M. Night Shyamalan's Worst Movie Twists From Bad To Predictable

The Northeast United States is hit by a wave of mass suicides in The Happening, and it's up to Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel to figure out what's going on. As it turns out, the plants are mad at humans for not taking care of the Earth and are releasing toxins into the air, causing people to take their own lives.

The Twist: Just as the main characters accept their fates and breath in the evil plants' air... everything goes back to normal. This twist feels like both a cop-out and a rehash, as it's oddly reminiscent of the ending to the 2007 film The Mist without being nearly as powerful.

Joshua Beal is your average American 5th grader, but his life takes a tragic turn when his grandfather dies. He then begins searching for proof of "God" with the help of his friends, as well as a cool nun played by Rosie O'Donnell.

The Twist: Joshua's faith is restored after saving a friend's life... and getting a message from a potentially ghostly classmate. The plot twist feels like a precursor to The Sixth Sense, but it's a bit out of place in this coming-of-age film.

A group of resort guests finds themselves rapidly aging and dying off in 2021's Old. Every time one of them tries to escape the island, they end up blacking out and finding themselves back on the beach.

The Twist: The film eventually reveals (after all of the characters seemingly perish) that each group on the beach had at least one member with a life-threatening illness, and the resort knowingly sent them all to their certain doom as part of a clinical study for new pharmaceuticals. 

The film's big reveal is a bit underwhelming, since it's never made clear why the island causes people to rapidly age. Not to mention that the whole pharmaceutical company angle feels wildly out of place.

It's not every day you find a "narf" in your apartment building's pool, but Paul Giamatti does just that in Lady in the Water. Story (Bryce Dallas Howard) is an ethereal being who has come to find a struggling writer who's about to create a book that changes the world - that is, if Story isn't killed first.

The Twist(s): It's hard to pinpoint "the" twist in Lady in the Water, but some fans consider it the fact that Shyamalan plays the gifted writer that Story has come to help. The twist could also be the fact that everyone in the real-life fairy tale is playing the wrong role. Either way, the stakes feel relatively low compared to other Shyamalan creations.

Glass picks up where Unbreakable and Split left off as David Dunn attempts to take down Kevin Wendell Crumb. Dunn and Crumb end up in a psychiatric hospital along with Elijah/Mr. Glass, who's already devised an escape plan.

The Twist(s): They're foiled by Dr. Ellie Staple, who reveals she's part of an organization that eliminates superheroes in order to maintain world order, and all of the three main characters are eliminated.

It's also revealed that Crumb's father was on the same train Dunn survived in Unbreakable.

But all of this was actually part of Elijah's plan. The surveillance footage at the hospital was both live-streamed and sent to those close to Dunn, Crumb, and Glass, who then release it to the public. So essentially, Elijah's plan all along was to go viral on the internet.

Cooper takes his daughter Riley to her favorite singer’s concert, but soon learns that the entire show is a trap set up by the FBI to catch a serial killer known as “The Butcher.” Turns out The Butcher is actually Cooper, and he must outsmart his would-be captors so he can escape.

The Twist: Cooper’s wife, Rachel, was instrumental in setting the trap. She placed a piece of his concert receipt at a vacant house Cooper used for his serial killing needs so that the police would find it. When Cooper confronts her in the end, she tricks him into eating a piece of pie that she drugged, allowing a SWAT team to finally catch him – for now.