“Unmasking the Unexpected: The Twists That Transformed Horror into a Heart-Pounding Nightmare”
Shutter
Thai horror Shutter is exceptionally creepy, following a young man named Tun who is haunted by a ghostly woman who appears in photographs. As the spirit gets more and more aggressive, Tun’s girlfriend Jane discovers that the ghost is actually a woman whom Tun photographed being sexually assaulted – and is seeking her righteous revenge.
Eden Lake
This British horror starring Michael Fassbender sees couple Steve and Jenny hunted by a group of aggressive teenagers. After they’ve tortured and killed her husband, Jenny thinks she has finally found salvation in a house full of adults – only to discover too late that these adults are the parents of the psychotic teens, and are just as violent.
47 Meters Down
Few things are scarier than sharks. Sisters Kate and Lisa learn this the hard way in survival horror 47 Meters Down, which sees the pair trapped in a cage at the bottom of the ocean while hungry great whites stalk them. Lisa manages to survive and initially believes her sister did too, until the nitrogen narcosis wears off…
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
This 1978 sci-fi horror is famed for its terrifying twist ending. After an invasion leaves human beings turned into ‘duplicates’ by body-snatching aliens, protagonist Matthew seems to have made it out alive. That is until the very last scene of the film, in which Matthew lets out a horrifying screech, signalling he has been assimilated.
The Orphanage
‘Dead all along’ might be a common horror twist, but it can still be an impactful one. In this Spanish horror, a woman named Laura and her son Simón move into an old orphanage. Mysterious events suggest the orphanage is haunted, and it sure is – but not by any old ghost. Little Simón actually died earlier in the film, and his spirit has been restless ever since.
