Top 20 Most Unsettling Plot Twists In Non Horror Movies

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[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

You guys are awesome

[@mousemd]

I didn't see them all. Poor "innocent " Edward Norton's character I didn't see that one coming. I didn't see The Usual Suspects. That was a good story.

[@mousemd]

One that some people didn't see. Rich Man's Wife. The last time Barry's character was questioned I could tell that it was a story made up to get them both off. She was picked up by her "enemy ". What they said...

[@mousemd]

Memento wasn't a good movie for me. I couldn't follow.

[@bernardthomas6232]

Why are you charging for pop culture??! You're on a platform where everything is free!

[@livvyb3583]

I remember watching the Planet of the Apes for the first time and I did not see that ending coming at all. Taylor realizing he’s been on earth the entire time and that human civilization has basically been destroyed ending with him screaming ‘you maniacs, you blew it up’ is one of the most classic plot twists in movies and Charlton Heston played it perfectly!

[@CashelOConnolly]

How did you avoid ppl talking about the twist? After all the film is 50+ years old?😳

[@BlueIvysAssistant]

​@CashelOconnolly Reading comprehension is clearly not your strong suit.

[@ioo3761]

I guessed the twist in the first seconds of the movie

[@CashelOConnolly]

@@ioo3761 errrm the first seconds of the film would barely have enough time to put a credit up!😂 I bet you’re one of those ppl who say they know what Eraserhead means 🙄

[@ioo3761]

@@CashelOConnolly "The earth aged nearly 700 years since we left it" 00:50 You just have to use your brain

[@shigshug8581]

Spoil Free List 20. Unbreakable (2000) 19. Buried (2010) 18. Ex Machina (2014) 17. The Conversation (1974) 16. The Machinist (2004) 15. The Usual Suspects (1995) 14. Snowpiercer (2013) 13. Memento (2000) 12. Chinatown (1974) 11. Arlington Road (1999) 10. Shutter Island (2010) 9. Malice (1993) 8. Seven (1995) 7. Sorry to Bother You (2018) 6. Incendies (2010) 5. Planet of the Apes (1968) 4. Primal Fear (1996) 3. Oldboy (2003) 2. Gone Girl (2014) 1. Soylent Green (1974)

[@E_l_l_i_e]

Oh yey! Thank you. I want to add the movies here to my To Watch list but know there'll be spoilers. Glad to see that a lot of my favorite films made it.

[@Search_ExMuslim_Sameer]

Thank you so much!!

[@rayancedrichaddad1197]

Thanks!

[@Trancymind]

Sev7n needs to be seven. People who can't count are 100% sinners in my personal book. (Hisses)

[@harveylee51]

WHAT !! No Sixth Sense ? I have seen most of these already so i didn't want to spoil the others for myself , i hope Mojo has been doing better vids as of late .

[@Jamon1916]

Oldboy is one of my favorite foreign films, along with Troll Hunter (2010). If anyone liked Oldboy, I recommend Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002) and Lady Vengeance (2005). All three are part of "The Vengeance Trilogy."

[@34Zero]

Dude ... Watch the Movie Remember with the late Christopher Plummer. A plot twist you can never see coming Ng a mile away.

[@globetrekker86]

I was not at all prepared for Oldboy’s twist… Poor Yunhee!

[@bullgravy6906]

Troll Hunter was awesome

[@Mos41f]

So surprised and happy that WatchMojo finally started to acknowledge underrated and unknown movies like 'Malice'. There's another movie that should be on this list, 'Shattered' starring Tom Berenger.

[@porchfyre612]

The Skin I Live In starring Antonio Banderas has to be one of the most shocking plot twist I've ever witnessed.

[@Breexbloodlust]

Tht was crazy

[@hb0x]

Oldboy should be considered horror because what happened to Oh Dea-su and Mi-do is just beyond horror.

[@HeroicJei]

The plot of old boy is so outlandish I dont know how it became popular.

[@dozer11]

@@HeroicJeisame. Such a convoluted set up to get to that twist, it’s one of the few movies where the ending almost ruins the whole movie for me.

[@daftwulli6145]

not having fight club on this list is a crime

[@themirrorsofmymind]

15:20 Edward Norton is amazing in "Primal Fear"!

[@adulthumanfemale8666]

Freakin' fantastic. I can watch that scene over and over and it will give me goose bumps every time.

[@PersonalityMalfunction]

Even though he's apparently a 100% unpleasant individual to work with, I can't think of a single role he hasn't been amazing in. Maybe "Glass Onion" but apart from that - what a CV!

