10 Smartest Decisions In Horror Movies
1. Quarantine - Alien
Sometimes, it doesn't matter how hard you push for the smart decision, the people around you will continue to make bad choices. Take Ripley's stance in Alien on following the quarantine procedure: if they'd all actually listened to her as the acting officer rather than letting the infected Kane back on board the whole horror part of this film could have been avoided entirely. Hey, sucks to be them since they all die in the end, with Ripley and Jones the only ones living to tell anyone about it. That's what you get for not listening.
Ripley's savvy life-saving antics don't stop there however, with her choice of blowing the airlock whilst in her escape pod being one of the best decisions she could have made upon learning a near-unkillable giant alien has curled up on her ship and threatens to get both her, and more importantly her cat, if she doesn't sort it out.
Where many would have instinctively tried to ineffectively attack or hide, Ripely manages to execute an entirely level-headed response that lets her keep her life. Just another reason Ripley is the OG horror badass.
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