Top 10 Dumbest Character Decisions in Horror Movies 

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Justin Long’s character in Barbarian measuring the creepiest basement to ever exist for square footage

Micheal Myers getting his ass beat by Busta Rhymes 💀

I’ve made it canon in my head that the necronamcon (idek how to spell it) basically tempts you into reading it so I don’t pull my hair out over it 😂

Mike in The Strangers shouldn't have died like that in the movie. He was a golden god who had yet to peak with his tools.

The Mayor choosing to not close the beach from the first Jaws is the dumbest character decision in the horror genre.

Tommy Jarvis killing and resurrecting Jason is a legendary dumb decision

If I remember Rose McGowan had to fake stuck being in the garage doggy door because she was able to fit in it easily lol

In actual fact Rose McGowan could fit through the doggy door but was shot to look like she couldn't.

"When Evil Lurks" should've just been called "Watch Pedro Make Things Worse" 😂😂😂 great movie, but Pedro was an idiot lol.

Laurie dropping the knife multiple times in the original Halloween is always frustrating, haha

#1 stupidest decision in a horror movie for me was in Halloween Kills, where any of the mob tries to kill Michael. First was in the hospital where they chase down that orderly even though he looks NOTHING like Michael at all but they refuse to realize that. Then, once they have bought down Michael at the end, they don’t even BOTHER trying to go for his head and shoot him in non fatal areas, and when they try to separate, Michael gets back up and kills them all.

I don't know if anything will ever top Helen in I Know What You Did Last Summer when she is about to escape but she stops & looks behind her giving the killer the time to kill her.

Going in the God damn tunnel in Jeepers Creepers or every Justin Long decision in every horror flick he's in!

Dewey going back to shoot the killer again in scream 5 wasnt a great idea lol

For me the dumbest decision in Jaws is that family continuing to live on the beach after multiple shark attacks. If you wanna be in the water that badly, just get a pool 🤣

I am a garage door tech. Let me tell you that scream kill with tatum COULD NEVER happen either. Adding weight to a door.. like her going thru the doggy door. Means you have to add more turns to the springs above and to do that would be without her in the door and it would create too much tension and the door would come flying up fast, going off the track breaking the door. They did a good job tho making it look like it worked. But no.. impossible for it to happen. P.S I hate that kill too. Bugs me alot tho as a garage door guy.

Cory Cunningham's last decision in Halloween Ends 🤦🏿‍♂️

1.The ring why watch the tape? 2.Jeepers creepers why go in the pipe? 3.jaws why didn’t they close the beach? 4.Why did she stop running in IKWYDLS? 5.Why pull a prank in an apocalypse? 6.why summon the entity?

1.Any character that uses a weapon once then throws it down. Like a bat or any blunt weapon. 2. When they hide from the killer and when the killer walks put of the room no matter how great the hiding spot is they leave it almost immediately after the killer walks out. At least wait like 30 minutes or something to make sure he is gone.. 3. When they knock the killer down they don't continue beating them with the weapon. Kinda like #1 they drop the weapon and rum.

Surprised Midsommar didn’t make the list, for the exact reasons as your number 1 is there. Every red flag in the book to leave, and they refuse.

Hey, Cody, speaking of Tatum Riley from Scream, I met Rose McGowan at the New Orleans fan expo 2 months in January, she was super nice, I got a photo op with her and I got an autograph picture of Tatum Riley from her. I told her that I was on the autism spectrum and Rose told me that she herself is on the Spectrum as well, Super cool. I asked her questions about her time on screen and the character of Tatum, she said that Tatum Riley was her favorite character in her film career and she enjoyed being on set And I asked her about the #10 white football jersey themed crop top Tatum wore, how that fans like to bring up it's a reference to Glenn from the original Nightmare on Elm Street but Rose McGowan told me that there was another meaning to the jersey, At the scene where Sidney was at home after school and she was talking to Tatum about staying at her place for a week until her dad got home and Tatum said she'll pick her up after practice, a lot of fans speculated that Tatum was at cheerleader practice, but Rose actually told me that Tatum wasn't on the cheerleading squad, she was on the football team, Rose told me that she herself isn't personally a football fan but the character of Tatum is that kind of girl that would do guy things to show female empowerment, and that Tatum was actually that one girl on the football team in Woodsboro High That's my experience meeting Rose McGowan 😊