[@davidschopp9134]

I'm glad Arlington Road is on here...one of if not the most underrated plot twists ever in my opinion.

[@TheTurkaderr]

That movie bothers me to this day, pre-911 but post Oklahoma City, it said a lot more than was spoken, and the performances were amazing. The last lines, chilling. Joan Cusack is so underrated.

[@veer5714]

Having watched many twisted ending i never saw it coming.... was completely shocked & i wound say perfect ending (not a happy ending tho)

[@TheTurkaderr]

Joan Cusack in Arlington Road is one of my favorite Villains of all time. She is so underrated. So chilling and yet understated in that role, the last lines still creep me out to this day,and the opening shots of the movie as well. Such an awesome little thriller that will shred your nerves.

[@Breexbloodlust]

I remember snippets of it when I was a kid

[@nyaahsee]

I've watched almost all of these movies, and definitely epic twists. Although they all are solid, Memento, Shutter Island, and Oldboy hit hard years after watching them.

[@hydrangeas_lover]

Absolutely! Shutter Island really really got me!!!!😮😮😮😮

[@gingersnapps]

Primal Fear is an amazing movie!! I can understand why Norton has such a grandiose Ego , he is very talented but I wish he would put that gift to use off duty as well and try to act humble?

[@MarinMBGillette]

Oldboy: doing incest before Game of Thrones made it cool.

[@justapeacefulmanwhosbornin7291]

Incest = FREAKING DISGUSTING. 🤢🤮

[@Animeguy300]

"They blew it up" scene is really upsetting

[@donnahaynes138]

I am still shook by that "One plus one. Can it make one?" Incendies plot twist

[@guadakomeda]

These are some of underated movies with a twist that I know of - The Body, The Invisible Guest, Julia’s Eyes, Boy Missing, The Hidden Face, Shrew’s Nest, What Josiah Saw, Harpoon, We Are What We Are (I find the Hollywood remake better than the original), 1BR, Hunter Hunter & The Lodge (not really a twist but oddly satisfying ending), Incendies, Ghost Stories (2017), The Gift, Time Crimes, The Secret In Their Eyes, Tesis, Girl on the Third Floor, Run, The Skin I Live In, Super Dark Times, Estranged, Madeo, Moon, Triangle, The Invitation, The Endless

[@mikis4863]

This needed to have No Way Out (1987) somewhere in the list. Maybe not the most shocking, but definitely in the top 20.

[@Breexbloodlust]

Thatt was good

[@samkingsway6564]

YES!!!

[@WaterCrane]

That one counts as a horror film so it's excluded I think.

[@mikis4863]

@@WaterCrane This 1987 movie starring Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, and Sean Young is a political thriller. I'm not sure which movie you're thinking of.

[@cesarvictorino4301]

Top 10 Horror Movies That Haven’t Lost Their Touch.

[@nellurban7826]

giving david fincher credit for gillian flynn's plot twist seems a little disingenuous tbh

[@adityaparikh8237]

I think they’re actually giving credit to how he executed the twist. Fun Fact: in the original novel, the affair and faking were both revealed in the second half.

[@nellurban7826]

@@adityaparikh8237 fair, but it’s seems like a no-brainer that Rosamond Pike has to be in more than 5 minutes of the entire first half of the movie? It’s only amy’s diary entries in the first half of the book, and you can’t just only condense those in the first half because the impact of thinking you’re getting to know amy when you read the entries is crucial, and the audience wouldn’t have had enough time in 5 minutes of “flashbacks” to connect with her. But i’m also biased, i thought the movie was mediocre especially for david fincher. He also left out basically the entire plotlone about nick’s dad, which is like the most crucial part of the story in terms of understanding nick’s psyche and why he makes the decisions he does at the end.

[@adityaparikh8237]

@@nellurban7826 I also think that they wanted to make Nick feel a little less relatable to make Amy more sympathetic while also showing her to be a psychopath.

[@jackiewheeler9202]

Edward Norton made Primal Fear worth watching. I’ve watched all of his movies ever since. He’s an amazing actor.

[@SarahPriceMoore]

Oldboy still gets me to this day. I saw the original as soon as it came to the US, and I saw the remake. I’m *still* gutted. That one sticks with me. Edit: “Incendies” messed me up in a totally different way, but “Oldboy” got there first, so a wrecked version of a wrecked person wasn’t as bad as what was there initially.

[@jenmichelle370]

The Hand that Rocks the Cradle would be good for this list.

[@Breexbloodlust]

Love that movie

[@4plus20isHappy]

That one doesn’t have any twists.

[@BlenderStudy]

Thank you for the update, WatchMojo..!! Amazing collection of plot twists in the movies. I'll watch the ones I have missed. 🤣

[@billydoright2050]

Glad to see Primal Fear getting some love. Alot of my "movie nerd" friends have never even heard of it and I was starting to think I imagined the entire plot...😂

[@BigFella117]

To this day, the “What’s In the Box” scene in Se7en still shocks me like it’s the first time I’ve seen it

[@Breexbloodlust]

It's creepy

[@BigFella117]

@@Breexbloodlust and shocking

[@Breexbloodlust]

@@BigFella117 yeh it is

[@Trancymind]

Pitt- What's in the box?! Come on, oh man! What's in the box?!! Freeman- I knew it I should have ordered Jack in the box.

[@Breexbloodlust]

@@Trancymind lmao

[@gabbertron_]

Predestination not being on this list is criminal

[@Alababama0329]

Now why wasn't Mayor Bellwether from Zootopia on the list

[@adityaparikh8237]

Because it wasn’t as unsettling as most of the other twists

[@PrinceIsot]

The Gone Girl twist was so good when that narration scene drops

[@devilchilde8957]

She was definitely psycho thinking that infidelity =going to prison for murder. 😑🤨

[@liferealgood]

A pretty good list. Surprised I didn’t see Vanilla Sky or Oblivion. Am I the only one that didn’t believe Nick did it in Good Girl. He was just too stupid. It felt obvious he was set up.

[@therunawaykid6523]

Yeah I love vanilla sky it’s quite the trip

[@schools6555]

I knew Arlington Road would be on this list!

[@leebentz007]

Primal Fear & Old Boy are Chef's Kiss!

[@Scott_Forsell]

How is Ava the villian in Ex Machina? Caleb only decided to conspire to spring Ava after it/she flirted with him. If it/she had been a failed prototype iteration and not passed his interpretation of the Turing test, Caled would have doomed Ava to death and eventual repurposing. Caleb could have done lots of much more honorable things - breaking his NDA, going to the press, he only acted the way he did because he was infatuated.

[@TheWarmachine375]

15:09 You maniacs! You blew it up! You blew it all to Hell!

[@Jeremiah_Rivers76]

Porky: “Made in Taiwan.” Daffy: Hmm, what do you know? No, it can’t be! Why?! Why?! Why?! -From “Planet of the Taz,” _Looney Tunes: Stranger Than Fiction_

[@34Zero]

Remember with Christopher Plummer is one of the best plot twist ever.

[@rytmosaurusvs.respiraptorp1415]

You did not mention Irreversible...that one striked me the most...with Oldboy on the first place...!

[@jarhead77777]

i love this channel sm

[@eleven2614]

Despite Memento being too low, I'll give you props for putting Incendies up there.

[@yaxel38]

For me The Sixth Sense, Saw, Oldboy, The Others, Dead Silence, The Usual Suspect, The Game, Seven, The Bone Collector, Taking Lives, Orphan, High Tension

[@adityaparikh8237]

The Sixth Sense, Saw, The Others, Dead Silence, Orphan, and High Tension are all horror films

[@yaxel38]

@@adityaparikh8237 yeah I know I just love their twist

[@jenniferferguson1517]

@@adityaparikh82376th sense and Saw are both Psychological thrillers, not horror movies. A lot of movies on this list are psy thrillers

[@uiscepreston]

@@yaxel38 If you love the "twist" in High Tension, your opinions on ANYTHING are invalid in perpetuity.

[@adityaparikh8237]

@@jenniferferguson1517 yes but they have also been called Horror films many times and that’s why they aren’t on this list.

[@reeseraines5136]

No one in the history of time has played the Everywoman better than Rosamund Pike in Gone Girl. A chillingly accurate portrayal of every woman you've ever met.

[@721rena]

Every woman you met was a psychopath??

[@Nurdse_326]

I watched Arlington road when I was a kid (with my parents) and I never hear this movie referenced. The ending disturbed me so much as a kid that it has stuck with me all these years later. I remember all of us yelling at the television screen during that last twist like "That's how it ends?! But it's so not fair! That's messed up!" Lol Glad to see it referenced here.

[@itzybitzy]

I have never seen it. I have real trouble with bombs and explosions but what a great ending. Just read about the plot etc and Tim Robbins is perfect for delivering that last line with such a cold stare. Yeah it would have scared the crap out of me as a kid too. It’s the sheer desperation of trying to save his son and the fact none of them can escape the inevitable.

