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Greatest Movie Twists Part 9 |
 are the films that "The Greatest Films" site has selected as the "100 Greatest Films". |
Greatest
Movie Twists, Spoilers, and Surprise Endings: Avid filmgoers often
speak about seeking rare movie surprises in the movie-going experience,
such as discovering films that have cunning plot twists, a shocking
surprise ending, a surprise revelation about a particular character,
or some other unknown or unsuspected narrative element. Compiled here
in this comprehensive collection is a detailed set of films with the
greatest movie twists, spoilers, and surprise endings.
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Greatest Movie Twists Part 9 |
are the films that "The Greatest Films" site has selected as the "100 Greatest Films". |
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(alphabetical by film title) - Part 9 Intro | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 |
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Frankenhooker (1990) |
In this black comedy film's most bizarre, sickly humorous twist ending, electrician/mad scientist Jeffrey Franken (James Lorinz) - after he was decapitated by a pimp named Zorro (Joseph Gonzalez) - had his head grafted onto the body of a large breasted hooker's body in order to be rejuvenated: ("Boobs? Elizabeth, what did you do to me?...Where's my johnson?") |
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Freaks (1932) |
Seeking revenge on evil aerialist Cleopatra (Olga Baclanova) for plotting to kill the wealthy dwarf Hans (Harry Earles), fellow freaks attacked strongman Hercules (Henry Victor) with knives and killed him during a fierce rainstorm, and put the curse of the freaks on Cleopatra by turning her into a half-chicken woman (off-screen); she was then put on display in the carnival as a side-show 'freak' |
 
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Friday the 13th (1980) |
In this classic slasher film set in either 1979 or 1980 (on a full-moon Friday the 13th, the birthday of Jason!), the serial killer was not son Jason Voorhees (Ari Lehman) - emphasized in the opening of the film Scream (1996), but his camp kitchen-worker mother Mrs. Voorhees (Betsy Palmer) who was taking revenge for her 11 year-old son's accidental death from drowning in the lake over two decades earlier in 1957 (when camp counselors at Camp Crystal Lake were distracted while having sex and avoided their supervisory duties); in the shock ending, after sole surviving camp counselor Alice Hardy (Adrienne King) decapitated the insane woman with her own machete after a violent struggle by the lake, she took a canoe ride out to the middle of the tranquil lake, where the long-lost, re-animated, half-decomposed corpse of Jason suddenly burst out of the lake and attacked her the next dawn. She was grabbed by the neck and pulled underwater, but it all appeared to be an hallucinatory nightmare (or was it real?) as Alice awakened screaming "No!" in a hospital bed, and was told by a police officer that she was the sole survivor: "Ma'am, we didn't find any boy." The film ended after she pondered to herself: "But he...then he's still there" |
   
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Friday the 13th, Part V: A New Beginning (1985)
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Although the film's plot led you to believe that hockey-masked Jason Voorhees was the returning maniacal, homicidal killer, most of the film's murders (there were 22 total deaths) were committed by a 'Jason' copy-cat - paramedic Roy Burns (Dick Wieand), who sliced, stabbed and spiked seventeen (17) individuals throughout the film; his killing rampage, mostly of peripheral characters, was triggered by the sight of the hacked body of a troubled youth at Pinehurst halfway house when he came to take away the corpse of obese chocolate bar-eating orphan Joey Burns (Dominick Brascia), who had been chopped up with an axe by angry, short-haired resident Vic (Mark Venturini); he was visibly upset by the bloody and maimed remains of the victim lying in hacked-up pieces on the ground; the killer was revealed in the conclusion when 'Jason' was knocked out of an upper barn window onto a bed of iron-spiked farm equipment (a tractor harrow) below where his body was impaled; the hockey-mask was dislodged from his face and the rain washed away his 'Jason' makeup, showing that he was not 'Jason,' but disgruntled ambulance paramedic Roy Burns; Sheriff Tucker (Marco St. John) explained that Roy was seeking retribution for the death of his patient son Joey and had used the persona of 'Jason' as a cover-up: "The kid who was axed to death at the woodpile was Roy's son. God only knows why Roy kept it hidden all these years, but he did. Roy was a real loner." Feeling guilty for abandoning his infant son, the disgruntled psychopath sought vengeance on those who had tormented Joey - and many others. When Roy arrived on the traumatic scene and saw his son "all hacked to pieces," he went insanely crazy: "I guess he used the Jason thing to cover up with" |
    
