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00:00From rug pulls nobody saw coming to unexpectedly clever and satisfying twists,
00:05these reveals were far more fun, interesting and just plain ridiculous
00:09than the otherwise forgettable or even downright awful film preceding it.
00:14And that is what kept our asses in our seats.
00:17Gareth here from WalkCulture.com and here are 10 movie reveals that stopped you from walking out.
00:22Number 10, Lucinda is in on the con, Derailed.
00:25Let's get things off with the watchable yet mostly forgettable thriller, Derailed,
00:30which centres around an advertising exec, Charles Sheen,
00:33who embarks on an extramarital affair with a similarly married woman, Lucinda Harris.
00:39Charles is eventually blackmailed by a man named Philippe LaRouche,
00:42who has kidnapped Lucinda and promises to kill her if he doesn't pay up $100,000,
00:48which Charles promptly does by taking the money from an account funding his daughter's medical treatment.
00:53Pretty typical erotic thrill affair that doesn't merit much of your attention, right?
00:57But at this point, Charles heads to Lucinda's work and finds that she actually goes by the name of Jane,
01:03before discovering that a picture of her daughter she showed to him was actually cut out from a brochure.
01:08And then the penny finally drops.
01:10Charlie tracks Jane down and spots her kissing LaRouche,
01:13confirming that she was in on the con from the very beginning.
01:17It's a twist that relies on the audience's overall perception of Jennifer Aniston.
01:21She very rarely plays villains, and is far from the most natural fit for a femme fatale.
01:26As such, it comes as a genuine shock,
01:28all the more so as Jane is then shot and killed during a climactic gunfight between Charles and LaRouche.
01:35Number 9, Jamie Stabbs Darlene, Halloween 4, The Return of Michael Myers
01:39Halloween 4 is far from the worst entry into the series,
01:43and has enjoyed greater cult appreciation in recent years.
01:46But it's nevertheless pretty lackluster compared to the first two Halloween movies.
01:51With all the hype about Michael Myers' return to the screen after sitting out anthology sequel Halloween 3 Season of the Witch,
01:57Halloween 4 suffered immensely from a script which was slung together in just 11 days.
02:02Perhaps most criminally, it killed Laurie Strode off-screen, and replaced her with her daughter Jamie Lloyd.
02:08Though Danielle Harris gives a solid performance as Jamie, it's a slog at even just 88 minutes.
02:14With Michael taking far too long to do anything, and the story getting excessively bogged down in dull, melodramatic subplots.
02:21Michael is seemingly killed by a lynch mob at film's end, and just as you probably feel like you've had enough of the movie,
02:28it drops one hell of a last-minute twist in your lap.
02:31Jamie is taken back home and attacks her foster mother Darlene,
02:34with a pair of scissors while wearing a clown costume and mask,
02:37in a manner immediately reminiscent of her young uncle in the original Halloween.
02:42It's a brilliant and wildly unexpected twist which touted a provocative new direction for the series,
02:48albeit one which the next film soundly disregarded.
02:51Number 8. Rogue is Tom Lone
02:53War
02:542007's War spends the bulk of its runtime failing to deliver on the promises of a hard-boiled action thriller,
03:01in which Jason Statham and Jet Li square off against one another.
03:04Statham plays FBI agent John Crawford,
03:07who seeks revenge against the mysterious assassin Rogue, played by Jet Li,
03:12who apparently killed Crawford's partner Tom Lone along with his family.
03:15But this dead ordinary revenge thriller gets a totally bonkers boost of adrenaline in its final 10 minutes,
03:22when it's revealed that the quote-unquote Rogue is actually Tom Lone himself.
03:26Flashbacks reveal that the real Rogue did indeed attack Lone's house and kill his family,
03:31but Lone managed to overpower and kill Rogue,
03:34before surgically altering his appearance to steal Rogue's identity.
03:38Oh, and the reason that the real Rogue was able to track down Lone in the first place?
03:42Crawford was blackmailed into providing his address,
03:44prompting Lone to shoot his former partner and escape,
03:47the ending leaving it ambiguous whether Crawford survived or not.
03:51Boy, that escalated quickly, huh?
03:53Number 7, Karen goes back to Rick.
03:56The Last American Virgin.
