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10 Thriller Shows With Mind-Blowing Plot Twists, Ranked
The power of a great plot twist is undeniable. It can completely transform a show by forcing the audience to rethink everything they thought was true, whether that be a character’s motivations or the rules of the story’s world. Given that, it’s not surprising that thriller TV has practically become obsessed with twists over the years. Of course, some element of surprise is essential to the genre, but when shows start relying on shock value alone, that’s where things start to fall apart.
Genuinely effective twists are much harder to pull off because they require careful setup, emotional payoff, and enough subtle clues for the reveal to feel earned in hindsight. Now, the problem is that most thrillers mistake constant unpredictability for good storytelling. Not the ones on this list, though, because these thriller shows have truly mind-blowing plot twists that completely rewire the audience’s brains.
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‘Shining Girls’ (2022)
Shining Girls is one of Apple TV’s most underrated thriller shows because it refuses to follow the traditional rules of the genre. The series, based on Lauren Beukes’s novel, stars Elisabeth Moss as Chicago Sun-Times archivist Kirby Mazrachi, who survived a brutal attack years earlier and still struggles to make sense of reality. Things take a turn when a new murder feels eerily similar to Kirby’s own assault, which leads her to team up with reporter Dan Velazquez (Wagner Moura) and investigate a string of connected cold cases that all lead back to a mysterious serial killer named Harper Curtis (Jamie Bell). The deeper the investigation goes, the clearer it becomes that this is more than just a straightforward crime mystery. Shining Girls does a great job of weaponizing the confusion in its narrative. Kirby’s reality constantly changes without warning. Her apartment shifts, relationships suddenly become different, and even the people around her seem altered from one moment to the next.
Instead of immediately explaining these changes, the series slowly allows the audience to piece things together alongside Kirby herself, so when the twist is finally revealed, it lands with full force. That storytelling approach turns Shining Girls into a thriller that demands complete attention because nearly every detail eventually matters. Unlike most murder mysteries that hide the killer’s identity until the very end, Shining Girls reveals Harper surprisingly early. The real mystery then revolves around understanding how he operates and why reality itself seems to fracture around his victims. Shining Girls, but once the puzzle pieces finally start connecting, it’s impossible to look away.
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‘Alice in Borderland’ (2020-2025)
Alice in Borderland is easily one of the most unpredictable thriller shows Netflix has ever produced. The Japanese survival series, based on Haro Aso’s manga, follows Arisu (Kento Yamazaki), a directionless young man who suddenly finds himself trapped inside a deserted version of Tokyo alongside his friends. Now, survival in this strange world depends on competing in a series of deadly games that test intelligence, teamwork, betrayal, and psychological endurance. Each game is categorized by playing cards that determine both its difficulty and the type of challenge contestants will face, which immediately gives the series a constant sense of unease.
Alice in Borderland quickly establishes that absolutely nobody is safe. The series wastes very little time throwing its characters into horrifying situations where every misstep can lead to immediate death. Yet despite all the spectacle, the show heavily focuses on the emotional and psychological impact these games have on the people forced to participate in them. The twists in Alice in Borderland are effective because they don’t just exist for shock value. In fact, every major revelation completely changes the audience’s understanding of the world itself. Just when viewers think they understand how Borderland operates, the series introduces new information that reframes the stakes all over again, and that becomes the show’s greatest strength.
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‘Mare of Easttown’ (2021)
Mare of Easttown is one of the strongest crime thrillers in recent times. The HBO miniseries follows Kate Winslet as Marianne “Mare” Sheehan, a detective in a small Pennsylvania town investigating the murder of a teenage mother while simultaneously dealing with a divorce, her son’s suicide, and a custody battle with his formerly heroin-addicted girlfriend over her grandson. Mare of Easttown immediately establishes that Mare is emotionally exhausted long before the central investigation even begins, which is exactly why the murder case slowly affects every aspect of her personal life in unexpected ways. The most interesting part about the show is how it hides its biggest twists inside ordinary conversations and relationships.
The series constantly shifts audience suspicion from one character to another, but none of it ever feels forced. In fact, the show’s small-town setting, where everybody is connected through family histories, generational friendships, and buried secrets, becomes the perfect foundation for those revelations to unfold naturally. Mare of Easttown spends just as much time exploring grief, addiction, loneliness, and broken families as it does solving the murder itself. This gives the series a level of emotional realism that keeps the audience invested until the very end.
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‘Black Bird’ (2022)
Black Bird is a show that becomes more unsettling as it progresses, especially since it’s based on true events. The Apple TV miniseries follows former high school football star turned drug dealer Jimmy Keene (Taron Egerton), who is sentenced to 10 years in prison without parole. However, things take a turn when the FBI offers him a dangerous deal. Jimmy is then transferred to a maximum-security prison for the criminally insane to befriend suspected serial killer Larry Hall (Paul Walter Hauser) in exchange for a reduced sentence. The catch is that during his time there, he has to gain Larry’s trust and convince him to reveal where the bodies of several murdered women are buried. The seemingly simple task becomes increasingly complicated as the story goes on.
