Blu-ray.com - Top 50 Plot Twists of All-Time (VOTE) (MASSIVE SPOILER ALERT)

[lud]

WELCOME, EVERYONE!!

Ok, we have Top 100 greatest movies, voting for top directors is in progress, so why not make list for top 50 greatest,best or unexpected plot twist ever.


RULES:
Just vote for your own list of 20 best,most shocking plot twists,surprises ever.
1st place is 20points and 20th place is 1point.

Why I'm doing this?
Because I'm huuuge fan of movies with great twists. It's my favorite 'genre'. I recently make topic with my list of best twists ever, so it's your tine guys to do the same thing.

After we finish this list, my next list will be for Top 100 Most Beautiful Actresses Of All Time.

VOTING will last exactly 14 days.

For easier voting -- Here's one huuge list with more than 400 most famous twists. In case you don't wan't forget something.
Ultimate List of 400+ greatest movie twists.

[lud]

I will start first, and give example how this topic works as well.

1.El Secreto De Sus Ojos - 20 points
2.The Usual Suspects - 19 points
3.Saw - 18 points
4.A Pure Formality - 17 points
5.The Shawshank Redemption - 16 points
6.Presumed Innocent - 15 points
7.No Way Out - 14 points
8.Sleepaway Camp - 13 points
9.Empire Strikes Back - 12 points
10.The Skeleton Key - 11 points
11.Unbreakable - 10 points
12.The Body - 9 points
13.Vertigo - 8 points
14.Gone Girl - 7 points
15.12 Monkeys - 6 points
16.Memento - 5 points
17.Orphan - 4 points
18.Fight Club - 3 points
19.A Tale of Two Sisters - 2 points
20.39 Steps - 1 point

[Rodney-2187]

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. The Sixth Sense
3. Chinatown
4. The Crying Game
5. Planet of the Apes
6. The Village
7. The Usual Suspects
8. 12 Monkeys
9. The Wizard of Oz
10. Orphan

[Batmon77]

1. The Planet of The Apes
2. Iron Man 3.................

[principehomura]

This could be the spoilerest thread ever

[AKORIS]

Originally Posted by principehomura

This could be the spoilerest thread ever

lol, exactly what I was thinking!

[Scottie]

Originally Posted by principehomura

This could be the spoilerest thread ever

Yeah. Even mentioning that a certain film has a twist is a spoiler in itself.

Hmm. I'm trying to think of a way that this could be pulled off successfully without anyone having a film ruined for him/her, but it's extremely difficult. I guess just cautioning that the thread is spoiler heavy will have to be enough.

[principehomura]

Exactly, while I was making my list (that I finished but will not publish) I realized how many movies surprised me with unexpected plot twist.
I don't want to ruin anyone's experience, and I certainly don't want mine to be ruined.

So, I'm outta here.
Sorry lud, the idea was fun, but there are too much unseen films for me.

[Scottie]

Yeah I'm going to back out as well.

Good luck to everyone participating.

[DanTheMan]

Reserved

God help me for any of the movies I’ve not yet watched.

[Trollhunter]

FYC: Possible Contenders

[Show spoiler]Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)
Adaptation. (2002)
The Adjustment Bureau (2011)
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)
Æon Flux (2005)
After the Thin Man (1936)
After.Life (2009)
Alice, Sweet Alice (1976) (aka Communion or Holy Terror)
Alien (1979)
All That Jazz (1979)
American Beauty (1999)
American Psycho (2000)
Android (1982)
And Then There Were None (1945) (aka Ten Little N******, UK)
Angel Heart (1987)
Angels & Demons (2009)
Anger Management (2003)
April Fool's Day (1986)
Arlington Road (1999)
Atonement (2007)
Audition (1999) (aka Odishon)
Awake (2007)

Back to the Future (1985)
Bad Education (2004) (aka La Mala Educacion)
The Bad Seed (1956)
Basic (2003)
Basic Instinct (1992)
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
Bay of Blood (1971) (aka Twitch of the Death Nerve, Reazione a Catena, or Ecology of a Crime)
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
The Bedroom Window (1987)
Being John Malkovich (1999)
Being There (1979)
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010)
The Big Clock (1948)
The Big Empty (2003)
The Big Sleep (1946)
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970) (aka L'Uccello Dalle Piume di Cristallo)
The Birds (1963)
Bitter Moon (1992)
Black Christmas (1974) (aka Silent Night, Evil Night)
Black Swan (2010)
Blade Runner (1982)
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Blink (1994)
Blown Away (1993)
Blow Out (1981)
Blow-Up (1966)
The Blue Dahlia (1946)
Body Double (1984)
Body Heat (1981)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Boogie Nights (1997)
Boxing Helena (1993)
A Boy and His Dog (1975)
Brazil (1985)
Brick (2005)
The Broken (2008)
The Brown Bunny (2003)
Burn After Reading (2008)
The Butterfly Effect (2004)

