Horror Movie Stupid

[Colleen Thomas]

Have you ever watched a horror movie and thought to yourself how unrealistic it is? I mean the girl is hiding from Chester the molester with a 4 inch kitchen knife. She's hiding in a room where you can see a chain saw, axe, various lengths of wood and other improviseable weapons?

Or the girl who hears the strange noise outside and goes to investigate, in her night gown, barefoot?

One of my friends has installed a new sound pack so whenever she logs in or out of Aol there is a plaintive scream. I didn't know, heard it, and rushed outside to see what was going on. Standing there in the dark in my tigger nightie, barefeet and shivering it occured to me I was horror movie stupid. Maybe next time I won't be so Katty when the girl wanders out into the forest looking for the noise she heard

Anyone else ever do something horror movie stupid?

-Colly

 

[Lucifer_Carroll]

Horror movie stupid is merely another word for scared or autonomous response. We react, without thinking. When scared or worried that someone is in danger, we won't think of tactics, getting people to help you, or even arming yourself in case the danger is more than you can deal with with your fists or the first thing you grabbed. We do this, because we believe that stopping to do these things robs time from either getting away or getting there. We don't think about whether we'll be able to do anything when we get there or when we collapse from exhaustion.




And yes, I've done things like that. I've heard screams and rush out, unarmed, shirtless towards the danger even though it would take little time to a) put on a shirt and b) grab and attach the functioning assassain's knife that sitting no less than 5 feet from my bed and threatens just by existing.

On the other hand, I'd hate to get there too late with one of my Iron Maiden tour shirts on and an assassain's dagger in hand when the police showed up. Such coincidences are kind of hard to explain away even if there is no blood on the dagger.

So, it's probably a good thing, I'm horror movie stupid at those moments.

Especially considering what I usually do find is a giggling and drunk boyfriend and girlfriend tickling or fondling each other. Looking like a serial killer would probably make the embarrassment much more pronounced.

On the other hand, I knew someone who really injured himself doing chivalric but stupid hero on a rapist.

It's all about the circumstance, I guess...

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Horror movie stupid is merely another word for scared or autonomous response. We react, without thinking. When scared or worried that someone is in danger, we won't think of tactics, getting people to help you, or even arming yourself in case the danger is more than you can deal with with your fists or the first thing you grabbed. We do this, because we believe that stopping to do these things robs time from either getting away or getting there. We don't think about whether we'll be able to do anything when we get there or when we collapse from exhaustion.




And yes, I've done things like that. I've heard screams and rush out, unarmed, shirtless towards the danger even though it would take little time to a) put on a shirt and b) grab and attach the functioning assassain's knife that sitting no less than 5 feet from my bed and threatens just by existing.

On the other hand, I'd hate to get there too late with one of my Iron Maiden tour shirts on and an assassain's dagger in hand when the police showed up. Such coincidences are kind of hard to explain away even if there is no blood on the dagger.

So, it's probably a good thing, I'm horror movie stupid at those moments.

Especially considering what I usually do find is a giggling and drunk boyfriend and girlfriend tickling or fondling each other. Looking like a serial killer would probably make the embarrassment much more pronounced.

On the other hand, I knew someone who really injured himself doing chivalric but stupid hero on a rapist.

It's all about the circumstance, I guess...

I had a nice long laugh at myself as I came back in the house. I'm the worlds worst about pointing out the rediculousness of people in horror movies. For all my badmouthing, the joke is on me.

 

[R. Richard]

I had a nice long laugh at myself as I came back in the house. I'm the worlds worst about pointing out the rediculousness of people in horror movies. For all my badmouthing, the joke is on me.

Colleen:
Some years ago I lived in a very bad neighborhood. A man down the block had to travel out of town for a couple of weeks on work. There had been a prowler and he left his wife with a shotgun, a pistol and a couple of long, nasty knives spotted in stategic spots about the house.

The prowler tried to break in. He was taken to the hospital with a couple of nasty depressed skull fractures. Said skull fractures were inflicted with a horror movie stupid stiletto heel wielded with all the desperate strength of a terrified woman.

Just because it is stupid doesn't mean it won't work!

 

[EmeraldKitten]

I was 14.. a friend was over, and we were home alone.

At that point, the upstairs of the house wasnt finished, and we always kept the top door shut. I don't remember why, but I went to the foot of the stairs, and the door was ajar.

Horror Movie Stupid move #1. I went to investigate.
At the top of the steps, I pushed the door open a little wider, and saw a beam of light. At the time, I thought it was a flashlight.

