Annoying clichés in Horror

[Christmas Lights]

What tropes do you find annoying and tiresome in Horror movies ?.

Characters splitting up is the worst one for me , it's the most nonsensical stupid thing to do when a killer is chasing you :facepalm: . Surely strength in numbers.

[Smithy]

Running upstairs

[bots]

going into the cellar with a flickering light

[Christmas Lights]

Running upstairs

Oh crap I forgot that one

[Ammi]

…hearing the creepy noise/voice or etc and walking straight toward it instead of running the other way and out of the house…also splitting up from a group so you’re completely isolated and obviously will be the target…


…and don’t get out of your car at night on an isolated country road…just stay in the car and drive on…if you think that you’ve hit something then find a crowded place and phone the police…

[Christmas Lights]

…hearing the creepy noise/voice or etc and walking straight toward it instead of running the other way and out of the house…also splitting up from a group so you’re completely isolated and obviously will be the target…


…and don’t get out of your car at night on an isolated country road…just stay in the car and drive on…if you think that you’ve hit something then find a crowded place and phone the police…


Very true !!
I always roll my eyes when people run towards danger instead of away from it .

[Ammi]

…and if the townsfolk warn you not to buy the house or holiday in the house or the taxi driver won’t even drive to the door and says I’ll drop you off here at the end of the long lane…then don’t buy or stay in the house…

[Ammi]

…don’t get in the shower either…

[Nicky91]

stereotypes in characters

[Amy Jade]

• not finishing off the downed killer.

• hitting the killer and dropping the weapon you had.

• Open car windows in creepy places

• the 'bitch' dying.

[ChristmasNeeve]

going into the cellar with a flickering light

Yes! Why would you? If I heard a noise from the basement (If I had one), I'd be bolting that mother****er shut and getting out of the house :laugh:

[Christmas Dynasnow]

If you are looking in a mirror door in the bathroom, do NOT open it slightly so the angle of reflection changes

[ChristmasNeeve]

If you are looking in a mirror door in the bathroom, do NOT open it slightly so the angle of reflection changes

I literally never look in the bathroom mirror at night time :skull:

[Christmas Lights]

I literally never look in the bathroom mirror at night time :skull:

Yeah I was just thinking about the monster / ghost in the mirror :joker: . Funny thing is you know it's going to happen when the character looks in the mirror.

[ChristmasNeeve]

Yeah I was just thinking about the monster / ghost in the mirror :joker: . Funny thing is you know it's going to happen when the character looks in the mirror.

Yeah someone standing right behind them and then they turn around and no ones there :laugh:

[Christmas Dynasnow]

specially for neem :hee:

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[DouglasS]

Dropping door/car keys/losing items they need to escape

[ChristmasNeeve]

specially for neem :hee:

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I'm not watching that :oh:

[Christmas Dynasnow]

I'm not watching that :oh:

thats what my eldest just said (she hates spiders) :joker:

[Kazanne]

People screaming and running off into God knows where, running in daft shoes.

[Time to Sleigh]

Yeah the running upstairs is what I don't get. Get out of the house!

[Tom4784]

I generally hate the bath mirror cliche.

Running upstairs

Unless they're using the perk, Balanced Landing, then it's smart :thumbs:

[Father Chris Mouse]

Weak 'dumb' women/girls. I mean i kinda get it, the killer gets to most teens in the end, men and women, but it just feels like back in the 80's and 90's it was all about tits and ass (i mean it probably was). Most slasher movies from back then are quite forgettable for a reason i guess. Im not against them though, i'd still take 80's and 90's horror over anything modern.

A Nightmare Elm Street was a superb exception with the wonderful and intelligent Nancy, probably my favourite horror film of all time.

[Christmas Dynasnow]

fumbling with keys in locks as the feverishly glance over their shoulder

[Good King Glennceslas]

Walking around a house in the dark instead of putting a ****ing light on

[Marsh.]

Walking around a house in the dark instead of putting a ****ing light on

Which leads to mine... the power cut.

[Christmas Dynasnow]

how about the girl is running away and constantly looking over her shoulder (as that is the fastest way to run for your life) and inevitably she falls over

:rolleyes:

[Marsh.]

Or when she's running away, looks back and the guy chasing her has vanished, then she looks back and he's suddenly in front of her.

[Christmas Dynasnow]

Or when she's running away, looks back and the guy chasing her has vanished, then she looks back and he's suddenly in front of her.

:joker:

[FaLaLaLand]

Neighbours being completely and utterly oblivious to everything if the setting is a normal house on a normal street for example (Halloween).

I can’t fart without fear of my neighbours hearing never mind trying to fend off a masked serial killer! :joker: