10 Dumbest Decisions In Slasher Horror Movies

3. The Electrocution Plan - It Follows

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David Robert Mitchell's 2014 breakout It Follows is a slasher movie with a twist. And not your usual played-out twist reveal, but more the twist here is that the picture is a supernatural slasher of sorts.

There may not be a Michael Myers or a Jason Voorhees menacing young adults, but It Follows features a supernatural STI that stalks the youngsters on show in the film. Much like a Michael or a Jason, this chilling presence is unrelenting and arguably even more determined than any of the slasher subgenre's famed killers.

With an unstoppable, terrifying force laser-focused on making its way to a person carrying a sexually-transmitted curse, the only way to take yourself out of the crosshairs is to have sex with somebody else. And when Maika Munroe's Jay is running out of ways to stop her inevitable death from this stalking STI, she and her friends come up with what they think is a fool-proof scheme.

The problem for them is, the scheme in question is totally dumb.

As Jay awaits her supernatural stalker in a swimming pool, the plan is to drop a bunch of electrical devices into the water once the sinister figure appears - thus electrocuting the problem of the day.

Unfortunately, this backfires spectacularly when the entity picks up on what's happening and starts to launch objects at Jay, and the next effort to take down the presence results in one of the group accidentally shooting one of his friends.

It was daft, it was naïve, and even director Mitchell himself has detailed how this plan was purposely intended to be dumb, showcasing the panicked idiocy of the teenage characters at the centre of It Follows.

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