10 Dumbest Decisions In Recent Horror Movies
9. Instantly Throwing Away The Upper Hand - Knock At The Cabin
There's dumb, and there's really dumb.
2023's psychological horror Knock at the Cabin follows a young family who find themselves held hostage by a group of mysterious interlopers. The latest curveball from director M. Night Shyamalan? The intruders claim that the world is doomed to be destroyed - unless the family offers up one of their own as a human sacrifice.
Leonard, the leader of the sinister home invaders is played by none other than Draxx himself in the hulking Dave Bautista - anyone familiar with the former wrestler's intimidating aura knows that this is not an individual to mess around with. As such, when the family finally get the upper hand on their menacing captor, their decision making is absolutely clownish.
Holding his colossal adversary at POINT BLANK range with a handgun, Ben Aldridge's Andrew inexplicably locks Leonard in the bathroom rather than just blowing his head off. It gets even more idiotic when the clueless trio are double bluffed into opening the door by the sound of the window breaking, as opposed to simply escaping.
In increasingly slapstick fashion, Leonard is very blatantly hiding in the bathtub behind the shower curtain. Andrew proceeds to fire into said curtain just to make sure, missing his enormous foe at a range of approximately two feet in a manner reminiscent of Wile E. Coyote, before being tackled and promptly subdued once again.
Horror based buffoonery at its finest.