10 Movie Plot Twist Clues We All Ignored

M. Night Shyamalan's The Village may be seen as a disappointment by many, but its big plot twist certainly lands with flabbergasting impact regardless.

After leading viewers to believe that the movie was set in the 19th century, it's eventually revealed that the story takes place in the present day, and the village of Covington is a commune intentionally walled-off from the outside world by its well-minted elders.

Yet there are some major tells from the very start of the movie by way of its production design.

Most of the buildings we see are constructed of modern materials, such as vinyl siding, which wasn't used on American homes until around 1950, many many years before the film is allegedly set.

There are also some giveaways in the characters' "period" costumes, such as ties and other garments that wouldn't have existed until the 1970s.

But given how firmly committed the movie's marketing was to presenting The Village as a period thriller, most would surely assume these hints were actually just careless mistakes on the part of the production design and costume departments.

Say what you will about Shyamalan, but he loves to labour over small details, so there's no way he would've let these blatant anachronisms slip through the cracks. They were supposed to playfully, slyly point the audience in the right direction.