What's the best mind-blowing movie twist of all time? Spoiler alerts as standard!

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As a starter for 10, I'll nominate The Others. Set in 1945, the principal character, Grace, played by Nicole Kidman, lives with her two young children in a large country house in Jersey having given up her soldier husband as dead. The twist in The Others is that Grace eventually figures out that she and her family are not being haunted but are, in fact, ghosts, and that 'the others' of the title is a reference to a new family living in the house. Like all great movie twists, the story draws you in on a certain premise before completely disorientating the viewer. I remember being really annoyed at my complete failure to see it coming!
 
Kippaxpete said:
As a starter for 10, I'll nominate The Others. Set in 1945, the principal character, Grace, played by Nicole Kidman, lives with her two young children in a large country house in Jersey having given up her soldier husband as dead. The twist in The Others is that Grace eventually figures out that she and her family are not being haunted but are, in fact, ghosts, and that 'the others' of the title is a reference to a new family living in the house. Like all great movie twists, the story draws you in on a certain premise before completely disorientating the viewer. I remember being really annoyed at my complete failure to see it coming!
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Good thread & good post, cheers.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
The Crying Game, when the character undresses for sex and turns out to be trangender.

It caught me so much by surprise that I blurted out "She's got a dick!!!" to my eternal shame.
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There's a horror film from the 80s called Sleepaway Camp that has a similar twist, same reaction from me!
 
CTID1988 said:
I bet watching Empire Strikes Back for the first time was great. The Usual Suspects, Seven, The Sixth Sense all blew my mind the first time.
The Vanishing (The 1988 version) is also a great one, won't spoil it here
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Excellent suggestions. Note though, the thread title asks you to name what you think is the 'best mind-blowing movie twist' i.e. describe your favourite twist. Hence the reference to spoiler alerts.
 
Kippaxpete said:
As a starter for 10, I'll nominate The Others. Set in 1945, the principal character, Grace, played by Nicole Kidman, lives with her two young children in a large country house in Jersey having given up her soldier husband as dead. The twist in The Others is that Grace eventually figures out that she and her family are not being haunted but are, in fact, ghosts, and that 'the others' of the title is a reference to a new family living in the house. Like all great movie twists, the story draws you in on a certain premise before completely disorientating the viewer. I remember being really annoyed at my complete failure to see it coming!
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Brilliant film, best ghost story ever
 
As i put in the other thread, fight club twist is absolutely brilliant but as an addendum to that and its a twist ive never quite understood is the one at the end of american pyscho
 
Still think about the end of Arrival to this day.

The premise of the movie is simple: a dozen-or-so alien spaceships land on Earth, so Amy Adams, who plays a linguistics expert who is recovering from the death of her daughter, and a physicist played by Jeremy Renner, are recruited by the US military to work out why the aliens have come. It's a race against time, though, because the rest of the world's armies are mobilising to attack the spaceships.

But...

Throughout the film, Amy Adams constantly dreams about her daughter. But at the end of the film you find out that the opening montage of her daughter's death, and the dreams she has about her, actually take place after the events of the film, not before. By learning the alien race's language, she also developed the ability to experience memories of events yet to occur. And the "dreams" she's been having all along about her daughter are actually premonitions and memories from the future - she learns that she'll fall in love with Jeremy Renner's character, have a daughter with him, and that Jeremy Renner will divorce her when she eventually tells him that she knew their daughter was going to die but went though with the pregnancy anyway. Around the same time, Amy Adams has a premonition of a future United Nations conference where the world's political leaders are celebrating humanity's unity with the alien race. There, she meets the Chinese president, who whispers something in her ear. Back in the present, she stops the breakout of war against the aliens by calling the Chinese president herself and reciting what he'll later whisper to her: his wife's dying words, which only he knows until he tells her in the future. It's such a tough ending to pull off and it works spectacularly.
 
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The original Hitchcock film Psycho. In 1960 the world of of murderous unbalanced cross dressers did not exist and the end revelation was very unsettling. As part of the film's publicity Hitchcock decreed that no one would be admitted to the cinema after the film had started and urged the audience not to give away the ending.
 
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No Way Out (1988)

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