There are some iconic movies that are best-known for their plot twists. In fact, they're the reason that specific movies became big hits with their viewers. They either subverted characters' expectations or revealed a huge secret that heavily impacted the other characters in the film.
However, there were some plot twists that fans did not see coming the first time around. These twists awed viewers and they ended up rewatching the films for various reasons. This included revealed continuities in movie franchises, such as Final Destination, and searching for clues of betrayal and switcheroos in Frozen and Us.
10 The First Saw Movie Is Incredibly Fun To Rewatch With The Plot Twist In Mind
Even though many fans gave flack to later Saw movies for their various plot twists that ruined the series more than helped it, many fans still enjoyed the twist in the franchise's first movie. The reveal that Jigsaw himself was acting as the dead man on the floor for the entirety of the film awed many first-time viewers with how unexpected it was.
Rewatching the film all over again with that now-well-known secret in mind only made Jigsaw's acting skills even more impressive, considering that he couldn't move an inch or breathe too heavily the entire time, or else the protagonists would notice that he wasn't actually dead.
9 Detective Pikachu Is Significantly More Heartwarming & Hilarious After Knowing The Twist
In Pokémon Detective Pikachu, it's revealed late in the film that Mewtwo fused Harry with Harry's own Pikachu to save his life, after being attacked by Greninja while initially freeing Mewtwo from Howard's clutches. This meant that Tim had been talking and working with his own father the whole time, even though his father had amnesia.
This knowledge made the events of the entire movie much more hilarious and heartwarming at the same time for fans rewatching the film. It was especially heartwarming when rewatching the scene where Harry (who was still amnesiac at the time) comforts Tim by telling him that if his father was by his side right now, he'd hug him until his bones popped.
8 Hans' Betrayal In Frozen Made Rewatching A Hunt For Foreshadowing Clues
The reveal of Hans as a twist villain in Frozen shocked many first-time viewers when the movie was first released. He was initially set up as Anna's love interest, complete with a musical number after they first meet where he proposes to her, and initially comes off as very kind-hearted and considerate to everyone in Arendelle.
However, he reveals (while Anna is on the brink of dying) that he's actually out to become the King of Arendelle, and plans to do so by first letting Anna die and then by killing Elsa. Many viewers who rewatched the movie began to search for clues foreshadowing the twist, and they realized they missed a lot of warning signs the first time around.
7 The Ending Of The Fifth Final Destination Film Was A Surprising Twist
The fifth and final Final Destination movie was a shocker to first-time viewers. At the end of the film, it's revealed that this is the film that sets off the events of the first four films. After surviving characters Sam and Molly board an airplane to Paris, both of them notice characters from the first film being removed from the plane before the plane takes off.
As the plane takes off, Sam and Molly overhear a conversation from Alex's vision and realize it's impossible to escape the plane, which soon explodes and causes Sam and Molly's deaths. Fans that rewatched the film enjoyed having the knowledge that this film wasn't actually a sequel, but a prequel to the first four films.
6 Us' Plot Twist Had Fans Rewatching For Clues
In the film Us, it's revealed close to the end of the film that the protagonist Adelaide switched places with Red, her doppelganger, as a young child. Red then took Adelaide's place in the surface world, while Adelaide's been trying to get back home since.
This makes the death of "Red" harsher in hindsight for viewers; not only did Adelaide lose her rightful place in the surface world since her childhood, but her attempts to get back were thwarted by the same person who initially switched places with her. Rewatching the film sent fans on a hunt for clues foreshadowing the revealed switch.
5 Ex Machina's Ending Twist Made Fans Rewatch The Movie All Over Again For Warning Signs
Ex Machina follows a tech employee who is invited by his CEO to a remote facility in order to administer the Turing Test to a humanoid robot, in order to test her intelligence. However, when the employee tries to escape with the robot, whose name is Ava, she ends up abandoning him to die after killing Nathan and ensuring that Caleb's locked in the house and unable to escape. This confirms the earlier-discussed possibility of Ava manipulating Caleb.
This unexpected plot twist shocked fans, who thought that Ava and Caleb were going to escape the facility together, and they immediately rewatched the film to search for any clues of Ava's manipulation.
4 The Sacrament's Deadly Twist Had Fans Wondering If Father Planned It All Along
The Sacrament reveals about halfway through the movie that there are people that want to leave the remote commune due to allegations of abuse and brainwashing from the group's leader, Father. However, that wasn't the only twist the film had; the majority of the commune proceeds to drink cyanide-laced drinks at Father's command or else they are shot dead.
Many of those that watched the film and didn't see that scene coming wondered if Father deliberately planned to have his commune take the deadly drinks at some point, or did so as a last-minute plan to take back control of the group after dissidents started a fight earlier in the film.
3 The Village's Twist For Its Setting Surprised Fans & Made Them Rewatch
M. Shyamalan's The Village takes place in a small, isolated community of early settlers who are threatened by mysterious monsters lurking in the woods. However, it's revealed late in the movie that the group of settlers is actually a cult closed off from the world.
In order to keep up their façade, they use the "monsters" as a method of keeping their people protected and isolated. Fans immediately wanted to rewatch the film to find any and all clues possible leading to this reveal, due to missing the signs the first time around.
2 Get Out's Twist Of The Girlfriend Being In On The Abduction Shocked Viewers
In Get Out, the plot twist seems to be that most of the Armitage family wants to abduct Black people and then take over their bodies. Additionally, it seems like Chris' girlfriend, Rose, is oblivious to her family's plans. However, the real twist turns out to be that she's also in on the plan the entire time, shocking all the viewers who saw this film in theaters for the first time.
Many viewers immediately wanted to rewatch the movie to see if they could find any foreshadowing clues leading to Rose aiding her family and betraying Chris in the process.
1 Searching's Twist Of The Cop Helping The Protagonist
In Searching, the protagonist is trying to open up the still-unsolved case of his missing daughter with the help of a police officer. After hours of searching, discovering clues and potential culprits behind the disappearance, it turns out that the cop who was supposed the help the protagonist was covering up for her son, who was the person behind the protagonist's daughter's disappearance.
Fans of the movie were blown away by this twist. After they finished watching the film, they immediately wanted to rewatch the film to find foreshadowed clues of the coverup going on behind the scenes.