The Best Horror Movies

Top Thirteen Twisted Endings Horror Movies with the best taglines

Have you ever watched a movie that in the beginning did not entice you as much as it did towards the end (Sleep away Camp), or was simply so captivating in the beginning and twisted your world with the ending as well (Sixth Sense, The Mist). Well, join the club, I have a passion for horror movies such as these. As a result, I don't care how bad the beginning of a movie may be, I have to watch it start to finish because you never know what the director has in store for you. There is a long list of movies with twisted endings that I have seen throughout the years, I picked thirteen out of the bunch to share with you all because I know you guys love a good mindfuck!

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Frailty (2001): This movie gave me the creeps for weeks. It's so unusual, but it could really happen. I mean which side would you take? If a friend of yours told you his dad was visited by an archangel and he is appointed to cleanse people of evil with the help of otis: the axe. That friend tells you also that his little brother is being brain-washed by their dad; he strongly feels his dad should be committed to a psych ward because he might have lost some of his marbles to think of something like that and to actually do it. I mean that is really far-fetched, but think about it, how would you feel?

Twist: The father was not a serial killer guided by the devil but by God Himself. The oldest son, was not a believer, that is why he could not see the real evil in the people when the father touched them before he would kill them in the name of the Lord. The youngest brother became a man of the law, and continued to carry out his father's legacy, but the oldest brother became a deranged serial killer. The narrator of the story was the youngest brother who went to the FBI office assuming his older brother's name and demanding to speak to Agent Doyle, who was a murderer as well, and the whole purpose of his visit at the office was to cleanse agent Doyle of his evil ways, since he was on the list.

Tagline: Only demons should fear me...you are not a demon, are you?

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Sleepaway Camp (1983): Okay this movie had some of the coolest kills in it, I mean there were some dull part but it was worth to watch it for the grand finale. Angela was one of the weirdest little girl you will encounter. You could tell something was not right with her. As a result, she was being picked on and bullied by almost everyone. Her cousin Ricky was very protective of her, along with his friend Paul who grew fonder of Angela by the days. But when the killings started, everyone suspected one person and one person only, Ricky.

Twist: No one would have thought twice about innocent, awkward looking little Angela, who was in fact, the killer, but even worse, she was no little girl. Peter was Angela's sole surviving brother, when their father and Angela perished in a motorboat accident, Peter was sent to live with Auntie Martha whom wanted a little girl of her own since she already had Ricky. She dressed Peter like a girl, thus, Peter assumed Angela's personalities and name. Peter snapped when everyone started bullying him at the camp and took revenge on them, and when Paul wanted to be closer to him (thinking he was a girl), he felt the need to fix him too, as he was clearly already disturbed when he was little, he and Angela found their father sharing his bed with another man.

Tagline: A perfect place to meet young girls, might just be the perfect place to die!

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Saw (2004): Saw was one of these movies that you could never really predict how they could end. I tried, trust me, I tried to guess who was the mastermind behind the whole craziness, but was it really craziness, he kills with a lesson. He wants people to take life more seriously, to be more grateful and more respectful towards their health, was that too bad? Well, yeah, when you put these people through hell and back to try to get redemption. I loved Saw, I just wished they stopped with just one sequel.

Twist: The person we all thought was the mastermind, the guy we thought was behind all of these deadly traps and tests was only a player as well, he had something to lose also. And to find out, the whole time, the rotten body on the floor, was in fact, the real mastermind, as he got up towards the end of the movie to exit the room (this scene right there sent chills up and down my spine as they showed you the flashbacks), the only survivor (Elwes) had cut off his foot and was trying to leave the room but the mastermind told him "game over" and locked the door behind him.

Tagline: How much blood would you shed to stay alive?

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Psycho (1960): Marion Crane is on the run, she stole $400,000 from her employer in order to marry her lover, Sam. A cop is at her tail and she decides to stay in Bates Motel. She is invited by Mr. Bates to dinner. Marion learns that Bates leaves with his mom when she overhears Norman talking to his mother. In addition, she reveals her feelings about Mrs. Bates being overbearing and thinks that she should be in a home to Norman. After the dinner, she goes to her room, she decides to return the stolen money and gets in the shower, to only find herself getting stabbed to death by a woman.

Twist: Norman Bates is mentally ill. He killed his mom. He is in fact, the one killing everyone dressing up like his mother and assuming his mother's voice and mannerism.

Tagline: Don't give away the ending - It's the only one we have!

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The Last House on the Left (2009): Mari Collingwood is the only daughter of the Collingwoods, she previously lost her brother, her parents are well to do. They go to their lake house for vacation every year. Mari decides to go visit a friend in town. She meets up with her friend and they decide to get some pot, and from that point on, everything went from bad to worse.