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
The Cabin in the Woods (2012)
Candyman (1992)
Capricorn One (1977)
Carnival of Souls (1962)
Carrie (1976)
Casablanca (1942)
Catfish (2010)
The Cell (2000)
Changeling (2008)
The Changeling (1980)
Charade (1963)
The Children's Hour (1961)
China Moon (1994)
Chinatown (1974)
The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
Citizen Kane (1941)
The City of Lost Children (1995) (aka La Cité des Enfants Perdus)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Club Dread (2004) (aka Broken Lizard's Club Dread)
Clue (1985)
Color of Night (1994)
Coma (1978)
The Conversation (1974)
Crimes of Passion (1984)
Crossfire (1947)
The Crying Game (1992)
Cube (1997)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
Cutter's Way (1981)
Cypher (2002) (aka Brainstorm)

Dangerous (1935)
Dark City (1998)
The Dark Hours (2005)
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
The DaVinci Code (2006)
Dead Again (1991)
Dead & Buried (1981)
Dead Calm (1989)
Dead End (2003)
Dead Ringer (1964)
Dead Silence (2007)
Deathtrap (1982)
Decoy (1946)
Deep Blue Sea (1999)
Deep Red (1975) (aka Profondo Rosso, or The Hatchet Murders)
Deja Vu (2006)
The Departed (2006)
Derailed (2005)
The Descent (2005)
Detour (1945)
Devil (2010)
The Devil's Advocate (1997)
Les Diaboliques (1955, Fr.) (aka Diabolique)
Die Another Day (2002)
Disclosure (1994)
District 9 (2009)
D.O.A. (1950)
Dogville (2003
Domino (2005)
Donnie Darko (2001)
Don't Look Now (1973)
Dr. Strangelove, Or: (1964)
The Double (2011)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Dream House (2011)
Dream Lover (1994)
Dressed to Kill (1980)
Driving Miss Daisy (1989)

Easy Rider (1969)
Eddie and the Cruisers (1983)
Election (1999)
Electra Glide in Blue (1973)
Elvira Madigan (1967)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Equus (1977)
Escape From the Planet of the Apes (1971)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Evil Dead II (1987) (aka Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn)
Exam (2009)
eXistenZ (1999)
The Exterminating Angel (1962) (aka El Angel Exterminador)

F For Fake (1973) (aka Vérités et Mensonges, or Truths and Lies, or F Wie Fälschung)
The Faculty (1998)
Fallen (1998)
Fargo (1996)
Fatal Attraction (1987)
Femme Fatale (2002)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
Field of Dreams (1989)
The Fifth Element (1997)
Fight Club (1999)
Final Destination 5 (2011)
The Fog (1980)
The Forgotten (2004)
1408 (2007) (Theatrical Version)
Fracture (2007)
Frailty (2001)
Frankenhooker (1990)
Frantic (1988)
Freaks (1932)
Friday the 13th (1980)
Friday the 13th, Part V: A New Beginning (1985)

The Game (1997)
The General's Daughter (1999)
Get Carter (1971)
The Ghost Writer (2010)
The Gift (2000)
The Gift (2015)
Ginger Snaps (2000)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2009) (aka Man som hatar kvinnor, or Men Who Hate Women)
GoldenEye (1995)
Gone Baby Gone (2007)
Gone Girl (2014)
The Good German (2006)
Goodnight Mommy (2014) (aka Ich Seh, Ich Seh, or I See, I See)
The Graduate (1967)
The Grifters (1990)

Halloween (1978)
Halloween II (1981)
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)
Hancock (2008)
The Hangover (2009)
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
The Happening (2008)
Happy Birthday to Me (1981)
Hard Candy (2005)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 (2010)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 (2011)
Haunted (1995)
Heaven's Gate (1980)
Hide and Seek (2005)
High Tension (2003) (aka Haute Tension, or Switchblade Romance)
A History of Violence (2005)
Hot Fuzz (2007)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
House of Games (1987)
House of Wax (1953)
House on Haunted Hill (1959)
The House on 92nd Street (1945)
The Housemaid (1960) (aka Hanyeo)
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)

