10 More Movie Openings That Totally Trolled Audiences
8. The Drone Fake-Out - Evil Dead Rise
The recently released Evil Dead Rise kicks off with a prologue - which, really, is an epilogue, taking place after the events of the main movie - where three youngsters are vacationing at a lakeside cabin.
The sequence begins with what appears to be a POV shot of a demonic force heading towards the lake where the trio are - a signature shot for the series that harkens back to Sam Raimi's original 1981 film.
But just as the "entity" reaches Teresa (Mirabai Pease) on the dock, the perspective shifts to reveal that the "demon" was actually a drone being piloted by her cousin Jessica's (Anna-Maree Thomas) new boyfriend Caleb (Richard Crouchley).
This was an extremely fun way to pay tribute to the series' iconography while also toying with fans. For a hot minute there, it seemed like writer-director Lee Cronin was going hard from the film's very first shot, but it was instead a cheeky fake-out.
Fans didn't have to wait too long for the carnage to kick off in earnest, though, given that the Deadite version of Jessica uses the drone's blades to mutilate her face just a few short minutes later.