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No character in horror will ever be as stupid as Micah from the first Paranormal Activity. The dude literally has documented proof that a fucking demon is stalking him and his girlfriend and the dumbass keeps trying to confront it like it's a drunk guy at the bar.
To be fair in Georgie's case; Pennywise is a supernatural being who essentially hypnotizes children into doing stupid things they otherwise know they shouldn't do. So Georgie wasn't being dumb by trusting a clown he found in the sewers; he was charmed into doing as Pennywise directed.
There was a deleted scene on the 2017 remake DVD, Georgie survived, he didn't die. He just grabbed his paper boat and walked away. And boom! Credits. So basically, Georgie had to die, because if he didn't die, there would be no movie. So there's no getting around Georgie's death.
@@abellewis3062no there isn't any getting around Georgie's death. It has to happen in order for the plot to progress. However, it is specifically stated in the book that he was hypnotized into trying to take his boat back. There was even a point when Georgie's instincts were screaming at him to run, but IT'S control over him was too strong.
@@Kagetora-Chris takes it further in the 2013 remake, egging Billy on until Carrie telekinetically bashes the front of Billy’s car in and killing him in the process.
They actually deserved it for what they did to Carrie. Chris has bullied Carrie, which is the reason why Chris was banned from going to prom after the shower incident.
the purge: -turning off your security system -letting strangers in when you know they can now legally kill you -splitting up -no guns in your house -RUNNING UP THE STAIRS!!!
I hate it when all of the sudden the person trying to run from danger just can’t seem to run!! They trip, tangle up into everything, get injured while running. And this is while a maniacs is chasing them with an axe and gaining on them. Any other time in the movie they run just fine. I hate that. ❤️💜💚
By far the most common stupid decision in horror movies is when characters don't immediately arm themselves when encountering a threat. Watching characters absentmindedly walk past the knife block that exists in literally everyone's kitchen while being stalked by actually killable killers is frustrating as hell. Second place goes to discarding weapons too early and/or not finishing the job.
Technically in Midsommar Mark didn't get himself killed. They were gonna kill him anyway. That's literally why he was brought there. Peeing on the tree definitely didn't work in his favor but he had no way of knowing that tree was important to them. He could've been a little more apologetic about it though
Mark certainly faced one of the more brutal deaths due to his poor choice. The dude who was in the chicken shed got the worst, Mark & Christian are a toss up
For me, the two dumbest was Prometheus, where the biologist tries to pat an alien snake monster, and Alien Covenant where the captain places his head over some scary looking alien thing at the behest of an obviously dodgy android.
Obviously the cryosleep or whatever they use in that universe to make space travel times more tolerable tends to damage their brains. Although they perhaps had improved the system before the Nostromo incident as those crew members acted somewhat more sensibly, especially Ripley.
@@pohjanakka4992Haha love it. It has to be brain damage. No on could be that stupid, except for those who need instructions to warn them that hot coffee is hot. I have to say, from Covenant to Event Horizon, these movies don't make the idea of cryosleep very appealing
Even in Alien only Ripley has her head on straight. They get a distress call that they then find out was not a distress call but a warning! Guy gets attacked and has a dangerous alien lifeforms attached to his face, and everyone was demanding that Ellen let them bring his infectious ass into the ship! Ash was ultimately responsible for letting them in, but everyone besides Ripley agreed they wanted squid face to come into their ship. They got what they deserved!
Here’s what not to do in a horror movie: 1. Don’t say “I’ll be back” 2. Don’t go up the stairs 3. When the monster/bad guy is going after you (especially if they are moving very slowly) you do not back yourself up into a corner and just stand there screaming 4. If something is called “haunted” or “cursed” you destroy it immediately and don’t just let it be so it can continue to torment you 5. If there is a known killer, shark, ghost etc….don’t go where they live. Especially sharks. Like seriously all you have to do is not go in the water 7. Don’t talk to strangers especially if they seem unusually creepy 8. Don’t use Ouija Boards or again deal with anything that’s possessed by a demon or any kind of spirits 9. Don’t split up
And when it's a story where the monster or monsters are fully human or something else completely mortal... seems no gun owners, or at least ones who not only own them but have taken care that they practice enough to be able to use them well, are ever chosen by the bad guys. Well, I suppose the killers are smarter than do that, it would suck if the intended victim would shoot you before you managed to kill her with your ax or knife. 🤔 Heh. Might be sort of fun if in some film we'd first be shown how the masked ax murderer first observes some lone woman in her isolated country house, but then sees her go to the back yard and observes she has a private gun range there, and she shoots well, and decides to keep looking for the next victim elsewhere.
Nah, The Mist deserved Number 1 spot more... its incredible how some minutes of patience can influence your entire life. Truly one of the best twists in horror history.
That was the right decision. There was no possible way for him to know that out of the blue the military would finally show up. He was saving them all a gruesome death.
@@ds7307they should have just stayed right in the market. Never left. Religious woman was dead, her followers traumatized and in disarray. There was no threat.
The bit in the Mist was not a stupid decision, it was a good decision based on the information they had at the time. It was just a horrible irony of timing that made it bad IN RETROSPECT. Which is the opposite of a stupid decision.
