10 Bizarre Horror Movie Choices (& Why They Happened)
These head-scratching creative choices have some fascinating explanations.
The horror genre provides a safe space for filmmakers and actors to get real freaky, to experiment with things that just wouldn't fly in more grounded dramatic fiction, and that's a damn wonderful thing more often than not.
But not every experiment is going to work, of course, and sometimes a creative choice ends up leaving audiences more bemused than anything else. And that's absolutely the case in the following ten horror movies, each of which made some strange, head-scratching decisions that were basically just a distraction from everything else going on. As ever, though, there's usually a reason why filmmakers and actors do the things they do, and where these baffling decisions are concerned, that's definitely true.
From odd wardrobe choices to unintentionally hilarious one-liners, weird technical gaffes, and everything else in-between, there's actually a story behind each of these moments that continue to live rent-free in horror fans' heads.
Does it make these moments any less puzzling to sit through? Not really, but it sure is nice to know what those involved with shooting it were thinking at the time.
10. Norma Wears A Baseball Cap In Every Scene - Carrie
There's so much going on in Brian De Palma's masterpiece Carrie that you might've missed one of its more peculiar quirks, that Carrie's (Sissy Spacek) classmate Norma (P.J. Soles) wears a distinctive red baseball cap in basically every single scene.
Hilariously, she's even seen "wearing" it while getting her hair done at a salon ahead of the iconic prom sequence, because why the hell not?
As for why Norma has such an attachment to the hat? According to actress P.J. Soles herself, she went to her audition for the film wearing the very same baseball cap, and director De Palma became strangely obsessed with it, insisting that Soles wear it to each subsequent audition.
Soles of course complied with De Palma's request, and by the time the audition process was over and Soles had won the part of Norma, the cap had evidently become part of how the filmmaker saw the character, and so it made it into the movie proper.