loaf, Eion Bailey, Lauren Sánchez, David Lee Smith, Edward Kowalczyk, Holt McCallany, Zach Grenier, Bob Stephenson, Christina Cabot, David Andrews, Brian Tochi, Matt Winston, Ezra Buzzington, Carl Ciarfalio, Tim De Zarn, Jim Jenkins, Richmond Arquette, Philip Hawn, Leonard Termo, Thom Gossom Jr., Charlie Dell, David Jean Thomas, Paul Dillon, Michael Shamus Wiles, Stuart Blumberg, Marcio Rosario, Pat McNamara, Michael Arturo, Markus Redmond, Tommy Dallace, Rachel Singer, George Maguire, Robby Robinson, Paul Carafotes, Peter Iacangelo, Joel Bissonnette, Christopher John Fields, Scotch Ellis Loring, Eugenie Bondurant, Eddie Hargitay, Kevin Scott Mack, Mark Fite, Evan Mirand, Sydney 'Big Dawg' Colston, Bennie Moore, Chad Randau, Lou Beatty Jr., Matt Cinquanta, Joon B. Kim, Michael Girardin, Christie Cronenweth, Baron Jay, Hugh Peddy, Tyrone R. Livingston, Andi Carnick, Owen Masterson, Rob Lanza, Van Quattro, Trey Ore, Jawara, Gregory Silva, Valerie Bickford, Alekxia Valdez, J.T. Pontino, Dierdre Downing-Jackson, Anderson Bourell, Todd Peirce, Louis Ortiz
David Fincher's 1999 postmodern classic about the perils of consumerism and the feminization of the American male has shocked and horrified audiences perhaps more than any film in past 25 years. Our narrator (Ed Norton) meets a macho male named Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), who is intent on blowing up the world in order to start over. The hard-to-believe plot twist (that you actually should've seen coming) is that the narrator suffers from dissociative identity disorder.
He and Tyler are actually the same person. Mind blown, literally, the narrator shoots himself in the face at the end of the movie in order to kill Tyler.
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(#5) Primal Fear
- Edward Norton, Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Frances McDormand, Alfre Woodard, Maura Tierney, Andre Braugher, Terry O'Quinn, John Mahoney, Jon Seda, Steven Bauer, Tony Plana, Joe Spano, Lester Holt, Mike Bacarella, Stanley Anderson, Kenneth Tigar, Diann Burns, Reg Rogers, Randy Salerno, Randall Slavin, Turk Muller, Brian Reddy, Joseph F. Kosala, Linda Yu, Wendy Cutler, Lenny Wilson, Mike Boss, Joseph Luis Caballero, Christopher Carroll, Andy Shaw, Joseph R. Ryan, Robert Jordan, Azalea Davila, Tony Fitzpatrick, Kyle Colerider-Krugh, Joanie Lum, Mary Ann Childers, Ron O.J. Parson, Jon Duncanson, Sylvia Gomez, David Eckert, Wayne Wright, Peter Schreiner, Sigrid K. Zahner, Rosalie V. Lewis, Dwight Brad Dyer, Clarence Williams Jr., Bob Kenney, Larry Cook
Is there a better acting debut in film history than Ed Nortons Academy Award nominated turn as Aaron in the 1996 courtroom drama Primal Fear? Aaron fooled everyone, even convinced a court of law that it was the darkside of his split personality, a mean guy named Roy, who killed the archbishop.
The WTF moment smacked audiences on the side of the head when Aaron revealed to his lawyer (Richard Gere) that Roy did not really exist.
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(#6) The Others
- Nicole Kidman, Christopher Eccleston, Michelle Fairley, Fionnula Flanagan, Keith Allen, Eric Sykes, Elaine Cassidy, Yasmin Paige, Renée Asherson, Alakina Mann, Gordon Reid, James Bentley, Alexander Vince
A ghost story in the truest sense of the word. Grace (Nicole Kidman) must keep her children safe at all costs, the kids suffer from a disease where they can have absolutely no contact with sunlight. Grace also suffers from near-debilitating migraine headaches. The mansion they live in is cold and dark. Grace is militant about the rules in the house.
The kicker is that Grace and her two kids are actually all ghosts, it's revealed that Grace killed both her kids in a crazed-state, then took her own life.
