10 Movie Endings The Audience Guessed Immediately
3. The Village
M. Night Shyamalan's The Village was the filmmaker's fourth major film, following up The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable and Signs, by which point audiences were well-acquainted with the fact that Shyamalan was quite partial to a plot twist or twelve.
And so, when the marketing ramped up for The Village, which focused on the mystery of the creatures residing in the woods surrounding a 19th-century Pennsylvania village, it didn't take long for fans to twig what Shyamalan had up his sleeve.
The climactic twist, that the film actually takes place in the modern day and the monsters aren't real, was guessed on numerous message boards ahead of its release, by simply considering the most ridiculous and "unexpected" thing Shyamalan could've done to bamboozle audiences.
As a result, the unexpected sadly became the expected, and critical tide for Shyamalan consequently began to turn, sending him into an artistic death spiral from which he only (briefly) recovered in recent years.