10 Confusing Horror Movies You Need To Watch Twice To Understand

The best twist endings in cinema go beyond lazily employed shock value; rather, they force audiences to reconsider everything they’ve just seen in order to comprehend the inevitable conclusion. What’s even better is if these climaxes add new implications and layers for viewers to digest when they hit the play button again.

Christopher Smith’s 2009 gem, Triangle, accomplishes precisely this. Initially, it seems like an intriguing and fun, yet fairly insubstantial, merger of the slasher and time travel subgenres, with protagonist Jess (Melissa George) and friends getting stranded on an abandoned ocean liner with a masked killer.

One by one, each person is slaughtered, only for multiple versions of them to reappear and interact as the situation keeps resetting itself. Only exasperated single mother Jess realizes this is happening, though, which means that she simultaneously operates as the main hero and principal villain.

For sure, it’s a premise that keeps you guessing until the very end; however, the true meaning of what’s really going on isn’t revealed until the last few minutes, and it’s a game-changer. So much so, in fact, that consequent voyages are rendered both structurally and emotionally complex, with a haunting air of tragedy dampening each scene.