DARQUE BIBLE: Horror really Horror!

DARQUE BIBLE: Horror really Horror!: "Something must be wrong with the horror movie makers! Either they think that their audiences are unintelligent or that they are so much in l..."

Horror really Horror!

Something must be wrong with the horror movie makers! Either they think that their audiences are unintelligent or that they are so much in love with the horror movie clichés that they want to repeat the typical scene again and again. Horror movies can be a tiresome thing and blindingly obvious.

Here comes the impeccably classic cliches...

1. The majority of the cast are teenagers and there are only few older folks for some unknown reasons. From Scream and Halloween to I Know What You Did Last Summer and Final Destination; all these movies are flooded with some idiotic teenagers who summon troubles all the time.

2. There is a noise in the unseen shadows, everyone cries not to go and investigate, but no, the actor doesn't listen or what normal people would do. Instead they go and try to find out the matter and eventually they get killed...phew our Sherlocks!

3. A character runs very fast away from the ghost or serial killer, while the bad guy is walking but still they seem to catch up to the victim or find some kind of short cut that is off camera.

4. The character (mostly a "she") finds a hiding spot. She hears the bad guy's footsteps going away. Silence follows and she breathes a sigh of relief. Then either...

a) she walks out of the hiding spot and BOOM, the bad guy is right there, or

b) she moves backwards towards something and BANG right into the killer.

5. There is always one bad guy in the group who are about to get sliced and quite often they always put the others in danger to try and save their own skin.

7. A black cat will suddenly drop out of nowhere on to a metal can (which is a good cliché now that I remember!) and give a great meow!

8. Whenever anyone is petrified, they turn silent but the ladies in the movie scream because of some dumb reason.

9. The hero always gets enough time to do the right thing. He kills the bad guy or creature or often it’s the bad guys who gives them a chance…amazing, isn’t it?

10. Depressing and abrupt ending is fast becoming a predictable thing that is good sometimes, but other times it just messes our head, when a film has a good ending like in Hostel, but then in Hostel Part 2, it was not just enough. Killers never die, the horror movie ends with a mysterious disappearance of the killer. If one sees this, one knows there is a second movie on the way. 

Phew...the list goes on and on...

Horror movies definitely have at least two of these cliches. They are so predictable, aren't they? and still the horror movie makers keep making the same stereotypes.