I love The Prestige. There's the scene where the wife says that sometimes he loves her and sometimes he doesn't, and you don't realize the significance of that until you know the twist. It also shows the extremes they were willing to go to for an illusion. Not letting the people they love in on it, is unbelievable.

What about the twistiest twist of all time... TWISTER! First a cow goes by.. Then another cow. IT WAS THE SAME COW!

The Mist was filmed in my hometown, myself and a lot of my friends were extras in the supermarket scenes which were shot on a soundstage here ( with the exception of one day outside at a real supermarket north of here ). Fun fact: No one, save for Frank Darabont and Stephen King and a few others knew about the new ending, everyone's scripts were missing the last ten pages. The last thing the extras as a group shot was when Thomas Jane and the others leave the supermarket in the jeep. And then only a handful of extras were brought back to film the ending later, so most of us didn't know the ending until a week or two later when some of our friends began whispering about it. Now we knew before the rest of the world knew of course, but it was still not common knowledge on the set that it was going to have that dark ending. We also got to have our own private screening here in town a few weeks before the movie opened. It was a very fun time and memorable experience and everyone had a blast filming the movie. I don't think I would have ended up getting my Sag card later and pursuing acting full time had I not done it.

I’m sure I’m gonna sound stupid with this but, in Wreck It Ralph, I never saw King Candy being Turbo, before it was revealed.

to add insult to injury, In The Mist, it's pretty much suggested that had anyone gone with the lady in the beginning get home to her kids, they likely woulda faired better since she (and her children) was on one of the army trucks of saved people

Primal Fear had oone of the biggest twist endings. Before the twist comes, you just assume this is how the movie ends, but then, wow what a great film

There are some good ones on this list, but Usual Suspects has to be on here and in the top 3. Sixth Sense belongs higher on the list - that twist made the whole film.

Four words: Planet of the Apes When people first saw it in theaters, they were utterly dumbfounded to learn that it was Earth in the future all along.

Fight Club is brilliant because it's one of the only movies that leans so heavily on a plot twist, but still somehow has a tremendous rewatch quality. Most of the others lose a lot of their snap once you know the end, but not Fight Club.

The twist at the end of The Mist really is great. I remember Stephen King saying that he wished he'd thought of it himself.

A truly unappreciated twisty film is Dead Again with Emma Thompson, Kenneth Branaugh, Derek Jacobi, Andy Garcia and an uncredited Robin Williams. Wonderful movie, Wonderful twists!

I feel like Book of Eli deserves a mention.

The Others is a good "plot twist film" IMO.

Lucky Number Slevin (2006) is one of my favorite twist movies of all time! It is bonkers and SOOO good.

Suggestion…. Put the movie title at the start of each one and not the actual twist. Describe the twist after. Unless I know what movies you are about to mention I don’t want to watch it as any unseen movie could be ruined.

No Way Out starring Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman and Sean Young. The twist ending totally shocked me.

A more frigthening twist in The Prestige is that they don't know if whether the original is teleported and leaves behind a clone or the original remains and clone is teleported somewhere! 😱

Arlington Road has a great twist ending that hardly ever gets a mention.

You forgot the movie "The usual suspects", that ending just fried my mind.

The mists ending was so rough for me it took me close to 10 years to watch it again

The Mist's ending is probably the best in film in the last 20 years. It's especially good because it plays on the ambiguity of whether or not the crazy lady at the market was right.

Oh man how do u leave Usual Suspects and Primal Fear off this list!?!?

The Sting. I never saw that one coming

Shutter island - The detective investigating the islands patients is actually a patient himsel.

A subtle moment in the backyard even in “Crazy, Stupid, Love” is after the Hannah revel when David Lindhagen shows up, Jacob(Ryan Gosling) looks down at his hand and takes off his ring; Jacob knows enough and knows he’s going to hit Lindhagen, if he has his ring on he could be charged with aggravated assault as opposed the simple assault.

Arrival is a masterpiece, but truth be told, Saw and Oldboy have the most mindblowing twists ever.

Arlington Road. Underrated movie with a great twist ending.

Memento had a pretty good twist.

Predestination. It is a long series of twists that just KEEPS on giving.

Identity deserves a mention here-a big twist towards the end and an even bigger one right at the end! You literally need to watch it right up to the end!

This list does not say twist ending, I am surprised Scream was not on here. The ending is...what it is, but Drew Barrymore getting axed before the title screen? Not a single person saw it coming

In The Prestige, people keep wondering whether it was the original Angier who drowned and the copy was transported or the original was transported and the remnant destroyed. But if you watch the first scene where he creates a duplicate of himself, the one who stays kills the one who is transported, so the original Angier is dead either way. Also, the video doesn’t mention that originally Angier found himself a double to do the trick but got tired of listening to applause from under the stage while the double got all the accolades. Borden in the end told him a simple solution: alternate who disappears and who appears. Share the glory. Angier was too preoccupied with the glory to share (possibly because of his aristocratic upbringing)

I actually did figure out Arrival's big twist. Basically when she explains that the aliens' language is atemporal I realized that she wasn't having flashbacks, but flashforwards. I literally said, "Oh crap."

