9 Times You Had To Be Tricked Into Seeing Great Movies

8. Catfish

Before it was a smash-hit MTV show, Catfish was actually a really ominous documentary that took everybody who watched it by surprise. While the central premise of Nev pursuing a romance with a woman who wasn't real was known before release, nobody had any idea how the story was going to wrap up, and whether or not it would descend into sinister territory.

Hell, a lot of people didn't even know if it was a real documentary at all, or simply another found-footage horror movie.

The marketing played this mystery up as well, selling a thriller as Nev slowly uncovered more and more lies, and had no idea who he was dealing with. Was it somebody he knew? Was it somebody playing a prank? Was it somebody looking to hurt him?

Of course - as it has so many times since in the TV show - it turned out to be a lonely woman masquerading as somebody else who didn't mean any harm. With the formula so entrenched in culture thanks to the TV show, it's hard to watch the original Catfish with fresh eyes, but at the time nobody had any real clue just what they were letting themselves in for.