she could be the sweetest warmest most
loving person in the world
welcome to watch mojo and today we're
counting down our picks for the top 10
shocking twists that came early in the
movie what do you want me to do
you want nick and amy to be likable
after that
you invent for this list we're looking
at unexpected plot twists and
developments that occurred relatively
early in the movie
throwing its viewers for a massive loop
needless to say
spoilers are unavoidable which of these
did you find the most unexpected let us
know in the comments below
number 10 vincent vega is killed pulp
fiction
we have vincent
we happy yeah we happy quentin
tarantino's
pulp fiction is a tour de force of
narrative twists and turns
one big example is the surprising and
greatly unexpected death of john
travolta's
vincent vega vega was undoubtedly the
star of the film
being the centerpiece of its first two
major stories viewers were comfortable
having vega as the primary protagonist
but then bruce willis and the gold watch
were introduced and threw
everything into question
it's in this segment that vega is
unceremoniously killed by willis's butch
as he emerges from the apartment
bathroom
it comes out of nowhere and just like
that the movie has disposed of its main
character
fortunately viewers were able to see
more of vega owing to the movie's
non-chronological structure what's some
bacon
no man i don't eat pork are you jewish
no i ain't jewish i just don't dig on
swine that's all
why not pigs are filthy animals
i don't eat filthy animals number nine a
new superhero
hancock i swear to christ your head
is going up the driver's ass his head is
going up your ass
and you drew the short stick because
your head is going up my ass
co-written by breaking bad creator vince
gilligan hancock begins its life as a
dark comedy about a washed up superhero
who is hated by the populace of los
angeles
you're all idiots you're the one that
threw the dude's car at her and looked
at the train
why didn't you just go straight up in
the air with a car
it's a funny twist on the genre and
viewers were perfectly happy watching 90
minutes of it
but that wasn't to be jason bateman
plays
ray embry a public relations specialist
who offers to work with hancock he has a
wife named mary played by charles theron
midway through the movie viewers learn
that mary is actually
hancock's immortal ex-wife and a fellow
superhero
technically speaking
he's my husband holy
[ __ ] what we broke up decades ago
long before you were born he just can't
remember hancock had forgotten this
owing to amnesia
unfortunately some critics thought this
a clumsy reveal and
argue that the first half of the movie
is far superior to what they consider
its underdeveloped second
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number eight the crawlers the descent
this horror film is another example of a
first half that could have worked
perfectly well on its own
a group of thrill-seeking friends get
together for a spelunking adventure
only to get lost in an uncharted cave
system
this makes for some great claustrophobic
fun and the horror is
firmly rooted in an unsettling reality
so you have to calm down
and the only way you're going to do that
is to breathe yeah okay breathe
slowly just keep breathing however the
group is then attacked by subterranean
creatures known as crawlers and the
crawlers have an appetite for
human flesh the movie pivots into a
survival slasher tale as the group
of friends are systematically taken out
by the crawlers
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unlike hancock many critics thought this
is a great twist
marrying two unique halves into a
satisfying hole
number seven charlie graham dies
hereditary
this ari aster horror film earned
widespread praise and is often regarded
as one of the greatest horror films of
the 2010s
part of its strong reception is
undoubtedly due to the malicious yet
brilliant bait and switch concocted by
the marketing department
millie shapiro's charlie graham was
plastered all
over the movie's marketing material
including the posters and trailers
it was very obvious that a story was
centered around her and a supernatural
connection
she shares with her deceased grandmother
however charlie is nothing but a decoy
protagonist
as she suffers a horrific fate about 30
minutes into the movie
are you okay it's hard to
breathe what do you mean
i think my throat's getting bigger it
was a genuinely unexpected moment and it
left
viewers in a chilling state of shock
number six teddy gamel's reveal momento
this being a christopher nolan film
momento contains a labyrinth themed plot
that can prove
confusing and hard to follow the movie
has a unique structure with two stories
being told concurrently
one of which is shown in black and white
and the other of which is being told
backwards now i know you fake it if you
think you're supposed to recognize
somebody you just pretend to you bluff
it to get a pat on the head from the
doctors
you bluff it to seem less of a freak in
one of the film's greatest sequences the
black and white and backwards color
story lines converge
revealing joe pantogliano's teddy gamel
is the undercover police officer
that leonard is meeting lie to yourself
to be happy there's nothing wrong with
that
we all do it who cares if there's a few
little details you'd rather not remember
it's very hard to convey without
actually seeing the movie
but it proves an incredible mid-story
reveal that changes
everything we thought we knew about
protagonist leonard shelby
lenny i was the cop assigned to your
wife's case
i believed you i thought you deserved a
chance for revenge
number five we learn who done it early
knives out
this surprise hit served as writer
director ryan johnson's clever and
subversive take on the whodunit genre
