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Horror Neve Smith 12A
15/05/2024 |
Movies TwistsThe world of film has seen many twists and turns in its time, but there are only a small number that are truly shocking and unpredictable. A major spoiler alert for whats coming next as I discuss the 5 best plot twists that led to these movies being so successful in the film industry.
Starting off strong, we have the hit horror Scream (1996), the first of a extremely successful slasher franchise that shocked audiences, not once, not twice, but a total of three times. In the promotion of the movie pre release, actress Drew Barrymore was presented as the star girl and main character of the movie by being front and centre of the movie's poster, leading everyone to believe she was our main character, and as we all know, the main character never dies. However, audiences were shocked when character Casey Becker was brutally murdered within the first ten minutes of the film, a trope that would eventually carry through to every movie, making the franchise known for its famous opening kill. The next of the twists came later, when the masked killer was finally revealed. In earlier scenes we see a moment between main girl Sidney and boyfriend Billy, where Sidney asks Billy who he called in his short stent in prison as a suspect. It seems that the killer has been caught, when suddenly Billy is brutally stabbed by the masked killer there and then, once again sending Sidney and the audience back to square one. However, the twist comes shortly after when Billy stumbles down the stairs still alive, in search of Sidney, where it is then revealed he actually fakes his death and is infact the killer! But another twist soon follows when it is revealed that while Billy is the killer, he is not the only one... Billy has actually been working alongside bestfriend the whole time. While these twist aren't impossible to predict, they are still extremely shocking to watch and I myself, along with the rest of the audience, loved watching every movie in this murder mystery slasher franchise in order to follow the clues and worl out who the killer is... or killers!!! Sticking with the horror theme, another shocking movie that kick started a hugely successful franchise was Saw (2004). In this gruesome thriller, it starts with two men chained by the foot to pipes in a large bathroom, with the body of a man lying in the centre in a pool of blood. The movie follows the two men, Adam and Dr Lawrence Gordon, as they try to escape from the room in which they are being held by a serial killer, known as Jigsaw, who tests his victims to see if they are willing enough to do what it takes to live and change the way they live their lives afterwards. The two are left with individual tapes, Adam's orderring him to survive, and Gordon's orderring him to kill Adam by 6 o'clock in order to save his family. Throughout the entire time they are there, we as the audience are led to believe that the man on the outside, watching them and working against the police who trying to find them, is Jigsaw. However, at the end of the movie comes a huge twist when we learn that the man we believed to be Jigsaw is actually another victim and is trying to work through his own trial in which he has to hold one of the men's wife and child hostage. As Gordon fears for his family's life, in an act of desperation, he saws through his own leg in order to be free of the chains. He then crawls to the door in an attempt to escape, leabing a screaming Adam behind. When Adam is finally alone at the end of the movie, we assume that he remain there to die while Gordon gets out and lives. However, the audience is left speechless when the final HUGE twist is revealed when the corpse that has been in the middle of the bathroom the entire movie, rises and it is realised that he is Jigsaw and he was watching upclose the entire time. The ending is left open, with Jigsaw walking out and following Gordon, leading us to believe that neither men got out alive. This plot twist is argueably the best in horror movie history as no one could predict it, making it one of the most shocking and dramatic of all time. Once again, sticking to the theme of horror, is the 1999 film The Sixth Sense. This movie follows the story of child psychiatrist Malcolm Crowe after he is shot when an ex patient of his breaks into his home. Months later, Crowe takes on a new patient, a nine year old boy, Cole Sear, who confides in Crowe that he sees dead people who are unaware they are dead. Malcolm tells Cole he should help the ghosts to complete what they so that they can move on. After doing so with multiple ghosts, Cole suggests to Malcome that he speak to his wife, who has become cold and depressed. However, when doing so, Malcolm sees her drop his wedding ring, leading him to realise he is no longer wearing it. This then leads to Malcolm discovering that he didn't in fact survive the night he was shot, and the whole time Cole was helping Malcolm to get closure and give his wife closure so that he could move on, which he then does at the end of the movie. When played out simply like that, this may seem like a fairly predictable ending, however, this movie is very cleverly presented, showing Malcolm is a way that makes it seem like he is having conversations with people when he really isn't, creating an illusion that he is alive. Arguably though, what is scarier than movie like The Sixth Sense, where children see dead people, are the movies that audiences believe are much more likely to them - even though chances are they wont even know anyone its happened to, let alone themselves. For example, a movie like 47 Meters Down, starring Mandy Moore as Lisa and Claire Holt as Kate. The two sisters decide to go diving so that they can watch sharks from a cage attached to a boat by a cable, however,the cable then breaks and the two fall to the ocean floor, 47 meters down. However, both are quickly losing air and so the men on the boat send more down and Kate swims to retrieve them, getting attacked by a shark on the way. Lisa finds Kate and the two make a break for the surface, fighting off sharks, and managed to make it to the boat both alive and safe. This movie appears to be a thrilling and dramatic movie in which both of the main characters survive together and live happily. However, in reality, this movie throws at us one of the most shocking and scary twists of all, that Lisa never escape, her sister Kate died when attacked by a shark, and she is still at the bottom of the ocean, hallucinating an escape because of nitrogen narcosis from using an air tank for too long. There are many more shocking twists and turns in movies. However, these are arguably some of the all time best. Hopefully, there will be many more in the future. |
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