Another reason why you should never run up the stairs is because the killer can throw you out a high window and *splat! You're dead. You should also never stand in front of a window because the killer can see you clearly and smash through right behind you/pull you out and attack. Addison stupidly split the syringe in half right before sticking her free hand into the box too
In Scream 5, Dewey shoots the Ghostface, and while everybody else gets on the elevator, Dewey goes back to make sure the killer is dead, and then dies in the process with TWO Knives. THAT was stupid, he could've lived in Scream 5, but he chose to stay behind, and gets sliced and diced. Enough said.
He stayed behind to shoot ghostface in the head. The stupid part was when he's about to shoot, his phone rings and he got distracted, allowing ghostface to kill him.
It’s moments/characters like these that make me appreciate the smart characters in horror movies, like Chris Washington from Get Out & Ellen Ripley from Alien
They straight told her the cops wouldn't make it in time in SCREAM and she knew it was true. Plus every time she tried the phone would ring. Y'all even played the darn scene. WTH??? As for THE MIST... seriously?
She absolutely could've called and stalled for enough time. Or if anything her real dumb decisions were when she stopped to look in the window to see where Ghostface was instead of escaping or stopping to yell for her mother instead of moving towards her parents
The stupid thing is they had to hang up to recall her. The way phones worked if they didn't hang up the call wouldn't drop so she would pick the headset back up and the killer would still have been on the line.
On the commentary for the original version of The Hills Have Eyes, when a married couple head off for some alone time, Wes Craven says, "Uh-oh, they're going off to have sex in a Wes Craven movie, don't they know that's a death sentence?"
*having a séance *playing with a ouja board *going back to the church (JC) *going back to check if the killer is dead. *building over sacred ground. *getting into a strangers car. *taking a drink from a stranger. *having a baby (A quiet place) * going into a strangers home ( various ) * leaving the compound ( 28 weeks later)
I wouldn't necessarily count the pregnancy in A Quiet Place. They had been isolated in that farm a long time, and pregnancies kind of tend to sometimes happen even when people are using contraceptives if they have sex. Under those circumstances they would no longer have had reliable contraceptives, so, especially since as far as I remember it is never said in the movie that the pregnancy was planned, it presumably wasn't. The parents had sex, and even though they tried to be careful, she got pregnant. How many adults would be able to go for complete celibacy, especially when they are constantly with their partner? Not many. So yes, not smart, but rather understandable. And under those circumstances they would not have had any safe and reliable way to terminate the pregnancy either, so even if they would have been willing to do that otherwise, the risk of killing her would presumably kept them from doing that.
The Main Horror Tropes 1. People acting stupid (Evil Dead 2013) 2. Innocent people accidentally become victims (Tourist Trap) 3. Villains are going out for their prey (Saw)
Nope, sorry. Im going after my dog. He is my service dog and quite frankly in a zombie apocalypse, the only one I would trust. I would never let him be used like that or leave him behind.
I don't even have a dog, but yes. Especially in the movie where this happens, a few of those people in the group are shit and would leave you behind at the first chance. The dog, on the other hand, would not.
I feel that one vendor in the new movie Trap should be mentioned. The plot is the authorities somehow learned this serial killer was going to be at a concert, so they sent police to watch every entrance and exit to prevent his escape. However, the serial killer learned about this and stated working on an escape plan. How did he find out? One of the vendors, not knowing he was the killer, told him, “Hey, this is all one huge trap to catch the serial killer! Isn’t that cool?” All the mayhem and chaos in that movie occurred because one idiot couldn’t keep his dang mouth shut. Even if the guy he told didn’t happen to be the killer, it’s still an incredibly idiotic thing to do. Let’s look at what could have happened if it were some random person he’d told and not the killer. What if the person he told started shooting his mouth off to everybody and the killer found out that way? What if he panicked and yelled, “THERE’S A SERIAL KILLER HERE!?” causing other people to panic? What if he decided to pretend to be the killer as a joke and got arrested, causing the real killer to escape while he was trying to convince the police, “It was just a prank, bro!”? What if he decided some random innocent person was the killer and attacked him thinking he was delivering some vigilante justice and would be praised as a hero? Why would you run the risk of ruining a big sting by assuming some random guy could be trusted with the secret?
Switch going after the dog with trusting Steve to man the door, Nicole going after chips only got one person killed and they needed to go to the gun store anyways for weapons and ammunition. Trusting Steve was what got most of the other survivors (Steve included) killed
Yea Steve cannot be trusted and to be honest I thought CJ was a threat to others but he wasn’t. CJ did have a point though cause sometimes in a zombie outbreak you can’t really trust someone and you never know if a survivor is infected or not. That just my opinion.
The Number 14 pick is what earned Vickers' death the "Dull Machete for lamest kill" when James A Janisse covered "Prometheus" on "Kill Count". You know a decision is dumb when the host of a show that counts off kills in horror movies gives such an award to a particular kill.
Since you used Halloween 4 in your "running upstairs" example, I'll be the one to point out that in Halloween 4 they first try escape through the front door but can't.
It should have worked. If they had stayed sleeping a few more minutes. If the guys hadn't gotten there in time. If Ripley wasn't the band's of all badasses. The company would have done anything to get two infected bodies back, so the rest of his plan would have gone down smooth.
