8 Mysterious Horror Movies That Give Nothing Away

7. The Borderlands

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When it comes to found footage movies, there's always going to be some mystery involved. How the hell someone found the death tapes of a bunch of people making a fake documentary never fails to be an unanswerable question - but in The Borderlands, it's the ending that makes for a compelling mystery.

Set in the English countryside, a religious brother, a tech expert, and a priest are sent by the Vatican to investigate a local church that's been reopened and brought up reports of supernatural activity. Getting into their research and discovering that all isn't as it seems at the religious institution, the men discover that the site used to be used for worshipping an ancient Pagan deity, with the final moments seeing two of them enter a hidden stairwell that leads to a labyrinth under the church.

The walls then close upon them and begin to digest them out of nowhere. Alright then.

It seems to suggest that the deity is a part of the site itself rather than an obscure being, but exactly how it came to be or what's really being going on under its influence is as mysterious as to how it got a whole human sized digestive track set up there in the first place. That the film gives no clue to this bizarre ending only makes it that much more intriguing, since a giant person-consuming monster seems like something you'd mention before it gets to, well, consuming people on screen.

 
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