10 Amazing Movie Scenes That Came Totally Out Of Nowhere
5. The Spider - Enemy
The shocking ending to Denis Villeneuve's Enemy is proof perfect that a scene can be tremendously effective even if you don't completely understand it.
The film, in which a man, Adam (Jake Gyllenhaal), chases down his own doppelganger, concludes in a most mind-melting fashion, when Adam goes into his bedroom to talk to his wife Helen (Sarah Gadon), only to find a gigantic tarantula curled up in the back corner of the room. The End.
Even with the abundance of spider-like imagery throughout the film, this ending comes as a massive surprise to viewers, given that it represents such a surreal break with the comparative "reality" of the rest of the movie.
Yet it's also a brilliant cinematic scare that doesn't need to rely on loud tension chords, because the visceral quality of the image is so innately terrifying to most people.
Enemy is a great movie overall, and viewers have a bevy of interpretations for the ending's true meaning, but wherever you land, it's a terrific closing image that nobody saw coming.