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(#7) The Prestige
- Scarlett Johansson, David Bowie, Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Piper Perabo, Rebecca Hall, Andy Serkis, Ricky Jay, Roger Rees, Edward Hibbert, Daniel Davis, Jim Piddock, Jamie Harris, William Morgan Sheppard, Christopher Neame, Gary Sievers, Ezra Buzzington, Mark Ryan, Enn Reitel, Chao-Li Chi, Ron Perkins, Sam Menning, Anthony DeMarco, James Lancaster, Basil McCurry, Russ Fega, James Otis, Ernest Heinz, Julia Sanford, Wendy Rosoff, Inna Swann, Zoe Merg, Olivia Merg, Kevin Will, Jodi Bianca Wise, Brian Tahash, Samantha Mahurin, Chris Cleveland, Monty Stuart, Jesse Wilde, John B. Crye, Tim Pilleri, Clive Kennedy, Deanna Lynn Walsh, Rob Arbogast, Erin Cipolletti, Sean Howse, Gregory Humphreys, Christopher Judges, J. Paul Moore, Johnny Liska, Scott Davis, Nikki Glick
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(#8) Psycho
- Alfred Hitchcock, Janet Leigh, Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Martin Balsam, John Gavin, Ted Knight, John McIntire, John Anderson, Lurene Tuttle, Simon Oakland, Jeanette Nolan, Frank Albertson, Pat Hitchcock, Virginia Gregg, Vaughn Taylor, Sam Flint, Mort Mills, Fred Scheiwiller, George Eldredge, Francis De Sales, Kit Carson, George Dockstader, Pat McCaffrie, Frank Killmond, Fletcher Allen, Paul Jasmin, Helen Wallace, Harper Flaherty, Lillian O'Malley, Lee Kass, Prudence Beers
Come on, can anyone think of a creepier dude than Norman Bates from Alfred Hitchcock’s 1969 psychological masterpiece Psycho? The ick-factor reaches record-setting heights during Act III when it’s revealed in the big twist that Bates dresses and believes that he is the mother he murdered years before. Talk about mommy issues…
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(#9) Saw
- Danny Glover, Monica Potter, Shawnee Smith, Dina Meyer, Michael Emerson, Cary Elwes, Tobin Bell, Ken Leung, Leigh Whannell, Makenzie Vega, Benito Martinez, Mike Butters, Paul Gutrecht
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(#10) Memento
- Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, Jorja Fox, Stephen Tobolowsky, Callum Keith Rennie, Thomas Lennon, Mark Boone Junior, Marianne Muellerleile, Harriet Sansom Harris, Larry Holden, Russ Fega, Kimberly Campbell
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(#11) Planet of the Apes
- Charlton Heston, Linda Harrison, James Whitmore, Maurice Evans, Kim Hunter, Army Archerd, Felix Silla, James Bacon, Norman Burton, Billy Curtis, Jerry Maren, Woodrow Parfrey, James Daly, Paul Lambert, Wright King, Frank Delfino, Buck Kartalian, Harry Monty, Irvin Koszewski, Lou Wagner, David Chow, Gene O'Donnell, Joe Tornatore, Eldon Burke, Robert Gunner, Buddy Douglas, George Sasaki, John Michael Quijada, Steve Merjanian, Priscilla Boyd, Cass Martin, Jeff Burton, William Graeff Jr., Smokey Roberds, Norma Jean Kron, Emory Souza, Jane Ross, Dianne Stanley, Erlynn Mary Botelho, Dave Rodgers, Chuck Fisher, Robert Lombardo
The 1968 sci-fi classic Planet of the Apes certainly had audiences asking WTF at the end. Three astronauts from earth crash land on a planet inhabited by primates. They rule in a distant world 2,000 years in the future (or so it seems), where humans are inferior beings.
The big reveal in Act III shows us an image of The Statue of Liberty. It was earth after all.