The interesting thing is that Black Bird doesn’t really make use of graphic violence to drive its point. Most of the suspense in the series comes from conversations between the two men, where one wrong move could lead to disaster for Jimmy. The show slowly transforms into a psychological chess match where viewers are never completely sure of who is in control. The twists in Black Bird work because they are tied directly to Jimmy’s growing understanding of Larry. The series constantly forces audiences to question whether Larry is manipulating Jimmy or telling the truth. Every new confession or detail quietly changes the emotional stakes of the story. Not to mention how chilling all of this feels because the audience knows these events are rooted in reality.
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‘You’ (2018–2025)
Netflix’s You, based on Caroline Kepnes’ novels, is a haunting psychological thriller that follows Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley), a charming bookstore manager whose idea of love quickly spirals into obsession, stalking, manipulation, and even murder. Joe has this habit of inserting himself into the lives of the women he becomes fixated on because he is convinced that every horrific thing he does is somehow justified in the name of love. The series is extremely addictive because it essentially traps the audience inside Joe’s perspective. His internal narration drives the story. The fact that he is intelligent, funny, and self-aware almost convinces the audience of his twisted logic before he does something to remind them how dangerous he really is.
That psychological manipulation becomes one of the show’s smartest tricks because the series constantly blurs the line between romantic fantasy and outright horror. That’s also why the twists in Netflix’s You land so well, because Joe is never allowed to fully control the narrative. Every season introduces characters and revelations that completely destabilize his carefully constructed version of reality. Sometimes the biggest surprises come from the women Joe becomes obsessed with, who often turn out to be far more complicated and unpredictable than he initially assumes. Other twists emerge from Joe himself, especially once the series starts exploring his past and the psychological consequences of him constantly reinventing his identity to escape it. You is an unconventional thriller because it understands that Joe’s charm is part of what makes him dangerous. Just when viewers think they understand Joe Goldberg or where the story is heading next, the series finds another way to pull the rug from under them.
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‘Behind Her Eyes’ (2021)
Behind Her Eyes is one of the most unpredictable psychological thrillers of all time. The series, based on Sarah Pinborough’s bestselling novel, follows single mother Louise (Simona Brown), who begins an affair with her new boss David (Tom Bateman), only to unexpectedly strike up a friendship with his mysterious wife Adele (Eve Hewson). At first, the setup feels like a fairly familiar domestic thriller built around a love triangle and hidden secrets. However, Behind Her Eyes slowly reveals that there is something far stranger and far more unsettling happening underneath David and Adele’s seemingly perfect marriage. The show thrives in restraint and carefully controls information. The audience gets just enough clues to sense that something is off without fully understanding why.
Adele’s behavior, in particular, becomes increasingly difficult to read because she shifts so effortlessly between vulnerable, lonely, manipulative, and terrifying. At the same time, David constantly feels like a man trapped inside a situation the audience cannot fully understand yet. That uncertainty becomes the driving force of the series because every episode subtly changes the audience’s perception of these characters and their relationships. The stakes rise when Behind Her Eyes slowly introduces supernatural elements involving lucid dreaming and astral projection, which completely transform the direction of the story. By the time the miniseries reaches its infamous final twist, it almost feels inevitable because the clues leading up to it were always there from the very beginning. That kind of intentional storytelling is exactly why Behind Her Eyes stays with the audience long after the credits roll.
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‘Twin Peaks’ (1990–1991)
Twin Peaks is an unsettling mystery series that completely redefined television back in the day. The show created by David Lynch and Mark Frost is surreal, psychological, funny, and shocking at the same time in a way that still feels unique over three decades later. The series begins with the murder of homecoming queen Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) in the quiet town of Twin Peaks. FBI agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) arrives to investigate the case and quickly realizes that the seemingly ordinary town hides an endless web of secrets, corruption, strange relationships, and increasingly bizarre supernatural forces. The initial murder mystery slowly transforms into something far stranger and more unpredictable than audiences could have anticipated at the time.
Twin Peaks constantly destabilizes the viewers’ expectations. The series hops between genres, including soap opera melodrama, dark comedy, supernatural horror, and detective fiction, in ways that should absolutely not work together, yet somehow do. That unpredictability becomes one of the show’s greatest strengths because viewers never fully know what kind of emotional or narrative turn is coming next. The mystery surrounding Laura Palmer’s death drives the series, but as the investigation deepens, the show introduces dream sequences, cryptic visions, supernatural entities, and clues that often feel impossible to interpret. In fact, the show often treats its twists less as answers and more as doors to even stranger realities. Twin Peaks remains one of the boldest thriller series ever made because it refuses to explain itself in conventional ways fully.
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‘Dark’ (2017–2020)
Dark is Netflix’s first German-language original series that is both mind-boggling and gut-wrenching. The story begins with the disappearance of a young boy in the small town of Winden, but what initially feels like a missing-person mystery quickly expands into a narrative involving time travel, generational trauma, and interconnected family secrets spanning multiple decades. As different characters begin uncovering strange connections between the past, present, and future, Dark slowly reveals that nearly everyone in Winden is trapped inside a cycle they barely understand.
