Top ten twists in film

To celebrate the release of the twisty psychological horror 'Triangle' on October 16th, we've compiled a list of the 10 most shocking twists in film. Beware, there are some very big spoilers ahead...

10. 'The Sixth Sense' (1999)

Back in 1999, a modest supernatural thriller featuring Bruce Willis in an uncharacteristically sedate role became a worldwide smash hit and re-introduced audiences to the art of last-minute, drop your popcorn surprise. Willis starred as a child psychiatrist working with a troubled kid, who claims he can see dead people. They often don't know they're dead. As the final stretch approaches, we discover that...TWIST...Bruce Willis has been dead all along. We then endure a million copycat twists in the ensuing years...

9. 'Primal Fear' (1996)

A cocksure lawyer, played by Richard Gere, takes on the case of a scared altar boy, played by Edward Norton, who is accused of killing the bishop who has been caring for him. As the trial progresses, we find out that the bishop molested the altar boy and ultimately a psychologist finds that he has a multiple personality ‘Roy’ who confesses to the murder. As he is about to be sent off to the mental hospital...TWIST...we find out that Roy is an invention and he has no multiple personalities. He did it all himself. Edward Norton's career is launched, purely by wiping that smug smile from Richard Gere's face.

8. 'Psycho' (1960)

Hitchcock's most iconic film shocked audiences by killing off its big star (Janet Leigh) within the first act and then shifting around to tell us the story of a boy and his murderous mother living at an isolated motel. Norman Bates and his unhinged matriarch are investigated by Leigh's sister and lover who soon uncover that...TWIST...Mrs. Bates is dead and Norman has been dressing up as his mother ever since. And to think, from the looks of him he wouldn't even hurt a fly...

7. 'Fight Club' (1999)

A dissatisfied insurance investigator is desperately looking for an escape from his increasingly inane yuppie lifestyle. On a business trip, he meets Tyler Durden, an enigmatic soap-maker who possesses attractively subversive views on the world. They soon become friends and start 'fight clubs' for men who are sick of playing along with their expected roles in society. But as Tyler gets out of control, our insurance investigator finds that...TWIST...Tyler doesn't even exist and is just a figment of his imagination. All of our imaginary friends then pale in comparison...

6. 'Orphan' (2009)

Adopting a child can be tough. It is made a lot tougher though if that child happens to be full-on crazy. This year, hopeful parents Vera Farmiga and Peter Sarsgaard brought the seemingly angelic Esther into their home, only to have her tear it all apart. Kept in the dark throughout, we were as unsure as they were of her 'secret' but as Vera investigated further, she found that Esther wasn't a child at all, she's...TWIST...an insane woman in her 30s with 'primordial dwarfism' which makes her seem smaller than she is. Cue adoption statistics rapidly declining...

5. 'Identity' (2003)

It's your classic Agatha Christie set-up. A group of strangers brought together by fate to a rainy motel in the middle of nowhere, rapidly killed off one-by-one by an unknown villain. Meanwhile, we see an appeal take place for a murderer on death row. His shrink is blaming the murders on one of his multiple personalities. As the two stories start to converge we discover...TWIST...the strangers aren't people at all, they're each of the murderer's multiple personalities. All of the film has been taking place inside his mind...

4. 'The Usual Suspects' (1995)

A group of mismatched criminals are brought together by the mysterious Keyser Soze, a legendary crime boss, and when a job goes wrong, the only available member they can find is pulled in for questioning. Unassuming, limping, frightened Verbal Kint (Kevin Spacey) tells the story from the start to an irate detective. As the story ends and Kint is set free, the detective starts to realise holes in the story and...TWIST...we discover that Kint is in fact Keyser Soze and the story was largely fabricated. Any film told via flashback is NEVER to be trusted...

3. 'The Others' (2001)

Ghost stories wouldn't be ghost stories without a twist in the tail. Nicole Kidman starred as a frosty mother of two who lives in a large house in the middle of nowhere. When a group of servants arrive to help, weird things start happening and Kidman becomes convinced that they are being haunted. As secrets start to come out it is revealed that...TWIST...Kidman and her children are actually dead and they are the ghosts haunting the house.

2. 'The Crying Game' (1992)

One of the most surprising twists of all time wasn't concerned with whether someone was a ghost or whether someone's split personality was a real person. A romance grows between Fergus, an IRA volunteer, and Dil, the beautiful lover of a British soldier. But Dil is keeping something very secret from Fergus as Dil is actually...TWIST...a man. Fergus was surely not the only one in the cinema feeling a little bit confused by the time the credits started to roll...

1. 'Seven' (1995)

Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman starred in this grim thriller from 1995 as a pair of policeman on the trail of a violently moral serial killer, Kevin Spacey. His victims were all murdered for symbolising one of the seven deadly sins. After he's caught, he promises to take them to the final two victims, at a remote place in the desert. Whilst there, a delivery is made; a box, with blood on the edges. As Morgan Freeman opens it, we find out that...TWIST...it's the severed head of Brad Pitt's pregnant wife. She symbolises the envy that Kevin Spacey feels and he knows that the wrath caused will make Brad Pitt shoot him.

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