10 Movie Reveals That Stopped You From Walking Out

From rug pulls nobody saw coming to unexpectedly clever and satisfying twists

these reveals were far more fun, interesting, and just plain ridiculous than the otherwise forgettable or even downright awful film preceding it

And that is what kept our asses in our seats. Gareth here from WhatCulture.com and here are 10 movie reveals that stopped you from walking out

Number 10, Lucinda is in on the con, Derailed. Let's get things off with the watchable yet mostly forgettable thriller Derailed

which centers around an advertising exec, Charles Sheen, who embarks on an extramarital affair with a similarly married woman, Lucinda Harris

Charles is eventually blackmailed by a man named Philippe LaRoche, who has kidnapped Lucinda and promises to kill her if he doesn't pay up $100,000

which Charles promptly does by taking the money from an account funding his daughter's medical treatment

Pretty typical erotic thrill affair that doesn't merit much of your attention, right

But at this point, Charles heads to Lucinda's work and finds that she actually goes by the name of Jane

before discovering that a picture of her daughter she showed to him was actually cut out from a brochure

And then the penny finally drops. Charlie tracks Jane down and spots her kissing La Roche, confirming that she was in on the con from the very beginning

It's a twist that relies on the audience's overall perception of Jennifer Aniston

She very rarely plays villains, and is far from the most natural fit for a femme fatale

As such, it comes as a genuine shock, all the more so as Jane is then shot and killed during a climactic gunfight between Charles and LaRouche

Number 9, Jamie Stabbs Darlene, Halloween 4 The Return of Michael Myers

Halloween 4 is far from the worst entry into the series and has enjoyed greater cult appreciation in recent years

but it's nevertheless pretty lackluster compared to the first two Halloween movies

With all the hype about Michael Myers' return to the screen after sitting out anthology sequel Halloween 3 Season of the Witch

Halloween 4 suffered immensely from a script which was slung together in just 11 days

Perhaps most criminally, it killed Laurie Strode off-screen and replaced her with her daughter Jamie Lloyd

Though Danielle Harris gives a solid performance as Jamie, it's a slog at even just 88 minutes

with Michael taking far too long to do anything, and the story getting excessively bogged down in dull melodramatic subplots

Michael 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

it drops one hell of a last-minute twist in your lap. Jamie is taken back home and attacks her foster mother, Darlene

with a pair of scissors while wearing a clown costume and mask, in a manner immediately reminiscent of her young uncle in the original Halloween

It's a brilliant and wildly unexpected twist which touted a provocative new direction for the series, albeit one which the next film soundly disregarded

8. Rogue is Tom Lone – War 2007's War spends the bulk of its runtime failing to deliver on the promises of a hard-boiled action thriller in which Jason Statham and Jet Li square off against one another

Statham plays FBI agent John Crawford who seeks revenge against the mysterious assassin Rogue played by Jet Li who apparently killed Crawford partner Tom Lone along with his family But this dead ordinary revenge thriller gets a totally bonkers boost of adrenaline in its

final ten minutes, when it's revealed that the quote-unquote Rogue is actually Tom Lone himself

Flashbacks reveal that the real Rogue did indeed attack Lone's house and kill his family

But Lone managed to overpower and kill Rogue, before surgically altering his appearance to steal Rogue's identity

Oh, and the reason that the real Rogue was able to track down Lone in the first place

Crawford was blackmailed into providing his address, prompting Lone to shoot his former partner and escape

the ending leaving it ambiguous whether Crawford survived or not. Boy, that escalated quickly, huh

Number 7. Karen goes back to Rick, the last American virgin. For a solid 98% of its runtime, The Last American Virgin is a pretty typical 80s comedy

filled with gratuitous nudity, juvenile jokes, and a perfunctory abortion subplot, the latter being surprisingly commonplace in comedies of this era

All the same, this is a what-you-see-is-what-you-get rom-com, right? We fully expect the film to end with high schooler Gary getting the girl of his dreams

his cute classmate Karen. Even when Karen gets pregnant by Gary's sexist pig-of-a-friend Rick

It's Gary who sticks by her and even pays for her abortion by selling his belongings and borrowing cash from his boss

Gary and Karen seemingly grow closer together as the film reaches its end

with Gary declaring his love for her, the pair sharing a kiss, and Karen inviting Gary to her 18th birthday party

Right, we all know where this is going, why even bother tuning in for the treacly happy ending

But when an elated Gary arrives at the party, he walks in on Karen and Rick making out

A devastated Gary promptly leaves the party, drives home in tears, and the end credits roll

That's it. Nobody could have seen such an unexpected yet believably brutal end coming

This was a cold bucket of water to the face for audiences, and two defiant middle fingers up at Hollywood's tendency towards saccharine implausible romance

6. Gabriel is Madison's parasitic twin, Malignant Oh, Malignant man. James Wan's horror film is, for the first 75% of its runtime

a dreadfully dull horror film slash police procedural, or if you want to be charitable to one, a self-aware parody of one

Either way, it's chock full of wooden acting, stilted dialogue, and drab predictable scares

Enough that you couldn't be blamed for tuning out before the third act. But those who stick it out to the end are soundly rewarded

with one of the most bonkers plot twists in recent cinematic history

As it turns out, Gabriel, the serial killer rampaging in the vicinity of protagonist Madison

is actually Madison's own parasitic conjoined twin. Yep, most of Gabriel was surgically removed from Madison in childhood

but a vestigial part remained due to it being connected to her brain

Double yep. And so when Madison's abusive husband gives her a head injury at the start of the film

it sets Gabriel free, allowing him to effectively hijack Madison's body and carry out the killings

