10 Horror Movie Reveals So Bad You Almost Walked Out

The Last Exorcism is a really, really solid found footage movie if you can forgive its overegged shambles of a final 10 minutes.

The film revolves around a down-and-out minister, Cotton Marcus (Patrick Fabian), who lets a documentary crew film what will be his final exorcism on a young girl, Nell Sweetzer (Ashley Bell).

Nell's father believes her to be possessed by the Devil, having allegedly slaughtered livestock and miraculously fallen pregnant, but near the end of the story, Marcus realises Nell isn't possessed at all.

Rather, she's embarrassed about getting pregnant after sleeping with a local boy, but because the film apparently can't end there, there's one final twist: the boy in question is gay and hasn't had sex with Nell.

Marcus promptly returns to the Sweetzer farmhouse to find an occult ritual taking place, with Nell birthing a demonic entity. In the final scene, Marcus runs towards the ritual with a cross, his dwindling faith restored, while the filmmakers are all killed off by the family in the chaos.

The more restrained ending, that Nell really was just a woman struggling to come to terms with her repressed sexuality, would've made for a far more interesting and unexpected finale, while the actual reveal ends up feeling like something the studio forcibly stapled on the end.