12 Movie Openings That Totally Trolled Audiences

This one feels less like an intentional troll, but it's nonetheless deservedly infamous as an inexplicable opening amongst film fans.

Yes, 1973's still-shocking possession horror The Exorcist remains one of the scariest films ever made.

The French Connection director William Friedkin's simple story of a young girl's demonic possession and her attempted exorcism by a pair of priests is a deeply unsettling exercise in tension building, gradually growing scarier until its deeply disturbing conclusion.

So it's all the more bizarre that this supernatural shocker opens on... an archaeological dig in Iraq which has almost no bearing on the actual plot, beside setting up two of its many terrible sequels.

Yes, there's thematic elements being laid down, but in terms of actual impact on the plot, the film's brief sojourn into Indiana Jones territory does little other than informing the viewer that... There's a demon named Pazuzu?