What are some films with a huge twist?

“The Usual Suspects”
“Citizen Kane”

The Sixth Sense

Planet of the Apes, although I think the basic concept of its twist had already been done in an episode of “Twilight Zone”, a few years before.

The Crying Game

Great movie.

@jaytkay That had a twist you could twist!

Wait – isn’t declaring a movie to have a big twist a bit of a spoiler?

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Haunted ( Aidan Quinn/Kate Beckinsale )
Unknown ( Liam Neeson )
The Secret in their Eyes ( Pablo Rago )
The Others ( Nicole Kidman )

Oliver…no wait, he was just a skinny little kid.
A fair few movies include a twist or a sting in the tail, trick is to pull it off with conviction.
The most recent film I watched with a twist was Dream House, saw it coming a mile off though.

A Beautiful Mind is one amazing film with a fantastic twist. I recommend everyone to watch it.

Match Point is also a film with a surprising twist.

I haven’t seen the movie yet (and apparently they’re are some notable differences) but I loved the twist in the book John Dies at the End.

Ha. I love that they based their ads on the importance of not spoiling the end.

I always liked the Twilight Zone. The “To Serve Mankind” episode is stuck in my head lately.

Spoiler Alert! ;-)

@Brian1946 That’s pretty bad.

Can’t believe no one mentioned Fight Club.

I also really loved Moon.

Muholland Dr has a huge twist but I’m not sure how much I really liked it.

Only other one I can think of at the moment is Memento

I love movies with huge twists but the only problem is you can only really enjoy the movie once. It just doesnt have that same OH SHIT moment that made it amazing like the first time.

Se7en/American Psycho & Saw are some of my faves where it worked well.

@ucme Ya know I was pretty excited when I first saw watched Saw. Awesome twist ending and I thought, awesome, finally some good horror movies again. And then they said fuck it all and made 50 more Saw movies and just ruined the whole thing.

I love that ha-HA moment Cary Elwes has in Saw. It’s the best.

The original “Friday the 13th” end in an interesting way.

Thought of a couple more…
Planet of the Apes
Soylent Green
Empire Strikes Back
Psycho

Fight Club—requires all your attention
The Prestige—about 2 rival magicians attacking each other, ending is unbelievable and hard to understand
Anything that’s Agatha Christie’s and Alfred Hitchcock’s. (Try death on the Nile and Psycho)—hard to guess the endings
Shutter Island—incredible
Memento—also incredible
The shining (Actually any movie made following Stephen King’s books will have a twist)
Misery (Also Stephen king’s)
All the Saw-s have a twisted ending but too gory so take that into account (7 movies)
Sinister—I couldn’t sleep alone that night sorry (fucking creepy)
The Wicker Man (1973 version not the new one) (you will not believe the ending!!)
Rosemary’s baby (1968) (also very creepy!) and high quality dont be freaked out by the date
Mystery movies in general, and some movies require all of your attention for you to truly understand it

@Luiveton: “The shining (Actually any movie made following Stephen Hawking’s books will have a twist)
Misery (Also Stephen Hawking’s)”

I had no idea Stephen Hawking was involved in that type of thing. :)

@uberbatman Yeah, they had to keep sawing away at the format eh?

@tom_g shit I meant Stephen king sorry haha

@uberbatman @ucme Yeah I liked the first 5 (although the first 3 or 4 were better) didnt bother with 6 or 7 because too much.

@Luiveton I was looking for some hidden meaning in the name. Maybe a play on horror or something.

@Adirondackwannabe haha so embarrassing, what can I say, I’m having too many puppet-moments these days

Here’s some more, not all classic “twist at the end” twists but they all mess with your expectations a bit.

12 Monkeys
Black Swan
The Brothers Bloom
Cabin in the Woods
From Dusk Till Dawn
Inception
Pandorum
Possession (in my head the alternate ending is the true ending)
A Scanner Darkly
The Tourist

Cabin in the Woods and From Dusk Till Dawn aren’t twists so much as u-turns at 80 mph. I know there are plenty of people that aren’t on board for that sort of thing but I love the balls it takes to reset a movie midway through.

@Luiveton I was impressed you knew who Stephen Hawking was. Puppies will do that to people. :)

I now have an image in my head of Stephen Hawking in a clown suit saying “they all float down here” in a computerised voice, now that would be scary.

@Adirondackwannabe Of course I know who Stephen Hawking is. Read a few of his books, even..I just think I’ll never stop getting mixed up by his and Stephen King’s name. Oh lord. I feel embarrassed now haha

@ucme That is a scary image.
@Luiveton You haven’t even come close to some of my screwups. Don’t sweat it.

I think “Sixth Sense” has already been mentioned, but I don’t think any twist surprised me more than the one in that. Of course, once you know it, you’re never surprised by anything in that movie again.

I was quite surprised by the ending of Loopers.

Easy Rider caught me off guard. I don’t like the way it ended.

Put me down for The Crying Game as well.

Would you call “Thelma and Louise”‘s ending a twist or was it predictable?

Hm…Shutter Island, Orphan, and, a new one, Safe Haven.

Along with the many others listed above, I just watched one a few weeks ago called House of 9. It had a one of those “omg!” twists at the end.

So many good ones have already been mentioned. One that hasn’t is Identity.

Are we all avoiding the “It Was Just A Dream” endings? Good on us.

Suck it Vanilla Sky.

Crash has quite a few of them . . .

Closer.
The Silence of the Lambs.
Unbreakable.

@augustlan I liked Identity but that twist didn’t get me at all. Though I think its cause I had read Ten Little Indians about a million times :P

@janbb totally predictable

He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not (Audrey Tatou)

The Sting an oldie but a goodie

In my Father’s Den

@uberbatman Fight Club was the first thing that came to my mind, I was floored.