Dead all along was used to great effect in Carnival of Souls (1962).

Every single performance in Arrival is brilliant.

Arlington Road, Dead Again, Memento, Usual Suspects

Kinda funny sleepaway camp didn't make the list. That had one of greatest twists in horror movie history. P.s. for those who have seen it please don't spoil it for people who haven't seen it in the comments.

My mother refuses to watch any movie where the good guy dies in the end, which I think is a disservice to a lot of quality films. I convinced her to watch Sixth Sense by assuring her Bruce Willis’s character does not die. In the end. I wasn’t lying, technically. So, we rent the movie, sit down, and start watching. Right after the opening sequence, Dad ruins the whole thing by saying “No, he dies in the beginning!” Thanks, Dad.

Pretty sure M. Night Shyamalan didn't invent the "dead all along" trope, but he did bring it back in spectacular fashion. Doing the "clues" (red in scenes) was brilliant for the time, ensuring people would want to re-watch just to see them. My husband doesn't claim to have understood the movie, but when the guy was shot, thought "there's no way he survived that", and was just, "what the heck is he doing still running around - he's dead" for the rest of it. I vaguely remember an old black and white movie on a boat where everyone was dead, but most didn't know it, there are several old radio plays where that's the theme, and I'm sure if I were more classically educated, I could name dozens if not hundreds of ancient texts/plays that did the same thing. The Mist: I'm suffering Mandela Effect here - I swear I read the same ending in the book years before I saw the movie.

Josh you mentioned at 7:02 that the Saw bathroom was the world's "second worst bathroom", so what's the worst bathroom?

The twist in The Sixth Sense has stayed with me for 25 years. Sadly, no other plot twist has blown me away as much as this since.

The Mist better be on here

The Crying Game was a great twist because as a male viewer you really did not see it coming. And I still love the twist in Death on the Nile, Agatha is one of the best in twists and some of her best twists have not even made it to the screen, but with Death on the Nile, even after seeing it ten times I still love the big reveal (and I am talking about the original movie). And as a kid I loved the twist at the end of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, that the bad guy was actually just an agent of Wonka (again I am talking about the original). It is difficult to make a top 10, there are so many great twists, you should do a top 100 =).

The Usual Suspects and Primal Fear both have outstanding plot twists!

Another good twist if Mulholland Drive. That was a trippy ending!

There's one hell of a twist in the Korean thriller 'Forgotten'. I love it!

The biggest twist in sixth sense for me is finding out years later that that was fucking Donnie Wahlberg.

The twist at the end of the first Saw is still one of the greatest twists ever.

Your writer and I disagree on the "Weapon" in Arrival. Although the Alien language, and its accompanying affect on the perception of the linear flow of time, is crucial to the climax of the film, it is not a weapon - it is a tool, as suggested by Amy Adams' character. The Heptapods arrive at a volatile time in Human history as we are on the precipice of armageddon. They will need something from the Human race in 3000 years time - if we do not survive until then, neither will the Heptapods, so they intervene in the only way they can, by changing Human perception. I believe the "Weapon" may be the Human Race itself. Either we develop a technology that is vital to the Heptapods... or we become their allies (or footsoldiers) in some conflict in the future. The two species become inextricably linked.

What suprises me the most about Prestige is that its actually not about tricks themselves or tragedies of characters, but its about how hard it was for artists to pay bills in early years of 20` century and the dark side of showbusiness. Those guys where ready to do anything. Even die.

Crazy Stupid Love was the only movie where I saw the twist coming as it is commonplace in romcom hahaha!!!

Another twist to add to Psycho is that there's no nudity in the shower murder scene, even though your eyes might be convinced that there is.

So glad to see the Saw twist on this list. Other lists similar to this always seem to overlook this one for some reason but it's my fave movie twist of all time.

I would add Primal Fear, The Usual Suspects, Mystic River and Seven

Don’t forget Usual Suspects, Primal Fear

Disappointed that "Jacob's Ladder" starring Tim Robbins wasn't on this list.

Also the endings of "The Game" and "Arlington Road"

I've recommended Old Boy to people I know that think they can spot twists in movies. It was interesting seeing how they changed it slightly for the American version. The Korean version has a much darker end to it than the American version.

Planet of the Apes. The fact they were on Earth all along. Best twist I've ever seen.

So glad you included the CRAZY, STUPID LOVE twist. One of my alltime faves that I absolutely did NOT see coming..... GREAT LIST!! 10 Winners.

Love, love, love the ending of the Mist. It's one those "kick in balls" endings that make going to the movies worth while.

Is no one going to talk about the twist of Scrappy Doo being the real villian inside a Rowan Atkinson animatronic?!

