8 Horror Movies That Tricked You Into Rooting For The Villain
2. All The Boys Love Mandy Lane
All The Boys Love Mandy Lane might seem quite quaint in this day and age, but back in 2006 it cultivated a surprising reputation as a missing masterpiece. That's because the slasher was essentially shelved due to some complicated distribution rights issues, but the buzz from its film festival appearances stuck around in horror communities.
Consequently, many were eager to see what all the fuss was about. When it finally did get a release, it was embraced as an enjoyably subversive thriller, with the final twist serving as its most memorable element.
That's because the Mandy Lane in the title is initially pitched as the movie's archetypal final girl. She and a bunch of other high-schoolers are picked off by an unseen killer, and for the most part the flick plays out like a well executed homage to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre-style 70s horror.
The ending reveals that it was actually Mandy Lane responsible for the murders the whole time though, and you'd been tricked into thinking she was a Sidney Prescott, when really she was a Voorhees in disguise.