10 Great Horror Movies With Multiple Plot Twists
2. Get Out
"You know I can't give you the keys, right babe?"
While his sublime offerings Us and Nope constitute worthy candidates for inclusion on this list, Jordan Peele's magnum opus was always going to win out in the twist centric sweepstakes.
Get Out isn't just one of the greatest horror movies of the 21st century, it's one of the most seminal and inspired examples of filmmaking of all time - an effortless blend of nuanced social commentary and razor sharp wit that sends chills running down the audience's collective spine, while somehow still managing several legitimate laugh-out-loud moments.
A key aspect of Peele's expertly engineered atmosphere of unsettling tension is the manner in which the film's plot drops bombshells upon its audience. The Armitage family's abhorrent practice of transplanting brains into subjugated bodies - allowing for a depraved form of immortality - is duly unveiled before the additional head-spinner that the family's "servants" are actually the grandparents having undergone the procedure.
While both events constitute mind-blowing plot-twists in themselves, the masterful director's finest flourish is the introduction of Rose's true villainous nature. The box of photos unmasking Chris' purportedly loving girlfriend as a sociopathic human honey trap was jarring enough, but her sudden shift to emotionless villain as Chris pleads with her to give him his car keys is one of horror's most memorable twist sequences.
An iconic film groaning with quality and loaded with criss-cross moments from start to finish, Get Out reigns supreme over its contemporaries.