10 Horror Villain Reveals That Everyone Hated

Secret Window is one of the lesser recognised credits on Johnny Depp's long CV, and is unfortunately a rather forgettable one. An interesting premise, to be sure, but the movie was let down by, among other things, its big plot twist.

Mort Rainey is a writer, plagued by plenty of issues, not least of which is a seemingly deranged stalker claiming to have been plagiarised by Depp's character. It's an interesting enough story, but the ultimate reveal, one that was overused at the time anyway, is made just too obvious throughout to ever be a true shock.

Mort was very clearly a troubled man, and his creative mind had essentially run away from him. It soon became relatively easy to put together that John Shooter, the man terrorising his life, was a figment of his own imagination.

Shooter never interacted with anyone else in the movie, only Mort, and with the writer using exactly the same accent as Shooter when he donned the hat his stalker wore in the market, it wasn't the most well-hidden twist.

Movies have utilised angles similar to this time and time again over the years, and with Secret Window coming in the wake of the likes of Fight Club and Identity, even if it wasn't so predictable, it still wouldn't have been that interesting.