10 Dumbest Decisions In Slasher Horror Movies
9. Needlessly Pausing Your Own Escape - I Know What You Did Last Summer
1997's I Know What You Did Last Summer is a movie that has a special place in the heart of many a horror fan.
While Wes Craven's Scream completely reinvigorated slasher movies and horror films, period, in 1996 - poking fun at the tried and tired tropes of the genre as a whole - that brought in a new wave of slashers, such as the aforementioned I Know What You Did Last Summer.
Director Jim Gillespie's '97 picture didn't quite match the sheer brilliance of Scream, but it's a vastly enjoyable beast on its own merits. But like is so commonplace in horror, I Know What You Did Last Summer is a movie that has you shaking your head in disbelief at certain points.
On this front, the biggest perpetrator is Sarah Michelle Gellar's Helen Shivers.
The beauty queen of the day, Helen flees to her sister's store after seeing her boyfriend Barry and a cop both killed by the hooked killer of the film. After her sister is then next to be brutalised, the race is on as Helen looks to get away from the picture's villain.
For once in a slasher effort, Helen actually manages to outrun and outsmart the killer, edging ever close to the safety offered by the nearby 4 July parade. With victorious freedom in sight, Gellar's character acts like a total idiot by stopping to double-check she really has evaded her stalker - giving the hook-wielding Ben Willis the chance he needed to slice Helen up.