10 Best Movie Twists You Genuinely Never Saw Coming
4. Jigsaw Was In The Bathroom All Along - Saw
Saw is a film that was so brilliantly positioned to lure audiences into a false sense of security.
Upon its original 2004 release, few expected much from James Wan's grotty, low-budget horror flick, such that its ingenious final twist crept up on viewers and smacked them around the face.
Yet even if you only heard about Saw after it became a word-of-mouth hit and already knew that it had an insane plot twist, you almost certainly still failed to guess its jaw-dropper of a closing reveal.
Saw revolves around two men, Adam (writer Leigh Whannell) and Lawrence (Cary Elwes), who wake up chained up in the world's worst bathroom at the behest of the vicious Jigsaw Killer, who tortures people he believes don't value their lives.
Between Adam and Lawrence lies the corpse of a man who seemingly shot himself in the head during a prior Jigsaw game, though at film's end we learn that this is no dead body.
Rather, it's Jigsaw himself, who slathered himself in fake blood and played dead for the entirety of the game before standing up and giving Adam the surprise of his life.
Better still, Jigsaw is John Kramer, one of Lawrence's terminal cancer patients briefly glimpsed earlier in the film. It's a twist so devious and clever that every subsequent sequel has struggled to match it, let alone one-up it.