10 Times Horror Movies Got Weapons Wrong

What would the vast majority of horror movies be without weapons? A bit boring, no?

Outside of horror flicks centered around ghosts, the genre will typically feature an array of gnarly weaponry for killers to strike fear into the hearts of their victims, and also for smart and resourceful characters to exact their bloody vengeance.

Now, the heightened nature of the horror genre itself means that audiences aren't usually expecting ultra-realism, especially from those films focused on creatively gory kills with larger-than-life weaponry.

But even so, there are times where horror films take the physical, grounded properties of a weapon actually available to audience members in real life, and push it beyond the bounds of credibility.

While this doesn't diminish the fun in most cases, it does expose the movies as existing within an alternate universe where the characteristics of a given weapon are just slightly off.

In each case the filmmakers clearly felt like it was worth sacrificing physical authenticity for an awesome, crowd-pleasing kill, and for the most part, they were right. Even so, those craving plausible death and destruction should definitely look elsewhere...

Pretty much the only memorable moment in 2009's pointless remake of The Last House on the Left is the climactic scene in which the villainous Krug (Garret Dillahunt) has his head placed inside a broken microwave which is then turned on, resulting in his noggin exploding like a bloody baked potato.

Except, this doesn't make sense at all. Even if you can buy that the microwave would even turn on with the door open, the sheer number of orifices present in the human skull - nose, mouth, ears - would prevent a microwave from building up sufficient pressure to make a human head forcefully explode.

There's absolutely no question that the microwave would kill Krug, but the outrageously gory fate he was afforded in the movie is a pure exaggeration of what microwaves are actually capable of (sadly.)