A film isn't a film nowadays unless one aspect of it is shrouded in a kind of mystery - you know, so audiences can spend the months leading up to its release pondering, speculating and theorising over a singular aspect that has been purposely left vague for exactly that reason. A bunch of movies across the span of 2015 were guilty of being purposely mysterious in order to build anticipation and hype, after all: Spectre made a huge deal out of whether or not Christoph Waltz would wind up revealing himself to be James Bond's arch-nemesis, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, whilst every superhero movie unveiled over the year had people excitedly wondering which characters or events would be teased mid or post-credits. And 2016 is shaping up to be another year packed with movies built on their inherent mysteriousness, designed to generate promotion and puffery amongst movie fans. To celebrate that very fact, here are the 10 biggest mysteries surrounding 2016's biggest motion pictures, all of which audiences are feverishly hankering to find the answers to...
Sam Hill is an ardent cinephile and has been writing about film professionally since 2008. He harbours a particular fondness for western and sci-fi movies.
