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* The Korean film ''[[A Tale of Two Sisters]]'' featured both an [[Unreliable Narrator]] and [[Real After All]], leaving the viewer to wonder how much was truly supernatural, and how much was merely the delusions of the insane protagonist.
* Another Korean film, ''Bloody Reunion'', ends when we find out that {{spoiler|the narrator is the murderer, and she made up the entire story, and all the bad things in the flashbacks actually happened to her, not the other guests}}.
* Korean horror ''[[Dead Friend]]'' (also known as ''The Ghost'') is played out as a generic horror flick, until the final scene where it is revealed the {{spoiler|ghost who has been killing off Ji-won's (the main character's) friends IS in fact Ji-won. In a flashback it is shown that Ji-won had inadvertently caused the death of a girl before the movie began. The audience is led to believe this girl is the ghost and that she wants revenge. However, it is later revealed that she and Ji-won switched bodies just before the girl died, so the girl is actually the protagonist we have been following throughout the movie and Ji-won is the ghost}}.
* The king of this type of twist would have to be the movie ''[[Wild Things]]'', where pretty much all the characters were revealed in a series of twists to be allied with one another, then revealed in another series of twists to be secretly betraying one another. Even when the movie was over, the writers threw in several more twists during the closing credits just for fun.
* David Mamet is well known for his big twists, which call into question large chunks of the previous plot.
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** Co-writer/actor [[Guinevere Turner]] [[Word of God|said]] that the interpretation she and Mary Harron had in mind when writing the film was that all of the murders do take place in some capacity though [[Unreliable Narrator|never with the details exactly the same as Bateman relates]]. If what another troper wrote elsewhere on the site is true, Bret Ellis said that the murders in the book are all real, that being part of the satire: the people in the 80's are so jaded that they can't tell when [[Devil in Plain Sight|all this shit is going on right in front of them]].
* The psychological thriller ''[[The Hole]]''.
* ''[[The Sixth Sense]]'' is a more conventional [[Twist Ending]] until you think about the [[Fridge Logic|implications]] on the on-screen relationship between Malcolm Crowe and his wife. {{
* ''[[Total Recall]]'' spends a lot of time questioning which parts of the plot and the hero's background are real, fake memories, or hallucinations. The film ends with a very strong suggestion that most of the plot was not real, though the truth is left ambiguous.
* ''[[Inception]]'' is one of these, as the ending can be taken to mean the previous 5 minutes, or most or even all of the film may have been a dream.
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