10 MORE Dumbest Decisions In Horror Movies
There's always plenty of stupid to go around when it comes to horror movies.
Is a horror movie REALLY a horror movie if there's no characters making absolutely boneheaded decisions for the entirety of the run time? Considering the genre's track record, probably not.
Whilst there are some rare films out there that balance common sense with a healthy helping of the scary stuff, more often than not, the ridiculous situations horror victims manage to get themselves into could have been avoided if only they'd simply had the forethought to not interfere with paranormal monstrosities from beyond our plane of existence. It's really not that hard.
We know the rules by now: don't bother with camping if you know what's good for you, don't buy creepy sh*t from garage sales, and just... don't have kids. That one's a given in general, but it definitely isn't worth having a tiny person capable of channeling the devil himself bumbling about when horror comes a-knocking. Get some cats instead.
Looking again at the far more ludicrous trains of thought it takes to make some seriously scary messes then, these are even more character decisions that are unequivocally stupid. May you learn from their gruesome fates.
10. Digging Up Jason - Friday The 13th Part VI
It takes some serious guts to kill a killer, and an absolute morgue full to take down the tried and tested king of killers himself, Jason Voorhees - crowned for racking up the biggest body count of any of the iconic horror villains to date. That didn't stop Tommy Jarvis from doing the impossible in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter though, managing to take Jason down with his very own machete at just 12 years old.
And whilst it's fair that smashing a supernatural murderer's head in at a tender young age might mess him up a little bit, Tommy's got no excuse for the brazenly stupid decision to dig his corpse back up for a little look at how Jason's getting on. Cracking open his coffin and jabbing him with a fence post for good measure, lightning strikes and reanimates the hulking monster once more - giving Jason a whole new level of supernatural ability. Nice going Tommy, you big idiot.
This whole scenario is even worse when you consider Tommy actually had a nightmare in A New Beginning that featured Jason getting dug up by grave robbers and coming back to life for a killing spree, too. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy he's already seen the worst outcome of, and Tommy still goes and does it anyway. Madness.