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(#12) 12 Monkeys
- Brad Pitt, Bruce Willis, Christopher Plummer, Madeleine Stowe, Christopher Meloni, David Morse, Frank Gorshin, Jon Seda, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Annie Golden, Chuck Jeffreys, Matt Ross, Simon Jones, Aaron Michael Lacey, Bill Raymond, Richard Stanley, Phillip V. Caruso, Irma St. Paule, Michael Chance, Stephen Bridgewater, Rick Warner, Vernon Campbell, Sal Mazzotta, Roger Pratt, Joey Perillo, Charles Techman, Thomas Roy, Joseph McKenna, Felix Pire, Joe Gerety, Drucie McDaniel, Ernest Abuba, Nell Johnson, Frederick Strother, Allelon Ruggiero, Carol Florence, Raymond Mamrak, Johnnie Hobbs Jr., Janet Zappala, Julie Mabry, Adam Hatley, Stan Kang, Charley Scalies, Korchenko, Bruce Kirkpatrick, C.J. Byrnes, Kevin Thigpen, Bonnie Loev, Robert O'Neill, Tiffany Baldwin, Rozwill Young, Faith Potts, Jann Ellis, Jeff Tanner, John Hagy, Lee Golden, Louis Lippa, Lenny Daniels, Joilet Harris, Lisa Talerico, Ray Huffman, Karl Warren, John Blaisse, Thang, Pat Dias, Joseph Melito, Jodi Dawson, Larry Daly, Barry Price, John Panzarella, Carolyn Walker, H. Michael Walls, Paul Meshejian, Bob Adrian, Wilfred Williams, Herbert C. Hauls Jr., Arthur Fennell, Harry O'Toole, Laura Glas, Michael Ryan Segal, Tom Detrik, Anthony 'Chip' Brienza, Jack Dougherty
A criminal named James Cole (Bruce Willis) is sent back in time to prevent the apocalypse in Terry Gilliam's 1995 plot-twisty, brain-bender. But he's sent back six years too soon, and gets put away in a mental hospital. It's revealed at the end of the movie that the horrific dreams and mad visions that Cole suffers from are actually from his childhood.
You see Cole was shot to death at an airport when he was a kid. What? Exactly.
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(#13) Unbreakable
- Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Robin Wright, M. Night Shyamalan, Eamonn Walker, Michael Kelly, Firdous Bamji, Laura Regan, Jennifer Hale, Charlayne Woodard, John Patrick Amedori, James Handy, Tamara Walker, Rick Kain, Leslie Stefanson, Chance Kelly, Elizabeth Lawrence, Damian Young, Ukee Washington, Robert Randolph Caton, Chrismandu, Jonathan Sachar, David C. Roehm Sr., Sasha Neulinger, Vincent Riviezzo, Wayne Pyle, Bryce Lenon, Joey Perillo, John B. Mueller, Gina Allegro, Gary Beck, Greg Korin, Natalie Hultman, Sean Oliver, Bostin Christopher, Greg Horos, Bob Bowersox, Johanna Day, Erin Lulevitch, Cue Shepherd, Jose L. Rodriguez, Anthony Bosco, Todd Berry, Mark Poulton, Michaelia Carroll, Andrea Havens, J.R. Ashton, Bill Rowe, Julia Yorks, Simms Thomas, Mark Kratzer, Sherman Roberts, Lon Lawson, Susan Wilder, Anthony Lawton, Samantha Savino, Mark Pricskett, Johnny Hiram Jamison, Joey Hazinsky, Marc H. Glick, Sonya Wallace, Lisa Pickell, John Rusk, Christina Mahon, Antonio Costa, John Wrot, Whitney Sugarman, Sally Parrish, Angela Eckert, Dianne Cotten Murphy, Rita Soto, Davis Duffield
Plot twist extraordinaire M. Night Shyamalan turns the audience into rubes once again in his take on the superhero movie. Comic collector Elijah Price (Samuel L. Jackson) suffers from a condition that makes his bones susceptible to breaking. The collector convinces "Regular Joe" David Dunn (Bruce Willis) that he has super natural powers after he walks away from a devastating train wreck without a scratch.
What we don't know until the end is that Price is not one of the good guys, he's actually just a manipulative villain. In fact, he planned the train wreck in order to find Dunn.
