We’re all too familiar with dumb and absurd decisions characters are prone to making in
horror movies, whether running up the stairs instead of out the front door, or not shooting
the almost dead killer while they had the chance, horror films can often be infuriating
to watch.
However, once in a while we encounter a genius move by from one of the characters that leaves
us applauding their creative tactics.
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Now that’s out of the way, let’s jump into our list of the Top 5 Smartest Decisions
in Horror Movies.
And side note, there will be spoilers.
5 Using A Pen To Breathe - Saw 5 Now, this is a genius decision made by a horror
movie character, but I HAD to put it at number 5 cos Saw.
I’m sorry, but the first Saw is the only one I am willing to give credit to, and perhaps
a few moments in the second, but that’s it.
Talk about kicking a dead horse!
Anyway, I digress, in Saw 5 we’re faced with a new foe, an apprentice to Jigsaw who
at this point is already dead, but his work lives on.
FBI Agent Peter Strahm is forced to huntdown Jigsaw’s protege, which turns out to be
a fellow cop Lieutenant Mark Hoffman.
That bastard.
Strahm gets caught in an unbeatable trap, a box encases his head and begins to fill
up with water, dooming the FBI agent.
However, this guy is a quick thinker, whipping out a pen and piercing his own neck, and performing
a tracheotomy on himself allowing him to breathe until help arrives.
What a genius.
4 Using A Pig - Texas Chainsaw Massacre An upstanding remake of a class horror masterpiece,
the 2003 Texas Chainsaw Massacre shows us what a true final girl looks like.
In this remake we follow a group of young teens driving cross country as they encounter
a helpless hitchhiker.
After picking her up, things immediately descended into mayhem for the group as the hitchhikers
shoots herself in the head, and the group then stumble across the residence of the chainsaw
wielding Leatherface.
In an epic showdown between Erin and Leatherface, she is forced to hide in the Blair Meat Co,
aka, Leatherface’s stomping ground.
Knowing she can’t outrun the deranged killer she’s forced to get creative.
Erin hides in a locker, as Leatherface opens each one trying to hunt her down, however,
he gets distracted by a nose from a nearby locker, opening it, we find a four legged
pig friend.
A genius diversion by Erin, as she storms out of the locker with a cleaver, cutting
off Leatherface’s arm and the chainsaw he’s holding.
3 Setting Up Traps - A Nightmare on Elm Street Now this one’s a classic.
As we all know, A Nightmare on Elm Street follows the dream hunter Freddy Krueger, as
he infiltrates the minds of a group of teens as they sleep, and slays them with his knife
hands in a brutal fashion, which in turn kills them in reality.
However, our protagonist wasn’t for this, and decided to take her fate into her own
hands.
After realizing she can pulls things out of her dream, aka, Krueger’s hat.
She sets up elaborate traps around her home, and a system to wake her up in order to pull
the midnight mangler out of her dream.
And that she does.
In an epic showdown, Nancy faces off against Freddy, pulling him into reality, and eventually
setting him on fire.
However, Krueger does of course return in the final moments of the film, making us question
whether Freddy can really ever be defeated, or if he will forever haunt our dreams.
2 Literally Everything Erin Does in You’re Next
I have been waiting SO long to talk about this film on camera, and my chance has finally
come!
You’re Next is a 2011 slasher film that follows The Davisons, an upper class family
that come together to celebrate their parents wedding anniversary in order to mend their
broken family ties.
But things don’t go according to plan.
During the family dinner a crossbow-wielding assailant attacks, forcing the family to band
together in order to survive.
However, the real twist comes when we learn our leading lady Erin, played by Sharni Vinson,
has seem Liam Neeson meets John Wick style skills and goes about taking down the assailants
in a brutal manor.
From a blender to kill and a knife in the head, Erin doesn’t even hesitate when she’s
slaying her attackers and setting up traps around the mansion to fool them, including
the classic, nail on a plank of wood.
She’s the ultimate final girl, and literally everything she does in this film is iconic.
If you haven’t watched it, you should go do that now.
1 Danny - The Shining After becoming a caretakers at an isolated
hotel in Colorado, Jack begins to unravel the mysterious surrounding the mysterious
place while his mind betrays him, turning him into a homicidal maniac, hunting down
his family in order to slay them just as the previous caretaker had done.
Now, in the epic showdown between Jack and his family, y’know, right after he goes
“Here’s Johnny” on their ass, Danny slides out of the window, being forced to
leave his mother behind.
He hides amongst the snow, until his father begins hunting him down.
Danny runs towards the hotels hedge maze, hoping to lose his deranged amongst the twists
and turns, and that he does!
Danny quickly realizes that he’s unable to outrun his dad so he backtracks through
his own steps and hiding amongst the hedges in order to throw Jack off his scent.
Jack continues searching aimlessly, eventually succumbing to the cold and freezing in the
deep depths of the winding maze.
Danny then follows his footsteps out and is reunited with his mother.
God bless!
Well there we have it!
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