10 Awesome Horror Movie Twists You Never Saw Coming
7. The Old Man Has A Baby-Making Racket In His Basement - Don't Breathe
One of the few brilliant horror movies of late that have played with sensory deprivation as a key theme, Don't Breathe focusses on a group of petty criminals targeting a blind old man's house who's rumoured to be sitting on a $300,000 cash settlement from losing his daughter in a car accident. They break in to grab the prize, but get far more than they bargain for when he turns out to be a highly trained killer from his days in the Special Forces - able to hunt and them down and murder them with surprising capability as the night plays out.
Don't Breathe's best twist isn't one that comes at the end however, but one that lands squarely in the middle of the narrative. Just when you think you're getting your standard home invasion subversion and that these criminals are fair game for preying on an innocent pensioner, protagonists Rocky and Alex manage to make their way to the basement. What they find there is the stuff of nightmares.
This man hasn't just taken his settlement, but the woman that hit his daughter in the accident - chaining her up and forcibly impregnating her with a turkey baster full of semen to create a replacement child. Suddenly, I've gone off the thought of Christmas dinner.