11/14/2022 0 Comments Movies with a twist![]() (If you’re interested in Nahon’s other films, check out Gaspar Noé’s sadistic “Seul Contre Tous”) Cécile is staying with her girlfriend Alex’s (actress Maïwenn) parents’ house. Translated into English, “High Tension”, there’s maybe no more fitting description of what this slasher-homage delivers.Ĭécile de France is Marie, the star/victim, endlessly chased by the terrific French actor Philippe Nahon as The Killer. (Pun embarrassingly intended.) The fact that it’s in French, with English sub-titles is in no way a distraction. This is a horror movie, no bones about it. And it’s hard not to like Johnny Depp, at least in this particular thriller. Koepp’s a good director who showed a surprising amount of restraint when it came to violence. It isn’t that bad, silly ending notwithstanding. Though, critics weren’t impressed, with results being mixed, to say the least. But, with King’s and Depp’s names attached, Secret Window made money. Its twist ending is one that some of the audience feels cheated by The old creative-copout: split personality. (“You stole my boooook.”) Mort tries desperately to find his first-published story to prove he wrote it before Shooter made his version. His peace is broken by John Turturro playing “John Shooter”, an author who believes Depp stole, then copied Shooter’s story, “Secret Window”. This time it’s another Stephen King adaptation, which has Depp playing a miserable character: Mort an author, residing alone in his country manor, running away from his soon-to-be ex-wife so he can be alone. It’s always a disappointment when Johnny Depp stars in a so-so movie. You may not be surprised, but it’s a good bet you’ll enjoy the attempt. Pacino’s acting choices are intensely amusing, and completely overshadow the bland, expressionless Reeves. Great cinematography, eerie and frightening special-effects, and enough of an interesting story to make it ultimately a fun movie. While its twist is more than obvious from the first glimpse of Pacino it’s not a completely awful film.ĭevil’s Advocate has a lot going for it. The resulting film is a flawed horror/legal thriller. We know what he inexplicably doesn’t: Pacino is in fact…Satan himself. Unfortunately for him, and everyone who sat through it, the ending is no surprise to anyone except the befuddled Keanu Reeves. To his credit, Devil’s Advocate is another slice of Pacino at his unhinged best. Heat is a perfect example of later-Pacino genius. From the serious, quiet roles, like Frank Serpico and Michael Corleone, to his screeching, arm-flailing scenery-chewing in later films like the epic heist film Heat. She was never seen nor mentioned up until her reveal, so there was no way to solve the non-existent twist that Siskel so famously “revealed.” Despite that plot hole, the film would go into the history books, as everyone fully knows.ĩ. Other than the machete-wielder’s gender, there was no “Ah ha!” to it. In mysteries, audiences have their fun trying to guess the identity of the killer.įriday The 13th actually had no mystery to it. The problem with this twist ending is that it’s literally impossible to guess. Friday The 13th made so much money, in fact, that its easy formula would be copied and repeated hundreds of times.Īnd what was the twist ending that Gene Siskel infamously revealed? The killer was actually a woman, played by the once squeaky-clean, girl-next-door Betsy Palmer. The late Gene Siskel hated it so much that he revealed the film’s twist to his readers in an attempt to affect ticket sales. This envelope-pushing debut in the slash-and-stalk niche of the Horror film turned out to be box-office gold to the studio that snatched it up for major distribution, Paramount.Ĭritics were falling all over each other to get on their soapboxes and condemn everyone involved. Most of these movies are loved by their fans, and many have become “cult classics.” But remember what the late Robert Altman said, “What’s a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.”ġ0. MOVIES WITH A TWIST FULLThe ten films on this list, in no particular order, are good examples of when a “plot twist” is possibly not used to its full potential. Quite the opposite, time has shown, again and again. That doesn’t necessarily mean that filmmakers’ end results are terrible. Unfortunately, that means that more-often-than-not, a movie’s “plot twist” is obvious within the first act. Granted, it’s not an easy job to do well. It’s the “twist ending,” the GOTCHA that rarely happens to today’s movie-goers. When everything comes together in a film, and the screenplay is written well, and viewers are left scratching their heads, saying “I did not see that coming!” It’s a wonderful sensation to be surprised at the movies. ![]()
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