The series keeps introducing new information that forces its characters and the audience to reevaluate everything that came before. Family trees become increasingly complicated, and timelines overlap in unexpected ways. This obviously means that Dark demands the viewers’ full attention because not one scene in the show is random or poorly planned. Despite how complex the narrative becomes, it all comes together perfectly in the end. Yet somehow, despite all the twists and tangled storylines, the emotional core of the show never gets lost. That balance between deeply human storytelling and genuinely jaw-dropping twists is exactly why Dark remains one of Netflix’s most unforgettable thriller series.
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‘Severance’ (2022–Present)
Severance is undisputedly one of the smartest psychological thrillers television has produced in years. The Apple TV series follows Mark Scout (Adam Scott), an employee at the mysterious biotechnology company Lumon Industries, where workers undergo a surgical procedure called severance that completely separates their work memories from their personal lives. Their innie exists only inside the office, while their outie remembers nothing about what happens during the workday. At first, the process appears to be an unsettling corporate experiment about work-life balance.
However, it doesn’t take long for things to take a darker turn. Nearly every episode of the sci-fi thriller show introduces strange rules, cryptic corporate rituals, or employee behavior that quietly suggests Lumon is hiding something much larger beneath the surface. The audience experiences the mystery almost entirely through the perspective of the innies and their limited knowledge. That alone creates an existential horror that never leaves the viewer. The series spends most of its time trapping the characters and viewers inside Lumon’s suffocating environment, which makes every revelation feel massive. What truly separates Severance from most thriller series, though, is how the show’s twists are always tied to larger ideas about identity, memory, grief, and corporate control.
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‘1899’ (2022)
1899 is a thriller mystery created by Dark showrunners Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese. The Netflix series follows a group of passengers traveling from Europe to America aboard a steamship called the Kerberos in 1899. However, things take a disturbing turn once the crew discovers another ship, the Prometheus, drifting aimlessly in the middle of the ocean after having vanished months earlier. From there, the story transforms into a disorienting psychological maze filled with hidden identities, shifting realities, and increasingly impossible events. Nearly every passenger aboard the Kerberos is hiding secrets, which immediately creates an atmosphere where nobody fully trusts each other.
The show also uses its multilingual cast brilliantly because characters constantly struggle to communicate despite sharing the same space. That disconnect adds another layer of tension to the series since misunderstandings and isolation become just as dangerous as the central mystery. 1899 embraces its ambiguity and makes sure that every twist lands with purpose. The show constantly rewards audiences who pay close attention to visual clues, repeated symbols, and subtle details hidden throughout the narrative. By the time the final episodes arrive, the audience is so fully immersed in the show’s shifting realities that they almost feel like passengers themselves.
1899
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2022 – 2022-00-00
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Netflix
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Jantje Friese, Dario Madrona López Gallego, Emma Ko, Jerome Bucchan-Nelson, Juliana Lima Dehne, Emil Nygaard Albertsen
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Editor’s note: The below interview contains major spoilers for the From Season 4 finale.
From Season 4 has finally come to an end, but MGM+’s horror series didn’t resolve its penultimate chapter without some heartbreaking losses along the way. While the beginning of the season saw the aftermath of Jim’s (Eion Bailey) fateful meeting with the Man in the Yellow Suit (Douglas E. Hughes), the conclusion confirmed that his Sophia (Julia Doyle) guise is just as willing to get rid of anyone who could thwart his plans, even if it means murder. Meanwhile, Jade (David Alpay) and Tabitha’s (Catalina Sandino Moreno) mission to unearth the bones of the town’s sacrificed children, pulling up the bottle tree in the process, seems to incite the creatures all over again, culminating in a second heartbreaking loss.
Ahead of the premiere of the finale, “If a Tree Falls in the Forest…,” Collider spoke with actors Kaelen Ohm, who plays Marielle, and Nathan D. Simmons, who plays Elgin, about their characters’ shocking fates. Over the course of the interview, which you can read below, the two discuss when they learned that Marielle and Elgin wouldn’t be surviving the finale, why Elgin chooses to stand up to Sophia instead of agreeing to serve her, the significance of Marielle’s final request from Kristi (Chloe Van Landschoot), how they’d like to potentially be resurrected for From‘s final season, and more.
COLLIDER: When did both of you find out about what would be happening to your characters this season? Did you get a phone call as a heads-up before having to read it in the script? How did John [Griffin] break the news?
NATHAN D. SIMMONS: For me, how the event went was that I was out somewhere, and I got a call from John’s assistant. They were like, “John wants to meet you for coffee,” and I was like, “Okay, cool, cool. I’ll see if I can do this evening.” Then time went by, and I was like, “So I can’t do this evening. I’ll do it tomorrow.” Then I was like, “Actually, can we do tomorrow evening?” Then he was like, “No, John really wants to see you,” and then I was like, “Okay, cool.” Then I get to this one café, and it’s not clueing in. We sat outside, and it’s still not clueing in. And then I was like, “Oh, I see what it is now.”
KAELEN OHM: I was actually with Chloe [Van Landschoot] when John’s assistant called me, and I know what this meeting means because it has happened to people before, so some of us at least knew the template. So I answer my phone, and he’s like, “Hey, Kaelen, John would like to meet you for coffee.” We were just about to go into the climbing gym together, and she’s like, “What?” I got off the phone, and I was like, “I’m meeting John at the café tomorrow.” And so we processed the information together in a way. She was more upset than I was at first, I think. But yeah, it’s part of it. Someone’s gotta go every few episodes, and definitely by the finale.
