10 Exact Moments Recent Movies Won Us Over

Few were asking for a prequel to 2009's amusingly campy horror film Orphan, but last year we got it anyway, and to its credit Orphan: First Kill at least came up with a creative, genuinely unexpected plot twist few ever saw coming.

First Kill begins with Leena (Isabelle Fuhrman) - a 31-year-old woman with a growth-stunting hormone disorder - escaping from a psychiatric hospital in Estonia and assuming the identity of a missing American girl, Esther Albright.

As "Esther," Leena is sent to America and reunited with "her" family - mother Tricia (Julia Stiles), father Allen (Rossif Sutherland), and brother Gunnar (Matthew Finlan).

The narrative rub seems to be that Leena is tricking Esther's family into believing they've got their long lost Esther back, but at the end of the second act, we learn that things aren't quite what they seem.

When Detective Donnan (Hiro Kanagawa) discovers that Esther isn't Esther, a scuffle with her ensues, at which point Tricia interrupts and shoots Donnan dead.

Tricia then reveals that she's known Leena isn't her daughter since the beginning, because the real Esther died four years earlier during an argument with her brother Gunnar.

Tricia covered up Esther's death to protect her son and make it seem like she simply disappeared, while husband Allen was none-the-wiser.

And so, with Tricia and Esther each being aware of the other's deception but unable to reveal it without exposing themselves, they're locked into an uneasy agreement - at least for a short while.

For a prequel that seemed so pointless on the surface, the filmmakers at least came up with a surprisingly smart twist which perfectly played on the audience's pre-existing knowledge of where Esther is going in the future.