Are Horror Movie Characters Doomed by Bad Writing or Their Own Panic?

[Moridin]

Are they just not that bright to begin with, or is their panic making them loose all sense of rationality so they cannot spot the easiest things? I honestly can't tell.

 

[BryanP]

Well I'm not sure how rational you can get if you had a guy wearing a hockey mask wielding a chainsaw walking towards you to kill you.

But yeah, would I don't think horror movies would be interesting if there weren't dummies for the killer to play with.

 

[Moridin]

I was watching Saw II and the protagonist enters room where he is given another challenge where he is suppose to rescue a man from a silo that was beginning to be filled with chopped pig. But the protagonist just stands there and waits for no apparent reason instead of running to get the key.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_traps_in_the_Saw_film_series#Pig_vat

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

It's the bad writing monster. It will attack just about any film but seems to have a preference for horror movies and porno.

 

[BryanP]

Yep. Bad writers.

 

[WarPhalange]

It's the bad writing monster. It will attack just about any film but seems to have a preference for horror movies and porno.

Don't forget sci fi.