10 Movie Moments Where You Had No Idea What Was Going To Happen Next

1. Martin's Ultimatum - The Killing Of A Sacred Deer

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Filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos clearly gets a kick out of leaving audiences in the dark for practically the entirety of his movies, as he's done perhaps no better than in his psychological thriller The Killing of a Sacred Deer.

The film follows cardiac surgeon Steven Murphy (Colin Farrell) as he befriends a teenage boy, Martin Lang (Barry Keoghan), whose father apparently died in a car crash a decade prior.

But almost half-way through the film, it's revealed that Martin's father actually died during botched heart surgery performed by Steven.

In return Martin has stricken Steven's family with a curse, which will cause his wife and children to die agonising deaths unless Steven decides to kill one of them to "redress the balance."

It's a complete mind-melter of a gear-shift for the rest of the movie, with audiences left to ponder quite how far Lanthimos is going to take his demented premise.

As it turns out, pretty damn far, given that the film concludes with a sight nobody could've predicted: Steven tying up his family, putting on a blindfold and spinning around in a circle with a rifle, blindly firing a fatal shot into his son (Sunny Suljic) to break the curse.

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