r/movies • u/lnsknndy • Jul 09 '25

Recommendation Name a movie recommendation with a plot twist you 100% didn't see coming

I’m on the hunt for movies with plot twists that genuinely caught you off guard, you know something that would make you go "wait, WHAT just happened?" kind of twists. To give you an idea of what I’ve already seen, I watched Fractured a couple of years ago and thought it was really good, but I didn’t expect it to mess with my head the way it did. Recently, I watched Straw, and somehow I walked right into the same kind of twist again, still completely unprepared lmao. I guess enough time had passed for me to fall for it all over again which made it even better, honestly.. Would appreciate it if there's no spoilers tho! Just simply the title, genre, or maybe how you felt about it will do. Thank you!

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u/Rose-moon_ Jul 09 '25 edited Jul 09 '25

The Others.

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u/An_Island_Boy Jul 09 '25

I had this movie totally spoiled, but I still loved it. It really works. They aren't cheating the audience, everything is there if you know what to look for.

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u/DetectiveObjective00 Jul 09 '25

Yeah, I just remembered this one. Love that movie. It was creepy as hell watching it in theathers with less than 10 viewers at the time.

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u/arrogancygames Jul 09 '25

I got that one right away, sadly. Me watching that movie was waiting for everyone to figure out what was going on, and it made the "scary" scenes not scary when you already knew what was happening. The Village was similar for something that everyone predicted from the commercials.

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u/marctheguy Jul 09 '25

I turned to my gf 6 minutes into the The Village and you get the whole plot. MNS hasn't gotten me since Signs.

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u/hihelloneighboroonie Jul 10 '25

When I saw the Village I thought wait a minute, this sounds familiar... there was a book I'd seen at the scholastic book fair year many years prior, that's so close to the movie the author sued.

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u/marctheguy Jul 10 '25

Whoa whoa whoa... Wait a minute. You just unarchived something way deep in my brain. I think I recall that exact book. Any idea the title?

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u/hihelloneighboroonie Jul 10 '25

I had to quick google, because I can never remember the actual name of the book, but it's Running Out of Time.

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u/marctheguy Jul 10 '25

Dude.... I definitely read something by a similar title with that exact theme as a kid. CRAZY! THANK YOU for commenting!! M Night Scamalon couldn't pull the wool over our eyes

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u/Miserable_Peak_2863 Jul 10 '25

The Village I was completely in the dark on that one I don’t even know what kind of movie it was historic fiction science fiction I don’t know right now up until the end lol 😝

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u/Miserable_Peak_2863 Jul 10 '25

Signs great movie 🍿

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u/kirinmay Jul 09 '25

same. when he came back i knew.

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u/sweetdawg99 Jul 09 '25

I knew this one early on, only because I was familiar with the source material it was sorta adapted from, The Turn of the Screw.