20 Horror Movie Scenes That Make Absolutely No Sense
12. Spiral: From The Book Of Saw - William's Pointless Fake-Out Death
Plot: Detective Ezekiel Banks (Chris Rock) and his new police partner William Schenk (Max Minghella) chase a Jigsaw copycat targeting corrupt cops.
Spiral is a rock-solid Seven-esque serial killer flick that, unfortunately, contains one of the worst horror movie plot twists ever, one that's both blindingly predictable and devoid of believability.
Around halfway through, Ezekiel finds William's skinned corpse - he's apparently become the killer's latest victim. Ezekiel is devastated; viewers definitely won't be, as they'll immediately work out that William has faked his death. It didn't fit the killer's pattern, it was a killing that left the body difficult to identify, and it was off-screen, which is the number one giveaway of a fake-out death.
What makes this even worse is that there was no real point to Willian doing this. Dental records would've been able to quickly identify the corpse as belonging to someone else, thus confirming him as the killer and probably making it much harder for him to commit his murders. Truly, this is one of the most unearned fake-out deaths in any recent movie - next to this, Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman) faking his death in The Dark Knight suddenly doesn't look quite so bad.