The Ending Changes Everything: Difference between revisions

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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]].

* ''[[The Sixth Sense]]'' is a more conventional [[Twist Ending]] until you think about the [[Fridge Logic|implications]].{{context|And what implications are those?}}

* ''[[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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** And in the '''2006''' ''Unknown'', the film's conclusion reveals that James Caviezel's character is actually an undercover cop, who had infiltrated the kidnapping ring and was about to bust them when a toxic gas rendered both kidnappers and kidnappees unconscious and amnesiac. And then the ''very'' last scene twists the twist, by revealing that he'd also been sleeping with the wife of the kidnapped millionaire, and had ''incited'' the rest of the criminal gang to abduct the man so he could murder him and set the gang up to take the fall.

* In ''[[Psycho Beach Party]]'' it turns out it was all a dream in the main character's mind, that later got turned into a film where the main character then goes to kill some of the audience... so arguably you have to wonder when she got put away, who actually died, who was the actual murderer... and it raises so many questions.

* Used to creative effect in ~~this short film by Mathieu Ratthe "Lovefield"~~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4meeZifCVro. In the middle of a secluded cornfield a man appears to be finishing killing a woman off screen. Hurrying back to his truck, he grabs a towel and the audience presumes he's trying to cover up the body and perhaps dispose it in some way. Then just at the end the man says "It's a boy", and a newborn baby appears in view. The woman who sounded like she was dying was in fact in the midst of delivering a child and the blood was just the afterbirth.

* Used to creative effect in ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4meeZifCVro Lovefield]'', a short film by Mathieu Ratthe. In the middle of a secluded cornfield a man appears to be finishing killing a woman off screen. Hurrying back to his truck, he grabs a towel and the audience presumes he's trying to cover up the body and perhaps dispose it in some way. Then just at the end the man says "It's a boy", and a newborn baby appears in view. The woman who sounded like she was dying was in fact in the midst of delivering a child and the blood was just the afterbirth.

* Near the end of ''[[Identity (film)|Identity]]'', it's revealed that none of the people at the motel are real. They are only the figments of Malcolm Rivers' imagination, each of them a separate personality of his mind.

* ''Four Dogs Playing Poker'' has four friends who had stolen a statuette find it has disappeared. They need to pay for it or be killed by the buyer- so they take out insurance policies on each other, and draw cards to see who will be the murderer and victim. But there's a twist...

* Excessively used in the American remake of the horror movie "[[Silent House]]", ~~after~~ being chased around the house by a mysterious burly man, and her father and uncle get attacked by the man and taken away, she finds out from a woman who claims to be her ~~child hood~~ friend that her father and uncle used her and the main character in child ~~pornagraphy~~ and that the mysterious woman was the killer the whole time. Then it turns out the woman doesn't exist and that the main character was the killer. ~~THEN~~, after killing her unrepentant father and sparing her repentant uncle, it turns out neither of them exist. [[Mind Screw|Maybe?]]

* Excessively used in the American remake of the horror movie ''[[Silent House]]''. After being chased around the house by a mysterious burly man, and her father and uncle get attacked by the man and taken away, she{[who|A character name would be nice}} finds out from a woman who claims to be her childhood friend that her father and uncle used her and the main character in child pornography and that the mysterious woman was the killer the whole time. Then it turns out the woman doesn't exist and that the main character was the killer. ''Then'', after killing her unrepentant father and sparing her repentant uncle, it turns out neither of them exist. [[Mind Screw|Maybe?]]

* ''[[Sadako vs. Kayato]]'' is a 2016 Japanese horror movie that could best be described as ''[[Freddy vs. Jason]]'', but the pair replaced by the most famous killers in Japanese horror, Sadako from ''[[The Grudge]]'' and Kayato from ''[[The Ring]]''. In the plot, the pair's would-be victims try to escape the respective curses by fooling the two demons into fighting each other, and in the final scene, it looks like they've succeeded, both of them plummeting down Kayato's well in a [[Mutual Kill]]. The post-credits [[The Stinger|stinger]], however, shows that the plan has backfired horribly, and that Sadako and Kayato are now combined into one entity. With [[Bigger Bad|Toshio]] cruelly taunting the protagonists, the movie ends, leaving their fates ambiguous.