‘From’s Kaelen Ohm and Nathan D. Simmons Didn’t Have Much Time Before Filming Their Death Scenes
“… everyone will be going back to Season 5 very, very soon, and we aren’t, are we?”
Both of you have probably had more time to go through the process of mourning these characters, but did you know from the beginning how it was going to happen, or did you end up finding out the specifics later?
OHM: I think he told me that generally I was going to be protecting Fatima and going out that way, and then he told me it was Smiley, and I was like, “Oh, that sounds cool.” So, I got a sense before we read the script, but we also had that meeting, maybe a week, but it could have been a few days before we got the script. It was not too much time in advance. It’s a process to go through because you hear about it, you read it, you shoot it, and now it’s coming out, and everyone will be going back to Season 5 very, very soon, and we aren’t, are we?
SIMMONS: Yeah. I think it was like what Kaelen was saying, like a week or a couple of weeks? I don’t remember exactly. But yeah, he pretty much told me everything about the prayer and the deal and everything, and it being Sophia. I remember it was before I read the scene where Clara joined Sophia’s side, so that was all surprising to me. I was kind of excited at that point, though, because the season before, I thought he was dead, and I had to process all that. Then this season, I felt like he went off on a really good note.
In the moment, Elgin has a choice to make. He can either do what Clara did and agree to work for Sophia, or he can stand up to her and go out resisting her. Why do you feel like he ultimately decides to stand up to her, even with the unspoken implication that he probably is going to die for it?
SIMMONS: For Elgin, it’s a thing of having to maintain what your morals are, who you are. I think that was, I guess you can say, the fatal flaw, more so than even saying, “Hey, is this you in the photo, Sophia?” I think his flaw was that he has this very pure view of what’s good and what’s wrong, and I think at the end, that kind of overrides his will to survive and even go home.
Kaelen, what was the preparation process like for you in terms of not just preparing to film the initial scene with Pegah [Ghafoori] and Jamie [McGuire], but also the scene with Chloe when Kristi has to go into the room and essentially see Marielle lying there?
OHM: Death scenes are interesting because I’ve never died before, obviously, so I don’t have a personal experience to reference. So, there is a technical aspect where you’ve got to make sure that it’s going to work and be believable on that level. But I think the process of dying, because that is most of the scene, she does get to have a struggle, which I loved, that it’s just really remembering what’s important.
I’m really fascinated with near-death experiences and have watched documentaries on them and things like that, and I think it was about dropping in that type of psychology, things I’ve heard about near-death experiences, things I’ve heard about what you can focus on when you’re leaving, but then trying to keep a line into reality, if you’re going to fight, because there is supposedly this decision point when you’re headed out. My grandmother actually has told me about this. She almost died a couple of times when she was younger.
There’s so many layers of it, and you prepare as much as you can, but then on the day, you just kind of surrender to what’s there. There’s a lot of technical stuff to execute. You’re trying to stay true and grounded in your own performance and still play off what other people are bringing, which, in that case, Chloe just brought such an incredible performance. Having Pegah and Jamie there, too, it’s all par for being able to have an authentic experience in acting, which is such a blessing, especially on television when everything’s moving so quickly.
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The kiss between them feels like Marielle accepting that she’s going, and wanting that last pure, perfect moment of happiness with Kristi. Did the two of you want to approach that in any specific way?
OHM: No. There was so much to shoot that day and so much of the technical aspect of working with Jamie and the prosthetics on my body that when we got to that, we didn’t actually have too much time. So it was really raw. I think Chloe got two takes on that. We kind of got two takes together on the ground. I’m trying to stay in my suffering body so it doesn’t look like I’m suddenly asking for something with a normal level of energy.
I suppose she’d have to speak to this, but Kristi’s also having this moment of not wanting to say goodbye, but I think Mari understands that she’s about to leave, so I just asked, and she gave it to me. Then that’s when I was supposed to take my last breath. So, there was some spontaneity, I guess, is what I could say. That would be the answer, is that there was some spontaneity, and we found what we did on the day, and that’s what it ended up being.
‘From’s Kaelen Ohm and Nathan D. Simmons Reflect on Their Last Scenes of Season 4 and How They’d Want To Be Resurrected
“I think it’d be cool at the very end, seeing everyone together…”
I know that you sometimes film things out of order, and there are sometimes multiple episodes being filmed at once. What was the moment when they called wrap for your last scene of this season?
SIMMONS: Lucky enough for me, it was my death scene. It was a very good feeling. It felt like I gave up, gave up the ghost. I got to say my final goodbyes there. It was good. Usually, like last year, for the hammer, passing-out scene, we shot a bunch of other stuff, so the big moment was over with, and then we did a bunch of small moments, but the emotional climax already happened. So, I was happy that this time I released it all as I released Elgin, which was really good.
OHM: They kept me, actually, unexpectedly. We shot the death scene, and that was supposed to be my wrap, and then they’re like, “Oh, we want to shoot you. When Boyd comes in, we want you to be there,” and that was some days later. So, that ended up being the last moment for me, but it was still the death scene. Then I got to have my good cry at the end, walking back to my trailer. One of our PA’s is a really close family friend, so that was nice, to do that with her.
