10 Horror Movie Plot Twists That Were Totally Pointless
5. 1408 - The Fake-Out
For a PG-13 2000s studio horror film, 1408 is actually pretty darn good. In this Stephen King adaptation, troubled author Mike Enslin (John Cusack) decides to stay in a supposedly haunted hotel room. 1408 is an affecting horror that works by forgoing gore and jump scares for genuine psychological horror, which is wonderfully conveyed by an absolutely fantastic performance from Cusack.
Nevertheless, for all its strengths, 1408 does feature one of the most predictable twists you'll ever see in a horror movie. The supernatural hotel room messes with Mike's mind, and, at one point, he suddenly wakes up on a beach after a surfing accident, leading him to assume that the whole thing in the hotel room was just a nightmare caused by a head injury.
Of course, it wasn't. He was still in the hotel room, and this couldn't have been more obvious, especially as there's still well over half an hour to go at this point in the film. Throughout this section, which appears to show Mike going back to his daily life, virtually every audience member will be impatiently waiting for the 'reveal' that the hotel room was tricking him.