10 Horror Movies That Subtly Spoil The Ending Early

10. Get Out (2016)

Horror aficionado Jordan Peele builds his films in response to generic conventions, using his knowledge of the wider horror landscape to subvert narrative and loading small, significant details into every scene. And his first feature, Get Out, is an exemplar of precisely this approach.

The film follows Chris Washington (Daniel Kaluuya), a young black man, on his journey to meet his white girlfriend Rose Armitage’s (Allison Williams) family for the first time, in their waspy town in upstate New York. Once there, Chris finds them hospitable but with a sinister edge, their comments and behaviours all building towards a nightmarish revelation: Chris is the next candidate in the Armitage and their white, elderly community’s plan to transplant their brains into black bodies and live long beyond their natural years. Needless to say, Peele quietly tees this up long before the movie’s final act arrives.

When Chris is packing at the beginning of the film, Rose tells his dog she wants to “pry something out of your dad". On a call with Chris’ friend Rod (Lil Rel Howery) on the way to the Armitage’s, Rod - an airport worker - tells Chris that the next terrorist attack will be conducted by the elderly. And when family patriarch Dean Armitage (Bradley Whitford) is telling Chris about his mother on arrival, he says “we keep a piece of her in here”, before Peele pans the camera to Georgina - the black body containing Dean’s supposedly departed mother. Nuff said.