Thread: Suggestion: Most Annoying Horror Movie Cliche

Cars can never start at crucial times. The phones are always dead. Girls can do nothing but scream. The victims almost always split up purportedly to “cover more ground”, and end up being taken out by the killer one by one. No matter how fast you are the killer can just walk and catch you. People always trip over nothing. The victim always runs upstairs. The killer keeps all of his victims in one room or place and a friend/acquaintance of...

Oh yes, I just thought of another one. The victim who is startled by the same screeching cat sound effect recorded 80 years ago, breathes a sigh of relief, turns around,....YAHHHH!

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Two more come to mind, thanks to Behind the Mask (I think if I watched it again now, I'd think of several more): The killer keeps all of his victims in one room or place and a friend/acquaintance of the victims always stumbles in there. If the killer is actually stopped or killed, it's almost always by a woman or a child. That said, your list is absolutely fantastic. Being a nut for horror films, both B-grade and great, I'd...

Minor amendment: "Every won who had sex, smoked, drank or used drugs dies"(Horror Movies 101) More Cliches: Addition: Killer repeatedly stabs/shoots/whatever victim then redundantly throws them off a building An body of water(ranging from fountains to pools to lakes) produces some sort of mist allowing the killer to hide or victim to elude the killer Survivors who shoot killer, regardless of range, thier injuries and...

People always trip over nothing; that is what I can't stand. "No man is just a number"

Someone calls the police who come to investigate... and find nothing unusual around the place.

UPDATED Sun Sep 14 2008 00:35:57 Excellent suggestion, JDC! The only additional cliché I can think of is that any alien entity, recently crash landed via meteor or spaceship, is automatically discovered by the scuzziest tramp, or bum, in the vicinity. The "Harold Ramp" is then either killed, or infected in which case he'll then go off in search of the young couple, making out in the car nearby in the woods...and so it...

THE MUSIC!! It's so damn predictable and I can't stand it. It's always some held high note on a violin or something with a slow dreary melody, getting louder until "whoosh" there's a big rush and something happens. It's a cheap and trite way of building tension. ___ __ _ My blog about Russian animation: http://niffiwan.livejournal.com/

None of these is as annoying as the trend toward trying to reverse them. If a character is distracted, they are vulnerable. And what better distraction than having sex? It wasn't a political statement in Halloween, say the writers. "These snozberries taste like snozberries." - Super Troopers