The Ultimate Film and TV Spoiler Guide

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Photo Illustration by Jaclyn Kessel; Photo Courtesy of Everett Collection

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'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari': The entire movie is one big flashback.

Everett Collection

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'Gone With The Wind': He didn't get the girl, but frankly he didn't give a damn.

Everett Collection

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'Citizen Kane': "Rosebud" is his sled.

Everett Collection

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'Casablanca': He doesn't get the girl.

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'The Big Sleep': The slutty sister, Carmen, is the killer.

Everett Collection

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'Shane': Shane leaves and doesn't come back.

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'Psycho': Norman Bates and his mother are the same person.

Everett Collection

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'Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' George's and Martha’s son isn’t real.

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'Planet of the Apes (1968)': It was Earth the whole time.

Everett Collection

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'Soylent Green': "Soylent Green is people," and everyone in the community is a cannibal.

Everett Collection

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'Friday the 13th': Mrs. Voorhees is the killer.

Everett Collection

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'Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back': Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker's father.

Everett Collection

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'Dallas': Kristin shot J.R.

Everett Collection

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'The Shining': Jack Torrance is a ghost. (Sorta?)

Everett Collection

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'Tron': Rinzler is Tron.

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'The Crying Game': Dil has a penis.

Everett Collection

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'The Usual Suspects': Roger 'Verbal' Kint is Keyser Söze.

Everett Collection

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'Se7en': Her head is in the box.

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'Primal Fear': There is no Aaron, there's only Roy, and he's been faking it the entire movie.

Everett Collection

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'Fargo': Carl Showalter ends up a wood chipper.

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'Titanic': It sinks and Jack freezes to death.

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'The Matrix': Neo is The One. Oh, and he takes the Red Pill.

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'The Sixth Sense': Dr. Malcom Crowe has been dead the whole time.

Everett Collection

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'Fight Club': Tyler Durden isn’t real, but a figment of The Narrator's split personality.

Everett Collection

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'American Beauty': Colonel Fitts kills Lester Bernham.

YouTube

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'American Psycho': The whole thing might have been in Patrick’s mind.

Everett Collection

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'Buffy The Vampire Slayer' Season Five: Buffy dies to save mankind.

Fox/Netflix

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'Memento': Sammy Jankis' story is actually Leonard Shelby's.

Everett Collection

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Requiem-for-a-Dream-spoiler
'Requiem for a Dream': THAT scene where Marion whores herself out for heroin.

Photo courtesy Everett Collection

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'Unbreakable': Elijah Prince is Mr. Glass.

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'The Others': The Stewarts are ghosts.

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'A Beautiful Mind': John Nash's friends are delusions.

Everett Collection

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'Donnie Darko': The jet engine actually does kill Donnie.

Everett Collection

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HBO/Everett Collection

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'Identity': None of the victims were real, but split personalities of one “host.”

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'Oldboy': He does it with his daughter. Ick.

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'The Village': They're actually living in modern times.

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'Saw': The guy who has been playing dead the entire movie is "Jigsaw."

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Skeleton-Key-spoiler
'The Skeleton Key': Papa and Mama Justify are actually souls continuously looking for new vessels.

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'The Prestige': Borden is a twin.

Everett Collection

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'The Sopranos' Season Six finale: It just...ends.

HBO

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'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince': Snape kills Dumbledore.

Everett Collection

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'Orphan': Esther is not a little girl, but a 33-year-old dwarf.

Everett Collection

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'Black Swan': Nina stabbed herself, not Lily.

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'The Cabin in the Woods': Their whole world in the woods is controlled by a group of scientists.

Everett Collection

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'The Walking Dead': The hated Lori dies.

AMC/Netflix

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'Mad Men': Lane Pryce hangs himself.

AMC/Netflix

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'The Killing': Rosie Larsen’s killer is actually her aunt.

AMC/Everett Collection

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'Game of Thrones' Season Three, Episode 9 "The Rains of Castamere" aka "The Red Wedding": The Starks are dead.

HBO

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House of Cards
'House of Cards' Season 2, Episode 1, "Chapter 14": Frank Underwood throws Zoe Barnes into an oncoming train.

Netflix