Top 10: twists #1

Last Updated on July 28, 2021

Written By Serena Whitney:


A lot of horror movies have twists.
These twists usually answer the questions such as, “Who did it?/”How did
they do it?”/ and “What were their motives?” Generally, us horror fiends
can figure out the so called “twist” within the first few minutes.

Most of the time, the twists are so easy
to figure out that it feels like the writer is insulting our intelligence.
(*cough* Valentine *cough*) But, some horror films are actually able to
genuinely surprise and fool even the biggest horror buff. Here is my list
of the top ten twists in scary movies that I loved.

*Note: I know I always pre-warn you of
spoilers in the top tens, but this is one that has MAJOR spoilers. If you
don’t want the ending of certain films ruined for you, than I suggest that
you do not read further* You’ve been warned.

10. Campfire Tales

I never
thought I would be shocked at the ending of a straight to DVD horror
anthology film, but with this one, I was. The idea may now be done to death
because of inferior flicks like Dead End and Soul Survivors,
but Campfire Tales was the only film with this sort of ending, that
left me gaping.

In
the film, we are watching four friends gathered around a fire telling
campfire tales after getting into a car accident. It turns out at the end of
the movie, the car accident was actually quite fatal, all of the friends are
dead, the people in the ghost stories were really people involved with the
car accident, and the whole fire gathering was a manifestation of one of the
dying victims in a comatose state. Trippy, eh?

9. Halloween 2

This is probably the only movie on the list that did not have
the twist near the end of the film. In this surprisingly well done sequel,
viewers are revealed that their heroine, Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis)
was adopted when she was little and is really the sister of the ruthless
psycho path, Michael Myers.

The same man who has been so intent of killing in most of the
films. This is a huge twist, because it surprised us horror geeks like the
whole “Darth Vader being Luke Skywalker’s father” twist surprised everyone
else.

8. High Tension

I’m not
going to lie to you. I have mixed feelings about the twist ending in this
film, which is why it’s so low on the list, because yes, it was a clever
twist that got me, (with the exception of some obvious plot holes) but I
really didn’t think the movie needed the twist.

It was
scarier having some random psychopath off people than a girl with a split
personality disorder. Great twist, but unnecessary.

7. Saw

Saw

was a
clever horror film, but what made it even more clever was the climax. When
the audience is revealed that Jigsaw was really the “dead” guy sprawled on
the grimy bathroom floor, it made everyone gasp and chuckle, for they knew
they had been had. (Except for the so-called smart asses who claimed to
know it was him all along.)

6. Frailty

I didn’t
know what to expect from this movie, but after watching it, I was floored.
There were two very big twists in the film. The one with Matthew
McConaughey’s character actually being the other brother, was a dead
giveaway, but the twist that got me was that the overly religious “demon”
killer, (played by Bill Paxton) was actually right all along. Here I
thought, he was just some psycho killing innocent people.

STAY TUNED FOR PART 2 OF THIS LIST!
COMING SOON!