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In this video, we talk about a poll ranking the best mega twists in movies.

This video contains spoilers!

That being said, it contains spoilers to movies that are older. Some of which are decades old. Others of which are known twists. I don’t think this video will make your movie watching worse. If you don’t know about the twists in The Sixth Sense or The Usual Suspects by this point, you’re a magician.

For this episode of the 11 Points Countdown, I’m joined by Patrick Epino and Stephen Dypiangco of the National Film Society. We all mostly know all of the movies we talk about.

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Here are the full results of the poll. There are spoilers in here too, so, again, tread carefully…

  1. Fight Club – Ed Norton is Tyler Durden
  2. Empire Strikes Back – Darth Vader is Luke’s father
  3. Sixth Sense – Bruce Willis is dead the whole time
  4. Planet of the Apes (1968) – It was Earth all along
  5. Usual Suspects – Kevin Spacey is Kaiser Soze
  6. The Prestige – Hugh Jackman clones himself, Christian Bale has a twin
  7. Memento – Guy Pierce’s wife made him kill her
  8. Shutter Island – Leo DiCaprio isn’t investigating the mental hospital, he’s a patient
  9. Inception – It all may’ve been fake (or not)
  10. Monty Python and the Holy Grain – takes place in modern times
  11. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective – Finkel is Einhorn
  12. A Beautiful Mind – None of Russell Crowe’s friends are real
  13. Saw – Jigsaw has been the “dead” guy all along
  14. Psycho – Norman dresses up as his mother
  15. Soylent Green – made of people
  16. Donnie Darko – Donnie dies from the plane crash
  17. American Psycho – It’s all in his mind
  18. Citizen Kane – Rosebud is his sled
  19. 12 Monkeys – the entire movie is a delusion
  20. The Others – they’re all ghosts
  21. Friday the 13th – Jason’s mother is the killer
  22. Chinatown – Faye Dunaway’s sister is her daughter
  23. Unbreakable – Sam Jackson is the psycho killer
  24. The Village – actually happening in modern times
  25. Primal Fear – Ed Norton is “Roy”
  26. Identity – It’s all happening in one guy’s mind
  27. The Game – the whole thing really was the game
  28. Wild Things – eight billion twists and Kevin Bacon’s penis is one of them
  29. The Sting – the guys are alive
  30. The Crying Game – Dil is a man
  31. The Number 23 – Jim Carrey wrote the book that drives him crazy
  32. Life of David Gale – Kevin Spacey framed himself for a fake murder to protest the death penalty
  33. Remember Me – Robert Pattinson was killed on 9/11
  34. No Way Out – Kevin Costner is Russian spy