10 Predictable Horror Movie Twists Everyone Saw Coming

2. Alien: Covenant - David's Switcheroo

Alien Covenant David Michael Fassbender
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Plot: A group of colonists, answering a distress call, find a planet where the Xenomorphs await, alongside the villainous android David.

This is one of those twists that's so obvious it might have you yelling at the screen.

The main villain of this movie is David (Michael Fassbender), returning from the first film, whose experiments have created the iconic xenomorph monster. He wishes to kill the film's main characters but he also has a very good opportunity to infiltrate them, since their android Walter (also Fassbender) is identical to David.

Sure enough, that's exactly what he does, although the rather idiotic main character doesn't realise this until she's going into cyro-sleep (for some reason, she didn't bother checking it was really Walter).

Things such as David cutting his hair to resemble Walter and the end of a fight between them not being shown basically spelt this twist out in flashing neon lights long before it was actually revealed and while watching this, you'll probably have to resist the urge to yell "It's David, you idiots!" at the screen.

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