10 Great Horror Movies Ruined By Their Twists
6. Take Shelter (2011)
Take Shelter is actually more of a psychological thriller than a straight horror film, but the twist is so bad it merits a spot. Michael Shannon plays Curtis, a blue-collar husband and father with a history of paranoid schizophrenia in his family. He spends the duration of his screen time running around terrified that a storm is coming that will kill his loved ones, and that irrational terror ends up costing him his job, his friends, and perhaps even the family for whom hes seeking refuge.
It's an interesting drama that illustrates the destructive nature of mental illness - or so you think until the last two minutes. That's right; the twist is that everybody else is crazy! The storm is really coming, and Curtis apparently has an omniscient super power that just happens to exactly resemble his mothers genetically inclined disease.
Now, if a film like this didn't come around every once in awhile to keep people on their toes the movie-going experience might become too predictable but that fact doesn't help save this particular feature.