What horror flim cliche are you sick of?

I hate when they put scary music before something bad happens. It would be more scary if it happened all of a sudden.

All of them. Honestly, I don’t even like horror movies unless they are really cheesy. They have never scared me, the plot is never good (in my opinion), and they are all too predictable. Now, when they are comical or just absurd, that is entertaining for me. Then I appreciate all of the cliches I can get.

The stereotypes. There’s always some dumb blonde chick with big boobs, the token black guy who says stuff like “oh shit” and “fuck”, the tall, pretty, viriginal heroine and the totally platonic best friend who is either considered the wiseguy or perhaps the nerd. And somewhere along the way they always end up bumpin’ uglies because what would a horror flick be without tits and sex?

The electricity always goes out.

The killer never dies the first time and these idiots always think he’s dead rather than stabbing or shooting the fuck out of him just to be sure.

Being scared by the shoulder grab, or closing the bathroom mirror and finding someone standing there or turning around and bumping into someone. Just lame, cheesy scare tactics that for some reason always still work on me. XD

Most of the so-called action takes place in the dark and you can’t see a thing. Why not just do radio with the sounds?

I’m sick of the “enter a dark room, look around, see nothing, sigh, start to leave, then BAM!” cliche.

REALLY sick of zombies and teens in jeopardy.

Girl looks mirror and sees reflection.

Looks down into sink, camera follows.

Looks back in mirror and the monster/killer/slasher is in the mirror.

Or….

Girl opens medicine cabinet to take antidepressants/antipsychotic medication.

Girl closes cabinet and monster pops up in mirror.

Also, 35 year old actors and actresses playing highschool kids.

@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard—Then this video was made for you then. Enjoy.

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My list includes:

-Main character saying, “What’s the worst that could happen?”

-Supporting female character will eventually run naked outdoors.

-The obvious killer tells the oblivious friends, “I am not the killer.”

-Any character within the first 7 minutes, “It could be any one of us.”

-Person answers the phone to nothing, but dead air – but will continue to say ‘Hello?’ for the next 16 minutes. Allowing the killer enough time to get inside the house unnoticed & possibly make themselves a hearty lunch.

-When a light doesn’t turn on the first time, maybe flicking the light switch another 48 times will make it work.

-An unimportant object falls to a loud crash & shatters across the floor. Just for the sake of having a sudden noise & action with no purpose.

-The sympathetic boyfriend is the killer & saves the beautiful girl for last.

-The dumbest character lands at least one blow on the killer. Whether they throw a high heeled shoe or awkwardly swing a fire poker at the killers spine.

I could do this all night, so I’ll stop here.

Whats horrifying for me in general movie cliche is the proverbial puke scene.

Any and all graphic puking should be eliminated. lol

When a woman living alone hears a strange noise at night. She feels compelled to go & check it out! Like, Call the cops meathead!

@ucme

LOL…so true!

@Coloma I know I would & i’m supposed to be the butch macho guy…..yeah right :¬)

@ucme

Well I am a woman that lives alone and I am pretty courageous when it comes to investigating things that go ‘bump’ in the night, but, this is because the only things that go bump in my night are renegade raccoon bandits in the kitchen or coyotes howling or neigh-bors stomping around the hill off of my bedroom.

No axe wielding raccoons, yet. lol

@Coloma Yeah we spoke in the past about this. I will say again, sounds to me like i’d be terrified living there…...total wimp that I am! :¬(

I’m sick if the entire “teenagers on their own, being irresponsible.” thing. It gives the rest of teenagers in movies a bad name :/

Torture porn.

I hate it when a woman hears a noise upstairs and goes to investigate, or she’s being chased by an assailant and runs up the steps. Bad things happen when you go upstairs!

@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard I agree with you about older actresses playing teenagers. As I understand it, studios recruit twenty and thirty-somethings because of child labor laws that would limit a minor actor’s work schedule. But it still presents an unrealistic image of what teens should look like. As a teenager, I remember watching movies and TV shows and wondering, “Why don’t I look like any of the high schoolers I see on TV?” Only later did I realize that said “high schoolers” had long since graduated college in real life!