10 Horror Movie Reveals So Bad You Almost Walked Out

5. The Director Is The Killer - The Last Broadcast

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The Last Broadcast is a mostly great found footage film which suffered the bad luck of being overshadowed by the admittedly superior The Blair Witch Project.

It also doesn't help that the film - centered around a documentary filmmaker, David Leigh (David Beard), investigating the murders of several men in the New Jersey Pine Barrens - concludes with an absolute clanger of a twist ending.

Leigh eventually receives footage that apparently contains the identity of the killer, and he employs a data retrieval expert to reconstruct the damaged images on the tape.

At this point, it's revealed that the killer is Leigh himself, with the perspective suddenly shifting to third-person. Leigh then kills the expert and disposes of her body, before continuing on with the next part of his documentary. The End.

Clearly the filmmakers wanted to end things with a "gotcha!" rug-pull, but between the goofiness of the reveal and betraying the film's own rules with the sudden change in perspective, it brought an otherwise bone-chilling horror film to an utter dud of a climax.

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