As much as it feels like the two of you have said goodbye to these characters, I feel like it’s worth mentioning that we’ve seen characters who we’ve thought were dead come back in some form. Father Khatri has obviously been a presence. Jim has popped up here and there. There’s still one more season to go. There’s a possibility, maybe right at the end, that we could see some friendly faces. If you could choose, how would the two of you want to come back for one last hurrah in From‘s final season?
OHM: Marielle did have this vision in Season 4, when she was in the chamber, experiencing all the people who have died, and that people never get to actually leave things like that. So I guess to see her on that other side and what that means would be really cool. And I’ve had this vision of all of us, the regulars on the show who have died, somehow being together there. I don’t know. What do you think, Nathan? What’s your wish?
SIMMONS: I kind of have this vision of seeing Elgin 10 years later, or something, coming back with, like, a flamethrower and burning all the monsters and the Man in Yellow. Then Boyd comes up, and he…
OHM: [Laughs] Something very Rambo.
SIMMONS: I’m playing. That would be cool, though! But no, I think it’d be cool at the very end, seeing everyone together or seeing where Elgin is, or if he’s alive somewhere. Something like that.
All four seasons of From are now available to stream on MGM+.
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20 Years Later, The Greatest Dark Fantasy Movie of All Time Officially Returns to Theaters
Nearly two decades after it first wowed millions, the greatest dark fantasy film of all time — it would be fair to describe it as a masterpiece — is returning to the big screen. The movie, which famously received a 22-minute standing ovation at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival (yes, that remains a record to this day), also went on to receive six Oscar nods and took home three statuettes. Intrigued? Then head to the multiplexes when the fall hits.
Cineverse and Fathom Entertainment have released the first trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth 20th Anniversary, which brings the film back to the big screen on October 9. The new release has been overseen by del Toro himself and will be presented in 4K, with a version available in 3D and HDR for the first time, alongside a 2D HDR presentation. Del Toro has also recorded a new voiceover, so he’s taken it seriously, that’s for sure. This looks like the most immersive way so far to check out one of the finest fantasy films ever made.
The film is set in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, in 1944, and follows the young Ofelia after she and her pregnant mother move to the countryside with her horrendous stepfather, Captain Vidal. While Vidal is busy hunting the remaining rebels hiding in the nearby forest, Ofelia discovers a hidden labyrinth and meets an ageless Faun, who tells her she is a princess from an enchanted world. Just the kind of thing you hope happens to you when you go for a quiet stroll in the country, right?
Who Stars in ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’?
The film stars Ivana Baquero (The Shannara Chronicles) as Ofelia, Maribel Verdú (Y Tu Mamá También) as Mercedes, Doug Jones (The Shape of Water) as the Faun and the Pale Man, and Sergi López (Dirty Pretty Things) as Captain Vidal.
Written and directed by del Toro, Pan’s Labyrinth was nominated for six Academy Awards and won three, including Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, and Best Makeup. It also remains one of the most acclaimed fantasy films ever made, with its mix of historical horror, creature work, and heartbreak still feeling completely untouchable two decades later. Del Toro explained the reason for the re-release in a statement.
“Pan’s Labyrinth turns 20 years old, and in Cineverse we have found the perfect partner to make it live again on the big screen and in new and improved home presentations. Cineverse is committed and bold, and their track record for reaching a maximum audience is magnificent. Together we will reconnect the generations that have shared the film through the years and long to experience it theatrically again.”
Tickets for Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth 20th Anniversary go on sale September 9 ahead of its October 9 theatrical release.
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January 19, 2007
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118 minutes
We’re now past the halfway point of 2026, and as with every year, there have been some major box office surprises. The year opened with a few sci-fi bombs in Mercy (starring Rebecca Ferguson) and Greenland 2: Migration (starring Gerard Butler), which collectively lost millions for both Amazon and Warner Bros. The first big sci-fi box office smash hit of the year didn’t come until the premiere of Project Hail Mary (starring Ryan Gosling), which grossed over $600 million at the box office before also becoming a streaming success on MGM+. It’s also been a wildly successful year for low-budget horror movies, including Backrooms, which hails from 21-year-old director Kane Parsons. After earning $330 million against a $10 million budget to become the most successful A24 film ever, the studio is putting Backrooms back in theaters this weekend with 15 minutes of never-before-seen footage.
However, as wildly successful as Backrooms has been, it doesn’t even come close to the profitability of the biggest horror sensation of 2026, Obsession. Written and directed by up-and-coming prodigy Curry Barker, Obsession was produced on a shoe-string budget reported to be around $750,000, and the film turned out to be profitable in less than one day. After releasing in theaters on May 15, Obsession has racked up over $370 million in total box office earnings, meaning the film has grossed nearly 500x its budget — this is enough to not only be the most profitable movie of the year, but one of the most profitable films ever made. After its tremendous box office success, Obsession is ready to enter a different stage of its life cycle, where the film is now available to stream at home via VOD platforms such as Prime Video and Apple TV.
What Is ‘Obsession’ About?
