Heck, I can even spell it out for you without spoiling the film! The three heroines have settled their differences and live together, but after a considerable amount of time spent tracking the women, the camera pans away to shift focus onto this cluster of tires. Robert Altman’s masterwork is confusing as it is, and little is revealed in the ending if you do not read in between the lines. Read More: Best Movies About Blindness 21. The final scene is a cutaway from everything else that takes place before it (most of which is the inebriated definition of a ‘trip’), coming back to reality in a way. There’s a lurking trait throughout that, despite the film raising so many questions, it doesn’t really need to concern itself with providing any answers, mainly because of the surreal ambiguity ever-present in the $17,000 budget picture. The film works into it an effective B-cinema inspired style, with creepy, weird imagery, as well as this attempt to scare brought on by inducing a sense of claustrophobia. Often regarded as one of the most influential horror films of all time, I don’t find it particularly great, but I think the final reveal is wonderfully done. Read More: Best Movies About Mistaken Identity 22. Few films communicate the essence of a twist this way, adorning upon the viewers an intrusive characteristic, which makes the ending to this Dutch film that much more unnerving. The suspense to the film is one that is felt by the boyfriend more than it is by the audience, up until the final moment when he is made to cave, shortly before a shocking revelation is made. The twist is one that our protagonist sees coming. The audience is provided with a fairer idea of what happened to his significant other than he is, which helps add to his character, a man frustratingly hopeful, though deeply troubled inside, probably because he has drawn his own conclusions regarding the mystery. The protagonist is in search of his missing wife, a year on following her disappearance. On the one hand, it’s a classic film twist that comes in the form of a realization. The ending to ‘The Vanishing’ was one that I thought was suffocating. It also features an all-star cast comprising the likes of John Cusack and ‘Goodfellas’ Ray Liotta. Watch this one alone for the complete experience.

The twist is unpredictable but completely believable and ingenious. Heavily inspired by Agatha Christie’s ‘And Then There Were None’, characters stranded at a motel are killed of one by one with a murderer on the loose. The film also doubles up as a brilliant psychological thriller. ‘Identity’ rates among the best murder mysteries you will ever see. For those who don’t, it will either blow up your brains, or you will when it ends. For those who like to think and prefer their films with a side of thought-fodder, this film is a haven among the woods. It may not end up satisfactorily answering a lot of the questions it raises, but it is bound to raise a brow or two with the flawed genius behind the big idea of it all, the idea of a timeless soldier, free from the ideas of ancestry, birth, death, conception, and time itself: a predestination paradox. ‘Predestination’ is a film that toys with complex physical ideas including Time Travel, Temporal Loops, Discontinuities, Paradoxes, concepts that have, till now, caught the fancy of physicists, mathematicians, story tellers and film makers for close to a century. You can watch several of these movies with twist endings on Netflix, Hulu or Amazon Prime. With all that said now, today we are going to list down the greatest twist endings in cinema. I’ve discovered with my exposure to filmmaking that while it isn’t very difficult to come up with a twist ending, it is terribly hard to think one up that fits a story to absolute perfection. The twist ending should allow the audience to understand the elements of a story in a different way, while providing further details about the characters and their surroundings. Mostly used in thrillers, twists can work well in just about any film genre, notable ones being drama, comedy, and horror. When it comes to feature films, the case is different, because so much happens within the time frame of a movie that a twist has to complement everything that precedes it, so that it will make sense, in however subtle a way that may be.

Good scary movies with twist endings