10 Movies That Clearly Foreshadow Their Own Plot

Christian Bale's dedication to losing 63 pounds for a movie role still remains a startling record, with his skeletal physique one of the defining features of dark and broody drama The Machinist. Featuring a machine worker suffering from internal turmoil that isn't revealed until the very end of the film, there's hints seeded throughout at what could really be going on - if you can swim through all of the weirdness that surrounds the rest of the narrative.

One such defining moment is when Trevor and Nicholas go on the ghost train ride, in perhaps the best plot twist of all time that the cheesy carnival ride is actually scary. The trip in the dark turns sour when the plastic models take on an all-too-real quality, featuring a woman at a gravestone, a guilty hanged man, and a bloodied car crash.

This turns out to be a reflection of Trevor's guilt at accidentally killing Nicholas in a hit and run accident a year previously, projecting his anxious disposition onto the models in the tunnel after repressing it for so long.