13 Bonkers Theories About 2016’s Movies That Surely Can’t Be True

11. Natalie Dormer Is Dead The Whole Time - The Forest

The Theory: Sara (Natalie Dormer) enters into Japan's infamous "suicide forest" to find her sister, but what if she's in fact been dead the entire time? Her journey turns out not to be a search for her missing sibling (who may or may not actually exist), but her coming to terms with her own death and "moving on" to the next phase. Why It Could Be True: The film is evoking a pretty terrible and predictable horror flick vibe, and if there isn't a plot twist of some sort, it's going to be a massive shock. It's a gut feeling, but one that's hard to shake: the premise seems ripe for a ridiculous plot twist in the third act, and what better than the "she was dead the whole" rug-pull, ahead of a sweet 11% on Rotten Tomatoes? (Sorry, that was pretty mean). Why It Probably Won't Be: Even though there's not much indication this is going to be a good film, this nutty twist has become so overdone over the last decade or so that it'd be a hilariously obvious "surprise", and even bad screenwriters try to offer up the unexpected over the familiar. It's just that the unexpected can be just as awful or even worse than familiarity.