20 Horror Movies That Revealed TOO MUCH
10. The Last Broadcast
For a solid 95% of its runtime, The Last Broadcast is one of the most chilling found footage films of all time, and one that actually premiered almost a full year before The Blair Witch Project popularised the burgeoning subgenre.
Presented as a faux-documentary, The Last Broadcast investigates the disappearance of a team of public-access TV hosts while searching for the mythic Jersey Devil in New Jersey's remote Pine Barrens.
It's sublimely creepy stuff, the film considering whether the team was murdered by a deranged member of their crew or, in fact, they were offed by the state's legendary cryptid. But the big twist at the end of The Last Broadcast is that the killer is the documentarian himself, David Leigh (David Beard), at which point the perspective suddenly shifts to a third-person narrative style as he murders the data retrieval expert who has just deduced his identity.
It's a wholly unconvincing twist which undermines everything leading up to it, enough that the filmmakers should've probably just left the mystery unsolved rather than deign to cheap, illogical shock value.