10 Most Messed Up Horror Movie Openings

10. The Empty Man

This 2020 supernatural horror does well to set up expectations in the audience right from the offset. We start with a group of people in 1995 - they’re on a nice hiking trip in Bhutan which is imminently about to become less than fun.

After hearing something, one member of the group (Paul) goes to investigate and takes a nasty fall. By the time his group finds him he has become catatonic, needing to be helped back to safety by the others.

Their efforts were all in vain, because he goes missing again and ends up exactly where they found him. However, before anyone is able to start dragging him back, lecturing him about safety in numbers, one member of the group (Ruthie) goes rogue and murders everyone (apart from our beloved Paul). She then promptly throws herself off a bridge as if it’s no big deal.

Straight away we’re left utterly confused about what we just watched and frankly quite upset that immediately almost everyone is dead. What did Paul hear? What made Ruthie kill everyone? Why did nobody seem to have the smallest care for hiking safety and protocol? Yeesh.