we didn’t see it coming and we’re
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welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top ten
plot twists in horror movies before we
begin we publish new content every day
so be sure to subscribe to our channel
and ring the bell to get notified about
our latest videos for this list we’re
looking at the horror movie plot twists
that left our jaws on the floor and kept
us coming back to the movies to discover
new ways the twists were cleverly
foreshadowed as you may have already
figured out this video is filled to the
brim with spoilers so proceed at your
own risk number 10 the call is coming
from inside the house
black Christmas in this 1970s Canadian
slasher flick the residents of a
sorority house are plagued by a string
of obscene and disturbing phone calls
but things just get worse when several
of the residents are found dead and the
killer is behind the obscene calls in
the film’s most iconic scene a telephone
company employee frantically traces the
location of the mysterious caller and
eventually discovers that the calls are
coming from a second line inside the
sorority house Oh chrissakes Nash you
got it wrong that’s where the calls are
going into that’s where they’re coming
from too sir it’s a terrifying reveal
one that kicks the tension in the film
into overdrive with the revelation that
protagonist Jess is far from safe
despite being indoors and under police
watch just tell it to put down the phone
and walk straight out the front door
number nine it’s all in the killer’s
head identity Who am I speaking look at
me Who am I speaking to right now in
this horror / thriller from Logan
director James Mangold a group of
strangers find themselves stranded in a
secluded motel and stalked by a
mysterious killer but this isn’t your
run-of-the-mill slasher movie it’s
revealed late in the film that almost
everything we’ve been seeing has been
taking place inside the mind of a
convicted serial killer
why are you doing
because you that was one of his
personalities the victims are actually
the killers multiple personalities and
they’re being killed off as part of his
treatment the it was all a dream or
hallucination twist is honestly a little
played out but this version offers an
admittedly fresh spin on the well-worn
idea to great effect
where’s number 8 the girl isn’t missing
The Wicker Man News
sergeant are the right kind of that I
died before it was remade with Nicholas
Cage and turned into an internet meme
this 1973 horror film was a darling of
British horror cinema the film begins
when a police detective arrives at a
small town on a secluded island after a
local girl goes missing but it quickly
becomes clear that something is terribly
wrong and that the villagers are part of
a dangerous pagan cult you came here to
find Rowan Morrison but it is we you
have found you and brought you here and
control your every thought and action
since you arrived
the detective suspects the girl might
have been taken as a human sacrifice but
it’s worse the girl was never kidnapped
and it was all a ploy to lure him to the
island to serve as the sacrifice himself
number seven mrs. Voorhees is the killer
Friday the 13th well I have mrs. Royce
an old friend of the Christie’s the
machete-wielding goalie mask wearing
Jason Voorhees is without a doubt one of
the biggest slasher icons but as horror
aficionados are fond of pointing out he
wasn’t the primary villain in the first
film in the Friday the 13th series
watched every minute after a number of
fellow camp counselors are brutally
murdered the film’s protagonist Alice
discovers that the killer is in fact
mrs. Voorhees the mother of a deformed
boy who drowned while the counselors
were shall we say distracted they were
making love while that young boy dropped
needless to say the revelation that the
seemingly kindly old lady in a sweater
is a crazed killer doesn’t do much to
make Alice’s day better
number six jigsaw is the dead body in
the bathroom saw you’re gonna be all
right this infamous horror flick not
only kicked off an entire franchise but
arguably started a whole new sub-genre
while the sequels went on to more
gruesome and elaborate gore the first
one keeps it fairly simple two men find
themselves chained in a bathroom with a
corpse between them and a hacksaw each
the only way either of them can escape
is to take that hacksaw to their own
ankle after much bloodshed it’s revealed
that jigsaw the mysterious killer who
orchestrated the whole thing has been in
the room the whole time posing as the
corpse lying between his two unlucky
victims shocking effective and oh so
twisted number 5 the family are ghosts
the others this spooky atmospheric
horror gem stars a woman named Grace and
her two children who live in a secluded
mansion following World War two as
anyone might if they lived in a house
this creepy looking
grace begins to suspect that her home is
haunted turns out she’s right but not in
the way she expected
after a series of terrifying encounters
with what seemed to be spirits it’s
revealed that grace and her children of
the ghosts haunting the house and the
visions they’ve been seeing are the new
residents children if you look dead why
do you remain in this earth it’s a
clever in version of the classic haunted
house scenario that caught most cinema
goers completely by surprise they made
contact number for Stu and Billy are the
killers scream surprise Sydney this
trend-setting slasher movie revitalized
the genre for a new generation by
injecting a dose of self-aware meta
commentary to liven things up
what’s the matter simu look like you’ve
seen a ghost
this mainly takes the form of the
teenage characters who recognize that
