8 Best Misdirections In Horror Movies

8. The World Isn't Actually Ending - The Mist

For 99% of Frank Darabont's adaptation of Stephen King's The Mist, the human race is on the cusp of extinction as a plethora of gnarly creatures from another dimension cause chaos, carnage, and cataclysmic catastrophe.

In a film headed up by one-time Punisher, Thomas Jane, the key protagonists at the centre of this story are in an unrelenting, tension-laced battle for survival - and wherever they turn, nefarious beasts lie waiting in the ominous mist that has now engulfed this small town setting.

As The Mist races to its close, with death now inevitable, Jane's David Drayton agrees to kill the rest of his inner circle as that's deemed by all involved to be a better option than the painful, torturous death that awaits once these alt-dimension creatures get a-hold of people.

One by one, David puts his few remaining bullets in his three friends and then has to do the heart-breaking same thing to his eight-year-old son. And just like that, as David offers himself up to be devoured by these alien beasts, with his gun still warm but now empty of bullets, the mist clears and the US Army step out of the smoke to proclaim that this clinical threat has now been contained.

So, not only did the human race not end up being exterminated, but David Drayton and the audience are hit with the gut-punch reality that David, his son, and their friends were all mere seconds away from being rescued.