10 Things To Avoid If You Want To Survive A Slasher Movie

Countless hopeless narcissists have fallen victim to this scenario. Honestly, who doesn't just stop by a mirror to ask themself where the killer might be while simultaneously praying to God that he isn't standing right behind you - patiently waiting for you to turn around before going in for the kill? It's just natural behaviour, isn't it?

On some occasions, the killer is actually there and does his evil deed, but what's more likely is that you turn around, only to find that the murderer is no longer there. Instead, he has retreated back into the shadows, waiting for another opportunity to jump scare you to death.

Take the film, Candyman for example - with Helen alone in the bathroom staring at herself in the mirror, she gets a good dose of the good old-fashioned jump scare quite late in the film. The scare doesn’t come from the mirror but behind it, inside the medicine cabinet, just as the graduate student takes a deep breath, of course.

Although she was lucky enough not to have been killed in that encounter, she does spend the rest of the film under immense torment by the legendary bogeyman, such that she wished she were dead.