10 Better Movies That Were Secretly Hidden In Films

It sure isn't surprising that District 9 director Neill Blomkamp's new film Demonic turned out to be an abject critical failure, but damn if its trailer didn't suggest a much more interesting film encased inside.

Near the end of the trailer for the sci-fi horror film, a character says, "The Vatican has been funding a Black Ops unit, using priests like soldiers," accompanied by clips of badass priests kitting up to do battle with the primary demonic entity.

Except, this is a classic example of a marketing bait-and-switch, as the advertised battle never takes place: when protagonist Carly (Carly Pope) arrives on the scene, the Black Ops priests have all been killed off-screen by the demon.

It's one of the lousiest and most cynical anti-climaxes in any recent movie, though was presumably a budgetary decision intended to keep costs down and possibly due to the logistical challenges of shooting an involved set-piece during the height of the pandemic.

Those excuses don't make the end result sting much less, though, because Blomkamp directing an all-out war between geared-up soldier-priests and supernatural beasties was so much cooler than the scarcely coherent mish-mash of sci-fi and horror tropes viewers got saddled with.