20 Horror Movies Ruined By TERRIBLE Reveals

8. The Killer Freeze-Frame - Horror in the High Desert

Horror in the High Desert
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Horror in the High Desert is yet another low-fi found footage film with a solid premise, oodles of suspense, and a final reveal that makes the whole thing implode inwards.

The film chronicles the disappearance of extreme hiker Gary Hinge (Eric Mencis) in the Nevada desert, and concludes with the discovery of Gary's camera with his severed hand still attached.

We're then shown the footage on Gary's camera, where he returns to the abandoned cabin he discovered previously and encounters a disfigured, machete-wielding man.

It's a theoretically terrifying setup for the film's climax, but even with its smartly muddy night vision imagery, we're shown just a few too many glimpses of the disfigured man, making it laughably clear it's simply an actor wearing an incredibly cheap-looking mask.

To make it even worse, the scene's final shot of the man attacking Gary ends on a freeze-frame, giving the audience plenty of time to appreciate just how daft and unconvincing the mask looks.

 
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