Top movies with twist endings imdb7/10/2023 ![]() In The Wicker Man, a devout Christian detective (Edward Woodward) risks life and limb traveling to a remote island called Summerisle to rescue a missing girl. The Wicker Man (1973) Lord Summerisle (Christopher Lee) leads a pagan cult in this classic British folk horror movie. Alex lives, and during his recovery he realizes that not only is he “cured” so he can go back to his criminal ways, but he also receives an apology from the government and a cushy job with a large salary. ![]() It works remarkably well, but a former victim of Alex’s tortures him by exploiting an unintended association of sickness to Beethoven, driving Alex to attempt suicide. The idea is that the therapy will make him become nauseous whenever confronted with violence and thus unable to commit violence himself. Alex is administered a form of aversion therapy involving forced exposure to extremely violent material and injections that make him violently ill. It follows the trail of Alex (Malcolm McDowell), a young gang leader who remorselessly chases his lust for both sex and blood until he winds up in prison. A Clockwork Orange (1971) Stanley Kubrick wrote and directed this film, based off a novel with the same name written by Anthony Burgess.īased on the futuristic dystopian novel by Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange is a meditation on exactly how far a government can go in its attempts to prevent crime without becoming brutally criminal itself. ![]() So in a way, everyone loses in Night of the Living Dead. But in the end, just when you think the zombies have been quelled, some vigilantes mistake the black man for a zombie and shoot him dead. During a sudden zombie invasion in Western Pennsylvania, a scared woman (Judith O’Dea) is rescued by a heroic black man (Duane Jones)-rare for that time in cinema-who boards them both up inside a house hoping they can fend off the living dead. Romero’s landmark black-and-white 1968 classic wasn’t the first zombie film, but it can fairly be called the one that launched an entire genre of copycats. Night of the Living Dead (1968) This independent horror film earned more than 250 times its budget, earning high praise and landing itself in the US National Film Registry. ![]() But then, to her horror, Rosemary realizes that even though the infant is alive, she has just given birth to the Devil’s son. She is put under sedation for her delivery, and when she awakes she is told that her baby was stillborn. As her suspicions grow, everyone around her assures her that she’s just being paranoid. The first in a string of Satanic-themed blockbusters from the late 1960s into the mid-1970s, Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby stars Mia Farrow, a young married woman living in an apartment building with her husband (John Cassavetes), who, without her knowledge, arranges for her to be raped and impregnated by the Devil while she is supposed to be asleep. Rosemary’s Baby (1968) Rosemary’s neighbors, including Minnie Castevet (Ruth Gordon) seen here, are part of a coven that help the Devil win in the end. Though Luke may have claimed a moral victory by never giving in to all the torture the warden and his cronies subjected him to, Luke’s life was still ended by the system represented by the warden. We last see Luke smiling in the back of a police car as he is driven away to his certain death. We expect the free-spirited prisoner Luke, played by Paul Newman in a career-defining turn, to win, but in the end Luke is shot in a standoff with police. ![]() Cool Hand Luke (1967) Godfrey (Morgan Woodward) is directly responsible for the death of Luke.Īlthough the warden in Cool Hand Luke, played with delicious sadism by Strother Martin, is the most identifiable “bad guy” in this morality tale about the brutality of the Southern prison system, the real “bad guy” in this film is the system itself. Here is list-along with fifteen honorable mentions-of notable movies where the villain wins. That’s the entire purpose of the article. In each case here, it is necessary to reveal the ending to explain exactly how the bad guy wins. Spoiler alert: The bad guy wins in all of the films below. Yet over the years, a routine “Hollywood ending” was one where every villain was either killed or brought to justice, and the boy walked away with the girl and lived happily ever after under a gorgeous sunset. If life were a movie, it would never have a happy ending, seeing as how everyone dies in the end. ![]()
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