the mysterious killer stalking them is
following the traditional rules of
slasher films namely stuff like if you
have sex do drugs or say I’ll be right
back you’ll be the next one to die but
rather than just two horror movie fans
familiar with the tropes of the genre
the characters of billions do turn out
to be the killers themselves making the
horror movie awareness of the ghosts
face killer suddenly make a whole lot of
sense
facing Sydney your mother was no Sharon
Stone number three angela was the killer
and is biologically male sleepaway camp
in this cult favorite slasher flick yet
another summer camp becomes the site for
murder and mayhem when bodies start
stacking up thanks to an unseen killer
sounds a lot like Friday the 13th but
the shocking twist does a lot to give
the film its own unique character in the
closing moments of the film the killer
is revealed to be the quiet introverted
Angela and not only that it’s revealed
that Angela is biologically male a
little girl would be so much nicer don’t
you
so Angela such a lovely name
the shocking final shot which shows a
naked and maniacally grinning Angela
standing over their final victim is for
better or worse the film’s enduring
[Music]
number two Malcolm Crowe is a ghost The
Sixth Sense I think I can go now the
twist so infamous it started an entire
meme remains a fan favorite even if it
turned a promising new director into the
twist ending guy the film tells the
story of a young boy with the ability to
see ghosts which obviously leads to a
near non-stop parade of terrifying
encounters with the unquiet dead things
look like they’re getting better when he
meets a child psychologist determined to
help the boy to make amends for a
previous failure but in the end it’s
famously revealed that Bruce Willis’s
dr. Crowe is a ghost himself having died
after the Films opening scene for cinema
goers in 1999 it was one blown mind
after another you endeavor second before
we unveil our shocking top pick here are
some honorable mentions
do you kill me you get nothing you pull
us off
I’ll give you 400,000 number one Norman
[Music]
[Applause]
even before the shocking reveal at the
film’s climax Alfred Hitchcock’s horror
opus already had audiences scared out of
their minds but that ending just made
things worse
after watching numerous characters
seemingly die at the hands of the
apparently demented mrs. Bates audiences
were stunned to learn that the killer
was in fact her soft-spoken son Norman
who had preserved his dead mother’s body
and taken on her identity even decades
after the film’s release and subsequent
enshrinement in popular culture the
reveal at the end of this legendary film
remains the most shocking and memorable
twist ending in the history of horror
[Music]
[Applause]
do you agree with our picks check out
these other great clips from watch mojo and subscribe for new videos every day
betting you didn’t either
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top ten
plot twists in horror movies before we
begin we publish new content every day
so be sure to subscribe to our channel
and ring the bell to get notified about
our latest videos for this list we’re
looking at the horror movie plot twists
that left our jaws on the floor and kept
us coming back to the movies to discover
new ways the twists were cleverly
foreshadowed as you may have already
figured out this video is filled to the
brim with spoilers so proceed at your
own risk number 10 the call is coming
from inside the house
black Christmas in this 1970s Canadian
slasher flick the residents of a
sorority house are plagued by a string
of obscene and disturbing phone calls
but things just get worse when several
of the residents are found dead and the
killer is behind the obscene calls in
the film’s most iconic scene a telephone
company employee frantically traces the
location of the mysterious caller and
eventually discovers that the calls are
coming from a second line inside the
sorority house Oh chrissakes Nash you
got it wrong that’s where the calls are
going into that’s where they’re coming
from too sir it’s a terrifying reveal
one that kicks the tension in the film
into overdrive with the revelation that
protagonist Jess is far from safe
despite being indoors and under police
watch just tell it to put down the phone
and walk straight out the front door
number nine it’s all in the killer’s
head identity Who am I speaking look at
me Who am I speaking to right now in
this horror / thriller from Logan
director James Mangold a group of
strangers find themselves stranded in a
secluded motel and stalked by a
mysterious killer but this isn’t your
run-of-the-mill slasher movie it’s
revealed late in the film that almost
everything we’ve been seeing has been
taking place inside the mind of a
convicted serial killer
why are you doing
because you that was one of his
personalities the victims are actually
the killers multiple personalities and
they’re being killed off as part of his
treatment the it was all a dream or
hallucination twist is honestly a little
played out but this version offers an
admittedly fresh spin on the well-worn
idea to great effect
where’s number 8 the girl isn’t missing
The Wicker Man News
sergeant are the right kind of that I
died before it was remade with Nicholas
Cage and turned into an internet meme
this 1973 horror film was a darling of
British horror cinema the film begins
when a police detective arrives at a
small town on a secluded island after a
local girl goes missing but it quickly
becomes clear that something is terribly
wrong and that the villagers are part of
a dangerous pagan cult you came here to
find Rowan Morrison but it is we you
have found you and brought you here and
control your every thought and action
