10 More Horror Movie Twists That Pissed Everyone Off

Those horror twists that left us all frustratingly slapping our foreheads!

by Andrew Pollard
Hellraiser Hellseeker Kirsty Cotton
Dimension Films

Few corners of cinema are as synonymous with twists and turns as much as the horror genre is. For decades, these twisted tales have caught audiences off-guard, zigging when we all thought a film was going to zag.

Often, these shock revelations and game-changing moments leave you stunned in the best possible way, bringing plenty to the table and helping to elevate a picture from average to good, or from good to great. On the other side of that coin, though, there are those other shockers that leave horror hounds baffled and frustrated.

Having already covered 10 Horror Movie Twists That Pissed Everyone Off last year, that means April Fool's Day, The Village, Hide and Seek, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, Urban Legends: Final Cut, Identity, Saw 3D, Switchblade Romance, Halloween Kills, and Psycho 2 are all off the table this time out. Still, there's plenty more forehead-slapping horror twists to be explored.

With that in mind, then, here are a further ten such swerves that left audiences extremely frustrated.

10. The Twist That Ruined Two Movies - Brahms: The Boy II

Hellraiser Hellseeker Kirsty Cotton
STX Entertainment

Not just does Brahms: The Boy II's twist turn a so-so movie into a stinker, it actually undermines and retroactively ruins its predecessor.

Arriving in 2016, the first Boy movie was somewhat surprisingly decent. Sure, it was no all-time classic, but it was a solid, entertaining, genuinely unnerving picture that was a lot more than the spooky doll feature many presumed it was. With Lauren Cohan's Greta tasked with serving as a nanny to a porcelain doll - that'd be Brahms - The Boy's spooky goings-on across a lavish mansion end up being revealed to be the real-life Brahms who, said to have died years prior, actually lives in the property's walls.

That in itself was a fun twist, but Brahms: The Boy II took a giant dump on all of that.

For The Boy II, it's Katie Holmes' Liza and her son Jude who find themselves tormented by the shenanigans of Brahms. While the action just about limps along, the conclusion of this sequel reveals that the Brahms doll is actually a demonic identity in search of a human host - totally going against what had been established in the first movie.

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Once described as the Swiss Army Knife of WhatCulture, Andrew can usually be found writing, editing, or presenting on a wide range of topics. As a lifelong wrestling fan, horror obsessive, and comic book nerd, he's been covering those topics professionally as far back as 2010. In addition to his current WhatCulture role of Senior Content Producer, Andrew previously spent nearly a decade as Online Editor and Lead Writer for the world's longest-running genre publication, Starburst Magazine, and his work has also been featured on BBC, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, WhatToWatch, Sportkskeeda, and various other outlets, in addition to being a Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic. Between his main day job, his role as the lead panel host of Wales Comic Con, and his gig as a pre-match host for Wrexham AFC games, Andrew has also carried out a hugely varied amount of interviews, from the likes of Robert Englund, Kane Hodder, Adrienne Barbeau, Rob Zombie, Katharine Isabelle, Leigh Whannell, Bruce Campbell, and Tony Todd, to Kevin Smith, Ron Perlman, Elijah Wood, Giancarlo Esposito, Simon Pegg, Charlie Cox, the Russo Brothers, and Brian Blessed, to Kevin Conroy, Paul Dini, Tara Strong, Will Friedle, Burt Ward, Andrea Romano, Frank Miller, and Rob Liefeld, to Bret Hart, Sting, Mick Foley, Ricky Starks, Jamie Hayer, Britt Baker, Eric Bischoff, and William Regal, to Mickey Thomas, Joey Jones, Phil Parkinson, Brian Flynn, Denis Smith, Gary Bennett, Karl Connolly, and Bryan Robson - and that's just the tip of an ever-expanding iceberg. Where his beloved Wrexham AFC is concerned, Andrew is co-host of the Fearless in Devotion podcast, which won the Club Podcast of the Year gong at the 2024 FSA Awards.