10 Horror Movies Which Broke The Fourth Wall To Scare You
5. The Devil’s Chair
Disliked by critics upon its 2007 release, The Devil's Chair is a disarmingly simple low budget British horror.
The thinly sketched story follows a man who is committed to an asylum after the eponymous torture device kills his hook-up. Hate it when that happens.
Of course, this being a horror, some genius psychiatrist decides that after five years in the asylum, our hero simply needs to face his fears and return to the scene of the crime. What follows is a lot of creepy scenes wherein the doctor, his assistant, and our hero narrowly avoid sitting in said chair.
Finally, after an admittedly tense but overlong series of near-misses, someone takes a seat and all Hell breaks loose.
That's when this blackly comic effort features some hilariously unexpected and surprisingly creepy fourth wall breaking.
Late in the game, our narrator admits that "it all got a bit silly here", before berating horror fans with an audaciously scolding "look at this poorly written, badly acted !*$%! Is there any truth in this B-movie banality?"
Just like Gladiator.
Except here the hero is complaining about fictional films rather than real life-and-death combat. Close, though.