Cannibal Holocaust

Censored in several countries for its gratuitous violence, this controversial faux documentary from director Ruggero Deodato presents footage from a team of New York University filmmakers mysteriously lost in the Amazon jungle. The film, allegedly recovered by Professor Harold Moore, reveals the deplorable treatment of a tribe of suspected South American cannibals and, ultimately, the fate of the crew that initially set out to film the natives.

The entire plot of this movie, or what they try to pass off as plot, takes only the first 10 minutes and is thoroughly detailed in the Netflix snippet.  The entirety of the rest of the running time is nothing more than clips of gratuitous nudity, rape and gore.  According to what little story there is this is a result of the films being damaged in the Amazonian humidity.

There are no spoilers after the break because there is nothing to spoil.  There is no plot and therefore nothing to twist.

Absentia

Seven years after her husband, Daniel, went missing, Tricia is about to have him declared dead. But as she copes with her grief and the reappearance of her annoying sister, Tricia begins to suspect a sinister force is behind Daniel's disappearance.

This movie manages to overcome the obstacles that cause most horror movies the biggest problems. The acting is not terrible, the picture and sound quality are decent and they manage to pull together realistic enough scenery for each setting.  Where this movie really fell down for me was in the editing.  It seems like they didn't get the shots that they needed so they went ahead with what they had.  For example there is one scene where Tricia is talking on the phone to the detective in charge of her husbands disappearance and they keep cutting back and forth between the two of them.  The problem is that they never show him talking because he isn't holding a phone.  They show the detective at his desk smiling and nodding, presumably listening to Tricia, but he is not holding a phone. In fact you can see it sitting on his desk.  When it comes time for his dialog they cut back to Tricia and use a voice over.  There are several shots where things just don't seem to fit together and you get the feeling that they had to use some trickery in editing to get it to work out at all.

Spoilers after the break.