Movie With Best Twisted Ending

[Jayen]

Hi folks. For some time now, movies with twisted ending have become a sort of minor fad in Hollywood. Quite a few directors have jumped on the "Usual Suspects" & "Sixth Sense " bandwagon - I think one reason is probably they think such endings would categorise them as intelligent directors/story-tellers. And of course, to hopefully make $$ like Sixth Sense did. Other films that follow suit are "The Others", "Dragonfly", "Primal Fear". M Night Shyamalan has been practically trying to better his "Sixth Sense" ending with "Unbreakable" & "Signs".
One can even go back as far as Hitchcock days to look for an ending that shakes & jolts you right outa ya seats!

Well, what do u guys & girls is think is the best movie with the most far - out, twisted, butt - grabbing ending? For me, despite all the ho-ha that Sixth Sense generated, I still think that Usual Suspect & Keyser Soze rocks the most! I wouldn't have seen that ending coming in a million years! That's not to say Sixth Sense was bad in any way. I just wish the former made as much $$ as the latter!

Right on!

[Living_Dead_Dude]

The Others, I think that twist blew The Sixth Sense's right out of the water

[Jayen]

I think I'll agree with that. If only it had come ahead of Sixth Sense...

[El Bracamonti]

Originally posted by Living_Dead_Dude
The Others, I think that twist blew The Sixth Sense's right out of the water

agreed

[Brock-Landers]

"Identity" had a good Twisted ending ... but "The Usual Suspects"
has the best twiste ending.

[Andrew Tom]

Since The Usual Suspects has been said:

"I KNOW WHO I AM!!!"

The ending of Angel Heart

[Raoul Duke]

Fight Club had a cool twist.

Identity had a great twist, which made me like it even more.

Se7en was great, one of the greatest twist endings I've ever seen.

[VicVega]

The Sixth Sense
Frailty
The Others
Session 9
Donnie Darko (somewhat)
Se7en
The Usual Suspects
The Game

[Hannibal21]

Identity
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
The Others
Primal Fear
Along Came a Spider (the movie blew, but I loved the ending)
Jacob's Ladder

[Clarkey07]

Fight Club
Se7en
Identity
The Usual Suspects
The 6th Sense

[JCPhoenix]

Clearly Twist Ending movies:
The Usual Suspects (10/10)
The Others (8/10)
The Sixth Sense (I agree with the other schmoes, The Others is superior, and it'd have been even better if it came before 7-8/10)
Joy Ride (I liked this surprising a lot more than i thought i would, 7/10)
Unbreakable (7/10)
Identity (the first twist is the best, the second one i saw coming 8/10)


Could be classified as twist movies...
The Ring (semi-twist...very nice ending tho 8/10)
Fight Club (twist, but not at end 10/10)
Memento...(more like a series of "twists" though they're more revelations than anything 10/10)
Frailty (but i thought it copied some other twists a bit too much...then again, all twists are pretty similar 7/10)
A Beautiful Mind also has a very cool twist, if not at the end
of the movie...8/10
Vertigo (has a nice twist at the end...10/10)
Brazil (probably the movie from which Abre Los Ojos derived its twist...10/10)


Sort of twist movies...
Abre Los Ojos/Vanilla Sky (tho these movies the twist was really from out of nowhere, tho vanilla sky tried to stick in a couple more clues to improve on Open your eyes...7-8/10 for abre los ojos, 8/10 for vanilla sky)
Donnie Darko and Mulholland Dr...again, both of these are movies that sort of have a twist...they don't have a shocking shocking ending, more that they build to a logical conclusion (well donnie darko more so than mulholland...(DD-8/10, MD-10/10)
Se7en (sorta twist 10/10)

so you can see that i LOVE twist movies...there are other twist movies of course, but these are the better ones i feel...if anyone knows of any other good twist movies, please, pm me or say here...i love these types of movies, and am trying to find more (my favorite genre would the mindfuck genre most likely)...

thanks to hannibal21 and vicvega for that list! i'm definitely going to check some of those movies out...(Jacob's Ladder, Primal Fear, Session 9)

[Michael_myers]

The Manchurian Candidate

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Angela Lansbury was brainwashing hert kid all those years. Weird twisted shit.

[ilovemovies]

In terms of power and surprise:

1. THE USUAL SUSPECTS
2. THE SIXTH SENSE
3. SE7EN
4. ARLINGTON ROAD
5. IDENTITY
6. PRIMAL FEAR
7. THE OTHERS
8. BANDITS
9. DRAGONFLY
10. SESSION 9

[ANavissi500]

i guessed at the Usual Suspects ending so for me it wasnt anything special


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i mean at the beginning they show feet of Keyser Soze he has a very prounounced walk and then they show Verbal really close after him with this limp thing and i could just kinda connect the dots

[Dietrich]

I'm surprised that nobody mentioned 'No Way Out'(1987).. That end just turned the whole movie upside down.. Brilliant.

