10 Horror Movies You Didn't Realise Stupidly Broke Their Own Rules
3. Sebastian's Sudden Teleportation Abilities - Hollow Man
The Rule
Teleportation may be a time-honoured tradition of serial killers like Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees, but when scientist Dr. Sebastian Caine (Kevin Bacon) takes an invisibility serum in Paul Verhoeven's trash-classic Hollow Man, his only confirmed powers are invisibility and blinding rage.
The Breaker
The film's climax sees Linda (Elisabeth Shue) and Matt (Josh Brolin) fleeing from an incapacitated Sebastian while their lab is rigged to blow. The explosion detonates while Linda and Matt climb their way to dubious safety, the bomb seemingly obliterating Sebastian in the process.
But somehow, a few moments later Sebastian - now visible as a hideous vascular skeleton - appears out of nowhere, grabbing Linda's leg for one last scare, before she manages to send him hurtling down the fiery elevator shaft to his death.
Except, where the hell did Sebastian come from when he grabbed Linda? There's literally no explanation for him appearing suddenly, because even if you suggest he was clinging to the elevator car traveling up and down the shaft throughout the scene, we should've been able to see him now.
He was inexplicably able to move from the lab area, in the midst of an explosion no less, to the elevator with no plausible explanation whatsoever beyond "because movie."
Of course Hollow Man is a "check your brain at the door" B-movie, but even so, this is a pretty ridiculous leap.