Twist: Her best friend gets raped right in front of her, her kidnappers stop right around her house, the criminals take advantage of the two friends, and leave them for dead. Unknowingly, the criminals go knock on Mari's parents door, and payback could not be any juicier for the Collingwoods. Just the luck of the Irish.

Tagline: If bad people hurt someone you love, how far will you go to hurt them back?

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The Wicker Man (1973): Sergeant Howie receives an anonymous letter requesting his investigative skills on Summerisle, where a little girl named Rowan has disappeared. The righteous man that SGT Howie is, he sets out to Summerisle to find out what happened to young Rowan. When he arrives to the island he quickly discovered that the inhabitants are a bunch of pagans who worshiped nature, believed in the supernatural and in sex gods, as opposed to believing in GOD. He thought these islanders were holding Rowan hostage to sacrifice her to their gods in their Mayday festivities in order to get their island fruitful once again.

Twist: Rowan was never missing, she was just a bait for Howie to come to Summerisle willingly. Howie was a virgin, he didn't believe in sex before marriage, he was a devout Christian. As a result, the Islanders wanted to sacrifice him as they believed his death would surely bring them fertility, and growth.

Tagline: Flesh to touch, flesh to burn...don't keep the Wicker Man waiting!

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April Fool's Day (2008): The remake of the 1986 film of the same name. It did go straight to DVD but I liked the ending, it was very twisted. These rich kids think they can get away with murder when their prank killed, Milan, one of their friends, at a party where two rich siblings, Bitchy, Snotty Desiree and Hot Blaine were throwing for a friend. Nevertheless, exactly a year later, everyone that were at that party started dying. Desiree thought the killer was Milan's ghost coming back from the grave for revenge, or possibly she never even died. At the end, the two rich siblings were the only ones left alive tied to a chair.

Twist: They were playing a prank on Desiree, no one was dead except for Milan. To prove to Desiree that everything was a prank, Torrence who used props from her movie set for the pranks, pointed the gun at Desiree to show her that there were blank rounds not live ones in the chamber, instead ended up blowing Desiree's head off by accident. Or was it really an accident? The brother had planned this outcome all along.

Tagline: She has a killer party planned!

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The Orphanage (2007): The story of a mother who cares so much for her son, that she will go where no one have ever went before just to be with him. Simon is Laura's adopted son, he is born with HIV positive but he doesn't know that yet. Laura moves Simon and her husband to her childhood home, an orphanage, she had bought in the hopes to make a home for disabled children. Simon sees ghosts and becomes friends with one named Tomas. Moreover, Laura is visited by an old lady named Benigna claiming she is a social worker, Benigna was in fact, a worker at the orphanage when Laura herself was a little girl. Laura pushes her out of her house, and Simon goes missing couple of days later. Months went by with no sign of Simon.

Twist: Laura discovers the bodies of her fellow orphan friends, and quickly pieces together that Benigna had killed them to avenge her disfigured son, Tomas, that they had caused to die by accident in the cave. The most gut-wrenching twist is to find that Laura had accidentally killed Simon. Upon finding out, she commits suicide since she could not bare to live without him.

Tagline: No secrets stay locked away forever!

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Identity (2003): Identity was one of the most mind-boggling movies I have ever seen. I loved the mystery, I knew it was building up to one of the best climaxes ever yet and it was. This serial killer has multiple personalities, he is about to be executed for his killing tendencies the next day, but his shrink calls up a meeting with all the big shots who has a say in this sociopath's future, and at the same time, the serial killer has a meeting in his head as well, in the hopes to narrow down the different personalities, to kill off the bad ones, and leave the good guy or gal standing at the end. Consequently, the serial killer gets transferred to a psych ward since his shrink proves his patient had been living with multiple personalities that he had successfully cured him of the bad ones, in his little exorcism exercise.

Twist: If only it could be that easy. They killed off the extra personalities but guess what, the good ones and half bad ones got killed off, the most maniacal one yet, that kills with no conscience and no remorse was the last one standing and we all know what that means.

Tagline: The secret lies within!

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Carnival of Souls (1962): One of the first movies to touch that issue. I love dark movies, that plays with your mind with no fancy special effects, just you the viewer piecing everything together, piece by piece. Mary Henry was riding in a car with two other female friends, they got lured into race drag with another car that hits their car into the river. Mary is the sole survivor of the accident and leads a very cold and macabre life thereafter. She feels confused most of the time, as suspicious, peculiar things seem to happen to her more and more.

Twist: Mary Henry was never a survivor, she was in fact dead, may be in the middle, fighting death, trying to be alive in her sub-conscious, she was indeed in between life and death in her mind. When death finally took her from this world, she was still fighting but before she knew it she was already gone.

Tagline: Is there death after life?

