The twist is one that our protagonist sees coming. The audience is provided with a fairer idea of what happened to his significant other than he is, which helps add to his character, a man frustratingly hopeful, though deeply troubled inside, probably because he has drawn his own conclusions regarding the mystery. The protagonist is in search of his missing wife, a year on following her disappearance. On the one hand, it’s a classic film twist that comes in the form of a realization. The ending to ‘The Vanishing’ was one that I thought was suffocating. It also features an all-star cast comprising the likes of John Cusack and ‘Goodfellas’ Ray Liotta. Watch this one alone for the complete experience. The twist is unpredictable but completely believable and ingenious. Heavily inspired by Agatha Christie’s ‘And Then There Were None’, characters stranded at a motel are killed of one by one with a murderer on the loose. The film also doubles up as a brilliant psychological thriller. ‘Identity’ rates among the best murder mysteries you will ever see. For those who don’t, it will either blow up your brains, or you will when it ends. For those who like to think and prefer their films with a side of thought-fodder, this film is a haven among the woods. It may not end up satisfactorily answering a lot of the questions it raises, but it is bound to raise a brow or two with the flawed genius behind the big idea of it all, the idea of a timeless soldier, free from the ideas of ancestry, birth, death, conception, and time itself: a predestination paradox. ‘Predestination’ is a film that toys with complex physical ideas including Time Travel, Temporal Loops, Discontinuities, Paradoxes, concepts that have, till now, caught the fancy of physicists, mathematicians, story tellers and film makers for close to a century. You can watch several of these movies with twist endings on Netflix, Hulu or Amazon Prime. With all that said now, today we are going to list down the greatest twist endings in cinema. I’ve discovered with my exposure to filmmaking that while it isn’t very difficult to come up with a twist ending, it is terribly hard to think one up that fits a story to absolute perfection. The twist ending should allow the audience to understand the elements of a story in a different way, while providing further details about the characters and their surroundings. Mostly used in thrillers, twists can work well in just about any film genre, notable ones being drama, comedy, and horror. The movies listed here are simply the best use of the shocking device.When it comes to feature films, the case is different, because so much happens within the time frame of a movie that a twist has to complement everything that precedes it, so that it will make sense, in however subtle a way that may be. Many films today have some sort of plot twist within the story, some more obvious than others. Think you can spot evidence of the twist in a film like Fight Club? Fincher wants you to find the clues (after you’ve seen the movie once), in fact the clues are everywhere within frame. These movies were actually meant to be watched several times. Will you need to watch all of these films repeatedly to truly absorb the twists? Absolutely. Auteur directors like Christopher Nolan ( Memento, The Prestige) and David Fincher ( The Game, Se7en, Fight Club) are also repeat twist-ending offenders/geniuses/brain-benders, who somehow shock us to our core, despite the jaded media-rich world we live in. Night Shyamalan is so innovative with his twist endings, that even when we’re searching for them, we still can’t find them anywhere in the narrative. This collection features all your favorite shocking movie endings, that left you speechless, but which of these movies with twist endings are truly the best? It's time to vote!Ĭertain directors have a knack for telling stories that make you shriek OMG or WTF during Act III. You know, the kind of conclusions that make your jaw-drop, your heart stop, and your head hurt because they are so unexpected. Remember how you felt the first time you realized the true identity of Keyser Soze? Or the disbelief regarding the ending of Memento? This is a list of the best twist endings in cinematic history. Spoilers for anyone who hasn't seen all these classic twist/surprise ending movies!
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