10 Horror Movie Killers EVERYONE Predicted
We all saw these obvious reveals coming.
Watching even a terrible horror movie can be great fun if there's a mystery to be solved - namely, the identity of a secret killer hiding in plain sight.
The whodunnit is a timeless plot device for good reason - it can invest audiences in even the lousiest of scripts, as long as there's a killer to be sniffed out one way or another.
Nothing beats an ingenious killer reveal, and while it's tough to pull off, to the extent that many horror films try a little too hard to trick audiences, sometimes the total opposite is also true.
And that's absolutely the case with these 10 horror movies, each of which served up killer reveals that just about everyone saw coming a mile away.
Though not all audience members are out here actively trying to solve the mystery or "beat" the movie, these killer reveals were all so thunderously obvious that even the most passive of viewers likely figured them out.
From twists that were telegraphed a bit too eagerly to films which made some basic storytelling mistakes, just about everyone saw these unmaskings coming...
10. William Schenk - Spiral
Though the Saw franchise has generally done a solid job with its secret apprentice reveals, the series' most recent failed attempt at a soft reboot, Spiral, had fans sniffing out the big rug-pull in record time.
Many predicted that Spiral's Jigsaw Killer copycat would be Detective William Schenk (Max Minghella) the moment the first full trailer dropped, owing to the distinctive iffy vibe that Schenk gave off throughout.
But the full movie committed a cardinal sin - lousily trying to trick fans into believing Schenk couldn't be the new Jigsaw by unconvincingly faking his demise.
Schenk's mid-film "murder" is the series' first major death in a Jigsaw trap to happen off-screen, which combined with the fact that his remains were oh-so-conveniently skinned, made it hilariously easy to deduce that Schenk had in fact faked his own undoing.
And so, attentive fans just had to sit and wait impatiently for the other shoe to predictably drop. What a letdown.