Not so much dumb but rather, “this p**ses me off to no end” is the ending to Truth or Dare where the two final girls get on the main character’s RU-vid page, which has a few million subscribers, most of whom are most likely teenagers or little kids, and ask them Truth or Dare, basically tagging most of the world into their game, just so they can survive.

You're so right about Speak No Evil though. I thought the dad was the absolute worst , way more than the mom, and his pathetic mancrush on that guy doomed everybody

Laurie dropping the knife.

This is an awesome idea. Never stop making top tier content, Cody!

When I saw Prometheus in the theater someone said “go left” really loud in theater at the ship scene and everyone laughed 😂

Digging up Jason really deserves to be number 1 😂

The chick in the opening of Jaws triggers me WAY more than the mayor. Who the f*ck swims far out in the ocean in the middle of the night??

The HUSBAND and WIFE in "Speak No Evil" SUH-HUCKED. I yelled BOTH "GOOD" and "F*CK YOU" at the end. I hate. HATE both of them SO much!! (Kudos to those actors!! BTW!)

In the original Scream, during the garage kill, I love how Tatum delivers 2 full beer bottles to the face of Ghostface, no effect on him whatsoever. WTF? If 2 heavy full beer bottles hit the Terminator or even Michael Myers, I could excuse it, but not here because here it’s just teenage Billy in a costume!?!!

Lighting the candle in Hocus pocus movie 😂

Your review of Jaws got me. Talking about the mayor, still being the mayor. Smh...we've sent drones to Mars for goodness sakes, yet the smallest things are our Achilles heel. I truly believe that mankind will extinct itself, no super volcano or meteorite the size of texas, just good ol' human ingenuity.

Cody I’m gonna respectfully disagree with you on the garage kill bc in real life Rose managed to fit through that dog door in real life and they stapled her to the garage door if I remember correctly to make her stick to it. The door was locked, she couldn’t fight forever so it was a very desperate decision. The kill is creative when has a garage kill been used to kill someone before scream. One of the most stupidest decisions in horror which was a recent one was Jake believing chucky was actually good when everyone around him is telling him to kill that version of chucky. You should definitely make another video cause this was hilarious.

Cody:Dumbest horror decisions Me:The whole Friday the 13th franchise

I still wonder what that woman was thinking going that close to the car to try to shoot Micheal Myers only to shoot herself in the face accidentally in Halloween Kills

Wrong turn 4 when the girls didn’t want to kill the cannibals locked in the jail cell!! Pissed me off so much

Thank you for doing these videos - its been a really rough week and your witty repartee makes it a lot easier to handle things. Thank you

If I were Tatum, I'd try to stand and fight Ghostface as best I could. The frustrating thing is that she seemed to be doing okay against him until she tried to squeeze through that kitty-door. Ghostface was clumsy AF, so it's not inconceivable that she might have just kept pelting him with beers, and with numerous other objects that would probably be available to her, until he was incapacitated.

The one that trips over air and stays crawling🤣 doesn’t get back up

How about juno admitting to Sarah she slept with her husband in the middle of finding cannibal creatures 😂

Oh man did I SUFFER watching Speak No Evil. The most infuriating movie Ive ever watched, although very meaningful in some ways. Definitely the worst nightmare for actually aware parents

Holy crap, I forgot Glen Howerton was in The Strangers. I love Always Sunny.

Not only did Tommy Jarvis dig up Jason's body to torch it, but he did so during a thunderstorm. Like, dude... just wait a day or two until it clears up.

