10 Secret Post-Credits Movie Scenes That Were Absolute Genius

8. Ehtar Is Moriarty - Young Sherlock Holmes

Barry Levinson's criminally underrated 1985 take on a younger iteration of Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective remains a cult classic with Sherlock fans, but even those who grew up with the movie may well be unaware that it serves up a deliciously expectation-defying final stinger.

At the tail-end of the credits, a figure in a top hat and suit is seen checking into an inn, before signing himself in under the name of Holmes' mythological nemesis, Moriarty.

But it gets better - we then cut to Moriarty's face, revealing that he was none other than the movie's primary antagonist, Professor Rathe aka Ehtar (Anthony Higgins), all along.

This naturally causes the viewer to completely reconsider the entire movie within a new context, but it's a reveal that's also easily missed if you walked away once the credits started rolling.

Sadly, the film was a massive box office bomb despite broadly positive reviews and fan enthusiasm, so Anthony Higgins sadly never got a chance to play a fully-outed Moriarty, though did ironically play the detective himself in 1993's TV movie Sherlock Holmes Returns.