10 More Awesome Plot Twists That Totally Saved Terrible Movies

A plot twist can either make or break a movie - pull it off and the story is all the better for it, but get it wrong and audiences will swear the film off forever more.

The art of a great plot twist can't ever be underestimated, and every so often, a genuinely brilliant twist will somehow find itself landing in an otherwise dud movie.

Sometimes a wonky script has just a few pages of brilliance where the writer's one great idea manages to shine through by way of an epic rug-pull that totally works.

And in the case of these 10 films, each twist was even awesome enough that it managed to salvage the entire movie from trash status.

Sure, these films are not good by any typical method of assessment, but their big reveal is packed with enough unexpected cleverness and intrigue that it becomes difficult to loathe them entirely.

Basically, if you're patient enough to slog through the first two acts, these movies at least have something fun and interesting waiting for you in the third reel, enough to make watching the movie not feel like total wasted time...

For the most part, this prequel to 2009's wonderfully unhinged horror film Orphan provides a pretty by-the-numbers origin story for psychopathic serial killer Leena Klammer (Isabelle Fuhrman), yet also completely blindsides viewers with a wildly unexpected mid-film twist.

First Kill shows Leena - a 31-year-old woman with a growth-stunting pituitary disorder - escaping from an Estonian psych ward and then posing as a missing American girl, Esther.

This leads to her being "reunited" with her mother Tricia (Julia Stiles), father Allen (Rossif Sutherland), and brother Gunnar (Matthew Finlan).

And while it's fair to assume that the rest of the movie will simply play out similarly to the first with Esther turning psycho on her new family, things are a little more complicated than that.

Once a detective discovers who "Esther" really is, she's suddenly saved by Tricia, who shoots him dead. Tricia then reveals that she knew Leena was an imposter the entire time, because the real Esther was killed four years earlier during an argument with Gunnar.

To protect her son, Tricia covered up Esther's death while keeping her husband totally unaware. Basically, this seemingly totally normal mother is actually a femme fatale in her own right and quite the savage match for Esther.

It's at this point that an otherwise goofy and unconvincing prequel few were asking for actually perks up, showing it had at least one good idea tucked up its sleeve.