20 Most Idiotic Film Twists Of All Time

8. Jamie's Dad Is Turned Into A Human Ventrioloquist Dummy - Dead Silence

Dead Silence
Universal Pictures

The Twist: Jamie (Ryan Kwanten) discovers that not only is his elderly, wheelchair-bound father Edward (Bob Gunton) dead, but his back has been hollowed out and replaced with a ventriloquist mechanism, meaning that Edward's wife Ella (Amber Valletta) has been "puppeteering" him the whole time.

Why It's Stupid: Everything about it. The fact that Ella is able to somehow mimic Edward's voice, the fact that Jamie never noticed his own dad was a freaking dummy, and the fact that Ella went as far as to have a tube placed in Edward's throat so that she could "feed" him convincingly.

It's a twist almost idiotic enough that it goes all the way around and becomes brilliant again, but sadly, not quite. And this is from James "Furious 7" Wan no less. Oh, how far he's come.

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