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Before you go any further, we need you to know that this article contains a lot of spoilers. In fact, it’s pretty much just spoilers, from start to finish. So unless you’re cool with that, please stop reading.
Here’s a cute animal picture to act as a breakwater, ensuring you definitely don’t see any unintended spoilers:
There, that’s out of the way.
Now, let’s take a trip down memory lane – to the biggest twists, turns, shocks and unexpected left-field plot developments in cinematic history…
The Sixth Sense was a smash hit when it came out in the late 1990s, and the buzz was all about the shocking twist. Did you see it coming when you watched it? And were you one of the hordes of cinema-goers repeating Haley Joel Osment’s iconic line afterwards?
Twist: Bruce Willis is actually DEAD. Dun, dun, dun.
Film classic Psycho delivers twists from the outset, with what the audience would assume is the film’s main lead killed off in the opening scenes. And then later? The big one…
Twist: Norman Bates is pretending to be his mother. (Creepy.) Check out the original 1960 trailer with added Hitchcock drama.
A modern-day Jekyll and Hyde story, based on the original Chuck Palahniuk novel of the same name. Brad Pitt at is what is arguably his finest, and Ed Norton similarly on form. Did you guess the twist before it emerged?
Twist: They’re the same person. There is no Tyler Durden – he’s a product of Ed Norton’s character’s mind.
Sent up since its release, almost everyone knows the twist to the tale in Planet of the Apes. With all the prequels and reboots in the last 20 years, you’d be hard pressed not to know at this stage.
Twist: It was Earth all along. Ham it up there, Heston. Good lad. “Goddamn you! Goddamn you all to hell!”
The ultimate neo-noir crime thriller – with an amazing cast including Kevin Spacey, Benicio Del Toro, Gabriel Byrne and Stephen Baldwin.
Twist: Verbal – or Kevin Spacey – is Keyser Soze.
This one barely counts as a spoiler any more, with the storyline well-known to even the small few of us who have managed to avoid the film itself.
Twist: Darth Vader is Luke’s father. Often misquoted as “Luke, I am your father” but it’s actually “No, I am your father”. So there ya go.
The best kind of twist? The one that just keeps going…and going… and going. You’re never quite sure where the truth begins and The Game stops. Genius. You’re just as baffled as Michael Douglas.
Twist: Where do we even start?
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