Best Movie Twist

I'd go for Fight Club. It is outstanding for me because of the Helena Bonham-Carter character.

At the start she is, in her own worRAB, contagious human waste and not a nice person to know at all. When you watch the film a second time some of her behaviour that seemed strange and unreasonable the first time makes sense, and she enRAB up being lovable. I think she's wonderful.

I guessed The Usual Suspect - thought it was fairly obvious. I didn't guess Saw and thought it was more or less unguessable, and hence didn't like it. I preferred Saw II, which was more logical and so more guessable but more satisfying if, like me, you didn't guess it.

I guessed The Village but liked the film anyway. I didn't guess Atonement and didn't care - there wasn't really anything to guess, was there? Very thin story.
 
I would also go for "Saw".I didn't see it coming & it didn't even cross my mind it could be a possiblity.

"The Wickerman" the original had a pretty good twist.I have never seen the remake so i don't know if they went for the same twist?.
 
Just browsing the movies in front of me...

Sixth Sense. it seems totally obvious now, but I never saw it coming at the time.
Hide and Seek. same as above.
The Others. Great film with a great twist.
Sweeney Todd. Nice reveal as to who the beggar was.
Saw. One of the most clever 'gore' films yet
 
Edward Norton and Richard Gere, where he is the lawyer can't remember the name. Primal fear I think. Thats a good twister.

What lies beneath.
 
Just about to mention this, didn't see it coming, great twist. Also Saw was a good one. Wild Things also had a good few twists, although I was more interested in Denise RicharRAB and Neve Campbell. :p
 
Saw has to get my vote.

Never saw it coming for a second, I would call anyone who claims they saw it coming a liar because there was absolutely no indication whatsoever to it happening.

Such an ace movie.
 
I have a fondness for movie 'twists' even if they have become overrused and something of a cliche in recent years.
I pick Saw,The Crying Game,Planet of the Apes and Fight Club as having the best best twists I have personally seen,but then I have never seen The Vanishing and The Others.

Psycho's twist would have been great in the 60's but I knew exactly what was coming by the time I watched it.

Carnival of Souls surprised me (but I was 10 when I first saw it), probably was quite effective at the time,also.

I predicted the one in the Sixth Sense very early.I don't understand why so many people were surprised by that,it was very old hat trick,utilized in many American horror movies of the late 70's.Excellent movie nevertheless.

Although memorable and a very well made movie,the problem with The Usual Suspects is that the twist negates nearly the entire movie.The same can be said for Jacob's Ladder.Maybe a little too clever,depenRAB on the viewer I suppose.

After it seems she is the heroine of the movie,Tina being killed off in A Nightmare on Elm Street was a nice little twist that Wes Craven made on the slasher movie 'rules' established over the preceding 5 years.It worked so well that he did it again 12 years later with Scream,this time to more effect.
 
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