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

[mancboy]

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

 

[cityontheup]

Not a plot twist as such but the end of American sniper shocked me, to go through all those tours of duty and to end like that is so sad

 

[stonerblue]

Sharknado.
at the end, our hero gets swallowed by a massive shark and we presume that's the end of him.
Thirty seconds later our heros immaculately coiffured bonce pops out of big bastard sharks belly after he'd sliced it open from the inside with his chainsaw.

 

[youngbob]

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...

Spoiler

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.

 

[fanatic1]

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.

 

[Boo or Boo-urns]

No Way Out (1988)

 

[Elbow beards]

Not really a twist but the end of Donnie Darko is bonkers. Still can't get my head around it.

 

[Boo or Boo-urns]

Arlington Road (1999)

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

The Others, with Nicole Kidman isn't bad. I'll admit I didn't see it coming.

 

[jayblue]

In The Dark Knight Rises where Miranda Tate stabs Batman whilst revealing she's Talia Al Ghul. Good stuff :-)