10 Awesome Horror Movie Moments That Make No Sense

Leigh Whannell's The Invisible Man is for the most part an incredibly tight and relatively "realistic" take on its formidable IP. 

Its single most shocking scene occurs when protagonist Cecilia (Elisabeth Moss) meets up at a restaurant with her sister Emily (Harriet Dyer) to explain that her abusive ex Adrian (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) has used his optical suit to fake his own death.

But soon enough, his invisible figure appears at the restaurant, slits Emily's throat and thrusts the knife into Cecilia's hand, effectively framing her for murder. 

In terms of execution (pardon the pun), it's a terrifically directed scene which mines Emily's brutal demise for maximum shock value, even if it does strain the film's logical integrity to near-snapping point.

Even if you can forgive the slightly clunky manner with which the knife ends up in Cecilia's hands post-murder, most upmarket restaurants in major cities would certainly have security cameras covering the main dining area.

While you can argue that the authorities would be unlikely to humour Cecilia's request to view the footage, it's pretty routine for the police to check surveillance cameras when a major crime has taken place.

And so if they did that, as they absolutely would, they'd see that the knife was propelled through the air and killed Emily without Cecilia's involvement at all. 

Add to this the considerable likelihood that someone in the restaurant would have accidentally captured video of the incident, and the whole "framed for murder" shtick becomes decidedly less convincing.

But ultimately the scene's brutality and what it's trying to achieve is great enough that it's easy to overlook how little sense it makes in a modern world where we're rarely more than a few feet from a recording camera.