And because Gabriel is attached to the back of Madison head he only able to control her backwards Explaining why Gabriel movements throughout the film look so jerky and unnatural It a boldly insane reveal that

perked just about everybody up, ending the film on a certifiably nuts final section as Gabriel

embarks on a gory rampage through a police station. Did this insane skull-cracking twist

keep you glued to malignant? Or were you already on to your next slice of horror at that point

Let me know in the comments section down below, folks. 5. Dracula is Actually Judas, Dracula 2000

There's no two ways about it. Dracula 2000 is freaking trash. A gothic horror film so aggressively influenced by turn-of-the-century Nu Metal

and post-Matrix fashion choices that it almost graduates to self-parody. But if you make it close to the end of the movie, there's one genuinely intriguing plot twist lying in wait

It's eventually revealed that Dracula's real identity is Judas Iscariot, and he was cursed by God to live eternity as a vampire for betraying Jesus

More to the point, the twist also explains Dracula's odd aversion to silver throughout the movie

It was part of the curse due to Judas accepting 30 pieces of silver to betray Jesus

Again, Dracula 2000 isn't a good movie at all, but suggesting that Judas was the original vampire

is a genuinely creative and intriguing twist on traditional vampire lore, enough that it clearly belonged in a much, much better film

4. Esther Is Dead – Orphan First Kill Many groaned when a prequel to 2009's deliciously entertaining horror film Orphan was first announced

especially given that lead actress Isabel Fuhrman was now well over a decade older

seemingly making the prequel a pretty awkward fit. And while First Kill's first hour suggests a pretty typical forgettable horror prequel

whose attempts to make Fuhrman's appearance consistent with the previous film are laughable at best

Things take a seriously unexpected turn at the end of Act 2

The film details Lena slash Esther escaping from an Estonian psych ward

and assuming the identity of missing American girl Esther, where she's reunited with her family

mother Trisha, father Alan, and brother Gunnar. Yet the hugely unexpected twist sees Trisha save Esther

from a detective who discovers her deception, shooting him dead. Trisha then reveals she's known Lena wasn't her daughter from the beginning

Why? because the real Esther died four years prior in an argument with Gunner

and Trisha faked Esther's disappearance to protect her son while keeping her husband firmly in the dark

It's such a clever and genuinely surprising holy crap moment in a movie that's so unremarkable up to this point

gamely rearranging the chessboard for the third act, as Esther discovers she's got a scheming femme fatale for an adoptive mother

3. Massimo has a secret twin brother, 365 days this day. Granted, Netflix's original Polish erotic thriller film 365 Days was so dreadful and dreadfully problematic that you can only really blame yourself for bothering to watch its recent sequel, 365 Days, this day

But after an hour or so of embarrassingly bad dialogue and toe awkward sex scenes the sequel drops a plot twist so gloriously telenovela it surely stopped many from turning the movie off Midway through the story we learn that mobster Massimo has an evil identical twin brother Adriano who has sex with a woman in front of Massimo wife Laura to make her believe

that he's been unfaithful. Yep, to call it hilarious is an understatement, especially as the film has the impressive goal

to play the big reveal totally straight, rather than ever bothering to wink at the audience

It 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. Number 2. The Devil is the Old Woman, Devil

2010's horror film Devil touts a deliciously appealing premise. A group of five strangers are trapped inside of an elevator

one of whom is the devil in disguise and secretly killing the others off one by one

Yet ultimately, little interesting is done with this conceptually intriguing supernatural whodunit

which at least has the good sense to wrap up within a tight 80 minutes, enough that you probably stuck around

for its genuinely diverting final gacha. It's eventually revealed that the devil is the most

unexpected of the five strangers, an elderly woman who was seemingly killed by the devil at

the end of the second act. As it turns out, this was all a devilish ruse, as the old woman stands

back up at the end of the movie, her eyes pitch black, revealing her diabolical true nature

The devil has spent the movie claiming the lives of the elevator's sinful occupants

and it's ultimately only Tony who survives after confessing his role in a fatal accident

five years prior, in turn repenting for his actions and leaving the Devil unable to claim

his soul. At the end of a disappointingly flat, over-familiar mystery horror film, Devil at least delivered

a genuinely jolting final rug pull. 1. Tom is Guilty – High Crimes

High Crimes is one of the several absurd Ashley Judd-starring crime thrillers released around

the year 2000, with Judd playing Claire Kubik, whose husband Tom is arrested by the FBI for

allegedly taking part in a military operation in El Salvador, which led to the deaths of nine unarmed civilians

Tom admits this all to Claire, except claims that he was only present during the murders

and didn't actively take part in them. As Claire and fellow attorney Charlie Grimes defend Tom in court

it becomes agonizingly clear that there's a conspiracy to cover up the truth

and frame Tom for the massacre. Pretty standard, played-out fare for the courtroom drama genre, basically

Or is it? In the end, we learn the shocking truth, that Tom was indeed guilty of all the murders, and even killed witnesses years before being arrested

At film's end, Tom attacks Claire after realizing he's been rumbled, resulting in him being shot and killed

Sometimes a movie feels generic and familiar enough to set your expectations through the damn floor

only to swing back around and deliver a genuinely exciting twist. That's one way to do it, I suppose

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