Paul from Cabin Fever poking the dead hermit in the reservoir only to fall in has to be one of the dumbest decisions I’ve seen.

the evil dead one gives me the quote "no harm ever came from reading a book" in my head every time

When I first watched Scream 1996 on Friday, September 13, 2013 at age 9, I saw Tatum's kill scene, and I said garage doors can't do that.

I love The Strangers, but your description was spot on and also hilarious.

Friday the 13th final chapter when Rob and Trish are going up the stairs in the basement. Jason grabs Trish's ankle, but gets away. They have a chance to run up the stairs to escape Jason but Rob decides to go downstairs to confront Jason only to be hacked to death without Rob putting any effort to fight back. "Run Trish! He's killing me! Run!!!"

Hellraiser would be near the top for me - just stay away from the damn box!!

This is my new favorite list you've done and I really hope you do sequels to it. The Strangers is one of my favorite horror movies of all time. But the thing that always bothered me the most was after they accidentally shoot his best friend, they leave and abandon their plan to hide in a corner with a shotgun and wait for the strangers to come. It was a perfect plan. Just because they killed his friend, doesn't mean it doesn't work. It was the best option and advantage they had and instead of continuing to do it and stay safe they walk out and make themselves vulnerable again. Always annoyed the crap out of me. And omg yes!! I completely agree with you with Jeepers Creepers. So stupid!

Speak No Evil was so effective for me cause it was the most effective example of characters almost being in the clear...but they make that one move, and it's like F***

Here are some decisions that I think could've made the list: - Putting your hands in the Razor Box Trap - Saw II (2005) - Not attempting to leave - Midsommar (2019) - Watching a video tape, even though you know that it is cursed - The Ring (2002) - Most of the decisions - The Zombie Diaries (2006) *

Definitely love this wouldnt mind another one and would love one on the best decisions/payoffs in movies

How about literally every decision made in the last 20 minutes of Pet Sematary Bloodlines? 🤣🤣🤣

Cant wait for part 2! Great vid

What about Wrong Turn 4 where the cast managed to lock the cannibals, but decide not to kill them? That actually pissed me off.

You're one of my favorite RU-vidrs. I always enjoy your content and going off on terrible movies. Please keep up the great work. 🤜🤛🤝😎

You nailed every note of that Backstreet song!! 🔥🔥🔥

Giving the first time a pass, Laurie throwing away the knife the second time (after thinking she had killed him earlier) and, doubling down, having the audacity to turn her back on MM (again, he had arose earlier after you thought you killed him) is frustrating (despite the film being an otherwise masterpiece)

great stuff cody, keep it coming

I really enjoy your content and movie reviews. Have a great day everybody!

I'd love to see you do a video on your top 10 (15, 20, 25, however many) movies with the best carnage candy!

Logic wise, it's silly but Rose could actually fit through the garage door lol.

I’m gonna throw in Pet Semetary. Louis saw what happened when Church came back but he went ahead and buried Gage. Then Louis saw what happened when Gage came back, so what does he do? He buries her anyway….yet again.

Damn I'm working on a slasher essay focusing on dumb character decisions for my English class, definently going to use this video for it now!

Really fun video a 2nd part would be great

Great video idea. We need more Cody 👏

Shoutout to the prometheus school of running away from things 😁

Top 1000. There's a lot to work with, especially with goofier B movies. Neat video, either way!

Hey Cody, love the channel! How about an aquatic horror ranking? or best shark movies. There are at least 35 movies.

I know Speak No evil is not a film for everyone, but I believe it’s intentional for the characters to act that way or do the stupid thing. They are spineless people and are pushovers. That first scene where bad guy asks if can have the chair is him basically testing him to see if they can be their next victims. The family are very innocent people and when faced with evil they don’t know how to react or deal with it and are too afraid to do anything. When they ask why the bad people are doing this they say cause you let me. also think the title of the film refers them not saying or speaking up enough for themselves. They don’t want to say anything bad or negative cause they are afraid. They won’t speak of evil. Also applies to the kids when their tongues are cut off and they can’t warn the next victims.

"no harm ever came from... reading a book"

The blood pressure thing in Dawn Of The Dead OG had to have been there just because Tom Savini thought it would be a cool death.

