10 Greatest Cut To Black Movie Endings EVER

10. The Usual Suspects

The Usual Suspects executes one of the most brilliantly impactful cut-to-black endings of all time by tethering it to one of the most mind-melting twist endings in movie history.

Bryan Singer's mastery mystery-thriller concludes by revealing that con artist Kerbal Kint (Kevin Spacey) was actually the shadowy crime lord known as Keyser Söze all along.

More to the point, the convoluted yarn Kint had unspooled to Agent Dave Kujan (Chazz Palminteri) was largely a heap of bulls**t cobbled together on-the-fly, using random objects around the office as inspiration.

And so, Kint/Söze gets away as Kujan attempts to track him down, all while quotes from earlier in the movie are replayed with their shocking new context.

This glorious montage climaxes with a clip from earlier in the movie, where Kint tells Kujan, "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. And like that... he's gone."

As Kint says, "He's gone," the movie smash cuts to black, providing a jaw-dropping exclamation point for what remains one of the most ingenious movie twists ever.