10 Things In Horror Movies That Just Aren't Scary Anymore

10. The Creepy Local

How many times has the main cast of a horror film pulled up at some decrepit run down petrol station or weird hotel that nobody in their right mind would ever dare stay at and bump into some creepy local with foreboding news?

Probably a lot, right?

Hollywood horror movies would have you believe that every small town has a resident wacko just waiting to deliver the news to any unwitting tourists who happen to have come this way.

It's not so much their presence that grates, but the stock character use of them. They're always a little cooky looking with a strange laugh and they talk in incomprehensible riddles and we're always left wondering why the owners of these petrol stations and hotels don't just send them on their way for scaring away potential customers.

Not that any of the characters ever seem to listen.