Happy Halloweeen!!
In celebration of our favourite costume-donning, black cat avoiding, hooked-nosed witching day, i felt like throwing up a list and what better list than:
The Top 20 Most Annoying Horror Movie Cliches!
(courtesy of Listaholic.com)
1. Instead of rushing out the door, victims run upstairs and effectively trap themselves inside the house with the killer.
2. The victims could all be track stars, and the killer will somehow still catch up with them without so much as a brisk walk.
3. Strange noises/glow/movements outside the house? Trust the victim to investigate all by herself the source of the commotion in her nighties or underwear.
4. The door is always stuck when a protagonist is fleeing the killer. And then, just when the killer is a foot away and has raised his hatchet/machete to strike, the door opens and the supposed victim narrowly escapes.
5. Women who are being chased almost always fall down, then wait until the killer is almost on top of them before getting up and running again.
6. The hot girl, especially one who has displayed big breasts in an earlier sex scene, always gets killed first
7. “Stay here”, so the hero wannabe tells his girl as he tries to look for and take down the killer by his lonesome. Then it’s either he or the girl he left behind gets chopped to pieces.
8. Since when did the sound of children singing become scary?
9. Cars always break down, no matter how brand new or well-oiled it is. And similar to no. 4, the engine comes to life at the last second and the protagonists make their escape.
10. No grown-up ever believes the frightened kids, until it’s too late.
11. Ominous sound and music, character gets really spooked and a cat suddenly jumps into the frame.
12. Usually, a female character is alone in a certain place, scared shitless knowing there’s a killer on the loose, then somebody, who turns out to be a friend or a boyfriend, just grabs her shoulder from out of nowhere and almost gives her a heart attack.
13. One minute only the victim is reflected in a mirror, usually one on a medicine cabinet, and the killer’s reflection is suddenly there when the victim closes the cabinet.
14. The victims almost always split up purportedly to “cover more ground”, and end up being taken out by the killer one by one. It’s safe to assume they’ve never heard of the saying “there’s strength in numbers”.
15. Real people run like hell when some killer is chasing after them. Characters in horror movies tend to keep looking behind them while running at full speed and end up stumbling and falling, then eventually getting murdered in the process.
16. The killer lies prone after being shot by the protagonists, who then check out the killer's body, only to have the killer come back to life and jump on them. What's wrong with a few well-placed rounds in the head before approaching the body?
17. Scary messages scrawled in red on a mirror.
appropriated from this website
18. Minorities almost always never survive the movie
19. The corpse, or part of a corpse of a friend or a colleague always falls on the other surviving characters and scares them out of their wits.20. The killer always lives again, or at least shows some sign of life, at the end of the movie in preparation for yet another sequel.
Come on, you know you were moaning 'oh gawd, that's so true' while reading that. Hope you have a spooky halloween! And guys, do remember to:
Much credit for this post is due to Someecards.com, Listaholic.com and the random picture from Scootutopia
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