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(#14) A Beautiful Mind
- Jennifer Connelly, Russell Crowe, Ron Howard, Ed Harris, Christopher Plummer, Paul Bettany, Josh Lucas, Judd Hirsch, Anthony Rapp, Adam Goldberg, Rance Howard, Austin Pendleton, Roy Thinnes, Josh Pais, Jason Gray-Stanford, Jane Jenkins, Stelio Savante, John H. Tobin, Amy Walz, Warner Wolf, Reggie Austin, Brian Smyj, Tanya Clarke, Fileena Bahris, Michael Abbott Jr., Ryan Tygh, Jonah Falcon, Vivien Cardone, Dory Manzour, Rich Bryant, Dave Bayer, Robert Myers, Sean Reid, Tom McNutt, Charles McClelland, Cheryl Howard, Evan Hart, Jason Horton, Douglas Taurel, Jesse Doran, Fabrizio Fante, James Thomas Bligh, Alessandro Tanaka, Jennifer Weedon, Sean Dillon, Michael Pierce, Jon M. McDonnell, Todd Fredericks, Dan Chen, Teagle F. Bougere, Berly Ellis, Victor Steinbach, Holly Pitrago, Lloyd Baskin, Kent Cassella, Phil Cirincione, Michael Esper, Ed Jupp Jr., Gregory Gordon, Michael Fiore, Mike Fitzgerald, Jeffrey Christopher Todd, Reina Nomura, Tommy Allen, Sean Bennett, Eva Burkley, John Blaylock, Betsy Klompus, Will Dunham, Darius Stone, Glenn Roberts, Tracey Toomey, Christopher Stockton, Scott Addison Clay, Brian Keith Lewis, Logan McCall, Scott Fernstrom, Valentina Cardinalli, Gregory Dress, Reed Penney, Patrick Blindauer, Anthony Easton, Dave Sweeney, Matt Samson, Alex Toma, Yvonne Thomas, Bob Broder, Kathleen Fellegara, Ned Stuart, David B. Allen, Carla Occhiogrosso, Isadore Rosenfeld, Jill M. Simon, Mills Pierre, Erik Van Wyck, Cade Bittner
Nobel Prize winning mathematician John Nash Jr. (Russell Crowe) may have a brilliant mind in Ron Howard's Academy Award winning 2001 biopic, however the genius also suffers from schizophrenia. The most disturbing of the his twisty delusions is when we discover that his good buddy Charles (Paul Bettany) is just another figment of his imagination.
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(#15) The Game
- Sean Penn, Michael Douglas, Spike Jonze, Carroll Baker, James Rebhorn, Tommy Flanagan, Deborah Kara Unger, Mark Boone Junior, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Michael Massee, Peter Donat, Bob Stephenson, Kimberly Russell, John Cassini, Daniel Schorr, Keena Turner, Gerry Becker, Yuji Okumoto, Anna Katarina, Jack Kehoe, John Aprea, Harrison Young, Joe Frank, Elizabeth Dennehy, Harris Savides, John Hammil, Charles Martinet, George Maguire, Victor Talmadge, Linda Manz, Jason Kristofer, Jay Gordon, Christopher John Fields, Bob Dini, Gypsy Boots, Bob Quinn, Duffy Gaver, J. Anthony Pena, Rachel Flanagan, Terence Ford, Trish Summerville, Marc Siegler, Hideo Kimura, Anni Long, Caroline Barclay, Tom Crowl, Scott Hunter McGuire, Aaron Lucich, Jarion Monroe, Lily Soh Froehlich, Owen Masterson, Joy Ann Ryan, Charles Branklyn, Kathyjean Harris, Tracie May, Elise Robins, Will Jones, Florentina Mocanu, Jason Uson, Peter Davidian, Stephen Cowee, André Brazeau, Bob Scott, Christopher Cory, Alex Lynwood, James Brooks, Jeffrey Michael Young, Edward Campbell, Michael Lynwood, Sean Moloney, Bill Flanner, Tammy Koehler, Sean Lanthier, Rachel Steinberg, Jamie Midgley, Carlos Hoy, Curtis Vanterpool, Sara Davallou, Vic Ferreira
Director David Fincher loves his plot twists. In the 1997 twisty psychological thriller The Game, Nicholas Van Orton (Michael Douglas) is a loner obsessed with his finance career. His brother Conrad (Sean Penn) buys him a ticket to play a game with a company called Consumer Recreation Services. However, the experience becomes more than just a game. Nicholas's whole life gets turned upside down, and he nearly loses everything.
