These Movie Plot Twists SUCK!

2. The Village

I don't think you can talk about movie plot twists without at least referencing M Night Shamalan in the conversation, where he simply hangs above you going "oooooh ooooh oooooh I wonder what's going to happen next" like some really annoying ghost from the Harry Potter series.

The man-made a name for himself through his, at the time, shocking and completely left-field twists, however after a few buzzer beaters, ended up dunking on himself over and over with the likes of Signs and especially The Village. To have your alien threat destroyed by water, a material that covers the majority of the planet their invading was stupidity on another plane of existence, but at least this felt like it was at least referencing the great flu-battering that the alien invaders received in War of The Worlds to some extent. The Village however? Well, that was just dog !*$%.

The entire film had been setting up that there was some sinister monster hiding in the woods surrounding a quaint village, picking off those who sought to challenge the ways of the settlement and seemed to be set in the 1800's which itself lent to the intensity of the piece, mixing superstition and religious aspects as one. However as The Village comes to show us what is actually hunting those who dare leave the commune, basically just some dudes in Halloween outfits so cheap that even Scooby-Doo villains gave them a pass, you see that this is actually a reflection of the film itself, a cheap scare with little real value.

It's a reveal that raises more questions than returning home to find your wife in bed covered in a selection of fine hams while a sad clown paints her from a corner. How the hell did the village pull this off? Where do they get materials that they clearly aren't growing in the settlement? How can they afford the ludicrous cost of turning the area into a no-fly zone and paying off the local government not to interfere at all? Are you telling me no one ever tried camping in the woods or just went in for a look around?

In fact, the most annoying thing about these questions is that I even have them at all, the twist is so bad that it punctured Shamalans career for years after, and as such it doesn't deserve renting a room in my brain at all.