10 Times Horror Movies Got Weapons Wrong

The Halloween franchise is best characterised by spectre-like stalker Michael Myers relentlessly pursuing his targets with a large kitchen knife, and though it might seem relatively difficult to make death-by-knife unrealistic, the series has periodically managed it.

In the classic 1978 original, even, there's a memorable sequence where Myers kills poor Bob Simms (John Michael Graham) by literally pinning him to a door with his knife.

Even if you can accept that Myers is strong enough to get the knife all the way through the thick door, the physics of a knife being able to support the weight of an adult man's body just don't work at all. The knife would fall out of the door almost immediately.

Myers' knife also showed itself to have quasi-magical properties in the terrible eighth film, Halloween: Resurrection, where he uses it to cut Jen's (Katee Sackhoff) head clean off with a single casual stroke.

Again, no matter Myers' strength, there's just no way for the knife's blade to be sharp enough to produce such a swift and precise cut. It'd need to be a lightsaber, basically.

And this is all without going into that one time Myers infamously stabbed a woman to death with a shotgun.