Horror Cliches - 2

Also apart from donating my own opinions on the typical horror cliches, Today I found a list of alternative cliches which I though were also reasonable.Here are some of the best in my opinion.

1.

Everyone Is an Idiot

For a horror film to work, people have to make some pretty awful decisions. Splitting a group up seems especially stupid when dealing with a serial killer who picks people off individually, but horror film characters do it all the time. Inexplicably holding back valuable information when talking to people who might help you (as Ethan Hawke does with his box of snuff films in 'Sinister') offers another example of horror film idiocy. There a whole universe of horror stupidity. But if everyone did the smart thing, we'd have no more horror to watch.

2.

Bad Cell Reception

Along with cars that don't work, it's also very difficult to find reliable cellphone reception in a horror film. So if you need to talk to someone, you'd better have some carrier pigeons. It's probably for the best. As we see at the beginning of 'Jason Goes to Hell,' a massive posse of gun toting authority figures can ruin a serial killer's plans to silently murder people pretty quickly. So if future horror victims are allowed to run around (if they're not tied to chairs being blowtorched) the show can only go on if they're unable to communicate with the outside world.

3.

The Black Guy Always Dies

There's this fake horror cliche you always hear about where the black guy (or girl) always dies first. This does not appear to be true. The black guy does always die in horror films. Just not often at the beginning. They're usually third or fourth. The same goes for Asians. Or any race filmmakers throw in to make their cast of characters more ethnically diverse. This cliche, of course, does not apply to horror films made in other countries or horror films billed as taking place in "The Hood" ('Tales From the Hood,' 'Leprechaun in the Hood', James Cameron's upcoming 'Avatar in the Hood').

 4.

Women Can't Run Without Falling Down

Horror movies often pick one lady who gets to survive beyond the end of the film. Men have a much lower survival rate. The gender trade-off, though, is that horror films see women as athletically faulty idiots who cannot run across a field without falling over. Sometimes it's thanks to their high-heels. Sometimes they trip over a branch. But a lot of times gravity just seems to grab them and slam them down to Earth without provocation. It's pretty much the only way we can buy a sprinting young person being outrun by a lumbering, giant psycho killer, so get used to it.

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