My stupid move would be getting out of my car, at night, in the middle of nowhere to help a wounded animal or lost child. I absolutely know better but if you wanna trick me into something stupid, that's how you do it.
Number 26 - Candyman....KEEP HIS NAME OUT OF YOUR MOUTH Also, why do people always fall over when the killer is chasing them....keep running and DON'T LOOK BACK
Any building that has glass doors and windows aren't that safe. Plus, without incoming supplies, how long would they have been safe for? It's a case of delaying the inevitable.
If any character from a horror movie thinks it’s a good idea to have sex, thinking you’ll be safe, it’s not. You’re just going to end up dead. This is why I listen to Randy
I can’t see myself in a horror movie but to answer your question……..would be listening to music and sing without knowing that people are trying to warn me that zombies are coming after you
In Scream, they specifically say if Casey called the cops, they wouldn’t arrive in time because they were out in the middle of nowhere. Even though she was scared, she probably knew that to be true.
Going Into The Pipe (Jeepers Creepers) has to be the absolute dumbest on the list. I wanted to give this to those two from Prometheus but maybe we can attribute their stupidity to the panic induced by the moment. What reason do you have to climbing down that pipe that you just saw a dude dump a body into instead of calling the police? At least call the police first. What was your plan once you got down there? What was your plan to get out? The dude was already harassing you and you think he's doing something illegal, is it really a good idea to put yourself into his crosshairs?
Dumb mistake and an actual experience a friend of mine had in real life: hide in a closet, pick up cell phone and dial 911 for help then realize the light of the phone and the sound of the dial tones are giving away my hiding spot to the intruders or monsters in the house !
The dumbest thing I would most likely do in a horror movie, giving too many second chances to people who have proven to not be reliable, which might get me killed.
Bonus dumbest decision. Jaws - convincing the family to go in the water. Why did Larry need people in the water, he has the tourists in droves all over the island spending money. Wasn’t that his whole argument, “we need summer dollars.” I don’t remember people pulling out their cash or credit cards when they go swimming
How about Annie from the 1978 Halloween? When she is going to pick up Paul, she tries to get in the car but its locked... She goes to gets the keys, comes back to the car, OPENS THE DOOR WITHOUT USING THE KEYS TO UNLOCK IT..... Then only notices the foggy windows right before she gets killed.
Dumb mistakes in horror movies: Hesitating or failing to kill the bad guy/monster, when you get the chance. Delay moving out of a haunted house. Screaming, wearing white, or high heels while running away through the woods @ night. Running upstairs or Wandering in a dark house with a flashlight calling out " Who's there?! " Making a hysterical fool of yourself trying to explain something unbelievable to authorities.. just to name a few
In IKWYDLS, Helen's fate was kind of sealed, regardless of her stop. The villain (for whatever illogical satisfy-the-film reason) got ahead of her already. So he would have caught her regardless.
I may not be a horror know it all but I do know that dumb choices are very well known in horror movies. I do remember an actress saying something like that in a horror movie, Fantasy Island.
13:40 People seems fixated on this scene while I still think that the dumbest decision in this movie was the guy poking the freaking proto-facehugger like it wasn't displaying Cobra-like agressive behaviors....
Whoever made this list definitely didn’t understand Midsommar. Mark being killed did not lead to his doom, he was going to die anyway no matter what he did even if he was extremely nice. He was brought there to die
Interestingly enough, the actual dumbest scene is not on this list. Anyone who's ever seen Wrong Turn 4 immediately knows what I'm talking about. It's mindblowingly dumb
I know it's all based on fnaf the game, where cc didn't willingly want his head shoved into an animatronics mouth but why would you willingly do that when no one is forcing you. You're begging for some sort of injury.
I loved what the Horror Movie Survival Guide said about this one. They said 'Whenever someone says, 'Let's split up, we can cover more ground!', they forgot to add 'With blood' at the end."
11:02 Why would you need a map anyway? If you're lost in the woods and you find a river, just follow it downstream. You're bound to find either a picnic site, bigger river or settlement.
@@ds7307 No it's not. But, to be honest there is a downside to it. The stream you're following might lead you to a lake deeper within the forest and then you're screwed.
How about no... 1. Reading 📚 's that look odd 2. Opening the door blindly 3. Touching ish generally 4. Spirit Boards because why?! 5. Talking to strangers and inviting and/or blindly following them 6. Reading Latin 7. Answering Random voices b/c you didn't hear anything!!! 8.Disrespecting nature, iykyk 9.Drugs,Sex,& Alcohol 10. BEING NOSEY!!! MIND YOUR DAMN BUSINESS!!! This should keep you safe. Some things are common sense. Why watch a haunted film? Why summon a demon? Why go to a creepy cabin? I feel like Bruce was home and defending his space. 😊
Halloween II: The Policeman not trusting Loomis and dies Halloween III: Dr. Challis asking Ellie AFTER they had ... how old she is Halloween Kills: Tommy trying to kill Michael, The People chasing a man who smaller than Michael, Little John just standing there while Michael is going to kill him In Various Movies: Shooting at nothing until the ammu is gone Edit: Halloween Ends is a good Movie!
