Ten enduring sci‑fi movie twists and the films that pulled them off

Published 18 minutes ago, Collider ran a roundup of 10 notable sci‑fi movie twists from the big screen.

The list highlights moments such as Interstellar’s reveal that Cooper was seen as his daughter’s “ghost” inside a tesseract; Soylent Green’s famous line that the food is made from people; Arrival’s twist that apparent flashbacks are actually flashforwards; the clone revelations in Moon and Oblivion; the pod‑person ending of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978); the revelation that Kyle Reese is John Connor’s father in The Terminator; The Prestige’s twin-and-clone finale; the bleak last act of The Mist in which survivors are killed just before rescue; Darth Vader’s disclosure that he is Luke’s father in The Empire Strikes Back; and Planet of the Apes’ Statue of Liberty reveal that the world is actually Earth.

The piece includes a spoiler warning and presents the selections as moments for fans to revisit; it was written by Michael John Petty.

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Culture, Interstellar, Soylent Green, Arrival, Moon, The Terminator