10 Dumbest Ever Horror Movie Protagonists

Defining Dumb Moment: Agreeing to move to a haunted as hell hotel with her violent, alcoholic husband.

So, your husband’s an alcoholic with a violent temper that led to him dislocating your son’s shoulder and he suggests going to live at a remote hotel in the mountains over the cold winter months that a) frequently gets snowed in, b) was built on an ancient Indian burial ground and c) was the site of a grisly act of familicide only a few years earlier?

What could possibly go wrong with that plan? It’s not like your husband will go mad with cabin fever, cheat on you with a rotting female corpse and end up trying to off you and your kid with an axe or anything.

Oh, wait – that’s EXACTLY what happens to Wendy in The Shining and pretty much what befell the murdered Grady family during their stay at the Overlook Hotel.

What’s worse about the predicament Wendy finds herself in is that early in the film we learn via her husband crazy Jack Torrance that she’s “a confirmed ghost story and horror film addict”. If what Jack says is true, then Wendy should know how things are about to go down.

An isolated hotel, an Indian burial ground, a previous murder? Come on, Wendy – a horror aficionada should know that’s a recipe for a not-so-happy, husband chasing you round the hotel wielding an axe kind of ending.