10 Horror Movie Idiots Who Made Simple Solutions Look IMPOSSIBLE

Of course the characters in horror movies don't realise they're actually in a horror movie, but even so, sometimes that creepy artefact ominously warning you to leave it alone is best, you know, left alone, right?

Case in point, 2013's surprisingly strong Evil Dead remake kicks into gear when Eric (Lou Taylor Pucci) discovers the ancient book known as the Necronomicon in the cellar of the cabin where he and his friends are staying.

Despite the book being wrapped in barbed wire, Eric decides to use pliers to prize it open anyway, and though one of the book's very first pages has "Leave this book alone" written in a red substance that appears to be blood, he seemingly can't help himself but read incantations from it.

This is the act which seals the fates of Eric and all of his friends, save for sole survivor Mia (Jane Levy), and could've easily been avoided had he heeded the Necronomicon's warning. Sometimes judging a book by its cover is actually the right thing to do, especially when it's bound in human flesh.

Sure, nobody in the "real world" would take a diabolical warning seriously either, but if you find some cult paraphernalia in the dingy cabin you're staying in, you're probably better off not messing with it.