10 Great Horror Movies With Multiple Plot Twists

10. Sleepy Hollow

While often lost in the endless landslide of Tim Burton horror outings, 1999's Sleepy Hollow remains one of the celebrated director's finest, albeit cheesiest, offerings to date.

Endlessly silly and helmed by a charmingly bumbling performance from Johnny Depp, Sleepy Hollow is a riotous watch. Adapted from Washington Irving's classic short story, the film centers around a malevolent spectral entity terrorizing a town by decapitating members of the populace - the appropriately named Headless Horseman. What appears to be a straight-forward horror fantasy spirals into a spider's web of deceit as Depp's Ichabod Crane investigates the murders further.

Revelations of true identities and unexpected character deaths are an integral aspect of the 106 minute run-time as things are revealed to be far from what they initially seemed. Several culprits - including Crane's love interest Katrina - are mooted as potential suspects for the Horseman's shadowy master, serving only to increase the shock factor when the majority are brutally dispatched.

Burton delivers Sleepy Hollow's final twist with effortless panache when Miranda Richardson's Lady Van Tassel re-emerges, having faked her death. Not only is she the true villainous mastermind behind proceedings, her backstory unveils that she is utterly driven by revenge against the film's two centric families for evicting her family during her childhood.

Fortunately Crane manages to break "Van Tassell's" hold over the Horseman and she is duly carried screaming off to hell. Everybody loves a happy ending.