Best movie/play/book twists?

[jamiekennywicked]

Posted: 10/2/11 at 1:40pm

Spoilers obviously..

Sixth Sense: Malcom is dead all along.

Updated On: 10/2/11 at 01:40 PM

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 10/2/11 at 1:43pm

Rupert Holmes had 2

Solitary Confinement
Accomplice

[SNAFU]

Posted: 10/2/11 at 2:36pm

One of my favorite twists is in Rock Hudson's movie Seconds.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 10/2/11 at 2:38pm

Most definitely

Another is the ending of the original Planet of The Apes

The ending of Land of The Pharoahs is a rip.

The end of The Oscar is a fitting conclusion to a great bad movie.

Updated On: 10/2/11 at 02:38 PM

[tazber]

Posted: 10/2/11 at 4:02pm

I second Accompmlice. Brilliant!

Also (I'm not gonna spoil these b/c they are so worth discovering for yourself):

Frailty (movie)
Invisible Monster (novel, Chuck Palahniuk)

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 10/2/11 at 4:30pm

Witness for the Prosecution and Deathtrap are two of my favorite movies--good all the way through and with great multitwist endings.

[best12bars]

Posted: 10/2/11 at 4:44pm

^ Love Witness For the Prosecution's ending!

The Sixth Sense was right up there, too. ... borrowing a bit from Carnival of Souls and other like stories.

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 10/2/11 at 4:53pm

The ship sinks.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 10/2/11 at 5:01pm

Definitely "Sixth Sense." Also "The Others." Which reminds me--the TV movie "The Other" had a great twist.

[best12bars]

Posted: 10/2/11 at 5:04pm

Definitely! I bought "The Other" last year on DVD, and was surprised how much it still creeped me out.

Plus, it has Uta Hagen in a rare screen appearance!

Updated On: 10/2/11 at 05:04 PM

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 10/2/11 at 5:09pm

SHOWGIRLS

When we find out that Nomi Malone isn't even her real name - I mean, WHOA. My jaw was on the floor!

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 10/2/11 at 5:39pm

Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy even though from the very beginning you know who did it.

[best12bars]

Posted: 10/2/11 at 7:31pm

"Soylent Green is people!"

Just kiddin'.

"Showgirls" had a great twist ending in that I actually stayed to watch it.

I certainly didn't see that coming.

Updated On: 10/2/11 at 07:31 PM

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 10/2/11 at 7:37pm

As far as surprise endings go, it really doesn't get any better than NEWHEART.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 10/2/11 at 8:03pm

^ . . . where you find out Bob's been dead the whole time.

[best12bars]

Posted: 10/2/11 at 8:10pm

Oliver had a great Twist ending.

LOLOLOLOLOL

meh.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 10/2/11 at 8:35pm

WONDERLAND

It was all a dream?!?!??

[TracyLord]

Posted: 10/2/11 at 8:59pm

I must be tired, because I am sitting here giggling about Oliver's Twist ending.

I managed to see The Shape of Things live and unspoiled. I was definitely shocked.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 10/2/11 at 9:19pm

Oh, and "The Mousetrap"!

[strummergirl]

Posted: 10/2/11 at 9:55pm

I find that a lot of Chuck Palahniuk's books have great twists. Sure, Fight Club started a really bad trend (I actually loved the book's ambiguous ending) but Invisible Monsters and even Survivor had me as a reader.

Chinatown's plot twist, especially when you tack on that ending, really shocked me.

Two films where it was one of the few times I did not hear about the plot twist beforehand was The Game (it sort of works but can Sean Penn's character really be the guy behind it?) and Jacob's Ladder.

I remember knowing that the ending to The Mist would be different from its source material but, wow. Sort of Night of the Living Dead's ending (is Ben getting shot (mistakenly or malevolently) by possibly racist zombie hunters a plot twist?).

Who am I kidding? It's clearly Sleepaway Camp.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 10/2/11 at 10:14pm

^Lol. I was like "She's a mannequin?????"

[tazber]

Posted: 10/2/11 at 11:41pm

Sleepaway Camp was a real shock to me.

And the end of the original Saw was awesome. I know the series has become (understandably) maligned for ushering in torture porn and all that, but the original is an excellent puzzle of a movie(and in truth has very little gore - it's all suggestion).
Classic misdirection, he was there in front of you the entire time.

Seriously fellow horror fans, did any of you see that end coming?


I was surprised by a Spanish film from a few years ago called The Orphanage.

And if you like to be truly stunned by an ending then do yourselves a favor and go into Almodovar's new film The Skin I Live In as cold as possible. It's a doozie! (And disturbing as hell).

[tazber]

Posted: 10/2/11 at 11:55pm

I just noticed no one mentioned Psycho! One of the all time great twists.

Also:

Seven
Les Diabolique
The Usual Suspects
12 Monkeys

Special mention to Mulholland Drive. The entire movie is one big twist. I'm not sure any of it actually makes sense, but it's a fantastic movie that throws so many twists at you that you're never sure what's reality and what's not.

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 10/3/11 at 12:02am

Murder by Death has a fanastic twist!

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 10/3/11 at 12:11am

The ending to the latest FINAL DESTINATION film is one of my favorite "twists" in a very long time.