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"Twist" way too obvious


From the moment they showed the killer moving backwards it was obvious that he was just hiding behind the hair at the back of her head.

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wasn't obvious to me! it was one of the silliest, goofiest and most fun twists i can remember seeing in a movie in years. i loved it.

honestly for the first hour, i was pretty indifferent to this.

but from that scene at the police station on, i completely fell for this movie and now all i can do is tell everyone how much i love it.

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really? I mean, they laid it all out there...

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wasn't laid out to me!

i mean, i knew there was something coming, but i 100% did not expect it to be what it was, and i was so bloody delighted when that happened i'm still getting a buzz from it.

that last 40m or whatever, from the police lock-up scene, is the best time i've had with a movie in a long, long time.

5/5, 100% on my own personal metacritic.

this movie was stupid and unrepentantly absurd and i love it.

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I just thought the killer was burned and handicapped. I couldn't tell it was walking backwards initially.

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At first I thought it had been filmed backwards, but then I realized what was going on.
There's no way I'm the only one who saw it coming. The long hair was another giveaway.

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Later on, I did assume it was her body being taken over by Gabriel (some psychic tumor), and that she was the parkour ninja that the cop was chasing. But I still didn't realize that the figure was actually walking backward until the videotape reveal of what Gabriel actually was. Only then did I put two and two together.

So I think the key was recognizing that the body was moving backwards during all the initial appearances. If you notice that, then you can connect the dots immediately, I think (head wound and all).

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We knew something had to be going on with that backwardness displayed by Gabriel, but I didn't think he was the backside of Madison.

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