I ran down the stairs, told my friend to grab the phone. I picked up the dog, and told her we needed to call 911, trying to explain what I saw.

Horror Movie Stupid move #2. We ran into the master bedroom, shut and locked the door. Then, on into the master bathroom, shutting and locking the door. This left us in a small room, with an octagon shaped window about 12 inches across.

My friend called 911, and the dispatcher told us to get out of the house. I think that would be stupid move #3, simply because we couldnt see what was past the doors, and had no idea where the 'intruder' was.

So, following the dispatchers orders, we ran from the house in our pajamas, in barefeet, across an icy snowy driveway and yard, to my neighbors. We sat there until the cops got there.

In the middle of the sheriff cars getting there, and jumping out, leaving their doors open- my mom pulls in. Once she gets in the house, one of the officers ask her who was missing from the house. She said, "My daughter, her friend, and my dog." LOL. (Yes, I took the damn dog with me.)

I don't know how the upstairs door got opened, but the beam of light I saw was actually coming from the aforementioned neighbors flood light.
There was no one in the house, and I think the cops were pissed, thinking we were playing a trick.
Sometimes I still get freaked out thinking about it, lol.


Colly, I know exactly what you mean.
At least you didn't call the cops, LOL.
Now, I don't know what we would have done if someone had slashed the phone lines.

 

[LadyJeanne]

Late one night I sat in the living room with my cat on my lap and my roommate asleep in the bedroom. Our garage was directly below the living room - I swear I heard footsteps on the concrete, I did!

Stupid horror movie moment #1: Picking up kitty and running, loudly, across the living room to wake my roommate, who was dazed, confused, and freaked out. Potential psycho downstairs would have heard every step and known exactly where I was in the house.

Stupid horror movie moment #2: Standing at the top of the stairs leading to the garage with my roommate and kitty, whispering about whether we had the nerve to unlock the door and go down there, golf club in hand to investigate. Psycho probably heard every word and was laughing at how easy it was going to be to hack us up into little pieces.

Stupid horror movie transforms into comic farce #1: We decided not to go down there, but were too scared to stay in the house. We thought about calling the police, but didn't want to get them out there in the middle of the night for some footsteps. Instead, we ran outside in our pajamas, with kitty, and down the street to the fire station on the corner, thinking they might be willing to walk over and investigate.

Comic farce moment #2: All the guys at the firehouse were asleep except for one, and he couldn't leave his post to check out the house. So he called the cops and then made us some tea while we watched TV and chatted about how often the fire fighters go out for actual fires compared to how often they go out for other stuff.

You know how this ends - cops arrive, there is no one in the garage and no sign of where a psycho might have entered, and one more crazy woman with a cat on their police log for the night.

 

[Carl East]

I've never done anything like that, but could someone please explain to me how when there's a group of teenagers in any horror film you watch. When they're being butchered they're always alone, I mean even when they know there's a murderer about, they split up? lol

Carl

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Thanks Kitten and Lady, I don't feel quite so silly es

 

[ABSTRUSE]

I've watched way too many horror movies to not be prepared.

Like when you think the killer/monster is dead, don't slump down and drop your weapon....get the fuck out of there, you know they always jump back up.

Look into your backseat before you get in the (dark) car, the 7ft guy with the machete' should be noticeable.

Underage sex is going to get you killed.

Anything that was once an ancient whomever burial ground, is not a place to build on or vacation at.

Clowns have the potential for evil.

If your friend starts talking strange and their eyes glow....RUN AWAY!!!

When being chased, never look back, you will fall down and be killed.

Just my observations.

 

[Angeline]

Horror movie stupid is merely another word for scared or autonomous response. We react, without thinking. When scared or worried that someone is in danger, we won't think of tactics, getting people to help you, or even arming yourself in case the danger is more than you can deal with with your fists or the first thing you grabbed. We do this, because we believe that stopping to do these things robs time from either getting away or getting there. We don't think about whether we'll be able to do anything when we get there or when we collapse from exhaustion.




And yes, I've done things like that. I've heard screams and rush out, unarmed, shirtless towards the danger even though it would take little time to a) put on a shirt and b) grab and attach the functioning assassain's knife that sitting no less than 5 feet from my bed and threatens just by existing.

On the other hand, I'd hate to get there too late with one of my Iron Maiden tour shirts on and an assassain's dagger in hand when the police showed up. Such coincidences are kind of hard to explain away even if there is no blood on the dagger.