03:58For a solid 98% of its runtime,
04:00The Last American Virgin is a pretty typical 80s boner comedy,
04:04filled with gratuitous nudity, juvenile jokes, and a perfunctory abortion subplot,
04:09the latter being surprisingly commonplace in comedies of this era.
04:13All the same, this is a what-you-see-is-what-you-get rom-com, right?
04:16We fully expect the film to end with high schooler Gary getting the girl of his dreams,
04:20his cute classmate Karen.
04:22Even when Karen gets pregnant by Gary's sexist pig-of-a-friend Rick,
04:26it's Gary who sticks by her and even pays for her abortion by selling his belongings
04:30and borrowing cash from his boss.
04:33Gary and Karen seemingly grow closer together as the film reaches its end,
04:37with Gary declaring his love for her, the pair sharing a kiss,
04:40and Karen inviting Gary to her 18th birthday party.
04:44Right, we all know where this is going,
04:46why even bother tuning in for the treacly happy ending?
04:49But when an elated Gary arrives at the party,
04:52he walks in on Karen and Rick making out!
04:54A devastated Gary promptly leaves the party,
04:57drives home in tears, and the end credits roll.
05:00That's it.
05:01Nobody could have seen such an unexpected yet believably brutal end coming.
05:04This was a cold bucket of water to the face for audiences,
05:08and two defiant middle fingers up at Hollywood's tendency towards saccharine, implausible romance.
05:146. Gabriel is Madison's parasitic twin, Malignant
05:17Oh, Malignant man.
05:20James Wan's horror film is, for the first 75% of its runtime,
05:23a dreadfully dull horror film slash police procedural,
05:27or if you want to be charitable to one, a self-aware parody of one.
05:30Either way, it's chock-full of wooden acting,
05:33stilted dialogue, and drab predictable scares.
05:36Enough that you couldn't be blamed for tuning out before the third act.
05:40But those who stick it out to the end are soundly rewarded
05:42with one of the most bonkers plot twists in recent cinematic history.
05:46As it turns out, Gabriel, the serial killer rampaging in the vicinity of protagonist Madison,
05:52is actually Madison's own parasitic conjoined twin.
05:56Yep.
05:56Most of Gabriel was surgically removed from Madison in childhood,
06:00but a vestigial part remained due to it being connected to her brain.
06:05Double yep.
06:06And so when Madison's abusive husband gives her a head injury at the start of the film,
06:10it sets Gabriel free,
06:12allowing him to effectively hijack Madison's body and carry out the killings.
06:16And because Gabriel is attached to the back of Madison's head,
06:19he's only able to control her backwards,
06:21explaining why Gabriel's movements throughout the film look so jerky and unnatural.
06:26It's a boldly insane reveal that perked just about everybody up,
06:30ending the film on a certifiably nut final section
06:33as Gabriel embarks on a gory rampage through a police station.
06:37Did this insane skull-cracking twist keep you glued to malignant?
06:40Or were you already on to your next slice of horror at that point?
06:44Let me know in the comments section down below, folks.
06:465. Dracula is actually Judas, Dracula 2000
06:50There's no two ways about it.
06:52Dracula 2000 is freaking trash.
06:55A gothic horror film so aggressively influenced by turn-of-the-century nu metal
06:59and post-Matrix fashion choices that it almost graduates to self-parody.
07:03But if you make it close to the end of the movie,
07:06there's one genuinely intriguing plot twist lying in wait.
07:09It's eventually revealed that Dracula's real identity is Judas Iscariot,
07:13and he was cursed by God to live eternity as a vampire for betraying Jesus.
07:18More to the point, the twist also explains Dracula's odd aversion to silver throughout the movie.
07:23It was part of the curse due to Judas accepting 30 pieces of silver to betray Jesus.
07:29Again, Dracula 2000 isn't a good movie at all,
07:32but suggesting that Judas was the original vampire
07:34is a genuinely creative and intriguing twist on traditional vampire lore,
07:39enough that it clearly belonged in a much, much better film.
07:42Number 4, Esther Is Dead, Orphan First Kill
07:45Many groaned when a prequel to 2009's deliciously entertaining horror film Orphan was first announced,
07:52especially given that lead actress Isabelle Fuhrman was now well over a decade older,
07:57seemingly making the prequel a pretty awkward fit.
08:00And while First Kill's first hour suggests a pretty typical forgettable horror prequel,
08:04whose attempts to make Fuhrman's appearance consistent with the previous film are laughable at best,
08:09things take a seriously unexpected turn at the end of Act 2.
