Every M. Night Shyamalan Plot Twist Ranked From Worst To Best
3. Devil - The Old Woman Is The Devil
Plot: Five people with guilty secrets are trapped in a lift and start getting killed off one by one - among the passengers is the devil, having come to punish the other four.
Sure, perhaps the Old Woman (Jenny O'Hara) seemed like an obvious choice for the villain, but this rock-solid - albeit overly short - horror thriller still deployed its final twist in a clever and satisfying way.
Throughout the film, it seems that Tony (Logan Marshall-Green) is the most suspicious one since he didn't actually sign in at the front desk of the building, unlike the other four.
At the end, the other four are either dying or dead and it looks like Tony must be the villain... but then Tony's fiancee (Zoie Palmer) speaks to the detective (Chris Messina) investigating the incident and reveals that Tony's surname is 'Janekowski'; he had signed in after all. The name had previously been attributed to the Old Woman, who'd apparently been hung with some wires.
The lead detective, confused, says "He signed in? Then who is-?"
Cut to the lift, as the Old Woman rises. Boom.
It's not the most surprising reveal, but the twist scene is very satisfying and the conversation between Tony, who once killed two people while drunk-driving, and the Devil is well-written and powerful. And once again, its simplicity really adds a lot.