10 Movies Where The Last Scene Is The Best
1. Saw
James Wan's Saw may be constantly wrestling against its evidently low budget and somewhat uneven performances, but it cemented its legacy as a word-of-mouth hit thanks to a game-changing ending that not a single solitary soul saw (sorry) coming.
After spending the entire film locked inside the Jigsaw killer's grotty bathroom, Adam (Leigh Whannell) manages to overpower and kill his apparent captor, Zep (Michael Emerson), an orderly working at Dr. Gordon's (Cary Elwes) hospital.
But as Adam searches Zep's corpse for a key to his chains, he finds a tape recorder, revealing that Zep too was a participant in the real Jigsaw's game, and simply playing out a part in order to receive the antidote to a poison coursing through his own veins.
At that moment, the apparently dead body that's been laying in the middle of the bathroom the entire time stands up, revealing he was in fact alive the entire time and is indeed the real Jigsaw, a cancer-riddled patient of Gordon's called John Kramer (Tobin Bell).
A shell-shocked Adam then attempts to shoot Kramer, only to be given an electric shock and left trapped in the pitch black bathroom by Kramer, who seals it shut and tells him, "Game over" on the way out.
Anybody who says they saw this twist coming is straight-up lying, but it was certainly a conversation-starter which got everybody telling their friends, "you'll never guess how it ends."
It's an ending so brilliantly flabbergasting that the series has basically been trying to one-up it ever since, and unsurprisingly never succeeded.