10 Horror Movie Twists That Pissed Everyone Off
5. The Entire Movie Wasn't Real - Identity
James Mangold's Identity has the worst sort of twist. Y'know, the sort of twist that makes you realise you've just wasted a solid hour of your time and the sort of twist that takes away any interest you have in the following 25 minutes of action.
Opening up with convicted murderer Malcolm Rivers waiting to be executed, the focus then switches to ten strangers stranded at a motel in the middle of nowhere as horrendous weather rains down around them. When this group end up being killed one by one, it's down to John Cusack's retired copper Ed Dakota to try and decipher what's really happening.
That "what's really happening" ends up being that 95% of what you've seen so far hasn't been real.
The twist here is that all ten of the aforementioned strangers don't exist. Instead, each one represents a different personality of the murderous Malcolm. One of these personalities is deemed responsible for the very real kills carried out by Malcolm, and this whole situation is part of an exercise from Malcolm's doctor as he tries to excuse his patient from a death sentence on the grounds of insanity.