8 Movies Where You’re Not Supposed To Work Out The Ending

Taken out of context, there's nothing especially chilling about a man staring at a wall and a camera dropping to the floor, but within the confines of found-footage classic The Blair Witch Project, these things are utterly terrifying.

The film's ending, which leaves one character standing dead still in the corner of the room while another is seemingly attacked by something unseen, is a call-back to the story of a sadistic child murderer called Rustin Parr, mentioned earlier in the movie. The killer would force one of his victims to face the wall while he dispatched the other.

The final shot, coupled with this information, made for a conclusion that was unsettling and mysterious in equal measure, but it would have been neither of those things if there was a definitive explanation behind the ending.

Having a witch or a murderer show up in the final act would only have turned Blair Witch into a generic horror. It's the fear of the unknown that makes it what it is, which is why the questions surrounding its conclusion should never be answered.