So, it's probably a good thing, I'm horror movie stupid at those moments.

Especially considering what I usually do find is a giggling and drunk boyfriend and girlfriend tickling or fondling each other. Looking like a serial killer would probably make the embarrassment much more pronounced.

On the other hand, I knew someone who really injured himself doing chivalric but stupid hero on a rapist.

It's all about the circumstance, I guess...

I laughed my way through Night of the Living Dead when I saw it. My friends thought that was something of a horror, but the whole thing seemed preposterous to me, and I couldn't help but imagine what they did with the props to make them erm palatable.

 

[LadyJeanne]

I've watched way too many horror movies to not be prepared.

Like when you think the killer/monster is dead, don't slump down and drop your weapon....get the fuck out of there, you know they always jump back up.

Look into your backseat before you get in the (dark) car, the 7ft guy with the machete' should be noticeable.

Underage sex is going to get you killed.

Anything that was once an ancient whomever burial ground, is not a place to build on or vacation at.

Clowns have the potential for evil.

If your friend starts talking strange and their eyes glow....RUN AWAY!!!

When being chased, never look back, you will fall down and be killed.

Just my observations.

If you've run the bad guy over with your car, do it again and again and again, and then get the hell out of there!

 

[cheerful_deviant]

Standing there in the dark in my tigger nightie

A Tigger nightie? Do you have Piglet panties to?

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Re: Re: Horror Movie Stupid

A Tigger nightie? Do you have Piglet panties to?

Eyore, actually

 

[Guest]

Clowns have the potential for evil.


Just my observations.

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-9/822586/scaryc06.jpg

i concur.

a bad idea:
slashing at sister whilst she showers with a butcher knife. yeah, its good for laughs now but... yannow...she was rather pissed at the moment...
go figah

 

[ABSTRUSE]

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-9/822586/scaryc06.jpg

i concur.

a bad idea:
slashing at sister whilst she showers with a butcher knife. yeah, its good for laughs now but... yannow...she was rather pissed at the moment...
go figah

Kids will be kids.

 

[cheerful_deviant]

Re: Re: Re: Horror Movie Stupid

Eyore, actually

Damn, I was gonna say Eyore!

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Horror Movie Stupid

Damn, I was gonna say Eyore!

Eyore, Tigger, and Pooh. I passed on piglet Rabbit & owl, then the company discontinued the line

 

[cheerful_deviant]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Horror Movie Stupid

Eyore, Tigger, and Pooh. I passed on piglet Rabbit & owl, then the company discontinued the line

Good choice passing on Rabbit, I never liked him. And Owl just seems wrong on woman panties.

But Piglet? I love Piglet.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

It wasn't until the 4th film that Jamie Lee Curtis realized that in order to stop Jason from coming back AGAIN, she had to cut his freakin' head off.

I'd have done it in the first movie!

 

[sweetnpetite]

The only thing I can think of is that I had a guy come wandering in my house when I was in the basement, I yelled up that he had the wrong house (they all look the same) but he wouldn't leave so I grabbed the phone, ran under the stairs and called the operator *instead* of 9-1-1. (The opperator called 9-1-1 for me)

But when I was a kid, we didn't have 9-1-1 and we were always told to call zero in case of emergency.

(Luckily the guy was drunk and thought I was *upstairs* instead of downstairs!

 

[Colleen Thomas]

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Good choice passing on Rabbit, I never liked him. And Owl just seems wrong on woman panties.

But Piglet? I love Piglet.

LOL<

you should see them, high thigh satins, defintely not for your average fan

 

[matriarch]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Horror Movie Stupid

LOL<

you should see them, high thigh satins, defintely not for your average fan

If that's an open invitation, I'm checking the flight schedules as we speak.

Ah-hah. There's a flight from Heathrow to JFK at 8.30 tomorrow morning (3.30 your time), I could be with you by........(quick calculation).... lunchtime local time. Be waiting, babe.

I have a distinct appetite for eyeore with my lunch

;

 

[EmeraldKitten]

LOL.
I just had this flashback, lol. Abs, when ya said underage sex will get ya killed.. LOL.

We were watching this horror movie marathon a few years ago.. and I do believe Billy Bob Thorton was the 'host', and after each one, he'd have some sarcastic asshole comment, which was totally amusing.
But what the flashback was- after one movie, he said, "So kids, the moral of the story is: "Get nookie, get dead"..' LMFAO.

I am rollin here. I dont know why that is so funny, hehe.

Must be the alcohol.