“Unmasking the Unexpected: The Twists That Transformed Horror into a Heart-Pounding Nightmare”
The Sixth Sense
Perhaps the most famous twist in all of horror history, M. Night Shyamalan’s The Sixth Sense follows child psychologist Malcolm as he tries to help a young boy, Cole, who believes he can see dead people. Tragically, the ending reveals that Malcolm did not survive being shot in an attack months earlier, and has himself been one of the dead people that Cole can see.
Jacob’s Ladder
This psychological horror is heartbreaking and scary in equal measure. Vietnam War veteran Jacob finds himself haunted by visions of monsters and hallucinations of his late son. The world around him grows more terrifying, before it is revealed that Jacob has been dying of his injuries the whole time, and that he never made it out of the war.
The Boy
In The Boy, nanny Greta is tasked with caring for Brahms, a lifesize porcelain doll, as if he is a real boy. Strange occurrences around the old house lead to Greta thinking Brahms might be haunted, when in fact the sinister truth is that the real, human Brahms is actually a grown man living inside the walls of the home.
Get Out
Jordan Peele’s psychological horror Get Out tackles issues of race and prejudice head on. When Chris, a young black man, meets his white girlfriend’s family, most of the family seem kind – if a little insensitive – but Chris soon comes to the horrifying realization that they have been implanting the brains of sick or elderly white people into the healthy bodies of young black people.
Scream
