20 Movies Destroyed By Their Plot Holes

6. The Village - M. Night Shyamalan's Most Illogical Twist

For better or for worse, M. Night Shyamalan is known as the twist guy, and much like his output at large, these are a mixed bag. The twist that concludes The Village is easily his stupidest rug-pull to date. 

While this story appears to be set in a monster-infested village in 19th-century Pennsylvania, the twist is that it's actually in present-day America. The village elders set this up as an escape from the modern world, and they dress up as monsters to keep the residents from leaving. It was a great idea, but the execution was maddeningly silly. 

Over the years, viewers have had a field day breaking down all the different ways in which this doesn't work. Somehow, these people cannot hear the big road that is quite close to the village, and somehow a plane has never flown overhead. 

Fine, there's some vague explanation given that, to the outside world, the village's area is a protected wildlife reserve that's been made a no-fly zone to avoid disturbing the animals, but this is nonsense, too. Wildlife reserves are taxpayer-funded and cannot be bought by one rich family, as in the movie, while no-fly zones don't work in that way. It is damn-near impossible that no plane would ever have gone overhead. 

The Village wasn't doing too well before this, but it was this twist that truly destroyed it beyond repair.