10 Movies That Hated Their Own Audience

8. The Devil Inside

Spring Breakers James Franco
Paramount Pictures

If the previous two movies at least had the decency to suffuse their outward contempt for the viewer beneath a layer of satirical commentary, this 2012 horror dud couldn't even be bothered to do that.

The Devil Inside looked like every other me-too found footage horror flick you've ever seen, but it decided to somehow be even more cynical and patronising by not even bothering to give audiences a proper ending.

The film infamously concludes with the remaining characters being involved in a car accident, after which we cut to a title card explaining that the antagonist is still on the loose, and that audiences should go to a website for more information.

Critics consequently panned the film and audiences gave it a rare "F" CinemaScore, outraged that a film thought so little of them it didn't even deliver anything close to a conclusion.

And if that's not bad enough, the bloody website doesn't even exist anymore.

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