Reminded of the S.D. Perry novelization of the first Resident Evil game where, to my utter and lifelong delight, she had a character explain that STARS members could split up because they were trained to watch their own backs.
Don't we all have this one friend who rants for hours about unrealistically bad decisions characters in movies make and everybody just smiles politely because it would be mean to remind that friend their own life is an utter mess because they fuck up all the time? No?
I know, right? If I hear something in the basement, I'm not walking down there asking "who's there" in my underwear. I going in heavy with my .45 and Remington 870.
I started watching Passenger. I stopped after 20 minutes when the girl gets out of her car on a snowy deserted road at night and starts wandering through the woods with her cell phone light…which she drops & keeps walking…
I trip on branches in the woods during the day on a leisure walk with a path. I really can't bang on the blonde falling a few times running away from Jason in the dark.
Plenty of good horror movies have clever and level headed protagonists. Jennifer's Body, It Follows, Cabin in the Woods, and the Rob Zombie Halloween remake leap to mind.
Part of the horror is knowing you can make all the right moves and still get got.
Hahaha. My boyfriend unintentionally scared me coming up the stairs as I was going down them and I just fell to the stair landing with my back against the wall as I yelled 😂
I always check out noises in the basement. So naturally, I'm yelling at the characters "hell yeah, you need to investigate that strange noise!" Clearly, I'm the person these portrayals are based on. I cut off my own lights when I feel threatened. For the advantage.
One of my favorite horror bits in that area is the premise for Freddy vs Jason; the adults in Springwood took Freddy so seriously that the was totally blocked from being able to access anyone's dreams.
The ONLY reason the plan unravels is because Freddy recruits a deadite juggernaut from New Jersey
i love the evil dead remake because even if i didn't believe in the supernatural, after i found the Ritual Sacrifice Basement full of animal corpses I'd go to a hotel and put my friend through detox there
I would like to see more real life reactions. For instance (not the same situations), I would like to see someone panicking and running around looking for their phone, while holding their phone. Not saying I did this, not not saying I did this either :)
if i was being hunted by a spooky monster with apparent supernatural abilities, i would simply curl into a ball and shiver on the floor until the problem solved itself. while weeping
I find it scarier when people in a horror movie are mostly smart about things and "do everything right" but still end up screwed because the threat is actually a threat. The problem is when the only reason the horror elements happen at all is purely down to people being pants on head stupid.
Oh, I *know*. Last time someone chased me up to my attic wearing the skin of my exhumed grandfather, I was cool as a cucumber and knew just what to do. God, people are such sensitive snowflakes nowadays. 🙄🙄🙄
I, like most, thought I'd be smarter. But as it turns out, I'd be out there thrashing around the forest with a flashlight. So now the threat knows where YOU are. Who waits for trouble, when you can find it instead?
i know karate and i have a lot of knives so i think if a a horror movie killer guy came into my house i could say "i'm not locked in here with you you're locked in here with me" and maybe he'd get annoyed enough about it that he'd leave or at least it would really bother him even after he killed me
I once heard a baby crying alone at night in the forest.
My dumbass went to investigate.
It was just a rabbit kit that had been dragged from the nest but at the time I was a solid 98% sure that it was a ghost or 2% sure it was a human baby.
(Of which drama I’d also want no part.)
The cemetery beside my workplace frequently has eerie screaming noises at night. It's the foxes. What do they say? No idea, but they should really shut the hell up and stop scaring folks walking by the graveyard at night.
vampires are especially easy because in addition to that, they have like, so many other weaknesses. werewolves are hard tho i still haven't gotten enough silver to make silver bullets
Or even if they had just listened to Ripley (after whom we named our now-4 year old daughter), sure, that first dude dies but does so in quarantine/airlock and everyone else goes “ew, that thing is gross and dangerous” and spaces it and movie over.
I mean, in your defense, if you thought there was a Horrifying Evil in your remote cabin, you'd probably leave or at least keep the lights on rather than going alone down to the basement.
This is why the best horror leaves a fair bit to the imagination. When you don't know what's chasing you, you don't know how you'd act, that's part of why the unknown is scary.
Too much info and it's like "Why I would just set the axe murderer on fire, axe murderers are weak to fire."
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Part of the horror is knowing you can make all the right moves and still get got.
The ONLY reason the plan unravels is because Freddy recruits a deadite juggernaut from New Jersey
Said no one ever!
Me: “odd…”
Checks the phone, it’s out.
“Interesting...”
Floor creaks
“hmm…”
Man stabs me.
“Ah yes, this makes sense. I was confused for a second”
My dumbass went to investigate.
It was just a rabbit kit that had been dragged from the nest but at the time I was a solid 98% sure that it was a ghost or 2% sure it was a human baby.
(Of which drama I’d also want no part.)
Which I also would not want to hear unrecognized and alone in the forest at night.
no sir I would not, movie over
Too much info and it's like "Why I would just set the axe murderer on fire, axe murderers are weak to fire."