10 Horror Movies That Only Make Sense At The End

Cult classic The Empty Man is an incredibly tricky film to nail down, because it at first appears to be explicitly about the titular supernatural entity, which kills teenagers and apparently aids its followers as long as they do its bidding.

After over two hours of discomforting, aggressive weirdness, however, it's revealed that ex-cop protagonist James Lasombra (James Badge Dale) isn't who we think he is. 

Rather, he's a tulpa - an entity created through manifestation by the Empty Man's cult to, in this case, serve as the new vessel for the creature as its current vessel nears death.

Everything we know of James' tortured past - namely the deaths of his wife and son in a car accident - were created by the cult, because that grief helps him sustain a connection to the Empty Man.

In reality, the real "empty man" is James himself, given that he's hardly a man at all. Brutal.