With regards to the idiotic Prometheus decision, Ridley Scott could have solved this at the very least by having the character in a six foot ravine or channel where it would be a waste of time trying to crawl out and the only viable option was to try and outrun the rolling ship
As much as & everyone loved John Hurt... his character Kane is the reason why there were 4 (soon to be 5) Alien films. When on an Alien planet with strange eggs in front of you, if you see one of those eggs open in front of you, what do you do? Don't go near the egg. Kane? He stuck his face right into it.
What about walking into traps? Apparently a cop in You’re Next didn’t notice until he was killed off screen at the film’s climax. Thinking he would help until he didn’t get the warning
to be fair marck was going to die eather way so peing on the tree was just giving them a reason to do so on the other hand josh made an even more stupid desision by not lisening to the elders and go for the book anyways but the bigest mistake in midsummar is choosing to stay and loudly anouncing that you leave
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@@marcusyates3044 some dumb character in horror movie while camping in middle of woods: i heard a weird sound im gonna check it out alone
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No character in horror will ever be as stupid as Micah from the first Paranormal Activity.
The dude literally has documented proof that a fucking demon is stalking him and his girlfriend and the dumbass keeps trying to confront it like it's a drunk guy at the bar.
Have you seen the Truth Or Dare movie cuz in the end a female character unleashed that evil game onto the world just to prolong her turn
And if your girlfriend has a huge bite from a paranormal being, leave.
@@linda10989 technically she couldn't leave it was attached to her literally so I guess he wasn't going to leave her to deal with it alone
@@Badass-Dalty I hate that movie and the ending so much
That's why I enjoyed it as a comedy.
To be fair in Georgie's case; Pennywise is a supernatural being who essentially hypnotizes children into doing stupid things they otherwise know they shouldn't do. So Georgie wasn't being dumb by trusting a clown he found in the sewers; he was charmed into doing as Pennywise directed.
There was a deleted scene on the 2017 remake DVD, Georgie survived, he didn't die. He just grabbed his paper boat and walked away. And boom! Credits. So basically, Georgie had to die, because if he didn't die, there would be no movie.
So there's no getting around Georgie's death.
I don’t think pennywise directed IT
@@abellewis3062no there isn't any getting around Georgie's death. It has to happen in order for the plot to progress. However, it is specifically stated in the book that he was hypnotized into trying to take his boat back. There was even a point when Georgie's instincts were screaming at him to run, but IT'S control over him was too strong.
I love the moments when characters realize that “crazy” person who tried to warn them was actually right
Always my favorite part!
For some reason, I always think of urban legends the crazy guy screaming at the girl in the car, telling her the killer is in the backseat
Parents not listening to kids in any horror movie.
Which horror movie has that situation ?
Parents hardly being present in horror movies😂
@@purple76691countless Goosebumps episodes
@purple76691The Visit is an example of
listening to the kids has killed as many people as not doing so
Chris and Billy trying to run over Carrie.
that was not only stupid, that was practically suicidal, though at least those two bullies get what all bullies deserve
Agreed. They could've escaped but instead chose to track her down and try to run over her. Instead, she just makes the car swerve and crash
@@Kagetora-Chris takes it further in the 2013 remake, egging Billy on until Carrie telekinetically bashes the front of Billy’s car in and killing him in the process.
I totally agree with you on that
They actually deserved it for what they did to Carrie. Chris has bullied Carrie, which is the reason why Chris was banned from going to prom after the shower incident.
the purge:
-turning off your security system
-letting strangers in when you know they can now legally kill you
-splitting up
-no guns in your house
-RUNNING UP THE STAIRS!!!
Mindlessly dancing in the street in lingerie after threatening an ally of a known bad ass😂
I hate it when all of the sudden the person trying to run from danger just can’t seem to run!! They trip, tangle up into everything, get injured while running. And this is while a maniacs is chasing them with an axe and gaining on them. Any other time in the movie they run just fine. I hate that.
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By far the most common stupid decision in horror movies is when characters don't immediately arm themselves when encountering a threat. Watching characters absentmindedly walk past the knife block that exists in literally everyone's kitchen while being stalked by actually killable killers is frustrating as hell.
Second place goes to discarding weapons too early and/or not finishing the job.
Going towards the blood curdling screams instead away from them - Every Horror Movie.
Sorry; impulse is to help. Like hearing a.crying baby.
So hero’s are dumb? Or cops, not calling all of them hero’s because ya know..
Technically in Midsommar Mark didn't get himself killed. They were gonna kill him anyway. That's literally why he was brought there. Peeing on the tree definitely didn't work in his favor but he had no way of knowing that tree was important to them. He could've been a little more apologetic about it though
Mark certainly faced one of the more brutal deaths due to his poor choice. The dude who was in the chicken shed got the worst, Mark & Christian are a toss up
That doesn't excuse drugging and raping him though.
If Mike was a woman that movie would've never been released.
@@Censored4UViaGoogle Simon was completely innocent! I hate that he got the worst! God that cult was terrifying
Dude, women are raped, tortured, and murdered in mass in the horror genre. Wtf are you talking about?