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The Game (1997) |
Wealthy, cold-hearted and soulless investment banker executive Nicholas Van Orton (Michael Douglas) received a 48th year birthday gift from estranged brother Conrad (Sean Penn) - a gift certificate to Consumer Recreation Services (CRS) for a unique 'game' experience; the ultimate object and purpose of the game became a life/death threatening proposition; in the "is it real or not?" ending after an unpredictable series of events, leaving Orton with his house vandalized, with a nameless identity, then kidnapped, buried alive, broke and reduced to begging in a foreign country, he shot his brother dead and then fell off a building to his death (!); after crashing through two sets of glass and onto a giant air mattress with an 'X' target in the middle -- he realized he was experiencing the finale of his own birthday party thrown by a living Conrad |
  
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Get Carter (1971) |
In the depressing and bleak ending of this thriller, ruthless London-based hitman/protagonist Jack Carter (Michael Caine) sought revenge for the murder of his brother Frank Carter, who was killed by underworld gangsters because he knew that his teenaged daughter Doreen (Petra Markham) was illegally involved in pornography; after brutally dealing with Eric Paice (Ian Hendry), the last of the killers, Jack strolled along the blackened beach, whistling and relieved that his killing days were over, when he was surprisingly assassinated by sniper fire (with a bullet to the forehead) |
 
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The Gift (2000) |
In this supernatural thriller's twisting plot, spoiled, promiscuous sexpot Jessica King (Katie Holmes) - the sultry daughter of a prominent citizen in Brixton, Georgia, was suddenly and mysteriously missing in a baffling case; the Southern swamp town's widowed psychic and single mother Annie Wilson (Cate Blanchett) ultimately had a vision that backwater resident Donnie Barksdale (Keanu Reeves) was innocent, but because of his violent abuse of wife Valerie (Hilary Swank), he was erroneously charged with the crime of Jessica's murder and imprisoned; the twist ending was revealed in a flashback, in which Jessica unexpectedly ripped off her shirt and bared her breasts before her fiancee Wayne Collins (Greg Kinnear) - an established, nice-guy Georgia school principal, before he strangled her and put her body in the misty swamp water; he committed the crime because he was angered over her affair with 'redneck' Barksdale; Collins was about to also kill Annie who knew of his guilt during a vision at the lake with him, but was saved from a similar fate by the 'ghost' of mentally-deranged Buddy Cole (Giovanni Ribisi) - who was thought to be institutionalized at the time and alive, but was revealed to have hung himself earlier that day |
   
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GoldenEye (1995) |
The plot revealed that "murdered" former British secret agent 006 Alec Trevelyan (Sean Bean), the mastermind behind the theft of GoldenEye (a top secret satellite weapons system that was to be used on London), was the villainous terrorist of the Russian crime ring named Janus Syndicate; nine years earlier, he had worked alongside British agent 007 James Bond (Pierce Brosnan), but had faked his death at the Arkangel Chemical Weapons Facility in the Soviet Union; as the two agents engaged in death-to-death combat, Bond held his enemy over a precipice by his ankles, and they exchanged a final brief conversation before Bond dropped him: ("For England, James?" "No, for me"); after the villain fell to the ground, the massive satellite crashed down on him to end his life |
 
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| Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) made a mad rush to interrupt and stop Elaine Robinson's (Katharine Ross) wedding, running head-on to the church, where he entered the upper balcony and looked down as the ceremony concluded; he pounded on the glass, hopelessly calling out: "Elaine! Elaine! Elaine! Elaine!", then grabbed the newlywed in front of her startled parents and bridegroom, and raced out of the church with her, to board a passing city bus; they rushed to the rear seat of the city bus and looked out the rear glass window, amidst puzzling, stern and cold looks from the other elderly passengers of another generation; The Sounds of Silence was reprised on the soundtrack as they stared silently ahead, uncharacteristically silent toward each other and not even looking at each other - journeying toward an unpredictable future |   
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The Grifters (1990) |
In this complex story of three con artists whose lives were inextricably intertwined, professional grifter Lilly Dillon (Anjelica Huston) - the mother of small-time con Roy (John Cusack) - was confronted by him in the film's conclusion as she was stealing his money; in a bizarre twist, she swung a suitcase full of cash at her son's head as he was drinking water from a glass; the glass smashed and cut an artery in his neck - and he bled to death on the floor! Lilly gathered up the strewn cash, descended in an elevator, and drove away |
 
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