10 Recent Movie Twists That Fell Totally Flat

Scream VI is a perfectly solid sequel for the most part - and certainly for the standards of most long-running horror franchises - yet it nevertheless falls apart when it comes time to reveal the movie's masked killers.

In the third act we learn that there are three Ghostfaces running around - Detective Bailey (Dermot Mulroney), his daughter Quinn (Liana Liberato) and son Ethan (Jack Champion) - who are avenging the death of prior killer Richie Kirsch (Jack Quaid), who was a member of their family.

The problem? The series has never been this predictable with its killer reveals. For starters, given that the new Ghostface is dropping classic Ghostface masks at every crime scene, the overwhelming likelihood is that a cop is the one doing it, with their easier access to such evidence.

And with the film's totally unconvincing attempts to paint FBI agent Kirby Reed (Hayden Panettiere) as a possible killer, it really only leaves Detective Bailey as the plausible ringleader.

Then there's Quinn, whose "death" scene earlier in the movie should immediately raise red flags with genre-savvy fans, considering that we don't actually see her be stabbed by Ghostface, but simply stumble out of her bedroom covered in blood. Lo and behold, she faked her own death.

Ethan is meanwhile the least predictable of the three, but given that he basically dips out of the movie after tending to Mindy (Jasmin Savoy Brown), it wasn't exactly a shocker either.

The ease with which the twist can be guessed coupled with the rather underwhelming, played-out revenge motive ensures that the movie basically just fizzles out in its third reel.