10 Horror Movies With Terrifying Surprises

5. A Dangerous Alliance - Urban Legends: Final Cut

Urban Legends Final Cut
Sony Pictures

For the wrestling fans amongst you, any chance to throw out the Dangerous Alliance name is one that should forever be taken. For those of you without a penchant for the grappling game, you absolutely need more 1992 WCW in your life.

Where Urban Legends: Final Cut is concerned, the fun surprise waiting at the final moments of this picture is a potential working relationship between the killer of this follow-up offering and the killer of the original Urban Legend film.

In this 2000 sequel, the major reveal is that Hart Bochner's Professor Solomon is behind the fencing mask get-up of the movie's 'big bad'; it lazily explained how the mad professor wanted credit for a much-hyped student film.

As is often the case, Solomon is eventually taken down, being shot in the gut and left wheelchair-bound in a mental institution. It's here, though, that Final Cut serves up a fan-pleasing surprise, with it revealed how the nurse looking after Solomon is Brenda Bates (Rebecca Gayheart) - the killer of the first film - who excitedly proclaims how they've got a lot in common.

While a terrifying unholy alliance between these two seemed on the table, sadly Urban Legends: Bloody Mary decided to leave these two behind and instead take a supernatural path when it was released in 2005.

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