like all whodunits the movie begins with
a mysterious death
that of rich novelist harlan thromby who
is believed to have taken his own life
um we're attempting to be thorough so we
can figure out the manner of death
so by manner of death you mean if
someone killed him if if
if one of us killed him one of his
family
is that what you're suggesting
lieutenant of course this being a
whodunit mystery the answer
can't be that simple only it actually is
as viewers learn about 30 minutes in
harlan did indeed kill himself
slitting his throat after his nurse fran
accidentally
mixed up his medications you were seen
leaving
the security cameras show you driving
off and 20 minutes later
i'm seen alive and well by my son
you see you've gone from suspect number
one
to an impossibility this unpredictably
answers the whodunit mystery long before
the story's conclusion
instead the story shifts to fran's
cover-up attempts
and the mystery turns to the events
surrounding the mix-up and
death resulting in a wonderful
deconstruction of the whodunnit
donut hole has a hole in it senna
it is not a donut hole but a smaller
donut with its own hole
and our donut is not whole at all
number four vampires from dusk till dawn
quentin tarantino loves to play with
narrative conventions
in penning the cult classic from dusk
till dawn he pulled off
one of the most masterful genre shifts
in movie history
the movie begins as a crime drama
following bank robber brothers
seth and richie gecko i want him out of
here
in his car and down the road or you can
change the name of this place
to benny's world of blood after robbing
a liquor store the brothers kidnap a
pastor
and are smuggled across the mexican
border once there they arrive at a
desert strip club that
is run by vampires
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and just like that a crime drama turned
into a vampire action flick reminiscent
of the cheesy b
movies of the 70s unfortunately this
plot twist was known going in as the
movie's marketing emphasized the
vampires luckily that does nothing to
quell its effectiveness
number three underground bunker parasite
unlike from dusk till dawn the massive
plot twist found in parasite was
completely hidden
the movie begins as a dark comedy
with the destitute kim family
infiltrating the rich park family as
their servants
housekeeper english tutor and art
therapist each recommending the other
and keeping their familial relationship
a secret it works and the machinations
prove brilliant
and hilarious but midway through the
movie
the previous housekeeper moon guang
reveals a
secret underground bunker beneath the
park mansion
inside is her husband who has been
hiding from
gangsters for the last four years
it helps deepen the movie's allegory and
visual metaphors and it switches the
genre from dark comedy to borderline
horror
number two alex de large goes to prison
a clockwork orange
this stanley kubrick film based on
anthony burgess's novel of the same name
does not make for a pleasant viewing
experience
it concerns alex delage a psychotic
teenager who takes pleasure in causing
chaos
and assaulting random people with his
gang
the first act follows their unsettling
debauchery
and viewers begin to question the
movie's point however a huge twist
occurs about 30 minutes into the movie
and alex is betrayed by his gang
arrested and sent to prison for
14 years come on let's go the pleasure
coming
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it's here that the real story and theme
emerges as alex is subjected to a new
behavioural therapy practice
known as the ludovico technique that
aims to quell him
of his violent tendencies i had truly
done my best
morning and afternoon to play it their
way and sit like a horror show
cooperative malchik
in the chair of torture while they
flashed nasty bits of ultra violence on
the screen
before we unveil our top pick here are a
few honorable mentions
the cast is killed death proof
the entire main cast is wiped out by
stuntman mike
halfway through the movie
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elite hunting club hostel the titular
hostel is a front for
a tourist killing group known as the
elite hunting club
i get a lot of money for you and that
make you
my [ __ ] amy dunn is alive
gone girl the story shifts to the
perspective of the missing amy who has
orchestrated the whole thing and she
floated down
past all the other abused unwanted
inconvenient women then
nick will die too nick and amy will be
gone
but then we never really existed john
doe turns himself in
seven john doe arrives at the police
station
covered in blood
detective after this i'm detective
no big surprise
laura hunt is alive laura the presumed
murdered laura is revealed to be
alive what are you trying to hide
don't you realize you're involved in the
murder you've got yourself in a jam it's
not going to be easy to get out of
unless you're on the level with me
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number one marion crane is killed psycho
arguably the greatest left turn in movie
history
marion's death at the hands of norman
bates is now the stuff of film legend
the first 30 minutes of the movie follow
marion as she steals money from her boss
flees the city and stops at the bates
motel
dirty knight you have a vacancy oh
we have 12 vacancies 12 cabins 12
vacancies
after befriending the welcoming if
somewhat odd norman bates
marion is murdered while taking a shower
don't worry about it but as long as you
fix the supper we may as well eat it
everyone knows this now but the twist
was absolutely
massive at the time janet lee was the
biggest star of the movie and its main
selling point so to dispose of her 30
minutes in was both
incredibly gutsy and ultimately genius
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