Obsession follows a guy who breaks a mysterious “One Wish Willow” to win his crush’s heart. While he does ultimately get what he asks for, he realizes that this newfound desire comes at a dark and sinister price. The horror film stars breakouts Inde Navarette, Michael Johnston, Cooper Tomlinson, and Megan Lawless, who are all certain to get more offers going forward. Obsession holds equally strong scores of 94% from critics and audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, making it one of the highest-rated films of 2026. Disclosure Day director Steven Spielberg has also publicly shared his love for Obsession, further driving it home as one of the biggest movies of the year. His full quote about the film reads as follows: “I’m so happy for them. I think it’s so fantastic, and I think it’s great that they had basically, very little money. Especially Obsession, had under $1 million, and the other film [Backrooms], had maybe nine or 10, and they’re both doing so well, and I just applaud them. I haven’t seen Backrooms, I am going to see it when all this is over. But, I have seen Obsession, and I loved it.“
Check out Obsession at home on VOD platforms and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of all the biggest movies of the year.
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May 15, 2026
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108 minutes
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Curry Barker
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Ruby Rose’s latest attempt to tackle a simple backyard chore ended in a painful trip to the emergency room.
The actress shocked fans after sharing footage of the frightening moment she slipped into her swimming pool, revealing the accident left her with multiple broken ribs.
While the ordeal has already derailed her summer plans, it also revived memories of the serious health battles and traumatic injuries that have shaped much of her recent life.
Ruby Rose revealed she was rushed to the hospital after a backyard accident left her with two broken ribs.
The “Batwoman” star took to her Instagram Stories with a video showing herself carefully edging along the narrow ledge surrounding her swimming pool while holding a garden hose.
Rose had been trying to water a section of her garden overlooking the pool when everything suddenly went wrong. She lost her footing and plunged into the water, striking her ribs against the pool’s edge during the fall.
The video captured the immediate aftermath, with the 40-year-old visibly distressed as she struggled in the pool and instinctively clutched her side in pain.
Despite the severity of the accident, Rose managed to inject a bit of humor into the situation. “RIP to my ribs, and the rest of my summer. They are broken, multiple. Straight to hospital, did not pass go or collect $200,” she wrote alongside the clip, adding a laughing-crying emoji.
Rose later shared the same video on Threads, where she reflected on how quickly an ordinary day spiraled into a medical emergency.
“One second I’m here talking to you. The next I’m in the hospital with two broken ribs. What a bloody Monday,” she wrote.
Rose Previously Faced A Terrifying Injury On The ‘Batwoman’ Set
Ruby Rose knows all too well how dangerous physical injuries can become. Back in 2019, she was hospitalized after performing a stunt while filming her starring role in “Batwoman.” At first, doctors believed she had either fractured or broken a rib.
“We thought that I had broken a rib or just fractured a rib and that it was, like, 6 to 12 weeks of healing,” she recalled during an appearance on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.”
Instead, the pain continued long after that expected recovery period. “So, then I had 6 to 12 weeks of chronic pain and just sort of kept assuming that was what it was,” Rose explained.
Doctors later discovered the true cause was far more serious: two herniated discs in her spine. “It was really, really terrifying,” the Hollywood star said, revealing that she could have been left paraplegic had the condition not been treated immediately.
Ruby Rose Revealed The Emotional Toll Her Injuries Took On Her
Years after the spinal injury, Rose admitted she still struggled to discuss the ordeal because of the emotional scars it left behind.
Speaking to TV Week in March 2026, she explained that simply talking about the accident would trigger an overwhelming response.
“The memories around it were so bad that I had to put myself into a trauma facility for three months in 2021, so I could learn how to talk about what happened without fainting,” Rose shared.
The “John Wick: Chapter 2” actress described the experience as life-changing, saying, “It was a horrendous injury, and I was so very alone throughout the whole experience.”
She explained that her brain would shut down and turn off whenever she attempted to revisit those painful memories publicly.
Rose Also Survived A Serious Car Crash Before Her Latest Accident
Ruby Rose revisited another frightening chapter earlier this year while appearing in SBS documentary series “The Hospital: In the Deep End.”
During the program, she revealed she had previously been hospitalized following a devastating car crash that left her unconscious after being thrown through a windshield.
“I was [in hospital] for many, many weeks. I couldn’t walk or anything and I had to use a bedpan,” she recalled per the Daily Mail. Throughout her lengthy recovery, Rose depended heavily on hospital staff.
“I relied entirely on the nurses for everything,” she added. Rose then thanked the nurses who cared for her during that trauma, noting the intense, long-hour, and emotional nature of their work.
Ruby Rose Revealed She Suffered Complications From A Surgery
In July 2021, Rose made headlines after revealing that she was rushed back to the hospital after suffering “serious” complications from a recent surgical procedure.
As The Blast reported, she explained that the medical emergency was made even worse by overwhelmed hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The movie star said the operation itself had gone well, but complications developed the following day, forcing her to seek emergency care.
“I did have a procedure, and I had to have a surgery, but it was fine, and the surgery went well. But then yesterday, I had a few complications, and I had to go to the emergency room,” she shared.
