10 Recent Horror Reveals Nobody Was Ready For
8. The Unsatisfactory Final Act Reveal - Scream VI
Sometimes you won't be ready for a horror reveal due to how much it rocks you to your very core, whilst other times you won't be ready for such a reveal because of how, well, naff it all feels. Unfortunately, the latter was very much the case for Scream VI when it came to its closing act unmasking of its trio of killers.
Scream VI is not a bad movie, but it's final third is responsible for the film only being decent when it could've been great. The first two acts are largely extremely well done, with Ghostface feeling like an entirely different, more aggressive, more public threat than in previous movies. And then, Scream VI failed to stick the landing where it pertains to its final half-hour.
Not only was it shocking to see three Ghostfaces for the first time in the franchise, but it was shocking (in an entirely different way) to have it revealed that these killers were Detective Wayne Bailey and his daughter Quinn and son Ethan - who were in fact the family of Jack Quaid's Richie Kirsch of the prior movie.
Scream 3 often gets flack for having its killer reveal be Sidney Prescott's long-lost secret half-brother, and Scream VI similarly disappointed some with its explanation that the trio of Ghostfaces were secretly the pissed off family of douchebag Richie.
This was a reveal that a good chunk of the audience weren't ready for, mainly because it just brought a crashing halt to what had been an otherwise fun entry in the franchise up until that point.