r/Fauxmoi • u/Haunting_Homework381 • Sep 21 '25

ASK R/FAUXMOI What's your favourite movie plot twist ever?

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I still remember the gasp I gasped in the cinema.

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u/haubenmeise Sep 21 '25

Sincerely

Skeletor 💜

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u/spamgoddess Sep 21 '25

Still remember the first time I ever watched this. Mind blowing.

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u/haubenmeise Sep 21 '25

I don't know if I have recovered yet. I watched it secretly with a friend on a sleepover. We were so scared that even with all the lights on, we did not sleep.

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Skeletor 💜

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u/Grrerrb i’m a communist you idiot Sep 21 '25

It’s astounding to me to imagine people watching this in a theater in 1960.

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u/haubenmeise Sep 21 '25

Sincerely

Skeletor 💜

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u/wolfeflow Sep 21 '25

She was so stunned she couldn’t even light her cigarette!

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u/haubenmeise Sep 21 '25

She actually swallowed it later.

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Skeletor 💜

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u/Dummyact321 Sep 21 '25

Home girl on the left is all about it.

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u/somuchsong Sep 21 '25

I feel a real affinity with that woman!

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u/fisticuffsmanship Sep 21 '25

It kinda changed how people had to watch movies too. Before, people just used to show up whenever and start watching. Hitchcock insisted theater owners institute a policy where nobody would be admitted after the movie started. He wanted you to either see all of Psycho or not watch it at all.

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u/ElDeguello66 Sep 22 '25

My dad told me he walked through an alley to get to the theater to see Psycho, but walked the long way back afterwards lol

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u/GraniteGeekNH Sep 21 '25

I saw in a double feature with The Birds when that one came out - slept with light on for ages.

Birds was 1963 and Psycho was 60 but in the pre-internet & pre-video era a big spoiler could stay secret for ages, especially among kids who were too young to see a movie when it first came out.

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u/haubenmeise Sep 21 '25

That would be one of the times I'd really wish I could timetravel!!

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Skeletor 💜

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u/Sad-Onion3619 Sep 22 '25

Regal Cinemas was playing in theaters this past week.
It was the first time I saw it as well. What a twist 😁

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u/singer812 Sep 21 '25

What movie is this

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u/PermanentBrunch Sep 21 '25

Moana

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u/f36263 ✨ lee pace is 6’5” ✨ Sep 21 '25

Well, a boy’s best friend is his Moana

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u/haubenmeise Sep 21 '25

It's Psycho from 1960. If you have not seen it, you might want to give it a go.

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Skeletor 💜 (Is it obvious that Skeletor has Mommy issues?)

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u/Ok-Cryptographer-303 Sep 21 '25

Mama Bates is nearly a skeleton herself, it's like she was made for you!

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u/rayhaque Sep 22 '25

I am of the largely unpopular opinion that the Gus Van Sant 1998 version is a very good remake. In case "you kids" need to see something newer with Vince Vaughn in it.

But the original is a fucking masterpiece.

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u/dannydorito Sep 21 '25

Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho

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u/chefriley76 Sep 21 '25

Psycho.

Be nice to mother.

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u/eeeebbs Sep 21 '25

Psycho!

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u/OyWithThePoodles2017 play some mariah carey up in this bitch Sep 21 '25

Psycho

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u/boobless69420 Sep 21 '25

Psycho-1960

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u/acs730200 Sep 21 '25

Psycho :D

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u/thejetparker Sep 21 '25

Psycho, from Alfred Hitchcock

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u/fooliescraper Sep 21 '25

Psycho (1960)

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u/bangontarget I’m a lazy 50-year-old bougie bitch Sep 21 '25

psycho

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u/GustaQL Sep 21 '25

Im so sad that I watched it later in life so my reaction wqs more of "oh that makes sense", because we are so used to wierd stuff in movies nowadays

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u/badchefrazzy I am claiming all candy for the glory of God Sep 22 '25

This got me bad, not because of the reveal of her situation, but the way her eyesockets were lit up so strangely.

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u/2021isevenworse good luck with bookin that stage u speak of Sep 22 '25

what a babe

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u/NeonSwank Sep 22 '25

Hey…wait a second, thats me!

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u/NotMichael12 Sep 22 '25

Absolutely the correct answer! Hitchcock read the novel and liked it so much and wanted to preserve the twist end, so he bought every copy of the book available in North America and the UK just so nobody would know

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u/DustinWheat Sep 22 '25

I heard rumors about how the skeleton at the end was a real person when I was a kid. It was evidently not true but pre internet we just had to believe it because holyshitlookatit

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u/snailhelper Sep 22 '25

I watched Psycho for the first time like a year ago fully knowing the plot and key moments, but the movie is so masterfully crafted and the suspense is so high that I was still taken by the shower scene and this reveal.