@@BeyondBaitoDude, he PEED on their TREE! He got what he deserved. I mean what kind of MONSTER pees on a tree?!
Another dumb thing to do in horror movies, saying "I'll be right back."
And also "Lets split up"
Sounding a bit like Randy from Scream.
'Thank God it's over".
For me, the two dumbest was Prometheus, where the biologist tries to pat an alien snake monster, and Alien Covenant where the captain places his head over some scary looking alien thing at the behest of an obviously dodgy android.
Obviously the cryosleep or whatever they use in that universe to make space travel times more tolerable tends to damage their brains. Although they perhaps had improved the system before the Nostromo incident as those crew members acted somewhat more sensibly, especially Ripley.
@@pohjanakka4992Haha love it. It has to be brain damage. No on could be that stupid, except for those who need instructions to warn them that hot coffee is hot.
I have to say, from Covenant to Event Horizon, these movies don't make the idea of cryosleep very appealing
Even in Alien only Ripley has her head on straight. They get a distress call that they then find out was not a distress call but a warning! Guy gets attacked and has a dangerous alien lifeforms attached to his face, and everyone was demanding that Ellen let them bring his infectious ass into the ship! Ash was ultimately responsible for letting them in, but everyone besides Ripley agreed they wanted squid face to come into their ship. They got what they deserved!
Here’s what not to do in a horror movie:
1. Don’t say “I’ll be back”
2. Don’t go up the stairs
3. When the monster/bad guy is going after you (especially if they are moving very slowly) you do not back yourself up into a corner and just stand there screaming
4. If something is called “haunted” or “cursed” you destroy it immediately and don’t just let it be so it can continue to torment you
5. If there is a known killer, shark, ghost etc….don’t go where they live. Especially sharks. Like seriously all you have to do is not go in the water
7. Don’t talk to strangers especially if they seem unusually creepy
8. Don’t use Ouija Boards or again deal with anything that’s possessed by a demon or any kind of spirits
9. Don’t split up
Don’t accept rides from strangers.
Don’t go into people homes you don’t know.
Don’t be curious about urban legends.
If only horror movie characters had common sense, half of these films wouldn't exist!
And when it's a story where the monster or monsters are fully human or something else completely mortal... seems no gun owners, or at least ones who not only own them but have taken care that they practice enough to be able to use them well, are ever chosen by the bad guys. Well, I suppose the killers are smarter than do that, it would suck if the intended victim would shoot you before you managed to kill her with your ax or knife. 🤔
Heh. Might be sort of fun if in some film we'd first be shown how the masked ax murderer first observes some lone woman in her isolated country house, but then sees her go to the back yard and observes she has a private gun range there, and she shoots well, and decides to keep looking for the next victim elsewhere.
Nah, The Mist deserved Number 1 spot more... its incredible how some minutes of patience can influence your entire life. Truly one of the best twists in horror history.
That was the right decision. There was no possible way for him to know that out of the blue the military would finally show up. He was saving them all a gruesome death.
@@ds7307they should have just stayed right in the market. Never left. Religious woman was dead, her followers traumatized and in disarray. There was no threat.
The bit in the Mist was not a stupid decision, it was a good decision based on the information they had at the time. It was just a horrible irony of timing that made it bad IN RETROSPECT. Which is the opposite of a stupid decision.
why give up at all? you might die but itsa not guaranteed, stupidest decision ever.
Another reason why you should never run up the stairs is because the killer can throw you out a high window and *splat! You're dead.
You should also never stand in front of a window because the killer can see you clearly and smash through right behind you/pull you out and attack.
Addison stupidly split the syringe in half right before sticking her free hand into the box too
In Scream 5, Dewey shoots the Ghostface, and while everybody else gets on the elevator, Dewey goes back to make sure the killer is dead, and then dies in the process with TWO Knives. THAT was stupid, he could've lived in Scream 5, but he chose to stay behind, and gets sliced and diced. Enough said.
He stayed behind to shoot ghostface in the head. The stupid part was when he's about to shoot, his phone rings and he got distracted, allowing ghostface to kill him.
@@Sabiliwisely8315 Yeah. He didn’t have to stay behind though. He could’ve easily went on the elevator like everybody else.
@@abellewis3062he stayed behind bc it was important to him to shoot him in the head after him always forgetting to throughout the franchise.
Loved that Bill Murray Cameo in Zombieland.
I agree, its was the only good thing in the movie.
his death was so obvious, pretending to be a zombie around armed zombie killers.
It’s moments/characters like these that make me appreciate the smart characters in horror movies, like Chris Washington from Get Out & Ellen Ripley from Alien
They straight told her the cops wouldn't make it in time in SCREAM and she knew it was true. Plus every time she tried the phone would ring. Y'all even played the darn scene. WTH???
As for THE MIST... seriously?
I am so glad you said something about that Scream part, I was just about to.
She absolutely could've called and stalled for enough time. Or if anything her real dumb decisions were when she stopped to look in the window to see where Ghostface was instead of escaping or stopping to yell for her mother instead of moving towards her parents
@@kaitlynlerman1023 ummmm... you do realize there were TWO killers right? She had NO CHANCE.
@@SmifLaly well yes of course. But that doesn’t make her decision making any less stupid.