Rose explained that by the time she realized she urgently needed treatment, an ambulance was called, but it spent hours searching for a hospital that could admit her because facilities had been turning patients away all night.
Describing her condition as “quite serious,” she said doctors eventually accepted her after what she called “a bit of a standoff.”
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‘Alien 3’ Director Reveals Scrapped Plans That Would Have Changed the Franchise Forever [Exclusive]
Some alternate-universe movies are just too tantalizing not to imagine what could’ve been, and Renny Harlin’s Alien 3 is one of the most fascinating films that never happened. Harlin’s version would have taken the xenomorphs to Earth or all the way back to their home planet, something the franchise has still not done, over 30 years later. The Die Hard 2 and Cliffhanger director was once lined up to follow Ridley Scott and James Cameron on the franchise, but he ultimately left the project after deciding Fox’s approach was not the film he wanted to make.
Speaking during his masterclass panel at the Mediterrane Film Festival, moderated by Collider Editor-in-Chief Steve Weintraub, Harlin recalled the surreal moment he first realized he had landed one of Hollywood’s biggest directing jobs. The Finnish filmmaker had recently broken through with A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, but he knew taking on Alien 3 would mean following two all-time genre heavyweights.
“I was offered quite a few movies after Nightmare on Elm Street, and Alien 3 became the most interesting of them. Of course, I admired Ridley Scott’s Alien and James Cameron’s Aliens, and I was thinking, ‘Here’s Renny Harlin, 28 years old, from Finland, and I’m going to follow in the footsteps of these guys?’ So, I made a deal to do the movie for 20th Century Fox. I drove my little rental car through the studio gates, and they had a pass for me. I said, ‘I’m Renny Harlin.’ They said, ‘Welcome, Mr. Harlin. Your office is this way.’ And still, today, it brings tears to my eyes because it was an unreal moment. I thought this was absolutely going to change my life.”
Renny Harlin Wanted ‘Alien 3’ on Earth — or the Xenomorph Homeworld
Harlin said the studio’s version of the sequel was going to focus on a prison ship overrun by aliens, an idea that would ultimately become the foundation of David Fincher’s film, but Harlin didn’t see the appeal of that premise, especially after the scale and invention of the first two movies.
“However, the movie that the studio wanted to make was not at all the movie that I thought we should make. They basically said, ‘We want to make a movie where we are on a prison ship, the aliens come to the prison ship, and the prisoners fight the aliens.’ And I said, ‘Why would anybody care about prisoners on a prison ship in space? What’s unique about that?’”
Instead, Harlin had two very different ideas. The first would have brought the xenomorphs to Earth, including a visual that sounds like it could have made for one hell of a teaser poster. “I had two ideas,” explained Harlin. “One idea was that the third one would be about the aliens coming to Earth. Already, I’d drawn them a poster of a cornfield where aliens are marching through the cornfield towards a white farmhouse, and the studio said, ‘Nobody’s going to believe in aliens on Earth.’ This was a little before Jurassic Park and movies like that. Then my other idea was, ‘Let’s go to where the aliens are from. Let’s find the planet where they are from and find out what they are. Are they bad guys? Are they good guys? Are they just oblivious organisms trying to protect themselves?’ They were like, ‘Nobody wants to go where the aliens are from. People want to see a prison ship.’”
Harlin remained at Fox for almost a year, but eventually reached the point where he felt he had to leave rather than direct a movie he could not stand behind. “So, I worked for almost a year on the Fox lot, and then one day… I get asked about directing, and I must say that I think that the most important thing is that you have to be honest with yourself. Have I always succeeded in that? No. But when I’m being honest with myself, that’s when I’ve had the greatest success in my life. There was a day when I decided, ‘I’m going to quit. I have nothing. I have no income, I have no future. I have no other opportunities,’ and I thought, ‘No studio will ever hire me again.’ But I went to the heads of 20th Century Fox, and I said, ‘I’m sorry, I don’t believe in this film. I’m gonna die of embarrassment if I make this movie after what Ridley Scott and James Cameron did.’ And I left.”
Walking Away Led Renny Harlin Straight to ‘Die Hard 2’
Rather than ending his Hollywood career, Harlin’s decision led to an even bigger opportunity at the same studio. Fox offered him a new project the next day, and he went on to direct Die Hard 2, cementing himself as one of the most exciting action filmmakers of the era. “I thought that was it. I might as well buy a ticket back to Finland,” said Harlin. “The next day, 20th Century Fox offered me a new movie, and then I did Die Hard 2 with them, and the rest was history. But it was just because I had the guts to be honest with myself and other people and say, ‘This is not for me. I don’t know how to do it this way. It doesn’t feel right.’ And I think that’s a very, very important thing. It’s easy to kind of go with the mainstream and go with what seems popular and all that, but I think that the only real way is to be honest with yourself about what you do.”
Renny Harlin was speaking at the Mediterrane Film Festival in Valletta, Malta. Stay tuned at Collider for more.
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May 22, 1992
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114 minutes
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David Giler, Larry Ferguson, Walter Hill, Vincent Ward, Dan O’Bannon, Ronald Shusett
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Ezra Swerdlow
Love Island USA‘s Corbin Mims and Parmida Keshani took their relationship to the next level by showering together in the villa.