08:13The film details Lena slash Esther escaping from an Estonian psych ward
08:17and assuming the identity of missing American girl Esther,
08:20where she's reunited with her family,
08:23mother Trisha, father Alan, and brother Gunnar.
08:26Yet the hugely unexpected twist sees Trisha save Esther from a detective who discovers her deception,
08:32shooting him dead.
08:33Trisha then reveals she's known Lena wasn't her daughter from the beginning.
08:36Why? Because the real Esther died four years prior in an argument with Gunnar,
08:41and Trisha faked Esther's disappearance to protect her son while keeping her husband firmly in the dark.
08:47It's such a clever and genuinely surprising holy crap moment in a movie that's so unremarkable up to this point.
08:53Gamely rearranging the chessboard for the third act,
08:56as Esther discovers she's got a scheming femme fatale for an adoptive mother.
09:00Number three, Massimo has a secret twin brother, 365 Days This Day.
09:06Granted, Netflix's original Polish erotic thriller film, 365 Days, was so dreadful,
09:12and dreadfully problematic, that you can only really blame yourself for bothering to watch its recent sequel,
09:17365 Days This Day.
09:20But after an hour or so of embarrassingly bad dialogue, and so curlingly awkward sex scenes,
09:26the sequel drops a plot twist so gloriously telenovela-worthy,
09:30it surely stopped many from turning the movie off.
09:33Midway through the story, we learn that mobster Massimo has an evil, identical twin brother, Adriano,
09:39who has sex with a woman in front of Massimo's wife, Laura,
09:42to make her believe that he's been unfaithful.
09:44Yep.
09:45To call it hilarious is an understatement, especially as the film has the impressive goal
09:49to play the big reveal totally straight, rather than ever bothering to wink at the audience.
09:55It may be thunderously dumb, but it's also the kind of car crash stupid you can't help but keep watching in slack-jawed awe.
10:01Number two, The Devil is the Old Woman, Devil
10:042010's horror film Devil touts a deliciously appealing premise.
10:08A group of five strangers are trapped inside of an elevator,
10:11one of whom is the Devil in disguise, and secretly killing the others off one by one.
10:17Yet ultimately, little interesting is done with this conceptually intriguing supernatural whodunit,
10:22which at least has the good sense to wrap up within a tight 80 minutes,
10:25enough that you probably stuck around for its genuinely diverting final gacha.
10:29It's eventually revealed that the Devil is the most unexpected of the five strangers,
10:34an elderly woman who was seemingly killed by the Devil at the end of the second act.
10:38As it turns out, this was all a devilish ruse, as the old woman stands back up at the end of the movie,
10:44her eyes pitch black, revealing her diabolical true nature.
10:48The Devil has spent the movie claiming the lives of the elevator's sinful occupants,
10:52and it's ultimately only Tony who survives after confessing his role in a fatal accident five years
10:57prior, in turn repenting for his actions and leaving the Devil unable to claim his soul.
11:02At the end of a disappointingly flat, over-familiar mystery horror film,
11:07Devil at least delivered a genuinely jolting final rug pull.
11:111. Tom is Guilty – High Crimes
11:13High Crimes is one of the several absurd Ashley Judd-starring crime thrillers released around the
11:19year 2000, with Judd playing Claire Kubik, whose husband Tom is arrested by the FBI for allegedly
11:25taking part in a military operation in El Salvador, which led to the deaths of nine unarmed civilians.
11:31Tom admits this all to Claire, except claims that he was only present during the murders and didn't
11:36actively take part in them. As Claire and fellow attorney Charlie Grimes defend Tom in court,
11:41it becomes agonizingly clear that there's a conspiracy to cover up the truth and frame Tom
11:45for the massacre. Pretty standard played-out fare for the courtroom drama genre, basically.
11:50Or is it? In the end, we learn the shocking truth, that Tom was indeed guilty of all the murders
11:56and even killed witnesses years before being arrested.
11:59At film's end, Tom attacks Claire after realizing he's been rumbled, resulting in him being shot and
12:05killed. Sometimes, a movie feels generic and familiar enough to set your expectations through
12:10the damn floor, only to swing back around and deliver a genuinely exciting twist.
12:15That's one way to do it, I suppose.
12:17And that's our list. Know of any other movie reveals that stopped you from walking out?
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