The Most Iconic Movie Plot Twists of All Time

The Village

This Amish-style community lives deep in the forest to protect themselves from the scary humanoid monsters that exist beyond the confines of the village. It’s eventually revealed that the monsters are just people and that the Elders left civilization to escape their past traumas, and raised their children under a false belief.

The More You Know

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Novelist and screenwriter Nick Hornby is brother-in-law to novelist and screenwriter Robert Harris.
The cat in "The Godfather" was a stray.
Often derided as a mega-flop, Waterworld actually took home nearly $90m more in worldwide box office than its estimated budget.

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