10 Movies That Are Totally Different By The End
7. The Guest
How It Starts
Adam Wingard's tenacious The Guest was largely sold as a horror film, and in fact, one of the very first sights in the movie is of a Jack-o'-lantern.
The establishing scenes, in which a grieving family are visited by David (Dan Stevens) - an apparent Army buddy of their dead son - set audiences up to anticipate a twisted, seemingly horrifying reveal involving David's true identity.
How It Ends
Yet by act three, The Guest slaloms seamlessly into vaguely sci-fi action-thriller territory, when we learn that David was actually a test subject in a military super-soldier experiment, and is programmed to kill anyone who might compromise his identity.
What follows is a bloodbath as David mows down anyone who gets in his way, before the film morphs again into a slasher flick when David chases remaining family members Anna (Maika Monroe) and Luke (Luke Peterson) through a haunted house.
Hilariously though, Wingard defies our expectations once again, as the film ends with Anna and Luke making it to apparent safety, albeit while a presumed-dead David resurfaces once more, having somehow survived a brutal stab wound, and disappears into the night.
Needless to say, audiences considered many possible endings for The Guest, but a third act that excitedly vacillated between three distinct genres - sci-fi, action, and horror - probably wasn't on their minds.