[@treWavey_30]

I watched Oldboy for the first time like 2 weeks ago I'm still in shock tbh

[@E_l_l_i_e]

It deserves the number 1 spot. I watched most of the movies in the list and Oldboy is the only one that made me want to scream when they revealed the plot twist.

[@lennymccartney1]

wow, buried is dark...almost as dark as the original the vanishing!

[@PersonalityMalfunction]

I loved the robbery sequence in Ocean's 11 being filmed in their own constructed vault and then piped into the casino's CCTV system, allowing the team to walk out posing as the responding SWAT team. That was a hell of a reveal.

[@earlleeruhf3130]

No one is gonna mention the twist in Titanic, the Ship Sinks!

[@emersonv]

I thought Snow Piercers twist was that they used the kidnapped children to make the train go

[@corinnesmith8747]

One of my favorite twists was when it’s revealed Eli is blind in Book of Eli.😊❤

[@samkingsway6564]

Agreed!! 😮

[@daisylavender5275]

What was the twist in that movie?

[@jules-yi8rn]

I thought for sure Fight Club would make this list.

[@jenniferferguson1517]

We can not talk about fight club, so it can’t be in the list! :)

[@jules-yi8rn]

@@jenniferferguson1517 🙂

[@katerinavialpando3620]

Oldboy is my favorite movie of all time and i still get chills at the reveal scene

[@khalidhenry3857]

I have an idea for a new video: Top 10 Times Children’s Book Tackled Serious Issues

[@PrinceIsot]

I like to think Jake from Chinatown went back and killed that SOB, a P.I. would be able to get away with it

[@Breexbloodlust]

Shutter island was crushing when the twist came

[@AnthonyMason-ur8zw]

Number 15 in my opinion, is the greatest plot twist in movie history even better than Pyscho movie twist ( which for years the greatest movie plot twist).❤❤❤❤

[@Shorty_Lickens]

They never actually say Kint is Keyser Soze. All you know is he's not crippled and the sole Hungarian THINKS he's Soze but really he's just someone who killed a bunch of dudes on a boat.

[@linkib]

To this day, I'm still not quite over that shocking ending to the original Planet of the Apes. All hope was gone... Primal Fear's Aaron revelation, was quite shocking too.

[@tmarofvulcan]

What about "Predestination". Sci-fi with a really weird twist, based on a Robert Heinlein short story. It's such a mind-frak.

[@NekoHibaCosplay]

14:30 the moment she connected the dots and realized everything is so well played by the actress that is disturbing to watch

[@Shridra]

I went on a binge years ago, watching a bunch of movies from the 70s (I was born in the late 80s) and Soylent Green was among them. A few years later I was in a course and off-handedly commented in response to something "soylent green is people!" and absolutely no one else in the room knew what I was on about and said I was "very worldly" for knowing such an "obscure film" -_- They definitely deviated from the source material for the movie though!

[@studioseppuku9454]

20 years later and now I get the joke when Dave Grohl said on Australian tv that Vegemite was made of people!!!

[@davorvrcibradic234]

Angel Heart (1987) has a good, unsettling twist too. But I guess it may be considered a horror film.

[@nishiki2753]

Looks like WatchMojo is finally learning how to do spoilery videos. The intro to each entry isn't a dead giveaway by the title alone, allowing us to skip over the movies we haven't/want to see. It was always frustrating when they had stuff like "#6 Bruce Willis was dead all along" and happened before you could skip making me avoid these kinds of lists altogether. Glad to see tact improvements

[@mr.phat_tastic9512]

How the helll you gonna put ex-machina in this list but not show upgrade any love?!?!?! Stem was helping solve a murder he arranged became sentient and was the only survivor now walking amongst the humans

[@MarisaPaola-um5yb]

The Others, The boy in the striped pyjamas, The Life of Pi

[@Samantha-qj9wq]

Oldboy is one of the most mind bending movies EVER. Absolutely fugged.

[@TheWarmachine375]

Nightmare Fuel in a nutshell

[@kayleighbrown459]

Chinatown is so damn bleak. Like, (spoilers) not only do we find out the main female lead has been impregnated by her own dad and that he's going to get away with it because he's too powerful for anyone to touch, but she gets shot through the head while trying to escape with her kid/sister and the kid/sister is taken by her father/grandfather with the strong implication that he's going to do the exact same thing to her and there isn't a damn thing anyone can do. No justice, no hope, just good people doomed to a horrific fate, monsters getting away with it and the only closure for our lead being" Forget it." Cause that's just Chinatown.