It's revealed after Nicholas jumps out of a window because he thinks that he killed his brother, that it actually all was just an elaborate game that Conrad set up, to make sure that Nicholas doesn't wind up like their father who committed suicide.
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(#16) Jacob's Ladder
- Macaulay Culkin, Tim Robbins, Jason Alexander, Lewis Black, Ving Rhames, Danny Aiello, S. Epatha Merkerson, Elizabeth Peña, Eriq La Salle, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Matt Craven, Patricia Kalember, Brian Tarantina, Brent Hinkley, Anthony Alessandro, Evan O'Meara
Paranoid Vietnam vet Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) returns home from war suffering from massive delusions and horrific hallucinations. Jacob believes that he was used in an experimental drug testing study while fighting the war. However, it's revealed in Act III that Jacob actually died in Vietnam, but just hasn't accepted the truth.
When he finally does recognize his fate, he is allowed to leave the hell of purgatory.
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(#17) American Psycho
- Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto, Josh Lucas, Chloë Sevigny, Samantha Mathis, Cara Seymour, Justin Theroux, Guinevere Turner. Reese Witherspoon
This is a twist ending that will come with some controversy. We watch Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) murder several people in American Pyscho. We also watch Bateman slowly lose his mind through the progression of the narrative. At the end of the movie, when the dead bodies are gone, we question whether or not Bateman actually murdered anyone.
Was it all just the delusion of a psychopath, or is he actually a killer? It's a twist with an open-ending, although some people think they have it all figured out.
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(#18) Friday the 13th
- Kevin Bacon, Tom Savini, Betsy Palmer, Irwin Keyes, Laurie Bartram, Rex Everhart, Ari Lehman, Harry Crosby, Adrienne King, Walt Gorney, Ronn Carroll, Noel John Cunningham, Ron Millkie, Mark Nelson, Mary Rocco, Sally Anne Golden, Jeannine Taylor, Peter Brouwer, Debra S. Hayes, Ken L. Parker, Robbi Morgan, Dorothy Kobs, Willie Adams
For those who came of age in the 1980s, theres a good chance that Jason Vorhees scared the crap out of you. The legend goes that young Jason drowned in Camp Crystal Lake due to the neglect of two teenage camp counselors who were off having sex. When a new group of counselors attempt to reopen the summer camp twenty years after the drowning, they are killed one by one by an insane murderer who clearly wants to make sure the camp stays closed.
The big reveal is that the murderer is not Jason, but his grieving mother. The double twist during the final scene shows us that Jason is actually alive, and ready to continue the killing spree.
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(#19) The Village
- Bryce Dallas Howard, Sigourney Weaver, Joaquin Phoenix, Jesse Eisenberg, William Hurt, Brendan Gleeson, Adrien Brody, Judy Greer, M. Night Shyamalan, Michael Pitt, Fran Kranz, Cherry Jones, Celia Weston, Jayne Atkinson, Frank Collison, Charlie McDermott, Liz Stauber, Charlie Hofheimer, Robert Randolph Caton, Scott Sowers, Kevin Foster, Thomas M. Hagen, Shannon Lambert-Ryan, David Foster, John Christopher Jones, Evangeline Williams, Robert Lenzi, Joey Anaya, John Rusk, Sean Andrew Fash, Willem Zuur, Matthew Flynn, Jordan Burt, Christopher Descano, Jessica Jennings, Tim Moyer, Nicholas Alexander Martino, Sydney Shapiro, Chloe Wieczkowski, Zack Wall, Jane Lowe, Mia Rose Colona, John Dinan, Pascale Renate Smith, Sydney Wieczkowski
Picture an Amish-like community in rural Pennsylvania. It's quiet and peaceful. Audiences believe that The Village must take place at least a 100 years ago. The elders warn its residents to stay out of the woods, that's where dangerous monsters hide. These creatures will not enter the village, it's sort of like a deal between the villagers and the evil beasts. But this is M. Night Shyamalan, so we know that the film must contain one of his trademark twists.
The big OMG moment occurs when we realize that there are no scary monsters lurking in the woods. In fact, the setting is modern day. The elders dress up like monsters to scare the community to stay within its safe walls, away from modern society.
