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Top 10 Most Unsettling Plot Twists In Non-Horror Movies


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most unsettling plot twists in non
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the most horrific and unexpected twists
to be found outside of the horror genre
this should go without saying but
spoilers are everywhere number 10 the
usual suspects for that one person who’s
yet to watch this Award winner after a
drug heist gone wrong
Roger verbal Kint is taken into custody
to assist a detective in identifying the
mob boss Keyser söze in a truly shocking
zinger Kent is revealed to be Keyser
söze mere seconds after leaving the
police station even after close
examination the usual suspects twist
holds up to scrutiny and is so awesome
that you’ll want to go back and re-watch
the film almost immediately
simultaneously chilling and badass the
filmmakers inserted just enough hints to
make the revelation plausible I’m
smarter than you and I’m gonna find out
what I want to know number 9 Chinatown I
don’t want to know how it happened and I
want to know why and I want to know
before Escobar gets here what happens in
Chinatown stays in Chinatown this
twisted classic starts as a case of a
woman scorned but quickly spirals into
murder incest and nihilism puzzled by
Evelyn Krauss mulwray’s strange
relationship with her younger sister
Catherine and her slimy father Jack
Nicholson’s private investigator
unwittingly unveils a disgusting family
secret as a result of being raped by her
parent Dunaway is Catherine’s mother and
sibling to make matters worse the film
ends with Evelyn’s death and Catherine
falling into the hands of daddy dearest
while Nicholson’s Jake Geddes hopelessly
watches from a distance
it’s Chinatown number eight Arlington
Road hey it’s only paranoia if you’re
wrong directed by mark pellington
Politan road stars Jeff Bridges as a
widower in a post Oklahoma City bombing
world who suspects his neighbors to be
terrorists
even though Tim Robbins and Joan Cusack
deliver reasonably creepy performances
bridges unfounded fears seem like the
ramblings of a madman and are completely
dismissed the twist arrives in two parts
first it confirms the protagonists
suspicions but the true holy crap moment
happens later when Bridges is framed by
the terrorists for the attack number
seven shutter island’ we’re telling you
the truth at first Martin Scorsese’s
second highest-grossing film plays out
like a typical neo-noir detective story
US Marshal Edward Teddy Daniels is sent
to shutter island’ to investigate the
disappearance of a woman imprisoned for
drowning her children except that is
pretty much all a lie as Daniels is
actually a shutter island’ patient and
the whole investigation is merely an act
to try and resolve his delusions would
you a violent trained dangerous you’re
the most dangerous patient we have sadly
the plan fails and the patient is slated
to be lobotomised although a final plot
twist
suggests Teddy might be faking his
relapse to avoid dealing with the truth
this is the sort of twist that really
stays with you after the credits roll
which would be worse the live is a
with this insane neo-noir flick director
Harold Becker and writers Aaron Sorkin
and Scott Frank asked whether there’s
such a thing as too many plot twists
following an unnecessary surgery that
resulted in Nicole Kidman’s character
Tracy being unable to have children the
central couple wins a malpractice suit
against Alec Baldwin’s arrogant doctor
Jed Hill I am God but Tracy later
divorces her husband jam-packed
alongside a slew of red herrings and
head-scratching revelations the biggest
twist reveals that Kidman and Baldwin
were actually working together and
planned to split the 20 million-dollar
cash windfall from the lawsuit I earned
this money this money is mine
number five seven Oh what’s in the bar
everyone knows what’s in the box
David Fincher’s seven centers on two
detectives portrayed by Morgan Freeman
and Brad Pitt who are hot on the trail
of a serial killer murdering people
according to the seven deadly sins by
the time John Doe turns himself in five
murders have been committed but the
killer promises to reveal the last
corpses if the cops take him to the
desert once there Pitt finds a box
containing the head of his wife Tracy
representing envy and wrath these two
deaths complete dose plan and the twist
spawned countless what’s in the box
parodies what’s in the box what’s in the
box number for Planet of the Apes oh my
god
as a franchisee Planet of the Apes has
made a habit of ending on a shocking
revelation or explosive climax but
there’s no topping the original after
sleeping for a good two millennia
Charlton Heston’s tailor crash lands on
a strange planet that is overrun with
apes and is taken captive a couple of
ironic lines later Heston manages to
escape with the aid of some Apes but
soon learns that this crappy planet is
actually earth
apparently humanity engaged in a global
war and wrecked the entire thing leaving
apes to take over as the new dominant
revenge is a dish best served cold with
a side of incest the second entry in
Park chan-wook’s vengeance trilogy old
boy sees a drunken father kidnapped and
locked in a room for 15 years before
being suddenly let free desperate to get
revenge on the person responsible oh
dae-su learns this was done as
punishment for something he did in high
school
he revealed that to fellow students were
having an incestuous relationship which
led the sister to commit suicide
however in addition to being imprisoned
oh dae-su was also tricked into sleeping
with his own daughter unable to live
with this knowledge oh dae-su gets his
memory wiped and continues to date his
child
yikes number two gone girl my lazy lying
cheating oblivious husband will go to
prison for my murder david fincher is at
it again based on gillian Flynn’s novel
of the same name gone girl sees Ben
Affleck’s Nick become the prime suspect
in the disappearance of his wife Amy the
first half slowly builds a case against
Nick before gun girl flips everything on
its head with a single monologue
technically missing soon to be presumed
dead amy is not dead or missing and
planned this entire thing to frame Nick
for murder as punishment for his
infidelity in the span of five minutes
the film’s cool girl turns into a
deranged psychopath
while Nick shifts from perpetrator to
victim he took and took from me until I
no longer existed that’s murder
number one Soylent Green high energy
plankton killing two birds with one
stone
Soylent Green takes place in the distant
future of 2022 where New York City is
suffering from overpopulation and a
severe shortage of rations as a means to
feed the masses the Soylent corporation
distributes massive amounts of rations
with the green iteration being the most
popular
unless someone belongs to the upper
class everyone willingly eats this
substance and is borderline addicted to
the stuff so what is Soylent Green well
let’s just say that Hannibal Lecter
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