9 Movie Scenes That Completely Change Their Film

When picking out a movie, you almost always have a rough idea of what it's going to entail. You know if you're watching a schmaltzy love story in a rom-com, it'll be tied up with a happy ending, or that you'll be regaled with supernatural jump-scares in a horror, or just get a messy joyride of whatever he deems as acting at the time in a Nic Cage film.

But then sometimes, in a self-aware flex that snaps audiences out of their expectation stupor, a movie scene plays out that changes our perception of the whole thing entirely.

Whether it flips a movie into a new and unexpected genre out of left field, adds an entirely different context to character arcs and decisions, or strikes a devastating blow that means you can never watch the damn thing in the same way again knowing what's coming - filmmakers love to throw curve balls that leave audiences reeling.

Some are subtle, some are not, but all of these scenes deliver that same base-level 'what the f*ckery' that transforms the film we signed up for into something else entirely...

Nothing quite embodies the whole 'movie scene out of nowhere' gimmick like Fire in the Sky. What begins as a biopic about a missing man who's friends claim has been abducted by aliens carefully pans out into a slow-burning, ambiguous drama, pitting logical police officers that doubt the extraterrestrial story against a group of frightened loggers, that miraculously pass lie detector tests with their far-fetched tale.

Of course, all disbelief about the man's plight for the audience is blown away when Walton suffers a flashback in the middle of his welcome home party - revealing in grisly detail exactly what happens when one is abducted and experimented upon by dour-faced aliens.

With one switch of the narrative, we're plunged into a graphic horror film that isn't afraid to step into full-blown nightmare territory as Walton is shrink-wrapped, poked full of holes, and has a rudimentary hose shoved down his throat - before being flung back to earth and questioned some more by doubtful law enforcement.

It's as traumatising for the audience as it is for Walton, and casts the whole movie in a new and unforgettable light once it's played out.