Who doesn't love a good twist? Some of the greatest stories ever told featured enticing plot twists and shocking reveals that delightfully pulled the rug right from underneath audiences, leaving them satisfied and wanting to come back to re-experience the surprise. In cinema, few other genres have greater twists than horror.

However, not every twist will leave viewers satisfied. Some even risk the rest of the film's appeal once people discover the shocking reveal. This list will discuss horror movies with bland or mediocre twists that significantly dragged their film's quality down a peg. Not all these films are bad, but they don't give the most satisfying payoffs, and .

A unique blend of classic murder mystery and modern horror tropes, is a 2003 slasher thriller directed by . With an impressive cast, including , , , and the late , it's a tense mystery film that follows ten strangers as they're picked off one by one at a motel, leaving a few to figure out who among them is the killer. An interesting concept that could have resulted in multiple possibilities, Identity, unfortunately, ends with .

First, it's revealed that all ten strangers are different personalities of a convicted serial killer named Malcolm (), who is struggling with an identity disorder, and the whole plot takes place in his mind as part of a medical experiment to find and eliminate his murderous side. The final twist reveals that the darkest personality was a little boy named Timmy (), who had slowly and effectively used the experiment to take over Malcolm's mind completely. These reveals, while not entirely bad or poorly set up, . They're overused twists that most audiences have already seen before.

This entry is not the only time the man of many twists, , will appear on this list. First is , the found-footage psychological horror thriller from 2015. It's about two siblings as they document visiting their estranged grandparents for the first time. After noticing some strange behavior from the couple, the two suspect their grandparents aren't as friendly as they first appeared.

The Visit was a bit of a comeback for Shyamalan after a string of flops in the late 2000s. It's got some decent suspense and great acting, but most would agree that . As the story progresses, it becomes clear by the grandparents' behavior that they aren't who they appear to be. It makes the reveal that they were never the kid's grandparents seem lackluster because it was a twist audiences already saw coming. The Visit is a decent film and certainly not one of Shyamalan's worst ones, but the twist just .

Based on a novella by , is a 2004 psychological horror thriller directed by . It sees as frustrated writer Mort Rainey, who moves to his peaceful remote lake house to clear his mind and end his writer's block after witnessing his wife having an affair. Things quickly take a dark turn when he is approached by a mysterious man, Shooter (), who claims Mort plagiarized his work.

It's a decent suspenseful thriller with plenty of thrills. However, where Secret Window falters is in the twist ending. It reveals that Shooter was a dark figment of Mort's imagination that he created so he could use this new murderous side of himself to get revenge on his cheating spouse, Amy (). Having the twist be that the main character has an identity disorder , and that's what makes it often hard to come back to Secret Window because it leads to .

2016's can be quite unsettling at times. Directed by and starring , it follows an American nanny as she's called to a large English estate by a wealthy couple to take care of Brahms, a doll resembling the son they lost in a fire. As she cares for the doll, strange occurrences plague all around her, and she worries that there might be more life to Brahms than she thought.

Despite an interesting premise with an eerie setting and chilling atmosphere, The Boy's ending isn't as effective the second time. It's revealed in the big twist of the film that the doll wasn't possessed or took on a mind of its own. Brahms never died in the fire and has been tormenting the nanny through the walls. It is a pretty shocking twist, but it . Watching the film again, knowing the twist, makes it difficult to watch because it really could only be achieved once.

Coming from 2005, is a psychological thriller directed by and starring two-time Academy Award winner in one of his rare appearances in the horror genre. It's about a widowed psychologist, Dr. David Callaway (De Niro), who, after the death of his wife, moves his 9-year-old daughter Emily () to a new home to recover from the traumatic death. But when Emily starts mentioning she has a new imaginary friend named "Charlie," strange happenings and mysterious murders occur around the two, leading David to suspect Emily's supposed imaginary friend may be real.

The big reveal is that David is Charlie, a result of a split personality that was created after he witnessed his wife having an affair with someone, leading him to go on a murder spree. It's and completely ruins the rest of the story. Hide and Seek had some potential but wasted a talented cast and an intriguing premise on a lame reveal that viewers had pretty much already guessed before even watching it.

For shock and appalling violence, look no further than . Widely considered one of the most disturbing horror movies in cinema, this tense psychological thriller follows several desperate people, among them a young woman named Iris (), who's trying to acquire funds to help her sickly brother. The group participates in a deadly game of "Would You Rather?" for the amusement of a sadistic aristocrat (). An intense and bleak story, Would You Rather is a decent film that's only taken down a notch by one last reveal.

After being crowned the champion of the game after all the other contestants have died, Iris is allowed to leave with her cash prize but returns home to find that her brother has taken his life while she was gone, making her struggles and the horrible acts she committed to winning the game entirely meaningless. It's , considering how depressing the rest of the film is. While some might find this twist complements the tone of the film, it's .

Some terrible movie twists completely feel out of place from the rest of the film. That best describes what happens in , a 2004 sci-fi thriller starring Oscar-winner . It follows her character, Telly Paretta, a grieving mother mourning the death of her son. Strangely, those around her seem to have forgotten him and try to convince her she never had a child. A mystery ensues as she tries to discover who's trying to make her forget and whether her son is actually gone.

It's a decent premise that's utterly ruined by its twist finale. The ending reveals that Telly's son was taken as part of an extra-terrestrial experiment and that she's being controlled to forget him to see if the bond between mother and son can be broken.It's . Having it be aliens seems unoriginal and not really that interesting.

It's Shyamalan again, this time with , his 2004 period horror thriller starring and Oscar winner . It tells about a 19th-century village following a strict set of rules to never venture outside the community for fear of being attacked by strange, sinister creatures surrounding the woods. But when one of their own is in dire need of medicine, a young villager (Howard) goes against these rules to brave the forest and its dangers to find help.

Many of Shyamalan's films of the early 2000s had intriguing ideas but ultimately failed in their execution. The Village features one of his most infamous twists, revealing that the story is actually set in modern times and that the "monsters" were really just the village elders putting on a ruse to keep the younger members from leaving.It's, making The Village hard to rewatch even though it has plenty of interesting moments.

While Shyamalan's twist in The Village was a letdown, it pales compared to the one in his previous film, , the 2002 alien invasion horror thriller starring . It's about a former priest as he and his family slowly realize an alien invasion is taking place right outside their doors. Another thrilling concept ruined by a frustrating twist, Signs ends with a ridiculous reveal that the menacing alien invaders can be easily defeated as they're deathly allergic to water.

Seriously, why would a supposedly technologically superior and highly advanced alien race think it would be a good idea to invade a planet covered in 71% of a liquid that kills them? It's in horror history and . Signs had a lot going for it and some truly exciting moments but failed to stick to the landing, and today it isn't that thrilling to rewatch, considering what happens in the end.

Finally, is a genuinely good suspenseful slasher thriller with only one major flaw: the twist ending. Starring and , it follows the two as a pair of college friends as they visit one of their family's peaceful farmhouses in the French countryside. But things quickly turn deadly when they're slaked by a relentless serial killer ().

It has so much going for it in the first two acts, but unfortunately, . In a confusing finale, it's revealed that the killer was a figment of one of the girls, Marie (de France), imagination and that she was committing the grizzly murders all along. This reveal comes out of nowhere and makes little to no sense. There was no need for a twist, as the premise was already fine as a straightforward slasher story. High Tension has one of the worst endings in horror cinema, severely reducing the film's appeal for a rewatch, because

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