10 Dumbest Decisions In Recent Horror Movies

10. Nearly Boiling Ben Alive - Escape Room: Tournament Of Champions

It is not without hyperbole to suggest that Escape Room: Tournament of Champions is quite literally saturated with moronic behavior.

Why any rational human being with a functioning brain thought a sequel to 2019's disastrous offering - that followed a group trapped in an array of deadly "escape rooms" - was a worthwhile endeavor is beyond this writer, but the film certainly provides more than a few superb case studies in cinematic stupidity.

While Nathan's swan dive into a seething lake of quicksand or Zoey and Rachel's plan based on an assumption that the Minos corporation would be foolish enough to leave a literal escape hatch in one of their rooms constitute worthy entries in this category, the Tournament of Champions' pièce de résistance is saved for the film's final room. With her friend Ben trapped in a plexiglass container rapidly filling with water, protagonist Zoey has the wonderful idea to use a gas pipe as a make-shift flamethrower to break him free.

Admirable intentions, but excruciating execution - rather unsurprisingly, the room is devoured by gargantuan tongues of apocalyptic flame. Zoey somehow avoids barbecuing herself, Ben and recently returned from the dead Amanda, but it's worth noting that heating an enclosed container of water in such a haphazard manner could have just as easily boiled him alive like the most unfortunate of lobsters.