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The Others (2001): This family is so peculiar. These kids have photo-sensitivity, they are allergic to sun rays. Their rooms have heavy curtains to prevent the sunlight to penetrate their rooms. Grace Stewart, the mother, dreaded living in this big house with her son, Nicholas and her daughter, Anne as she felt the house seemed more like a prison to her . With the arrival of three bizarre housekeepers, weird things started occurring. Grace was overwhelmed with the feeling that they were living with ghosts in their house.

Twist: Grace went insane one day over missing her husband who went to war and her kids gradually driving her over the edge. She killed herself after smothering her children with a pillow which makes them "The others" for any new owners of that house. They are in fact ghosts, along with the servants. After that recollection, ironically Grace vows to let no one take them out of that house.

Tagline: Do you believe in Ghosts? She didn't...

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The Skeleton Key (2005): The supernatural in this movie was so close to home. I loved this movie despite the negative reviews. Carolyn is a caring aide played by Kate Hudson whom lost her dad, so she finds deep relief in helping the elderly and rejects death on her watch. She is hired to watch after Ben a stroke victim, who has little time left to live. Carolyn is given a skeleton key by Violet, Ben's wife, to gain access to every room in the manor, except for one. Carolyn grows more curious by the minute while living in the manor and start to investigate the premises for foul play in Ben's current state of health. She feels Violet has a lot to do with Ben's health deteriorating. She thinks Violet is trying to kill Ben with the help of Hoodoo, and Luke, the lawyer who was hired to rewrite Ben and Violet's wills.

Twist: Carolyn was right about one thing, Luke was in fact helping Violet, certainly not to kill Ben, but to give Carolyn a reason to stay in the manor (sex appeal), since Carolyn is the sole target for now, not Ben anymore. Violet and Ben were not really who they said they were deep inside. Papa Justice and Mama Cecile were two renowned Hoodoo practitioners who used Violet and Ben's bodies to lodge their souls long time ago. As they are growing older, they needed younger bodies for their souls, hence, Papa Justice already occupied the young lawyer's body and Carolyn was the prospected body for Mama Cecile to which she lured Carolyn to believe in Hoodoo, and to think she was after Ben when all the while she wanted Carolyn's body. Both Mama Cecile and Papa Justify received what they were after, new vessels for their souls, and Carolyn's soul went to Violet's fractured and stroke ridden body.

Tagline: Fearing is believing!

It's a tie! I have two horror movies in the top place I can't seem to choose which one should be the top most twisted ending ever in the history of horror movies, so I chose both, I hope you guys can understand.

The Sixth Sense (1999): One of my favorite movies of all times. "I see dead people" was one of the things Cole had the guts to reveal to his child psychologist, Crowe. He is very good at what he does, but he had one failure in his career, Vincent, a patient who broke into his house one night, shot him in the stomach and shot himself in the head afterwards. As a result, Crowe is determined to help Cole with his situation and tells Cole that the ghosts that he sees have unfinished businesses, they need his help to cross over. As he helps Cole to use his talent as a mean to help the dead cross over to the other side, Cole helps him as well in ways you would have never imagined.

Twist: Cole said "sometimes, they don't know if they are dead" to Crowe, he was talking about Crowe. Cole helps Crowe understand when Vincent shot him in the stomach, he died that night, his unfinished business was the only thing holding him back from going on the other side. He had to help another frightened, troubled little boy into accepting his gift and making good use of it, and he had to tell his wife, she was never second in his life. Now if anyone tells me they saw that coming in "The Sixth Sense", you're a huge liar!

Tagline: Not every gift, is a blessing!

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The Mist (2007): I know some of you, we'll be like the ending of this movie was not twisted. Well, an unnatural mist sets up over Bridgton, Maine. The creatures concealed by this mist are otherworldly. David and his son, Billy, and their estranged neighbor Brent all went to the supermarket leaving David's wife stephanie back at the house. While in the supermarket Dan Miller runs in the store with a bloody nose explaining to the patrons the mist has vicious creatures lurking in it. The fate of these patrons are not secured they could all die one by one, if they try to leave and go out in the mist, or they could wait it out in the store. Either way, strange things are bound to happen to them.

Twist: David, his son Billy, and three others make it out alive to a car in the parking lot and set out to drive away from the mist. But they run out of gas. I am thinking, just wait it out, they have come this far. The most gut-wrenching scene was only seconds to come. Since they feel they won't make it out alive, they are trapped in the car in the middle of the mist, there is no way out. Therefore, David and the others agree for him to end their lives instead of getting shred to pieces by some vicious creatures, So David kills them all, including his own son while he was just waking up. Oops, there were only four rounds in the chamber. David accepts his fate as he exits out of the car, the mist starts to clear up and there comes to save the day, the military with their arsenal, and truckloads of survivors.

Tagline: Fear changes everything!