Well, well, well, you guys loved part 1 so much that we’re back with a part two to
our list of the Top 5 Scary Plot Twists In Horror Movies -- and honestly, I couldn’t
thank you guys more.
As you will be well aware I’m a big lover of all things horror -- particularly film.
And being that -- I never forget a plot twist -- in fact I love to talk about plot twists
-- as you’ll remember from our first part.
So deep dive with me today as we travel through the depths of some of the best horrors that
were completely turned on their heads because of one tiny twist that would make even M.
Night Shyamalan quake.
Let’s go.
Ps.
I will be spoiling every single film on this list for you.
So, if you haven’t go watch them all immediately, and then return to this video!
Ok, good!
5 The Descent Released in 2005, this horror movie follow
six women who gave caving in an unmapped system.
They become lost and ultimately trapped as a group of sub-terrestrial monsters hunt them
down and slaughter them.
Now -- we follow Sarah, a woman that tragically lost her husband not long before, and during
the onslaught we find out one of her caving buddies, Juno, was actually having an affair
with him before he died.
Brutal.
So, in an intense showdown between Sarah, Juno and the creatures -- Sarah sacrifices
Juno who is ultimately chowed down on my the monsters.
Jumping forward to the end -- Sarah, blood-soaked and feral finds an opening and fights her
way through the creatures to get to safety -- and that she does -- except not in the
UK version.
In a twist ending we find out that Sarah was in fact hallucinating her entire escape -- and
instead she is still trapped in the winding cave system -- soon to be lost to the creatures
that surround her.
4 Identity Released in 2003, psychological horror follows
ten strangers stranded at a Nevada motel during a rainstorm.
They begin to get hunted down one by one by an unknown serial killer on the loose.
Now -- during the onslaught we jump back and forth to a mass murderer on death row suffering
from a dissociative personality disorder -- who is attempting to get reprieve based on grounds
of insanity.
This is important.
The twist comes when we learn that the ten people stranded at the motel aren’t actually
really and instead embodiments of the serial killers personality.
One persona, played by John Cusack, is an ex-cop, who is instructed by the psychiatrist
to hunt down the persona who is responsible for the murders and kill it off before it
can do more harm.
He does just that -- however -- this is where we get hit with yet another plot twist.
It was the wrong persona.
The true killers persona was a 9 year old boy who was thought to have died in an accident
but was in fact faking it.
Horrifying.
3 The Mist Arguably my favourite ending to any film,
EVER.
And for all you Lovecraft fans out there, this is the film for you.
The Mist was released in 2007 and received mixed reviews as most monster movies do.
When mist suddenly descends upon a small town a group of people seek shelter in a supermarket
-- including a super religious woman who believes judgment day is upon them.
Fun stuff.
With the mist comes a plethora of Lovecraftian creatures -- attacking those that exist the
supermarket while attempting to find a way in.
During the films climax a father, his son, and three others escape in a car -- fleeing
to his home to rescue his wife.
When he arrives though he finds his wife is dead and house destroyed.
Quickly giving up hope they return to the car in hopes of escaping but in classic horror
movie fashion they run out of gas.
Pulling out a gun -- they decide to just end it their way as opposed to at the hands of
the creatures.
The dad shoots the three passengers, and then his son.
Realizing he has no bullets left he gets out of the car and wanders into the mist -- sacrificing
himself up to the creatures.
But -- what is arguably the cruelest twist that ever did twist -- the mist begins to
lift -- and military drive by.
If the group had waited just a few minutes that all would have been rescued, but now
the poor father has to live with the fact that he murdered his son for no reason.
Sucks.
2 Orphan This film gave me PTSD, and honestly, thinking
about it makes me anxious and never want to have kids.
Released in 2009, and starring one of my favourite people of all time, Vera Farmiga, Orphan follows
Kate and John, a couple that adopt a 9 year old Russian orphan Esther after losing one
of their own children.
Things are fine to begin -- they always are -- until Esther begins to get extremely violent
-- and oddly sexual.
Even making moves on her dad.
Red flags begin to pop up everyone and Kate and John become suspicious of the child -- and
here comes the twist.
Esther is not in fact a child, she is a 33 year old woman called Leena suffering from
a condition that stunts her growth.
She masks herself as a child in order to kill -- and kill she does.
By the end of the film we discover that she has killed up to seven people prior to seeking
out Kate and John.
Horrible.
1 The Orphanage This one is truly dark and dense so bare with
me.
Released in 2007, this spanish horror follows a woman who returns to her childhood home
in hopes of turning it into a home for disabled children.
During the grand opening her son Simon -- who is suffering from HIV -- goes missing -- and
the woman begins seeing a strange child wearing a sack around the home, along with constant
banging.
Simon had described him before -- naming him Tomas.
The woman can’t find Simon and soon believes that he may have been abducted by a woman
posing as a social worker -- however -- after investigating the woman -- he dies in a car
accident not long after -- they discover that she once worked at the orphanage and had a
son named Tomas who wore a sack to hide his facial deformities.
However -- when children stole his sack he ran away and hid in a cave and drowned.
Now -- here’s the twist -- and it’s sad so grab your tissues.
Eventually they find Simon’s body in a hidden room in the house.
During a flashback we learn that he hid there after having an argument with his mum.
Not knowing about the room she had moved some bits of scaffolding and accidently blocked
him in.
The banging that was heard throughout the house was in fact Simon attempting to get
out -- before eventually falling and breaking his neck.
To make matters worse -- upon realizing what she has done, the woman kills herself, but
is then reunited with her son.
Sad, but not entirely all bad.
Well, there we have it!
What do you guys think?
Have you seen any of these films?
Were there any twists that didn’t make it onto our list.
Leave us all your thoughts and feelings in the comments down below and perhaps we can
do a part 3.
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