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(#20) Gone Baby Gone
- Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan, Morgan Freeman
Ben Affleck proves himself to be quite an adept director in his 2007 feature film debut behind the camera. Gone Baby Gone takes place in a blue collar town outside of Boston. A young girl named Amanda is kidnapped, and two private detectives (Casey Affleck and Michelle Monaghan) are hired to help find her. But the thing about small, close-knit, working class towns is that there are always a lot of secrets. The PIs think that Amanda is dead, following a botched attempt to rescue her.
However, the big reveal is that Amanda was never even kidnapped. Instead, she is living comfortably with Captain Doyle (Morgan Freeman).
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(#21) The Crying Game
- Forest Whitaker, Jim Broadbent, Miranda Richardson, Stephen Rea, Ralph Brown, Adrian Dunbar, Jaye Davidson, Tony Slattery, Birdy Sweeney, Bryan Coleman, Andrée Bernard, Jack Carr, Breffini McKenna, Joe Savino, Ray De-Haan, David Crionelly, Shar Campbell, Josephine White
Does anyone even remember what happened in this Academy Award winning drama, outside of the big reveal? The twist is so shocking that the plot, which is actually very good, takes a backseat. Fergus (Stephen Rea) falls in love with Dil (Jaye Davidson). The jaw-dropping shocker is that Dil turns out to be a dude.
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(#22) Citizen Kane
- Orson Welles, Alan Ladd, Agnes Moorehead, Joseph Cotten, Arthur O'Connell, Ruth Warrick, Everett Sloane, Ray Collins, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Paul Stewart, George Coulouris, Philip Van Zandt, Harry Shannon, Fortunio Bonanova, Walter Sande, William Alland, Dorothy Comingore, Louise Currie, Erskine Sanford, Sonny Bupp, Thomas A. Curran, Charles Bennett, Carl Ekberg, Buddy Swan, Gus Schilling, Georgia Backus
Orson Welles's directorial debut begins with Charles Foster Kane on his deathbed, whispering his last dying words, "Rosebud." The non-linear narrative then shows us the story of the ruthless newspaper magnate, who lived a life of greed and over-ambition.
The twist at the end of the film reveals that Kane was just a big softy after all. Rosebud was a sled from his childhood, his last thoughts were of the innocence of youth.
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(#23) Chinatown
- Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, Roman Polanski, John Huston, Diane Ladd, John Hillerman, Burt Young, James Hong, Rance Howard, Noble Willingham, Bruce Glover, Roy Jenson, Perry Lopez, Roy Roberts, Darrell Zwerling, Joe Mantell, John Holland, Richard Bakalyan, Jesse Vint, Beulah Quo, Lee de Broux, Cecil Elliott, Jim Burk, C.O. Erickson, George Justin, Fritzi Burr, Federico Roberto, James O'Rear, Paul Jenkins, Jerry Fujikawa, Denny Arnold, Richard Warren, Allan Warnick, Nandu Hinds, Elizabeth Harding, Charles Knapp, Bob Golden, Claudio Martínez, Belinda Palmer, John Rogers, Elliott Montgomery
Private Investigator J.J. Gittes (Jack Nicholson) is hired by a suspicious wife named Evelyn (Faye Dunaway), who believes that her high-profile husband is having an affair in Roman Polanski's 1974 classic neo-noir. Gittes ultimately uncovers a lot more than just a sordid romance. The PI stumbles upon a murder and a complicated conspiracy filled with false identity and secrets.
The jaw-dropping twist is that Evelyn’s sister happens to also be her daughter, and her husband is also her father. Talk about twisted.
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(#24) April Fool's Day
- Deborah Foreman, Thomas F. Wilson, Ken Olandt, Leah Pinsent, Tom Heaton, Clayton Rohner, Amy Steel, Griffin O'Neal, Deborah Goodrich, Jay W. Baker, Lloyd Berry, Mike Nomad, Pat Barlow
This horror film turns out to be sort of a comedy - a really, really dark comedy. The twist is right there in the title. It's called April Fool's Day for a reason. All the violent murders that take place throughout the movie, turn out to be nothing more than a ruse set up by Muffy for her old college pals. What a good friend.
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