The I Inside (2003)
I Pass For Human (2004)
Identity (2003)
The Illusionist (2006)
In the Company of Men (1997)
In the Cut (2003)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
Inception (2010)
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
Inland Empire (2006)
The Innocents (1961)
Inside Man (2006)
Insidious (2010)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
The Island (2005)

The Jacket (2005)
Jacob's Ladder (1990)
Jagged Edge (1985)

Kill Bill, Vol. 1 (2003)
Kill Bill, Vol. 2 (2004)
Killing Me Softly (2002)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Klute (1971)
Knowing (2009)

L.A. Confidential (1997)
Lady in the Water (2006)
The Last Broadcast (1998)
The Last Seduction (1994)
Last Year at Marienbad (1961) (aka L'Année Dernière à Marienbad)
Laura (1944)
Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
Layover (2001)
The Letter (1940)
The Life of David Gale (2003)
The Lincoln Lawyer (2011)
The Lion King (1994)
Logan's Run (1976)
Lolita (1962)
Lone Star (1996)
Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)
Looper (2012)
The Lost Boys (1987)
Lost Highway (1997)
The Lovely Bones (2009)
Lucky Number Slevin (2006)

The Machinist (2004)
Malpertuis (1971) (aka The Legend of Doom House)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
Manon of the Spring (1986) (aka Manon des Sources)
Marnie (1964)
Martyrs (2008)
Match Point (2005)
Matchstick Men (2003)
The Matrix (1999)
Meet Joe Black (1998)
Memento (2000)
Men in Black (1997)
Michael Clayton (2007)
Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Mindhunters (2004)
Minority Report (2002)
Mission Impossible (1996)
Mission Impossible 3 (2006)
The Mist (2007)
Mr. Brooks (2007)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Moon (2009)
Mulholland Dr. (2001)
Murder by Death (1976)
Murder, My Sweet (1944)
Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)
Music Box (1989)
Mystic River (2003)

The Naked Spur (1953)
The Narrow Margin (1952)
Never Let Me Go (2010)
Never Talk to Strangers (1995)
Next (2007)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
The Nines (2007)
The Ninth Gate (1999)
No Way Out (1987)
North by Northwest (1959)
The Notebook (2004)
Nothing (2003)
Nothing But the Truth (2008)
November (2004)
The Number 23 (2007)

Obsession (1976)
An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge (1962) (aka La Rivière du Hibou)
Ocean's Eleven (1960)
Oldboy (2003)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
Open Your Eyes/Abre los Ojos (1997)
Original Sin (2001)
Orphan (2009)
The Orphanage (2007) (aka El Orfanato)
The Others (2001)

Pandora's Box (1929) (aka Lulu or Die Büchse der Pandora)
Pandorum (2009)
Pan's Labyrinth (2006) (aka El Laberinto del Fauno)
The Parallax View (1974)
Passengers (2008)
Perfect Stranger (2007)
Phantasm (1979)
Phone Booth (2002)
Pi (1998)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Planet of the Apes (2001)
The Player (1992)
The Pledge (2001)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
Predator 2 (1990)
Premonition (2007)
The Prestige (2006)
Presumed Innocent (1990)
Primal Fear (1996)
Primer (2004)
The Professionals (1966)
Prometheus (2012)
Psycho (1960)
A Pure Formality (1994) (aka Una Pura Formalità or Une Pure Formalite)

The Quiet Earth (1985)

Race with the Devil (1975)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Rebecca (1940)
The Red Balloon (1956) (aka Le Ballon Rouge)
Red Rock West (1993)
The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (1975)
Reindeer Games (2000)
Remember Me (2010)
Righteous Kill (2008)
The Ring (2002)
The Road Warrior (1981) (aka Mad Max 2, or Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior)
Robot Monster (1953)
Rocky (1976)
Romance (1999) (aka Romance X)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Run Lola Run (1998) (aka Lola Rennt)

[surfdude12]

1. The Others
2. Psycho
3. Memento
4. Citizen Kane
5. The Village
6. Shutter Island
7. Saw
8. The Prestige
9. Friday the 13th
10. Empire Strikes Back
11. Usual Suspects
12. The Descent
13. Vanilla Sky
14. Mulholland Drive
15. The Shining

[rodie]

