Top 20 Most Annoying Horror Movie Clichés
Sure, clichés are a staple in movies. But of all the movie genres, horror movies are the undisputed cliché champs. Maybe it’s just a simple lack of creativity or just plain laziness to do something new on the part of the writers and directors, but these clichés have just appeared in one too many horror flicks that watching one has become even more excruciating than taking in some of the most boring movies of all time.
1. Instead of rushing out the door, victims run upstairs and effectively trap themselves inside the house with the killer.
2. The victims could all be track stars, and the killer will somehow still catch up with them without so much as a brisk walk.
3. Strange noises/glow/movements outside the house? Trust the victim to investigate all by herself the source of the commotion in her nighties or underwear.
4. The door is always stuck when a protagonist is fleeing the killer. And then, just when the killer is a foot away and has raised his hatchet/machete to strike, the door opens and the supposed victim narrowly escapes.
5. Women who are being chased almost always fall down, then wait until the killer is almost on top of them before getting up and running again.
6. The hot girl, especially one who has displayed big breasts in an earlier sex scene, always gets killed first
7. “Stay here”, so the hero wannabe tells his girl as he tries to look for and take down the killer by his lonesome. Then it’s either he or the girl he left behind gets chopped to pieces.
8. Since when did the sound of children singing become scary?
9. Cars always break down, no matter how brand new or well-oiled it is. And similar to no. 4, the engine comes to life at the last second and the protagonists make their escape.
10. No grown-up ever believes the frightened kids, until it’s too late.
11. Ominous sound and music, character gets really spooked and a cat suddenly jumps into the frame.
12. Usually, a female character is alone in a certain place, scared shitless knowing there’s a killer on the loose, then somebody, who turns out to be a friend or a boyfriend, just grabs her shoulder from out of nowhere and almost gives her a heart attack.
13. One minute only the victim is reflected in a mirror, usually one on a medicine cabinet, and the killer’s reflection is suddenly there when the victim closes the cabinet.
14. The victims almost always split up purportedly to “cover more ground”, and end up being taken out by the killer one by one. It’s safe to assume they’ve never heard of the saying “there’s strength in numbers”.
15. Real people run like hell when some killer is chasing after them. Characters in horror movies tend to keep looking behind them while running at full speed and end up stumbling and falling, then eventually getting murdered in the process.
16. The killer lies prone after being shot by the protagonists, who then check out the killer's body, only to have the killer come back to life and jump on them. What's wrong with a few well-placed rounds in the head before approaching the body?
17. Scary messages scrawled in red on a mirror.
18. Minorities almost always never survive the movie
19. The corpse, or part of a corpse of a friend or a colleague always falls on the other surviving characters and scares them out of their wits.
20. The killer always lives again, or at least shows some sign of life, at the end of the movie in preparation for yet another sequel.
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What about this: Children are running from the object of horror with the adults. Then they ALWAYS fall down and then just scream “Mommy!” while flailing around like a fish out of water on the ground until an adult comes and helps them up.
how about the killer always wears a mask or something to hide his face?
it is always a knife or some sort of blade, why not a gun? the victims are usually alone with no one to hear them screaming anyway.
the victim open the door when he or she is expecting something to jump out while creepy music is playing, usually nothing ever happens.
when the victim sees some freakish monster that just appear so sudden out of nowhere, its all a dream.
sharks love to eat people
all ghost exists because they have unfinished business.
vampires wear sunglasses and always have extremely pale white skin, yet no one in the crowd seem to notice
only the girl or the little boy can run fast enough to evade the zombies or the madman chasing them with a blade
the military men always get killed
teens are a psycho killer’s favorite target
Its also really annoying when the person is alone in the house and they hear a sound and then they say “hello?” “is anyone there?”. the killer is not going to walk out and say oh Hi im here.
Women screaming and running away: because there is no such thing as a chick with PMS, a bad hair day, broke a nail and hates men….