The stupid thing is they had to hang up to recall her. The way phones worked if they didn't hang up the call wouldn't drop so she would pick the headset back up and the killer would still have been on the line.
I wouldn’t call the mist situation a dumb mistake. More of an unpredictable mistake 🤷🏻♂️.
Yup, in every other scenario he would have been an honorable man doing what he needed to do, a hero.
They missed the most popular, randomly have sex while everyone is running around!😂😂😂
On the commentary for the original version of The Hills Have Eyes, when a married couple head off for some alone time, Wes Craven says, "Uh-oh, they're going off to have sex in a Wes Craven movie, don't they know that's a death sentence?"
Surviving Horror Movies. Ruler number 1: You can never ever have sex!
nothing will ever be stupider than him climbing down that pipe in jeepers creepers
*having a séance
*playing with a ouja board
*going back to the church (JC)
*going back to check if the killer is dead.
*building over sacred ground.
*getting into a strangers car.
*taking a drink from a stranger.
*having a baby (A quiet place)
* going into a strangers home ( various )
* leaving the compound ( 28 weeks later)
I wouldn't necessarily count the pregnancy in A Quiet Place. They had been isolated in that farm a long time, and pregnancies kind of tend to sometimes happen even when people are using contraceptives if they have sex. Under those circumstances they would no longer have had reliable contraceptives, so, especially since as far as I remember it is never said in the movie that the pregnancy was planned, it presumably wasn't. The parents had sex, and even though they tried to be careful, she got pregnant. How many adults would be able to go for complete celibacy, especially when they are constantly with their partner? Not many. So yes, not smart, but rather understandable.
And under those circumstances they would not have had any safe and reliable way to terminate the pregnancy either, so even if they would have been willing to do that otherwise, the risk of killing her would presumably kept them from doing that.
The Main Horror Tropes
1. People acting stupid (Evil Dead 2013)
2. Innocent people accidentally become victims (Tourist Trap)
3. Villains are going out for their prey (Saw)
Nope, sorry. Im going after my dog. He is my service dog and quite frankly in a zombie apocalypse, the only one I would trust. I would never let him be used like that or leave him behind.
Your dog has more sense than 90% in these movies!
You sure about that?
I don't even have a dog, but yes. Especially in the movie where this happens, a few of those people in the group are shit and would leave you behind at the first chance. The dog, on the other hand, would not.
Yea F everyone else! Dogs for life baby!
Except it did. That is why you need to do after it.
The two stupid decisions that frustrate me:
-most of the decisions in 28 weeks later
-not putting up a fence in Pet Semetary
They should’ve gave Nicole away to the zombies
I feel that one vendor in the new movie Trap should be mentioned. The plot is the authorities somehow learned this serial killer was going to be at a concert, so they sent police to watch every entrance and exit to prevent his escape. However, the serial killer learned about this and stated working on an escape plan. How did he find out? One of the vendors, not knowing he was the killer, told him, “Hey, this is all one huge trap to catch the serial killer! Isn’t that cool?” All the mayhem and chaos in that movie occurred because one idiot couldn’t keep his dang mouth shut. Even if the guy he told didn’t happen to be the killer, it’s still an incredibly idiotic thing to do. Let’s look at what could have happened if it were some random person he’d told and not the killer. What if the person he told started shooting his mouth off to everybody and the killer found out that way? What if he panicked and yelled, “THERE’S A SERIAL KILLER HERE!?” causing other people to panic? What if he decided to pretend to be the killer as a joke and got arrested, causing the real killer to escape while he was trying to convince the police, “It was just a prank, bro!”? What if he decided some random innocent person was the killer and attacked him thinking he was delivering some vigilante justice and would be praised as a hero? Why would you run the risk of ruining a big sting by assuming some random guy could be trusted with the secret?
Trap 2024
Switch going after the dog with trusting Steve to man the door, Nicole going after chips only got one person killed and they needed to go to the gun store anyways for weapons and ammunition. Trusting Steve was what got most of the other survivors (Steve included) killed
Yea Steve cannot be trusted and to be honest I thought CJ was a threat to others but he wasn’t. CJ did have a point though cause sometimes in a zombie outbreak you can’t really trust someone and you never know if a survivor is infected or not. That just my opinion.
The Number 14 pick is what earned Vickers' death the "Dull Machete for lamest kill" when James A Janisse covered "Prometheus" on "Kill Count". You know a decision is dumb when the host of a show that counts off kills in horror movies gives such an award to a particular kill.
I've definitely learned a lot from watching horror movies
Mostly learned what NOT to do ☠☠
Since you used Halloween 4 in your "running upstairs" example, I'll be the one to point out that in Halloween 4 they first try escape through the front door but can't.
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Honorable mention: Burke trying to get Ripley and Newt facehugged and thinking it would be that painfully easy to get away with it.
It should have worked. If they had stayed sleeping a few more minutes. If the guys hadn't gotten there in time. If Ripley wasn't the band's of all badasses. The company would have done anything to get two infected bodies back, so the rest of his plan would have gone down smooth.
My stupid move would be getting out of my car, at night, in the middle of nowhere to help a wounded animal or lost child. I absolutely know better but if you wanna trick me into something stupid, that's how you do it.