The Monday, June 29, episode of the show zeroed in on Corbin and Parmida spending time together in the bathroom. After the camera panned back in, Corbin and Parmida were making out while in the shower, which they then confirmed to the rest of the villa.
They ultimately decided to make things official later in the episode when they declared that they were going to “close things off” after a few days together.
Corbin’s return to the villa hasn’t been easy after finding a connection with Parmida in Casa Amor. Their recoupling initially sparked backlash when Kenzie Annis publicly dragged him for not considering her when he went to explore his chemistry with other women.
Earlier in the week, Corbin revealed there were “red flags” he didn’t address with Kenzie. This inspired Corbin to explore his options — and he later told the guys he “hasn’t thought” of Kenzie at all.
Love Island USA originally premiered in the U.K. in 2002 before it expanded worldwide with various spinoffs, including Love Island USA on Peacock. The series follows a different group of singles every season who have to pair off in order to stay in the show’s luxury villa.
The contestants — referred to as Islanders — live in isolation in a villa and are under constant video surveillance. They must be coupled up to remain on the show and stand a chance at receiving the $100,000 prize.
Season 8 escalated the sex that took place in the villa with multiple couples going all the way while sharing a bedroom in the villa. The drama escalated with Casa Amor when the new women discussed which guys they thought would pair off with them before returning to the villa.
They poked fun at Kenzie’s possible reaction to Parmida walking in with Corbin.
“Kenzie just likes anyone who likes her,” Parmida said after the rest of the women made fun of how Kenzie spoke to Corbin.
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Influencer Jen Hamilton confirmed that she is stepping away from her nursing job amid her separation from estranged husband, Brian Hamilton.
“I’m taking some time off of work, which is something that I never, ever wanted,” Jen, 37, announced in a vlog on Monday, June 29. “My patients do not deserve the mental state that I would bring to the bedside right now. One moment, I’m OK. The next moment, I’m not OK.”
Per her website, Jen has worked as an ER and obstetrics nurse for more than a decade, specializing in helping mothers through giving birth.
“I don’t know when those moments [of not being OK] are and my patients deserve so much better than that,” she said. “There is so much happening that is so complicated that I wish that I could share right now and I cannot. Just know that I am being a kickass mom, not just to my children but to myself.”
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(Jen and Brian wed in 2012 and they share two sons: Ellis and Luke.)
On June 15, Jen fought back tears in a TikTok vlog where she revealed she’d separated from husband Brian.
“I’m feeling embarrassed and feeling exposed and feeling sad, feeling every single thing you probably possibly feel,” she shared with followers. “My publicists say that I should make a statement ‘when I’m ready.’ There is no being ready. But there’s already been a bunch of articles about it, so I might as well just rip the Band-Aid off and put it out there in the wind.”
She subsequently shared a joint statement with Brian, thereby confirming the split.
“Yes, we are separating,” their joint statement read. “This comes with enormous pain for the both of us but also gratitude for the 15 years of shared history, love, and friendship. What we are committed to is loving each other well through this transition and placing the wellbeing of the family we created at the center.”
Influencer Jen Hamilton and her husband, Brian, have been candid about their relationship through the years. The couple exchanged vows in 2012, before welcoming sons Ellis and Luke. In June 2026, Jen — who sparked speculation that the pair had called it quits — shared her side of the story on where they stand in […]
The Hamiltons went on, “We are hoping our paths diverging in physical location will make space and room for mental healing for the other. We still are committed to being a team. We even wrote this together (and without chatgpt). We both want to be very clear. This wasn’t about falling out of love. That’s why this is so devastating. It was about recognizing that sometimes the most loving thing you can do is give someone space to figure out complex things. And that’s exactly what we are doing.”
In that video, Jen promised fans that she was “gonna be alright” — but she compared the separation to the pain of childbirth in a subsequent vlog.
“It feels like labor,” Jen said in a June 20 video. “You’ll be OK for a minute and here comes a contraction! And another thing about this and labor is I don’t know when it’s going to end.”
HGTV couple Jen and Brandon Hatmaker’s 2020 split and subsequent divorce rocked both of their worlds. Former Your Big Family Renovation host Jen stunned fans in July 2020 by announcing that her family was “in a moment with no handbook and without a single clue how to navigate this privately, much less publicly” as she split […]
The Birth Vibes author continued, “The thing that is annoying me right now — that I know it shouldn’t be annoying to me, but I wish that I had something stable to count on — is the labileness of my feelings right now. Because I can wake feeling OK and, like, do stuff and get stuff done and feel like a boss and then somebody mentions something and I’m just a puddle on the floor.”
In Monday’s vlog, Jen made it clear that she will continue to root for Brian despite how their marriage ended.
“Even after everything that has happened, I have no animosity, no ill will. I want him to find himself,” she explained. “I want him to be the bestest version of himself that he’s ever been. I’m gonna be his biggest cheerleader as he is on that journey.”
Jen then vowed, “I’m also going to be my biggest cheerleader. I am going to model for my children what it means to have healthy relationships, healthy self-worth and allowing those that we love the very most in this world to accept and embrace the gift that is accountability and consequence for the decisions that we make in this life.”
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