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

Bad idea! Always! Other than allowing the writers to keep two plotlines going at once, there is no point in splitting up the group. That's the reason why films like Ghostbusters show the title characters individually looking for a ghost in a hotel, just so that Bill Murray can be attacked by 'The Slimer'.

If fish can be smart enough to swim in schools so as not be picked off by nearby sharks, then any sane person should know that the least likely point of attack is the collective, surely? Case in point, the cast of The House on Haunted Hill (if you’re lucky, the tamer 1959 version).

Apart from the strength in numbers factor, splitting up also greatly reduces the crews' survivability chances because with all their talents separated, it is likely that one team won't be able to solve something another would have accomplished. Most of us learned this lesson as 5-year-olds, shaking our heads at reruns of Scooby Doo as Shaggy and Scooby ran in circles away from spooks while the rest of the gang gathered clues.

We've seen this fatal mistake occur in movies like Fright Night (1985). A Lonely Place to Die, The Cabin In The Woods, In The Thing (1982) and its prequel - this is even more of a bad idea than usual, given that the alien can mimic humans!