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Without bad decisions, mosthorror movieswould be over in about ten minutes.
By now, fans of the genre know the basic tropes of horror.
For instance, people always have a habit of runningupstairsrather than out the door.
Or, they throw themselves directly into harm’s way by investigating a strange sound.
Oh, we can’t forget when characters don’t finish the killers off.
And yes, like note there are spoilers ahead.
Rather than getting help, the siblings investigate the pipe once the trucker drives off.
Trish and Darry are being good Samaritans.
But c’mon know the truck’s license plate read “BEATNGU.”
No matter how you decipher that personalized plate, it’s a red flag.
So, what happens next?
Darry crawls down the pipe.
Probably could have saved themselves a heap of trouble had they just contacted the police first.
Could it be haunted?
The boyfriend, Micah, then decides he should take care of this himself.
Especially if you think you are being haunted.
Micah only adds to the problem, which in this case, is a demon.
In the end, his curiosity gets the best of him.
They’re separately chained down so they can’t roam.
It’s eventually revealed a serial killer named Jigsaw is behind this.
He has sinister plans for Lawrence and Adam, but we don’t know what those are until later.
Here’s the problem with this, though.
He literally had a saw long enough to pull the phone towards him.
But it also boasts one of the stupidest decisions ever made on film.
They go spelunking in the cave system, which Juno says has been previously explored.
And someone would look for them there if trouble arose.
Well, trouble arises in the worst way possible.
The cave is full of subterranean, bloodthirsty monsters.
Furthermore, Juno lied.
They weren’t in an explored cave; they were in an unexplored system.
So even if someone did come looking for them, they would be at the wrong cave.
These are often called “bottle thrillers,” which include the likes ofCube.
In the 2012 movieATM, two best friends and their office co-workers escape their job’s annual Christmas party.
They first go to an ATM booth in the middle of the night.
ATMhas the right elements for a top-notch thriller.
Yet, it ultimately comes undone for various reasons.
One point of interest is how the victims cannot reach their car.
Because they parked it far away in an empty parking lot.
Why not just pull up, grab the money, and go?
It is suspenseful and eerie in every way.
Can you guess what the reporter does?
Can you guess what so many other people in the whole franchise do?
They watch the tape.
Why on Earth would you do that?
Especially when someone gives it to you, and probably tells you what would happen.
It’s an iconic one, though, that rises fromScream’s looming shadow.
Nevertheless, there are some fun memories attached to this movie.
One momentthat leaves a sour taste in our mouths is Helen’s death.
First off, Sarah Michelle Gellar gives the best performance in the whole film.
She depicts the sad, former beauty queen with dashed dreams oh so perfectly.
What hurts the most is when Helen is a few feet away from safety.
She can make it to the parade going on outside the alleyway.
Instead, she turns around, and she is taken by the hook-handed killer.
Because it is Italian, people confuse the film for a Giallo.
There may be shared stylistic traits, butStage Frightis generally regarded as a straight-up slasher.
The movie follows a theatre troupe being stalked by a killer wearing a giant owl head.
Prior to all of this, a co-star was murdered outside the studio.
Rather than excusing all the actors, the director urges everyone to continue rehearsing.
A character named Corinne even locks them in by hiding the key.
Not a smart movie seeing as Corinne bites it before she can tell everyone where the key is.
Now, the cast is stuck inside the building with the killer.
She then goes upstairs!
We know Jess is just trying to be a good friend, so we forgive her.
What we can’t forgive is the cops leaving Jess unattended at the end while she’s heavily sedated.
They think the threat is over, but that’s not the case at all.
Sidney Prescott is considered one of the best “final girls” in horror history.
But she’s not the smartest cookie inScream 2.
The sequel has Sidney attending college after the notorious Woodsboro murders.
As fate would have it, Ghostface returns to wreak havoc on campus.
Sidney is downright foolish inScream 2when she and her friend Hallie escape Ghostface’s attack.
They were being escorted by two bodyguards before the masked killer murdered the officers.
However, Ghostface has been knocked out during this whole ordeal.
Sidney and Hallie sneak past him and are on their way before Sidney gets a bad idea.
She circles back to unmask Ghostface despite Hallie understandably warning her not to.
It’s a poor decision on Sidney’s part because Hallie is, of course, stabbed to death.
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