Stupidest Horror Movie Characters
Submitted by jenhowel on Tue, 02/20/2001 - 09:18
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- 1. The chick in "Suspiria" who jumps out an open window without looking at what's on the other side rather than attack someone who's on the other side of a door with one of the blunt objects available.
- 2. Jaime Lee Curtis in "Halloween". All I have to say is, do you have to leave the knife RIGHT next to Michael Myers? At least drop it a few feet away!
- 3. "Sally" and "Suzy" in "Phantasm". Don't remember them? No big surprise. They have no wills and are pathetic against the killer jawas.
- 4. That stock character in all horror movies who refuses to believe in whatever menace is at hand despite overwhelming evidence. Represented perhaps the best by the mayor in "Jaws".
- 5. Drew Barrymore in "Scream" and all who followed her in not fucking CALLING THE POLICE right away!
- 6. Pretty much the whole cast of "Dawn of the Dead" for at least the first half of the movie. I mean, come on! The zombies move painfully slow and the humans have ammo at all times. All you have to do is keep a watch out for them, and you're fine. But, no, somehow they can't even manage that. It irks me. Can you tell?
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Nothing irks me more in a horror movie than a stupid stupid character. In many cases stupidity will kill the entire scare factor of the movie, since it allows me to disengage from the characters by saying, "Well I wouldn't have done that."
LEATHERFACE FROM TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE!!! Totally lame!
As "Evil Dead 2" is more a spoof of cheesy horror flicks than anything else, it was probably intentional that Ash's actions didn't make any sense.
"Why does he go back to the cabin for?" Which part of the movie are you talking about?
Well, in Evil Dead, he goes to a cabin with his girlfriend and friends, and is the only one to make it out alive.
So in the beginning of "Evil Dead II" he goes back? What sense does that make? That's alright though, I'll forgive him, since this movie doesn't owe its value to logic. And at least it's a guy being dumb for a change.
He doesn't go back. The beginning events of Evil Dead 2 are overlapping with the events in the first Evil Dead. But Sam had to refilm some stuff because the production company for the first film wouldn't give him the film to include in the 2nd movie. I think everything at the beginning of Evil Dead 2 up until he is dragged through the woods and wakes up the next day is from the first film.