10 Biggest WTF Moments In Recent Horror Movies

9. Gabriel Is On Madison's Brain - Malignant

Malignant Gabriel
Warner Bros. Pictures

If you can't tell by the amount of times this film has come up in other articles, James Wan's Malignant is a horror that's going to be talked about for a long, long time.

That's partly because it's full of WTF moments, from the absolutely crazed opening, to the many, many plot twists along the way.

The biggest of these, however, comes just as the third act is kicking in. Protagonist Madison has been falsely imprisoned on account of murders committed by her supernatural brother, Gabriel. It turns out, however, that the police weren't entirely wrong: Gabriel and Madison are two different people, but they're sharing the same body.

This whole time Gabriel has been living on Madison's brain, taking over her body to live out his twisted revenge fantasy. This already bats**t twist is delivered in an equally insane way: as viewers are treated to Gabriel going on a killing spree in the prison, mixing the brutal violence of Mortal Kombat with the choreographed action of The Matrix.

It's wild.

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