10 Best Fake Horror Movies Within Horror Movies

5. La Fin Absolue Du Monde

Appears in: John Carpenter's Cigarette Burns

The fake film: A legendary experimental horror barely ever seen and often thought lost completely, La Fin Absolue Du Monde (The Absolute End Of The World) caused murderous riots at its premiere at the Sitges Festival back in the 70s. After its entire first audience were murdered or went mad and the cinematographer who shot it went blind, the film was never shown again and the director, Hans Backovic, never worked again.

It was popularly believed that the only print of the film, a rough cut, was destroyed by the authorities. The film itself is more of an experience than a conventional narrative with a series of disturbing scenes and images centering around what purports to be the actual torture and sacrifice of an angel.

The real film: Cigarette Burns was made as a one hour TV movie as part of the anthology series Masters of Horror, the show that gave great horror filmmakers of the 70s and 80s a chance at a return to form. While not quite of a level with his best work, Cigarette Burns sees John Carpenter on his best form in years, taking on a story about a debt ridden dealer in rare films (The Walking Dead's Norman Reedus) and his search for the monstrous angel snuff movie.

Carpenter's cursed film is not unlike the video in Ring, both in conceit and content, all abstract creepy images. So, even though it is not plausible to see an angel tortured as such, the idea of a horror whose cult legend transcends its actual content seems very likely. Of course on screen the actual viewing of La Fin Absolue Du Monde will inevitably have a grand guignol climax, so the real film gives us cult icon Udo Kier feeding his intestines into the projector.