since you arrived
the detective suspects the girl might
have been taken as a human sacrifice but
it’s worse the girl was never kidnapped
and it was all a ploy to lure him to the
island to serve as the sacrifice himself
number seven mrs. Voorhees is the killer
Friday the 13th well I have mrs. Royce
an old friend of the Christie’s the
machete-wielding goalie mask wearing
Jason Voorhees is without a doubt one of
the biggest slasher icons but as horror
aficionados are fond of pointing out he
wasn’t the primary villain in the first
film in the Friday the 13th series
watched every minute after a number of
fellow camp counselors are brutally
murdered the film’s protagonist Alice
discovers that the killer is in fact
mrs. Voorhees the mother of a deformed
boy who drowned while the counselors
were shall we say distracted they were
making love while that young boy dropped
needless to say the revelation that the
seemingly kindly old lady in a sweater
is a crazed killer doesn’t do much to
make Alice’s day better
number six jigsaw is the dead body in
the bathroom saw you’re gonna be all
right this infamous horror flick not
only kicked off an entire franchise but
arguably started a whole new sub-genre
while the sequels went on to more
gruesome and elaborate gore the first
one keeps it fairly simple two men find
themselves chained in a bathroom with a
corpse between them and a hacksaw each
the only way either of them can escape
is to take that hacksaw to their own
ankle after much bloodshed it’s revealed
that jigsaw the mysterious killer who
orchestrated the whole thing has been in
the room the whole time posing as the
corpse lying between his two unlucky
victims shocking effective and oh so
twisted number 5 the family are ghosts
the others this spooky atmospheric
horror gem stars a woman named Grace and
her two children who live in a secluded
mansion following World War two as
anyone might if they lived in a house
this creepy looking
grace begins to suspect that her home is
haunted turns out she’s right but not in
the way she expected
after a series of terrifying encounters
with what seemed to be spirits it’s
revealed that grace and her children of
the ghosts haunting the house and the
visions they’ve been seeing are the new
residents children if you look dead why
do you remain in this earth it’s a
clever in version of the classic haunted
house scenario that caught most cinema
goers completely by surprise they made
contact number for Stu and Billy are the
killers scream surprise Sydney this
trend-setting slasher movie revitalized
the genre for a new generation by
injecting a dose of self-aware meta
commentary to liven things up
what’s the matter simu look like you’ve
seen a ghost
this mainly takes the form of the
teenage characters who recognize that
the mysterious killer stalking them is
following the traditional rules of
slasher films namely stuff like if you
have sex do drugs or say I’ll be right
back you’ll be the next one to die but
rather than just two horror movie fans
familiar with the tropes of the genre
the characters of billions do turn out
to be the killers themselves making the
horror movie awareness of the ghosts
face killer suddenly make a whole lot of
sense
facing Sydney your mother was no Sharon
Stone number three angela was the killer
and is biologically male sleepaway camp
in this cult favorite slasher flick yet
another summer camp becomes the site for
murder and mayhem when bodies start
stacking up thanks to an unseen killer
sounds a lot like Friday the 13th but
the shocking twist does a lot to give
the film its own unique character in the
closing moments of the film the killer
is revealed to be the quiet introverted
Angela and not only that it’s revealed
that Angela is biologically male a
little girl would be so much nicer don’t
you
so Angela such a lovely name
the shocking final shot which shows a
naked and maniacally grinning Angela
standing over their final victim is for
better or worse the film’s enduring
[Music]
number two Malcolm Crowe is a ghost The
Sixth Sense I think I can go now the
twist so infamous it started an entire
meme remains a fan favorite even if it
turned a promising new director into the
twist ending guy the film tells the
story of a young boy with the ability to
see ghosts which obviously leads to a
near non-stop parade of terrifying
encounters with the unquiet dead things
look like they’re getting better when he
meets a child psychologist determined to
help the boy to make amends for a
previous failure but in the end it’s
famously revealed that Bruce Willis’s
dr. Crowe is a ghost himself having died
after the Films opening scene for cinema
goers in 1999 it was one blown mind
after another you endeavor second before
we unveil our shocking top pick here are
some honorable mentions
do you kill me you get nothing you pull
us off
I’ll give you 400,000 number one Norman
[Music]
[Applause]
even before the shocking reveal at the
film’s climax Alfred Hitchcock’s horror
opus already had audiences scared out of
their minds but that ending just made
things worse
after watching numerous characters
seemingly die at the hands of the
apparently demented mrs. Bates audiences
were stunned to learn that the killer
was in fact her soft-spoken son Norman
who had preserved his dead mother’s body
and taken on her identity even decades
after the film’s release and subsequent
enshrinement in popular culture the
reveal at the end of this legendary film
remains the most shocking and memorable
twist ending in the history of horror
[Music]
[Applause]
do you agree with our picks check out
these other great clips from watch mojo and subscribe for new videos every day
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