10 Horror Movies That Tricked You Into Rooting For The Monster

The criminally underappreciated Fallen kicks off with a scene from the end of the story, where Detective John Hobbes (Denzel Washington) is running through a forest on the verge of death, as his voiceover narration tells the audience, "I want to tell you about the time I almost died."

Given that Denzel is playing the hero and all, we're immediately motivated to push for his survival, but when we see this sequence play out within its full context at movie's end, that support promptly evaporates.

You see, the film climaxes with Hobbes willingly allowing the fallen angel Azazel to possess him, but here's the twist - he's poisoned himself, in the hope that it will effectively leave Azazel stranded in the wilderness with no way to leap into a new body.

At this point, however, the voiceover kicks in again, and we realise it wasn't Hobbes talking to us at the start - it was Azazel. Azazel almost died, while Hobbes indeed dies for real.

And then, Azazel manages to possess a cat which stumbles upon the scene, the implication being that this allows Azazel to return to civilisation, possess another human, and continue his reign of murder and mayhem.