10 Horror Movie Opening Fakeouts We All Fell For

Like certain other fakeouts, the swerve of Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday is one that plays on its audience's long-standing expectations from horror and, in this case, from the Friday the 13th franchise.

By the point of this ninth F13 feature, fans had seen Jason spend six movies slicing 'n' dicing his way through a slew of pretty young things, with the majority of those kills taking place in and around Crystal Lake, and a significant percentage taking place in one of the locale's many cabins. Of course, many a female had fallen victim to Voorhees throughout these rampages.

So, when Jason Goes to Hell opens with an attractive lady preparing to take a shower in a Crystal Lake cabin, this all feels extremely familiar as we see Jason watching on and about to make his move. This eventually leads to a chase through the woods, which again is something we've seen time and time again, but The Final Friday completely caught franchise fans off guard at this point.

It's revealed that this woman is actually an FBI agent who's been used as bait to lure Jason out into a sting by the FBI and a SWAT team; a sting which sees the physical form of Voorhees blown to pieces, with the film then bizarrely seeing the spirit of Jason passed from person-to-person via a turd-like parasite.