10 Smartest Horror Movie Decisions (That Still Got People Killed)

10. Watching Through Surveillance Cameras - Bird Box

An unknown, terrifying presence barging in and delivering horrors from beyond the pale is pretty bad news for Earth in Bird Box, where Sandra Bullock has to navigate a planet now populated with invisible entities that render anyone who accidentally peeps at one either insane or suicidal. Whilst survivors of their first appearance get around this whole deal with blindfolds and a nifty little SatNav manoeuvre when they have to go outside, there seems to be one solution that could just about save humanity if it turns out okay - using computer screens as a loophole.

Greg volunteers himself as the first to try out the method, and like the sane person he is at that point in time, decides that tying himself up will at least render him unable to off himself should it backfire. This is a wonderful idea both as it answers a massive question of which the result could shape the survival of the human race, and he's thinking ahead for the worst possible outcome to prepare accordingly.

It doesn't pay off, and Greg manages to kill himself with a supernatural persistence. But the rest of his group now know they can't rely on technology, so the death wasn't in vain, at least.