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Stupid things that characters do in horror movies

By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

I'm half watching Lost Boys 2, and the male lead is too dumb to live... right after learning that vampires exist, he had to invite a girl into his home, one of the crucial rules in vampire myth being a vampire can't enter a dwelling without being invited... then he had sex with her, and everyone knows that if you have sex in a horror film then serious shit will kick off.

More horror cliches please.

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By *eliWoman over a year ago

Being black.

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By *eliWoman over a year ago

Horror cliches -

Androgynous last girl will always survive.

Don't be black or a jock or a slut

Don't separate

Do have some kind of tragic past - you're more likely to survive that way.

Yeah, that's a few off the top of my head.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Never finishing off the baddies

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Being black.

Oh yes!

Stephen King seems to make his female characters act incredibly dumb, often running right into their death.

Top marks goes to the female lead in Salem's Lot, who acknowledges that girls who go into the haunted house always get killed. Guess what she does.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

The nerds always get bumped off just after working out something important

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Never finishing off the baddies "

Or NOT actually killing off the head vampire!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

If you run you will trip

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"The nerds always get bumped off just after working out something important

Before they can tell the rest of the group what they know

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Don't run up the stairs, when you could be running out the front door.

Never ever say "I'll be right back"

Don't have sex or take drugs.

Don't fall asleep

Remember it doesn't matter how fast you run. The slow walking bad guy will always get you.

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"If you run you will trip"

And that will be the moment the killer will... well, kill you

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Always remember that a car needs a key to start and it is unlikely that the owner has left them in the sun visor!

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Always remember that a car needs a key to start and it is unlikely that the owner has left them in the sun visor!"

Unless you can hot wire a car

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

And don't buy creepy antique dolls.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Always remember that a car needs a key to start and it is unlikely that the owner has left them in the sun visor!

Unless you can hot wire a car

Can you do that?

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Always remember that a car needs a key to start and it is unlikely that the owner has left them in the sun visor!

Unless you can hot wire a car

Can you do that?"

No, but I like to think I'm pretty well versed in the rules of horror

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Avoid all dead-ends..

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Victim always shuts the door and leans against it, then gets stabbed through the door.

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By *ools and the brainCouple over a year ago

couple, us we him her.

Turn on all the bloody lights in the house, make sure all windows and doors are locked (before you go to bed or upstairs)

Stay in one place, lock the door.

Don't decide that it would be a good idea to go into the creepy basement!!

Most horror films would be over very quickly if people actually had a brain!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Always remember that a car needs a key to start and it is unlikely that the owner has left them in the sun visor!

Unless you can hot wire a car

Can you do that?

No, but I like to think I'm pretty well versed in the rules of horror

so you'll be avoiding all of these mistakes then?

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Die, that is by far the stupidest thing they can do.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Being black.

There's a film where a black actor says "Everyone knows the black guy dies first" I can't remember which film but may have been Evolution.

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Always remember that a car needs a key to start and it is unlikely that the owner has left them in the sun visor!

Unless you can hot wire a car

Can you do that?

No, but I like to think I'm pretty well versed in the rules of horror

so you'll be avoiding all of these mistakes then?"

Yep!

I mean, I'm not having sex much so that's one rule sorted

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Don't say anyone's name three times

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Don't go into the basement with no working light and just a candle or torch. The bad guy is always down there x

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Any sort of law enforcement/military characters are completely crap at their jobs.

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By *cjacoupleCouple over a year ago

wakefield

It poor horrors there's always pointless nacked boob shots.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Beware of really crap, unconvincing rubber sharks.

Get a bigger boat!

Don't trust the innocent looking middle aged guy with the dodgy comb over!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Never answer the phone top tip

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Yes there's something under the bed..

don't look

Just run!

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By *eliWoman over a year ago

If you're african you'll know voodoo.

Eastern european and you'll be involved in tarot reading and curses and romanian gypsy withcraft.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Never go to a summer vocation spot out of season, especially with a group of "far too cocky" college mates.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Don't say anyone's name three times "

Estella

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Avoid all cemeteries after dark...

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By *ark.aitkenMan over a year ago

Newcastle

Never go "off grid" for a weekend in the woods... Dodgy cabin, miles from anyone (apart from the murderer) and no phone signal......for a camping or party weekend with several dumb people (male and female) and a jock (who inevitably wants to check the aforementioned gloomy basement or shout "who's there" into the dark woods.....)

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Don't try to hug your now flesh eating mother

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By *rincess peachWoman over a year ago

shits creek

Don't fucking scream... or breathe. The bad guy can hear you.

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By *oward1978Man over a year ago

Rotherham

Don't walk backwards. Only in horror films do people sneak around backwards (usually in the dark) and thus bump into things, usually their friends who are also walking around the place backwards or an inanimate object which will scare the shit out of you. Walk forwards!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Rule #2:

Doubletap.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Put some clothes on, the bad guys like women semi naked x

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Getting a doll called Chucky and not burying it in concrete.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Don't go hiking during a full moon dumbass..

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Don't say anyone's name three times

Estella

*taps you on shoulder*

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"It poor horrors there's always pointless nacked boob shots."

That makes it good in my mind. Can't have too many pointless booby shots

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By *oward1978Man over a year ago

Rotherham

Don't think you've killed the bad guy at the first attempt. Don't turn your back on him thinking the job is done, even when you've shot him, stabbed him or set him on fire. He WILL somehow still be alive! Smash that fuckers skull in while you have the chance.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Don't look behind you whist walking forwards then looking forward to find out you've been twated

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By *iforfun999Man over a year ago

Haverfordwest

Take notice of the background music. It's a big clue if something is going to happen,

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Going into some scary woods to look for a witch....

and forgetting your handkerchief

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Dont stop and get out of the car when the bad guy's about as you know it wont start up again.

Also make sure you have plenty of petrol for your chainsaw.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Don't say anyone's name three times

Estella

*taps you on shoulder*"

Aaaaaaaaaargh

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

If you hear something outside, NEVER go outside to investigate.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Don't be a virgin

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

And don't go anywhere on your own.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Not technically a horror movie, although I think it's a bit of a shocker, but how many times did Jack and Rose get out of damaged to only put themselves back in it in Titanic?