10 Best Slasher Horror Movie Fakeout Endings
8. Blood Rage
Blood Rage sees Mark Soper impressively pulling double-duty as he plays twins Terry and Todd Simmons.
As this 1987 feature opens, young Terry and Todd find themselves strolling through a drive-thru theater's carpark while their mother's busy on a date. Showing that he's a smidge unhinged, Terry soon kills a horned-up teen with a machete, before then framing his twin brother for this murder.
Too freaked out to say anything, Todd is erroneously locked up in an asylum as a result of this opening scene, and with that, Blood Rage sets out its key principals: Terry Simmons is the bad twin, Todd Simmons is the good twin.
Skipping ahead ten years, Todd has managed to escape from the mental facility, just as Terry embarks on a gnarly rampage of bloodshed and brutality at the apartment complex that he and his mother now call home.
By the time we get to the film's conclusion, Terry has managed to kill another eight people before he has a swimming pool-set showdown by his brother. As the lads' mother Maddy turns up on the scene, she fatally shoots the sinister Terry and embraces good ol' Todd.
The fakeout element here, is that Maddy freaks out when she realises it's Todd - as in, the totally innocent twin - that's left alive. With the audience having thought the Todd was about to get some redemption and regale his ma with the truth, Maddy wails and then shoots herself in the head.
So much for the family reunion we were all hoping for.