Spoiler alert! The most shocking twist endings in film (20 Photos)

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Planet of the Apes Turns out that the planet populated by the damn, dirty apes has been earth the whole time.

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The Sixth Sense Bruce Willis is not only a bad therapist, he’s also a dead guy and Haley Joel Osment is the only one who can see him.

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American Psycho Many of Patrick Bateman’s victims are still alive, opening the door to the idea that his murders were all in his head.

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Citizen Kane The granddaddy of twist endings reveals that the “Rosebud” he used his dying word on is his childhood sled.

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Shutter Island Turns out that Leo is not a sharp detective after all. He’s just another patient on the island acting out a delusion.

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Oldboy This is a brutal twist, revealing that the woman with whom the main character has been spending “quality time” is actually his daughter.

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Psycho Norman’s mother is not the killer in the hotel. In fact, she’s wayyyy dead. The killer is Norman himself.

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Primal Fear The innocent alter boy act that had you rooting for Edward Norton’s character the whole movie turned out to be an act. The dude was a straight killer the whole time.

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The Sting The two characters aren’t really dead, nor did they double-cross each other. It was all a rouse to relieve the mob of some money.

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The Mist The main character unselfishly shoots the four passengers in his car so they don’t have to suffer at the hands of the monsters. Little did he know, they were just seconds away from being rescued.

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Soylent Green It’s people! SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!

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Fight Club Another Edward Norton twist, it turns out that him and Brad Pitt are two sides of the same person.

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The Empire Strikes Back The complete concentration of evil, Darth Vader, is our hero’s birth father.

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Se7en Maybe Brad wouldn’t have asked “What’s in the box?” so many times if he knew that it was his wife’s head.

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The Usual Suspects Keyser Soze gets away unscathed when it’s revealed that he’s actually Verbal Kint, the smooth talking handicapped criminal who just spun a web for the cops.

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Unbreakable Sam Jackson is shown to be the cause of all the disasters, as he was trying to find the superhero to his supervillian.

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The Village Another M. Night Shyamalan special, it turns out the antiquated village is actually in the middle of our present day world, and the monsters were created by the elders to keep everyone scared and quiet.

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Matchstick Men The con man we’ve been following (Nicolas Cage) is actually being long -conned by his supposed daughter, who he was teaching to run cons, and his former partner.

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12 Monkeys This is a convoluted one, but Bruce Willis turns out to be a time traveller who dies in front of his young self at the airport, and Brad Pitt’s eco-group is actually just a bunch of idiots.

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Memento Guy Peace’s wife actually survives the attack, but dies later when his memory issue causes him to mishandle her insulin. He frames people for himself to track down in order to avoid dealing with the grief.

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