10 Movies That Are Totally Different By The End
5. Kill List
How It Starts
Ben Wheatley's 2011 crime flick Kill List offers a straightforward yet intriguing premise as two former British soldiers, Jay (Neil Maskell) and Gal (Michael Smiley), take a job to carry out three killings in exchange for a hefty payday.
How It Ends
Though weirdness soon enough abounds as it becomes clear there's something more to Jay and Gal's mission - one of their targets thanks them for killing him - it isn't until the final 15 minutes that things fully come into focus.
As the pair prepare to carry out their third hit, they observe a cult ritual in the woods which culminates in a human sacrifice, prompting an alarmed Jay to open fire on the assembled crowd.
Gal is then mortally wounded by the cultists, while Jay is knocked unconscious and wakes up in a field, where he's stripped, fitted with a mask, and told to kill his final target, "The Hunchback", who is armed with a knife.
Jay complies, killing the Hunchback, only to learn that the Hunchback was in fact his wife, Shel (MyAnna Buring), and son Sam, hidden under a mask and cloak. The film then ends ambiguously with the cult seemingly crowning Jay as their new king.
For a film that was largely presented as a gritty, low-budget crime thriller, the sharp left turn into folk horror - even with the preceding weirdness leading up to it - was a bracingly effective shock.