10 Genius Blockbuster Movie Subversions

What You Thought

At a glance, the next outing into the Jurassic franchise was regarded as something sticking to the formula we knew and loved. Dinosaurs on the loose, running around on an island and with the introduction of genetic splicing in the previous entry, a new Indoraptor to terrify some poor unsuspecting children.

What It Actually Was

While the first half of the movie gave us what we expected, the second half had a different plan. We arrived at Lockwood Manor (Benjamin Lockwood being a former business partner of John Hammond and had a hand in creating the original Jurassic Park) with Dinosaurs to be auctioned off to the highest bidder, furthering the suggestion of weaponising the animals in the first Jurassic World. All still consistent in the grand scheme of things.

The tone then shifts into that of a horror-slasher flick with the fierce Indoraptor hunting our heroes in various sections of the Manor - an unexpected diversion in itself, the film deciding to invest properly in the fright-factor of the once-extinct, after some below par scares in many of the sequels.

What tipped the entire audience's head to one side in intrigue however was the reveal of Lockwood's granddaughter, Maisie, being in fact a clone of Lockwood's own daughter who died - taking the franchise down a route of human genetical madness that no one saw coming.