10 Movies You Should Never Watch Alone

5. The Borderlands

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No relation to the video game of the same name (perhaps why it was released as Final Prayer in the US), this 2013 British horror from first-time director Elliot Goldner is one of the few films in recent years to do genuinely unexpected and unnerving things with the found footage format.

The film centres on a mismatched duo of low-level Vatican employees, a priest (Gordon Kennedy) and a layman techie (Robin Hill), who have been sent to a remote, ancient church in Devon to investigate reports of a miracle on site. Initially sceptical, the men come to discover there's a lot more to the place than they'd anticipated.

For the most part, The Borderlands is a fairly standard found footage movie, with a thick comedic streak and nice chemistry between the two leads; but it builds in atmosphere, tension and straight-up weirdness as the climax draws in.

And what a climax it is. To go into specifics would be to ruin things, suffice to say it's one of the most genuinely disturbing conclusions we've seen from any horror movie so far this century, and one which realises found footage's true potential for terror.

Speaking of which, there can be very little doubt that the makers of 2016's Blair Witch saw this and took a few notes.

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