10 Horror Movie Plot Twists EVERYONE Guessed
Everyone called The Visit as soon as the trailer dropped.
Plot twists have always had a special place in horror cinema - in fact, one of the very-first documented film plot twists can be found in 1920's The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, which is regarded by some as the first true horror film in cinema history.
Plot twists are a great tool for horror flicks to surprise and shock their audiences, and it's not surprising that some of cinema's best twists come from horror movies. Psycho, The Sixth Sense, Saw, The Others, The Wicker Man, Seven... the list goes on, but it definitely wouldn't include any of these following ten twists.
Why? Because they were that thing a plot twist should never be: predictable. Pretty much everyone guessed their big rug-pulls - in some cases, the internet called it before the film had even been released.
That's not to say that these films aren't worth watching, as many of them are pretty good in other ways, but if you're looking for anything that'll do a Last Jedi and subvert your expectations, these movies won't do that for you. Kicking off with a certain horror flick from the cinematic king of plot twists...
10. The Visit - They're Not The Real Grandparents
M Night Shyamalan, with the exception of his disastrous forays into big-budget blockbuster filmmaking (After Earth and, worse still, The Last Airbender), always includes a plot twist in his movies, and if he doesn't then that in itself is a twist. However, in the case of The Visit, people all over the internet called the twist as soon as they saw the trailer.
This found-footage horror flick sees two Philadelphia youngsters, Becca (Olivia DeJonge) and Tyler (Ed Oxenbould), going to stay with their grandparents for several days while their mother navigates a divorce. Once they arrive, the two children (who've never met their grandparents before, as their mother was estranged from them) find that their grandparents are behaving extremely strangely, and this only gets worse and worse until the two teens find themselves in mortal danger.
And why are the grandparents behaving in such a terrifying manner? Because, as plenty of commentators clocked immediately, they aren't the real grandparents. They were dangerous patients from the psychiatric hospital where the grandparents worked; Olivia and Tyler later find the corpses of their real grandparents in the basement.
So yes, this twist was predictable but The Visit did subvert expectations in another way: it was actually pretty good, a major return-to-form for M Night Shyamalan. Furthermore, a simple and foreseeable twist was certainly preferable to some of the shark-jumping stuff Shyamalan had indulged in with things like Signs and The Village.