These Movie Plot Twists SUCK!

If there's one thing that film directors and studios love more than a lucrative sequel, it's the late-game plot twist. This cinematic rug pull, if done right will leave an audience completely stunned as all the pieces of the puzzle finally fall into place but make up an image no one was expecting.

From the "he was dead all along" from Sixth Sense to the "I am your Father" Star Wars reveal, a good plot twist can inject life into the scene and sometimes cement the film's legacy in stone forevermore. However for every good plot twist, there are at least a hundred terrible ones, where creative minds have thrown in either nonsensical or downright dumb moments into their projects as a way to yell "gotcha!" but haven't realized that their rug pull has seen the audience slip, crack their head on the floor and leak cerebral fluid out of the ear.

It's very easy to chuck in a third-act twist with a wave of the hand and a "here's the REAL villain" but if the setup doesn't make sense or only works in isolation then audiences are likely to leave the cinema feeling cheated and most definitely heated.

Hooo boy are we kicking this off with an absolute stinker! While the original I Know What You Did Last Summer might hold up about as well as a rotten fish in this day and age, the sequel somehow is even more rancid when it comes to its plot twists, to the point that it's almost impossible to take this supposed horror movie seriously.

The big reveal here is that the real killer of the piece is actually Will Benson, one of central star Julie's old college friends. Shock! Gasp! Betrayal! However, before this twist has any chance of settling on the "ok that's a pretty fun twist" you suddenly begin to realize the cascade of failures that are attached to this decision.

Let's begin for example with the big one. WHY BOTHER GOING TO THESE LENGTHS WILL YOU !*$% DONUT HEAD? You take Jule and all of her friends on holiday just so you could kill them one by one? What was the point? To have some sun, sea, and slashing? A weekend trip to Gateshead would have been fine enough plus there no one would even care about finding the bodies. Win-win! (I lived there so I can say this)

Also let's not forget that the twist is monumentally stupid when you realize it couldn't have been anyone else at all as literally, all other "suspects" are too dumb, high, or both to have pulled this off.

And finally, the main event, the absolute whopper of whiff that is the fact that Will Benson is actually Ben's Son aka the offspring of the original serial killer that the group offed last time around. This moment, when I saw it in cinema caused me to burst out laughing at how utterly stupid a twist within a twist it was. It adds precisely nothing to the film and only serves to detract what little there was to love. The fact that it even got its own line "Ben's Son?" hammers home this point like a nail to the pee hole how utterly braindead a movie this was.