10 Movie Openings You're Not Supposed To Understand

One Cut of the Dead received rave reviews from film critics shortly after its premiere, though many reviewers implored audiences to watch it while knowing as little as possible about the story or its big sneaky conceit.

And so, horror fans en masse were baffled by the movie's "opening" - an entertaining if undeniably sloppy 35-minute single-take sequence, where the cast and crew of a low-budget zombie film are attacked by real zombies.

For the bulk of this first act, most everyone's wondering why it received rave reviews and precisely where this is all going - and then the penny drops.

At the 35-minute mark, the film's credits roll and we pull back to follow the cast and crew of the film we've just seen, as they prepared to shoot the film under massive personal and professional turmoil.

The third act then shows the filming from other perspectives, revealing all of the hilarious, ridiculous behind-the-scenes chaos that took place during the shoot, explaining some of the more bizarre production quirks in deliciously entertaining fashion.

If it at first seems like One Cut of the Dead is yet another wildly overpraised festival horror flick, everything comes into focus after act one, as it becomes clear we were simply being set up for one hell of a creative, comedic payoff.

If you weren't feeling it and bailed after 20 or 30 minutes, you really missed out.