
Halloween time calls for watching a ton of horror movies. There are so many thrillers, slashers, and psychologically scary films that make the spooky season that much more terrifying and fun. But we also find that the more we watch these films, the more we're convinced that we would definitely survive a horror movie if placed in the same position as some of these characters.
It's common for scary stories to have a lot of the same tropes. As such, when watching enough of these movies, it's easy to convince oneself that all of the characters are doing things wrong. Of course we wouldn't react to a murderer that way, or we would definitely go to the police in this type of situation. Who made all these horror characters so dumb?
Some of the most common horror movie tropes can be found in the slasher film genre. Popularized in the 1970s and '80s, many of the movies in this genre featured young high school kids making poor choices that quickly led to the end of their lives -- usually by knife attack. These movies often leave viewers wanting to shout at the screen about all the mistakes the characters are making that should be avoided to stay alive.
These kind of tropes also inspired Jesse Eisenberg's character's "rules" about surviving in Zombieland -- such as always double checking that a would-be killer is actually dead when they get attacked and being prepared to run if need be.
(Leave the heels at home if in a horror movie, ladies.)
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