Number 26 - Candyman....KEEP HIS NAME OUT OF YOUR MOUTH
Also, why do people always fall over when the killer is chasing them....keep running and DON'T LOOK BACK
Dawn of the dead remake Leaving the mall was a stupid idea cause it was a fully safe area
Limited supplies, no power.
@@davidchism6081 well they would lived longer instead of going on the boat which got them all killed
@@dalehuffer4506 not really a whole lot of good options in that kind of zombie apocalypse.
Any building that has glass doors and windows aren't that safe. Plus, without incoming supplies, how long would they have been safe for? It's a case of delaying the inevitable.
The mall made a good temporary shelter but they needed something long term. I get why they wanted more than simply being able to exist
If any character from a horror movie thinks it’s a good idea to have sex, thinking you’ll be safe, it’s not. You’re just going to end up dead. This is why I listen to Randy
I can’t see myself in a horror movie but to answer your question……..would be listening to music and sing without knowing that people are trying to warn me that zombies are coming after you
Mayor Larry Vaughn from Jaws
annoys me so much 😠
If you ask me, HE'S the real villain of the story, not the titular shark.
In Scream, they specifically say if Casey called the cops, they wouldn’t arrive in time because they were out in the middle of nowhere. Even though she was scared, she probably knew that to be true.
This list could have easily been "Top 100" instead of "Top 30". 🤣🤣
I would definitely run up the stairs!
Going Into The Pipe (Jeepers Creepers) has to be the absolute dumbest on the list. I wanted to give this to those two from Prometheus but maybe we can attribute their stupidity to the panic induced by the moment. What reason do you have to climbing down that pipe that you just saw a dude dump a body into instead of calling the police? At least call the police first. What was your plan once you got down there? What was your plan to get out? The dude was already harassing you and you think he's doing something illegal, is it really a good idea to put yourself into his crosshairs?
The Prometheus school of running away is alive and well.
Dumb mistake and an actual experience a friend of mine had in real life: hide in a closet, pick up cell phone and dial 911 for help then realize the light of the phone and the sound of the dial tones are giving away my hiding spot to the intruders or monsters in the house !
The dumbest thing I would most likely do in a horror movie, giving too many second chances to people who have proven to not be reliable, which might get me killed.
Bonus dumbest decision.
Jaws - convincing the family to go in the water.
Why did Larry need people in the water, he has the tourists in droves all over the island spending money. Wasn’t that his whole argument, “we need summer dollars.” I don’t remember people pulling out their cash or credit cards when they go swimming
I've got one; trying to check your blood pressure at a mall with zombies everywhere and leaving yourself wide open to be devoured.
There are so many dumb decisions in horror movies that I get so frustrated and it takes all believability out of the movie.
Whenever I watch a horror movie and see a scene that a character makes a dumb decision, I hit my head and say “Really?”
What about one of the OG'S of horror movie mistakes...DON'T GO INTO THE HOUSE!
How about Annie from the 1978 Halloween? When she is going to pick up Paul, she tries to get in the car but its locked... She goes to gets the keys, comes back to the car, OPENS THE DOOR WITHOUT USING THE KEYS TO UNLOCK IT..... Then only notices the foggy windows right before she gets killed.
Dumb mistakes in horror movies: Hesitating or failing to kill the bad guy/monster, when you get the chance.
Delay moving out of a haunted house.
Screaming, wearing white, or high heels while running away through the woods @ night.
Running upstairs or Wandering in a dark house with a flashlight calling out " Who's there?! "
Making a hysterical fool of yourself trying to explain something unbelievable to authorities.. just to name a few
Well, Trish tried to warn Darry. I’d have sided with her and pointed out some other common tropes, a la _Scream._
In IKWYDLS, Helen's fate was kind of sealed, regardless of her stop. The villain (for whatever illogical satisfy-the-film reason) got ahead of her already. So he would have caught her regardless.
Safety tip: if an unknown person calls and asks if you like scary movies, just say no. It's not rocket science, people 😊
Alien: when they let the damn alien onto the ship! They just wouldn't listen to Ripley.
The remaining 30-year-old teenagers in wrong turn 4 not killing the cannibals when they have the chance
Sleepaway Camp: not closing the Camp after SEVERAL DEATHS lol
I may not be a horror know it all but I do know that dumb choices are very well known in horror movies. I do remember an actress saying something like that in a horror movie, Fantasy Island.
13:40 People seems fixated on this scene while I still think that the dumbest decision in this movie was the guy poking the freaking proto-facehugger like it wasn't displaying Cobra-like agressive behaviors....
Most of their decisions in that movie are pretty damn stupid, but yep, that is one of the worst.
Always double-tap almost all horror movies.
If Mike hadn't tagged along on the Blair Witch hunt, then maybe things wouldn't have been quite grim for them.
THE FLY Entering the telepod while been drunk, it´s without a doubt one of the worst decisions ever
To be fair, Seth didn't know the fly was in there. We never saw him checking the telepod before.
@@linda10989 But he used it while been drunk, anything could have gone wrong and he wouldn´t have notice because he was drunk
You should’ve mentioned Saw X. Scamming John Kramer
I would save the dog, people be damned. 🤷♀️
Then you die...
