11 Recent Movie Plot Twists You Never Saw Coming

11. Run - Diane Isn't Chloe's Mother

This swelteringly tense Hulu Original tells the story of Chloe (Kiera Allen), a wheelchair-bound teenager trying to escape from her sinister and over-protective mother, Diane (Sarah Paulson). Run is not only an effective, superbly-acted thrill ride, it also contains an end-of-second-act rug pull - Diane isn't Chloe's mother at all, and she stole her from her birth parents when she was a baby - that shows exactly how to do a thriller plot twist. 

First up, as a good twist ideally should be, it's a hell of a surprise. The film's cleverly edited flashback opening strongly implied that Diane was Chloe's mother, but as it turns out, the baby we saw in the opening was Diane's daughter who died shortly after childbirth. 

Furthermore, startling though it might be, this is a twist that stays on the right side of ridiculous and it also does wonders for the overall movie. This reveal levels up the entire picture and takes it to thrilling new levels of sustained, white-knuckle tension, cementing the Run's place among the best thrillers of the 2020s so far.