@WhatCulture This is my first video I've seen by you I think. I am glad you kept the background music low and without lyrics, it made it easy to understand everything you said and I think this is a great format for video makers, I wish more people made videos with low lyricless music like you did in this one. I subscribed and I'm going to watch more of your videos.

Arrival is such an amazing film. Just prefect.

Identity has two great twists

None on this list equals the jaw dropping moment in The Crying Game.

Shutter Islands twist is ridiculous. You get everyone in a psychiatric hospital to learn lines,dress up as characters just so one man get his repressed memories out. Not to mention they’d have had to redesign parts of the facility. Utter nonsense 🙄

Usual Suspects: revealing who Keyser Söze is

Fight Club is both an amazing flick and a great book. They did a great job adapting it, even though the ending is slightly different. It is one of my favorite movies of all time.

"The Inside Job" should be on the list.

How come everyone forgets the Crying Game? in the 90's This movie's twist took everyone totally by surprised and was a huge hit movie. And yet shows like this have completely forgotten about it.

The Mist was the most gut wrenching. Even knowing how it ends It still gets me.

All excellent choices displayed here!!!😌🙌🏾. I would like to add to it the movie “Wild Things”. Full of twist after twist after twist, but the final one during/after the credits still has me smiling and gasping to this day!👀.

The Others was a great plot twist that I didn't see coming

I didn't get to see most of these in theaters, but damn the Mist got me. I think the biggest twist for me was the reveal of Hans in Frozen

Can someone do for me the list of only the movies titles? I don't know what they put but holy sht yesterday I saw for the first time Mullholand Drive and the plot twist is heavy

Arrival for me was brilliant in so many ways. Showing so many sides of humanity that emerge in the wake of the "arrival" . . . the way the story is edited and told = just great and unique.

What about Darth Vader being Luke’s father as a twist!!

Parasite was amazing! Did not see that coming. And best of all, its a break from a happy ending.

The prestige was AWESOME. I was gobsmacked by that twist at the end.

That was a great list. Every single one of them deserves to be there.

1987 No Way Out. That is a movie I did not see the twist at the end coming. I am generally quite good at knowing where a movie is going-even being able to quote dialogue I in a movie I have never seen, but Kevin Costner hit me over the head at the end of the movie.

The Fog, that was a cold blooded shocker for sure. Fight Club, the best. Tyler Durden 2024

I’m glad you didn’t mention shudder island! I saw that twist coming within the first ten minutes of the movie

Oh man The Mist. So good.

One that got me good was Predestination. On this list I think The Prestige was my favorite. I did like Arrival though, once they did the language thing past, present, future all the same. Then I realized we were getting that in the whole movie.

I as well as everyone else in the theater left with our mouths wide open after The Mist ended

Great list

I wonder if this channel ever heard of Usual Suspects. That movie has a solid plot twist.

Hope I'm not repeating a comment here, but when I saw _12 Monkeys_ in the theater during its first or second week, I suddenly figured out the twist less than a minute before it happened. (If you've seen it, it's when Bruce Willis's character has a conversation on the payphone in the airport.) It felt like a big piece of the puzzle that was the movie, one that I didn't even realize was there, turned in my brain and dropped suddenly into place. I normally don't talk in the theater, but I exclaimed "Oh!" loudly. It helped that at that time I hadn't seen Chris Marker's _La Jeteé_ since Terry Gilliam is basically just doing an overblown (although still effective) version of that film.

The Prestige was an amazing movie. Every little dialogue and nuance adds new meaning to the twist. Watched it more than a dozen times, and I always spot something new every time. Nothing from Memento?

A Tale of Two Sisters. That film still f's with my mind to this very day. It's crazy how I didn't pick up on a lot of the clues early on. That twist really got me, and I was young when I saw it, but it hasn't gone away. 😄

After I first watched The Mist, I had to sit there a moment just to process the ending. It’s one of my favourite movies of all time now.

How about Sleepaway Camp...... that was a twisty McTwist!

Good list. I guessed The Sixth Sense twist, so I'd swap it for Orphan. I didn't see that one coming.

I definitely didn't see the end of The Mist coming. Mainly because I'd read the novella and didn't think they'd go for such a bleak ending of the MC killing everyone he tried to save. It felt like a huge let down for the story.

I can never understand why no one includes the movie "Shattered" (1991) on lists like this.

I figured out the Sixth Sense twist as soon as I saw that red doorknob. Prestige was genuinely surprising, as was Homecoming. The rest, well, I guess I've just seen enough films and read enough books that I'm hard to surprise.

I am a little surprised Matthew Vaughn’s “Layer Cake” is not on theirs list, the twist at the end was one of those “Oh shit I have to (get to) at h this again and see how they did that!” Moments for me.

Where the heck is Orphan??? I'm pretty good at guessing plot twists but that one totally blindsided me!