1. Memento
2. The Usual Suspects
3. Primal Fear
4. The Prestige
5. The Sixth Sense
6. The Game
7. American Psycho
8. Psycho
9. Unbreakable
10. Planet of the Apes
11. The Mist
12. The Machinist
13. Clue
14. Identity
15. Split
16. Arrival
17. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
18. Following
19. Sunshine
20. Vertigo

[P-Rock]

I kinda liked the movie, but there were certain parts that couldn't convince me. The acting overall was very good, but whats-her-name kinda looked like she was on auto-pilot. Visually the cinematography was very well done too. At times it looked amazing, with some beautiful nature shots. The story was a the weakest part of the movie. I mean, it's a simple tale and they tried too hard to make it overly long and complicated, with some dull moments that played out too long. Especially near the end of the movie I was looking at my watch and thinking: "How long is this shit going to take?". Not sure if I can recommend it. The first half was exciting and very entertaining, but the second half... it was like watching a different movie and a worse one that is. Even the twist at the end didn't surprise me and I saw it long coming. There's a little after-credits scene that you don't have to stay for. It takes like 10 seconds and it's stupid. Don't bother staying until the end, unless you like watching 10 minutes of credits.

[esteban²]

The IMDB list features a few movies that don't really have a plot-twist, though. Yet to decide how I will choose.

[UNDER CONSTRUCTION]

- Donnie Darko
- The Village
- Signs
- Unbreakable
- Fight Club
- The Sixth Sense
- Memento
- I Love You, Phillip Morris
- The Prestige
- The Others
- The Machinist
- Scream
- Moon
- Frailty
- Loft (the Original, 2008)
- Matchstick Men
- V for Vendetta
- The Matrix
- Soylent Green
- The Truman Show (?)
- Ace Ventura : Pet Detective
- L.A. Confidential
- The Mist
- Planet of the Apes
- Man on the Moon
- Silence of the Lambs
- SAW
- ...
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[LegacyCosts]

Originally Posted by P-Rock

I kinda liked the movie, but there were certain parts that couldn't convince me. The acting overall was very good, but whats-her-name kinda looked like she was on auto-pilot. Visually the cinematography was very well done too. At times it looked amazing, with some beautiful nature shots. The story was a the weakest part of the movie. I mean, it's a simple tale and they tried too hard to make it overly long and complicated, with some dull moments that played out too long. Especially near the end of the movie I was looking at my watch and thinking: "How long is this shit going to take?". Not sure if I can recommend it. The first half was exciting and very entertaining, but the second half... it was like watching a different movie and a worse one that is. Even the twist at the end didn't surprise me and I saw it long coming. There's a little after-credits scene that you don't have to stay for. It takes like 10 seconds and it's stupid. Don't bother staying until the end, unless you like watching 10 minutes of credits.

what movie

[The Great Owl]

1. Psycho (1960)
2. Vertigo (1958)
3. Planet of the Apes (1968)
4. The Wicker Man (1973)
5. Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
6. The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari (1920)
7. The Vanishing (1988)
8. Chinatown (1974)
9. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
10. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
11. Soylent Green (1973)
12. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
13. Diabolique (1955)
14. No Way Out (1987)
15. The Stepford Wives (1972)
16. Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
17. Citizen Kane (1941)
18. Jacob's Ladder (1990)
19. Sleepaway Camp (1980)
20. The Usual Suspects (1995)

[lud]

So far only 3 full lists..
Not enough love her

[TajSamKojiJesam]

1) L'eclisse (1962)
2) The Seventh Continent (1989)
3) Harakiri (1962)
4) Stalker (1979)
5) The Sword of Doom (1966)
6) Rosemary's Baby (1968)
7) The Holy Mountain (1973)
8) Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
9) The Long Good Friday (1980)
10) Violence Without a Cause (1969)
11) Psycho (1960)
12) I, the Executioner (1968)
13) Solaris (1972)
14) A Man Vanishes (1967)
15) Mulholland Drive (2001)
16) Samurai Spy (1965)
17) High and Low (1963)
18) Death by Hanging (1968)
19) Violent Virgin (1969)
20) The Wicker Man (1973)

[GregBlu5]

1) The Usual Suspects
2) Sitting Pretty
3) No Way Out
4) Witness for the Prosecution
5) V For Vendetta
6) The Boys in the Band
7) The Sixth Sense
9) L.A. Confidential
10) Murder By Death
11) The Crying Game
12) Citizen Kane
13) All About Eve
14) Diner
15) Unbreakable
16) Angels & Demons
17) Some Like It Hot
18) The Philadelphia Story
19) Tootsie
20) Mrs. Doubtfire