20 Most Idiotic Film Twists Of All Time

By Jack Pooley /

18. The Ending Is An Advertisement For A Website - The Devil Inside

Paramount Pictures

The Twist: As her friends try to get her to an exorcist, a possessed Isabella Rossi (Fernanda Andrade) attacks Michael (Ionut Grama), who is driving the car and quickly becomes possessed, unbuckling his seatbelt and accelerating.

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He crashes the car, at which point the movie cuts to black, and a title card says that the Rossi case remains unsolved, while "for more information about the ongoing investigation", viewers are advised to visit www.therossifiles.com.

Why It's Stupid: Because it's an insanely cheap and cheeky cop-out: rather than actually come up with a proper ending, the filmmakers just direct you to a website where the mystery continues, and to rub salt in the wound, that site isn't even operational anymore.

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When people go to see a horror movie, they expect an actual ending to their film rather than a lame cliffhanger and URL link. Perhaps the only thing stupider than the movie itself is that it incredulously grossed over 100-times its budget at the box office.