[Haddonfield]

Swimming With Sharks comes to mind. Not a "blow you away" twist but a decent little dagger....great flick.

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[ilovemovies]

Am I the only one that loved the twist at the end of Bandits?

[MickeyKnox]

Se7en
Identity
The Usual Suspects

[Jon Lyrik]

Memento (oh wait that's not the ending), Mulholland Dr., and The Sixth Sense, not to mention The Others.

[HHH123007]

Se7en (9/10)

It's the only "twist" movie that has never had one of my friends predict the ending correctly on their first time watching it...

[Deckard]

25 of my favourite twisted endings: (In no Order)

John Frankenheimer's SECONDS/THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE
Alan Pakula's THE PARRALAX VIEW
John Carpenter's INTO THE MOUTH OF MADNESS
Alex Proyas' DARK CITY
Chris Nolan's MEMENTO
Alan Parker's ANGEL HEART
Sidney J Furie's THE IPCRESS FILE
Adrian Lyne's JACOB'S LADDER
Richard Kelly's DONNIE DARKO
Hitchcock's VERTIGO
Franklin J Schaffner's PLANET OF THE APES (original)
Frankin J Schaffner's THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL
Micheal Winner's THE MECHANIC
Richard Rushes' THE STUNTMAN
Don Siegel's MADIGAN
Bill Paxton's FRAILITY (*******SPOILER********not the obvious
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Bryan Singer's USUAL SUSPECTS
David Fincher's SEVEN/THE GAME
Terry Gilliam's TWELVE MONKEYS
Sidney Lumet's FAIL-SAFE/THE ANDERSON TAPES
JERRY AND TOM
THE CUBE
OPEN YOUR EYES

I tried not to include spoilers, or if its is a true twisted ending or just driving a mind bending message home as all these films are must see- and to divulge the ending would detract from the schmoes viewing pleasure.

[JCPhoenix]

Originally posted by Dietrich
I'm surprised that nobody mentioned 'No Way Out'(1987).. That end just turned the whole movie upside down.. Brilliant.

My english teacher (who loves movies) recommended me to rent this one after she found out usual suspects was my favorite movie...

but i couldn't find a copy at my local rogers :(

[edgeofhell]

Originally posted by VicVega
The Sixth Sense
Frailty
The Others
Session 9
Donnie Darko (somewhat)
Se7en
The Usual Suspects
The Game

perfect list vic! the man is a genius

[Jerk Shapiro]

The Sixth Sense, Se7en, and The Game, not to mention Fight Club...all had great endings.

In recent memory, my favorite movie so far this year, Identity...has had one of the better twist endings.

[blankpage]

Originally posted by JCPhoenix
My english teacher (who loves movies) recommended me to rent this one after she found out usual suspects was my favorite movie...

but i couldn't find a copy at my local rogers :(


You go to Rogers too? Maybe we'll see each other there some day. :eek:


The Usual Suspects had the best twist I have ever seen in a film.

[Squid Vicious]

Uh...I saw the ending of The Others coming a mile away. It was still a good movie, though....

The four movie endings that hit me like a tonne of bricks were The Sixth Sense, The Usual Suspects, Seven and Fight Club.

[therealjohng]

Originally posted by Living_Dead_Dude
The Others, I think that twist blew The Sixth Sense's right out of the water

The Others ending was pretty predicatable. and the movie sucked.

[AnnoyingQuestionAsker]

Agree with just about everyone, but want to add Wild Things.

[bankholdup]

The Usual Suspects takes the cake and runs with it on this one.


Ok, so I knew the ending before I watched the film, but it was still great to see it all unravel.

[zeppelin]

I want to know why no one has mentioned Psycho. That had a great twist. Although I think the reason it hasn't been mentioned is that it is by far the most famous twist, and in a bad way. Everyone assumes that everyone else already knows it, so they think it's okay to just give it away anywhere. At the Alfred Hitchcock attraction at Universal Studios in Orlando, they give away the ending to the entire audience during the Psycho presentation. Not via a clip from the movie, they just come out and say it. Hitchcock would be furious.

I agree with most of everyone's choices, except for Identity because:
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It reminded me of Donald Kaufman's script, "The 3" in Adaptation. So it seemed silly and cliched to me. There was even a cop, a girl, and a killer, making it even more similar to Kaufman's script.

[JasonLeeFan]

The three best are

The Usual Suspects
Fight Club
Frailty

I would like it to be known that I guessed the ending of Identity.
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I didn't guess that it was in his head, but I guessed that Timmy was the killer.