5 Movie Twists That Totally Messed You Up

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September 11, 2009

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There are all sorts of entertaining twists in movies, but very few films in the history of cinema have successfully pulled off a twist that knocks you flat or just leaves you completely sickened when it takes place. Here's a list of five recent movies with some of the most memorable and famous messed-up twists.

American Psycho

Set in the 1980s, American Psycho features Patrick Bateman, a narcissistic, self-absorbed yuppie investment banker completely obsessed with casting an image of success and finding ways to impress his equally shallow friends. He enjoys working out, maintaining his impeccable looks with vanity products, renting videotapes, having sex with prostitutes, and critiquing music from artists like Genesis and Huey Lewis and the News. Oh, and he also enjoys murders and executions.

Patrick leads a double life: in public he’s lockstep in the yuppie lifestyle, wearing designer clothes, dining at expensive restaurants, and doing drugs at trendy nightclubs; in private he goes on murderous rampages, killing a homeless man, love interests, prostitutes, and even his yuppie nemesis, Paul Allen.

THE TWIST: As he feels that he’s losing control and his mind is progressively slipping away, Patrick desperately leaves a message on his lawyer’s machine confessing all his crimes. However, the WTF begins when he later visits Allen’s apartment where he was stockpiling dead bodies, only to see it completely spotless and up for sale, and his lawyer entirely confused and offended when confronted in person by Patrick about the voice message because he had just dined with Paul Allen in London.

The film ends in complete speculation as to whether any of the crimes actually occurred, or whether they were all simply a psychotic delusion.

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The Crying Game

Set during The Irish Troubles, the story begins with the kidnapping of Jody, a British Soldier, by IRA forces. The group threatens to kill Jody within three days if their captured IRA companions aren’t released by the British.

Jody befriends Fergus, a sympathetic guard who defies orders not to communicate with him. Jody shares many details of his life, including a photo of his enigmatic girlfriend Dil in London. Jody is later killed in a freak accident when British soldiers run him over as he tries to escape, and most of Fergus’s colleagues are killed. Fergus escapes and hides from the IRA in London, where he meets Dil and falls in love with her.

THE TWIST: After a few dates and much flirting, and even going down on Fergus one evening, they finally decide to make love. As Dil slowly undresses before him, Fergus gets the male equivalent of a thousand shockers: Dil has a penis and is ACTUALLY A MAN !!!

Being that The Crying Game is a British film, the director held nothing back and Dil’s penis is shown in all its glory, proverbially cocksmacking you when you least expected it.

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Memento

Leonard Shelby is a former fraud insurance investigator who has lost everything and dedicates his life to finding John G., the man who killed his wife during a burglary. Because he was struck in the head by one of the burglars, his brain is affected by anterograde amnesia and cannot record new long-term memories – only short-term memories. To cope, he uses a system of notes, photos and tattoos to remember details about his wife’s killer and the people he encounters.

It’s impossible to summarize Memento, but it’s important and obvious that Leonard is easily manipulated by people. Because of his condition, he often confuses the people who are trying to help him and those who are trying to harm him.

Also, he repeatedly dissects his memories of Sammy Jankis, a man who began suffering from Anterograde Amnesia after a car accident. Leonard was assigned to the case and denied compensation for an insurance claim from Sammy because he deemed it a psychological rather than physical condition. Sammy’s diabetic wife tested to see if his condition was true by asking him for multiple insulin injections until she died.

THE TWIST: In a stomach-twisting revelation, it becomes clearly evident that Leonard at some point began to mix his and Sammy’s stories together. Leonard’s wife actually survived the attack. Sammy was actually single and was trying to commit insurance fraud. It was Leonard’s wife who was diabetic, and Leonard himself killed her with multiple insulin injections after his amnesia set in. Leonard had killed John G. long ago and was conditioning himself to continue seeking vengeance.

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Mystic River

19-year-old Katie is the daughter of local Boston mobster Jimmy Markum. She’s secretly dating Brendan Harris, a kid Jimmy completely despises. They have plans of skipping town and eloping in Las Vegas. Unfortunately for Katie, she’s murdered the night before the day they were going to leave.

That same night, Dave Boyle (a man who was abducted and raped as a kid and is somewhat weird), comes home with blood on his hands, claiming he fought off and killed a mugger. Sean Devine with the MA state police begins an investigation and Jimmy conducts one of his own through his connections. Oh, Sean, David and Jimmy all grew up together.

Dave acts strangely and leads his wife to suspect that he killed Katie, and she tells Jimmy. Jimmy takes Dave out for drinks and later by a beach, threatening to kill him unless he confesses to killing Katie.

THE TWISTS: Dave tells Jimmy he killed a child molester that he found with a child prostitute in his car, but he doesn’t believe him. A tortured soul, Dave falsely confesses to Katie’s murder and in a massive dick move, Jimmy kills him and dumps his body in Mystic River.

Brendan Harris discovers that it was his younger brother and his friend who actually killed Katie. Brendan proceeds to completely beat the living shit out of both of them, but is almost killed when the friend finds a gun and points it at him shortly before police arrive to the rescue.

After being taken in by police, it is revealed they were trying to play a prank on Brendan and Katie after they found out about their plans to leave, and it all went terribly wrong.

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Saw

A string of grisly murders take place around a city in which the victims are forced to make gruesome sacrifices in an attempt to save themselves from a trap that could claim their lives. The killer is deemed the Jigsaw Killer, for the puzzle-like nature of the games he designs to kill people.

Adam, a photographer; and Lawrence, a doctor, awake in a grimy warehouse bathroom, finding themselves trapped in place by chains attached to their ankles. A corpse with a gun and a tape recorder lays in a pool of blood in the middle of the room. They play the tape and Lawrence is instructed to kill Adam before 6 o’clock, or his family will be killed.

Through the course of the film, it is revealed that Lawrence and Adam’s lives are connected. Adam was hired to photograph evidence that Lawrence was cheating on is wife. They get pissed off at each other, but quickly get back to working together to try and escape. Through clues, they figure out who their abductor is, and when he comes in the room to kill them, Adam manages to beat him to death with a toilet cover. Presumably, they can now figure out how to free themselves and escape. Lawrence saws one of his feet off and crawls away, promising to bring back help.

THE BIG TWIST: Just as they think they’ve got it all figured out and Adam thinks he might escape, he listens to a tape recording on the body of the man he just killed. It is revealed that he was just a pawn in the same game.

The corpse in the middle of the room stands up, revealing that he is the Jigsaw Killer and a terminally ill former patient of Lawrence. He tells Adam that he’s completely f***ed, because the key to his chain went down the drain of the tub he woke up in. As he heads out of the room, he yells “GAME OVER!!!” and slams the door shut, sealing Adam’s fate.