[@donnahaynes138]

Why not include the horror genre for this list? Incest (accidental or otherwise based on Oldboy 2003 and Incendies 2010) is absolute horror!

[@mccuish]

The twist in Oldboy made me feel sick to my stomach the first time I saw it

[@Mashida_Killzzz]

I believe oh dae so memory was erased, it's why he smile at the end, it's so he can have a happy life with her. I see it as a HORROR movie and a love story. It was brilliant! The music score just beautiful and that scene in the snow was film in New Zealand. Just f@@k up I learned about this gem from the BY killer bc he was obsessed with the film

[@Julie190485]

The skin I Live in should have being listed.

[@porchfyre612]

i literally just commented this movie!

[@christinejohnson2839]

Arlington Road is a very underrated movie.

[@jackmackakaheavyguyhaiku545]

Soylent Green is... a great film... ruined by the twist being unleashed on the world. I luckily saw past the crap of the reveal to the amazing flick that it is. But many people can't look past the goofiness of the twist. This would be on the list of the greatest movies of all time if that twist were treated more seriously.

[@ScottCurryistheOne]

Are you guys serious? What about in Arlington Road, the fact that they put the bomb in Michael’s car because they knew how determined he would be to get in the building? Did the writer even watch the movie???

[@brianlogan6521]

Love you guys, but it's a tragedy that "Fight Club" isn't on here.

[@laurenkellyvinette924]

Arlington road was soooooo underrated !

[@galmorzu]

"Cave Johnson here. Just wanna let the cafeteria staff know to lay off the soylent green. I'm holding a memo from the President, and it turns out that soylent green is... [paper rustling] let's see here... DOUBLING in price. Now listen up: I don't care how good people tastes. This stuff's costing me more than lobster, so we're going back to fishsticks."

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Love your videos guys!😊😊😊❤❤❤❤❤

[@jimbo9208]

how much is watchmojo paying you

[@tiger31623]

​@@jimbo9208 jumbo and reaper must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.”

[@jimbo9208]

@@tiger31623 then respect what i say

[@tiger31623]

@@jimbo9208 do you even know what respect is

[@Cowboyvr2837]

@@tiger31623he doesn’t know anything

[@shades131313]

I could tell Shutter Islands twist from the trailer preview. pretty sick and sad. the payoff twist was nonexistent. Id be pissed at the marketing dept.

[@ThePetphoenix]

speaking of "Soylent Green" i thinking about "Fried Green Tomatoes".

[@TheArtmann]

Whaatz in da baaaaax??

[@emiliaberglund4839]

How is Arrival not part of this list!??

[@kevinnajera9734]

Gone baby gone has a unexpected plot twist aswell, and the little things things - denzel Washington, jared leto

[@redfive5856]

Eva escaping in "Ex Machina" is no twist.

[@seattlevixen]

Primal Fear is so effing underrated

[@ScottCurryistheOne]

Did you guys put that clip upside down on purpose??

[@Hilz28]

How is Se7en not a horror movie?? 🤔🤯

[@JidionisthebiggestMenace]

Great list watchmojo.

[@bheast86]

BACK ROADS - Amber's in love with Harley

[@coalhouse1981]

I really don’t know why people keep putting shutter island on the list. Took me 15 min

[@natb6684]

I haven’t seen most of the movies on this list, I thought there were be more movies I have seen

[@gandalainsley6467]

I not so long ago saw a Korean movie called I want to know your parents and it had a pretty good plot twist. Like from the beginning you can kind of guess where its going(its school bullying suicide story) but then it goes completely different. Is very frustrating to watch at times. Also there is another movie but the twist is more the genre change in the end. There is a movie called once upon a time in high school(another Korean movie). It goes from coming of age teen movie to a martial arts action movie in last couple minutes.

[@theastonvillaseal585]

Soylent Green… how horrifically brilliant

[@elisebarger348]

My minds just trying to wrap itself around the Sister Daughter thing. Like how on earth would that even work?

[@chantee5327]

She was raped by her father.

[@erinlizzie09]

Buried was a waste of time.

[@gregorysilva2798]

Body Heat, The Crying Game, Cruel Intentions

[@hattie7910]

Number 2 crushed me :(

[@ianr.navahuber2195]

10:53 good question 11:53 the meme!

[@emmydragon]

How is a movie about someone being buried alive NOT a horror??

[@rahulathars1842]

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[@leebentz007]

No Frailty, Bodies, Bodies, Bodies, The Menu nor Speak no evil? Part 2 peps. Like ASAP. Make it right! LOL