20 Horror Movies That Weren't What Anyone Expected
15. Kill List
Ben Wheatley's Kill List was sold less as a straight horror film than a thriller focused on two assassins who end up dragged into something sinister.
The trailers did suggest plenty of heightened weirdness - such as showing hitmen Jay (Neil Maskell) and Gal (Michael Smiley) firing their guns at someone or something off-screen - but shied away from revealing that Wheatley's film is actually a sly entry into the folk horror subgenre.
At its core Kill List revolves around Jay and Gal carrying out a number of assassinations, yet each of their targets reacts incredibly strangely to their deaths - most calmly welcoming it.
This is because the third act reveals that Jay and Gal have actually been ensnared in the ritual of a cult, and Wheatley enticingly decides to leave the particulars up in the air as the end credits roll.
For anyone who went into Kill List expecting a pretty straight-forward crime thriller, that third act hits like a wet fish around the face in the best way.