She didn't save the dog. She just got people killed.
Well, as I am a Jason, my only mistake was that stupid hockey mask.
Limits your vision.
Jason gets marketing revenue from the mask. Hockey endorsements, etc.
Whoever made this list definitely didn’t understand Midsommar. Mark being killed did not lead to his doom, he was going to die anyway no matter what he did even if he was extremely nice. He was brought there to die
Prove it
@@JacobSky-n1f that's the whole point of the movie. They were sacrifices. All of them even the 2 that came from London.
Be careful what you wish for!
🚪 "Coraline" (2009)
Every college kid's decision in Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
No. 20, Maybe if he had just ran away yelling "STRANGER DANGER, STRANGER DANGER!!!" he actually could've survived that there
Fellow HISHE fan, lol.
@@linda10989 Thank you
Messing with Necronomicon Ex-Mortis & solving Lament Configuration.
Thanks for interesting and valuable video as always 😂😂😂
What's dumber than a teenager in a horror movie? The plot of It Follows.
Interestingly enough, the actual dumbest scene is not on this list. Anyone who's ever seen Wrong Turn 4 immediately knows what I'm talking about. It's mindblowingly dumb
Even rewatches of the end of The Mist is more brutal than watching anything else!
Honourable mention - fnaf movie
When (I forgot her name) stuck her head in Freddy’s mouth and got half of her body cut in half
Her name was Max
I know it's all based on fnaf the game, where cc didn't willingly want his head shoved into an animatronics mouth but why would you willingly do that when no one is forcing you. You're begging for some sort of injury.
The second someone would say let’s split up…I would be like no let’s just stay together…I’d repeat the safety in numbers troupe!! 😂😂
I loved what the Horror Movie Survival Guide said about this one. They said 'Whenever someone says, 'Let's split up, we can cover more ground!', they forgot to add 'With blood' at the end."
11:02 Why would you need a map anyway? If you're lost in the woods and you find a river, just follow it downstream. You're bound to find either a picnic site, bigger river or settlement.
That's a myth
@@ds7307 No it's not. But, to be honest there is a downside to it. The stream you're following might lead you to a lake deeper within the forest and then you're screwed.
How about no...
1. Reading 📚 's that look odd
2. Opening the door blindly
3. Touching ish generally
4. Spirit Boards because why?!
5. Talking to strangers and inviting and/or blindly following them
6. Reading Latin
7. Answering Random voices b/c you didn't hear anything!!!
8.Disrespecting nature, iykyk
9.Drugs,Sex,& Alcohol
10. BEING NOSEY!!! MIND YOUR DAMN BUSINESS!!!
This should keep you safe. Some things are common sense. Why watch a haunted film? Why summon a demon? Why go to a creepy cabin? I feel like Bruce was home and defending his space. 😊
I don't care who dies so long as the dog lives. And that sentiment extends into real life for me.
Halloween II: The Policeman not trusting Loomis and dies
Halloween III: Dr. Challis asking Ellie AFTER they had ... how old she is
Halloween Kills: Tommy trying to kill Michael, The People chasing a man who smaller than Michael, Little John just standing there while Michael is going to kill him
In Various Movies: Shooting at nothing until the ammu is gone
Edit: Halloween Ends is a good Movie!
I hate Nicole in Dawn of the Dead 😂 annoyed tf out of me 😂
I was more pissed at Steve, he’s the one that cost them the mall
With regards to the idiotic Prometheus decision, Ridley Scott could have solved this at the very least by having the character in a six foot ravine or channel where it would be a waste of time trying to crawl out and the only viable option was to try and outrun the rolling ship
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Kirsten! ❤️ Feels like it’s been too long since I’ve heard you nail one of these videos
With so many greats on here, it’s obvious that bad decision making is critical to the entire genre hahahaha love it
Lesson learned: Never try to rob a blind man especially a war veteran.
As much as & everyone loved John Hurt... his character Kane is the reason why there were 4 (soon to be 5) Alien films. When on an Alien planet with strange eggs in front of you, if you see one of those eggs open in front of you, what do you do? Don't go near the egg.
Kane? He stuck his face right into it.
Fairly common mistake: desecrating, or removing a seal, or talisman releasing a monster, or evil spirit, or demon.
3:50 = RIP Tony Todd🙏
3:30 = Candyman (1992 Original)👍
4:00 = Candyman (2021 Remake)👎
Why didn’t the kid from Hereditary had an allergy pen ? 🥴 I will never understand
In jaws when the mayor kept the beaches open was not the best decision because the shark killed the boy
Ellison Oswalt moving his family into the death house without their knowledge, Sinister.
What about walking into traps? Apparently a cop in You’re Next didn’t notice until he was killed off screen at the film’s climax. Thinking he would help until he didn’t get the warning
to be fair marck was going to die eather way so peing on the tree was just giving them a reason to do so on the other hand josh made an even more stupid desision by not lisening to the elders and go for the book anyways but the bigest mistake in midsummar is choosing to stay and loudly anouncing that you leave
Lovely video Watchmojo big bro ❤💪
Oh yeah DO NOT STOP RUNNING WHEN YOU ARE GETTING CHASED BY A KILLER