10 Dumbest Moments In The Halloween Series

10. Failing To Check Whether Michael Is Dead (Halloween)

Jamie Lee Curtis's Laurie Strode is a kickass horror heroine. When the audience was introduced to her in Halloween, she seemed fragile and unassuming, but after a certain masked killer came to town, we soon learned she's made of tougher stuff.

Laurie is every inch a scream queen, capable of holding her own against her psychotic brother. This wasn't some action heroine whose sole purpose is to provide eye candy for the male demographic, she's traumatised by the events of the first movie, but had the strength to hold it together.

That said, Ms Strode is also prone to the odd horror cliche, and in the case of the original Halloween, it's failing to check whether the killer is really dead after you've put them on the deck. During the movie's final act, Laurie hit 'The Boogeyman" with a knitting needle to the neck, sending him reeling, but she failed to press home her advantage.

At this point, Curtis's protagonist was armed with a butcher knife that she discarded without checking whether the knitting needle stabbing proved fatal. This is the kind of lapse in judgement the Scream series would poke fun at years later, and it allowed Michael to do further damage before his fateful appointment with Doctor Loomis, which famously concluded with a prescription of hot lead to the torso.