12 Movies That Wasted Great Twist Ideas

Released in 2009, My Bloody Valentine 3D is a largely agreeable slasher effort from Scream editor Patrick Lussier.

A remake of the eighties film of the same name, this cheesy psychological horror follows a miner returning to his hometown on the anniversary of a gory murder spree, and it's filled with inventively gory death scenes and even a few tense chases. Okay, so only one sequence can muster up much in the way of truly chilling atmosphere (the house chase, for the record), but this flick does see one victim fed head first into a ceiling fan, so it's hard to hate.

However, the audience goodwill the remake musters is squandered by its bizarre ending. Desperate to twist the original film's admittedly uninspired killer reveal, this flick goes for a hokey "it was our hero all along" twist.

It's a particularly frustrating decision as the reveal may well have worked if the audience watched the entire preceding film from the hero's perspective, allowing the director to throw them off the scent.

Instead the film jumps seamlessly between his distorted view of proceedings to a more objective detached reality, and as such the ending becomes a cheap trick which adds little to the flick.