Im surprised the Saw 2 razor box trap didn’t make the list.

Cody I just had my first kid! Any advice? I see you mention your family a lot, and it makes me appreciate family centered men like you and would love to take any advice you could give.

We'll have to agree to disagree on Tatums death, I love that moment. Honestly, as much as I love Stus "death", it's a much sillier and unrealistic death. I'm with you on The Strangers though. I'm not sure why that movie gets so much love. It's just characters making bad decisions on top of bad decisions.

That cat door in Scream was just so iconic though 😆 BUT I feel like there was a better way outta that garage.

The human centipede: Lindsay escapes but goes back for her unconscious friend causing her to get kidnapped again. Friday the 13th: Mrs. Vorhees kills everyone with no speech or problem but gets to Alice and she gets a speech and then just getting slapped 😂 I know what you did last summer: helen is about to get away from the killer and looks back and pauses and gets caught House of the devil: mr. Ullman says to the babysitter that she cant have her friend over because he can't afford to pay her and her friend. She backs out and he offers to triple her pay and she doesnt question why he just said he couldn't afford to pay her friend but tripled her pay

Actually, Tatum may not have been so dumb trying to fit through the doggie door. Rose McGowan not only got through the door, she kept getting through so easily that her struggles to appear stuck looked fake. They had to staple (or glue or tape, I can’t remember) her clothes to the door so that her struggle looked genuine.

I just watched Creep 2, and that entire movie is just the main character making bad decision after bad decision; and it’s hilarious.

Good video. Wish it was 3 times as long. Thanks

I’d put Quint smashing his ship’s radio to pieces with a baseball bat as another dumb decision in Jaws. His pride and stubbornness killed any chance of them being able to call for help and rescue when the Orca was sinking. It might have even prevented Quint’s death from being eaten by the shark as well.

Id definitley travel through the zombies to save my dog

"The Strangers". There's 3 creepy kids with knives in our yard. I have a shotgun. I THINK I SEE A FUCKING WAY OUT OF THIS!!!!

I would love to see you do a full review of ‘Speak No Evil’!

I get your anger toward Speak No Evil, but that was the point of the movie. Dealing with awkward social situations, not handling them well. He tries harder near the end to get away.

For me, the dumbest decision a character made in a horror film is when one of the characters in The Blair Witch Project lost their map. That was super infuriating for me.

How did the blood pressure guy not get #1 🤣

The dawn of the dead 😂😂😂😂 I forgot about that blood pressure kill! Lmfao

There's only two moments, maybe adding up to almost three seconds, of The Strangers that's actually good. The friend getting shot is funny and "because you were home" is a great motive. That's it.

I don’t think Jaws is dumb. It’s a reflection of what our politicians actually care about.

I freaking love your content Cody, Keep it up ! Anyway a movie scene I like to shit on is from a movie actully like and that is during the ending of It Follows. Like what did you think was going to happend when you put a bunch of electronics next to a pool and then your friend goes in. Another is from Truth or Dare and it's where Lucas picks dare even tho truth is avaliable to him. Like you all are about to end it with the sceance !

The blood pressure machine was definitely inspired by some white powder haha

Number 2 is the same as the Sheriff from Halloween2018. “What are we gonna do? Cancel Halloween?” YES!!!!!!!!!!!

Cody your singing voice was a pleasant surprise!😮

Frank - Return of the living dead( Burt told him to stay away from those goddam tanks) Micha - Paranormal Activity ( whole movie , There's a scene when Katie's literally begging him to leave) Josh ,Mike & Heather - Blair Witch Project ( take your pick)

I have a friend that is so scared of demonic beings being summoned that she will not watch those movies in her house. She won't let her teen kids watch them either. She said that the movie might bring the demons to her house. She's 40 something and has never seen the Exorcist.

“You almost root for the strangers to take them out and put them out of my misery” 😂 Classic

The craziest thing about the Tatum kill is Rose McGowan could actually fit through the doggie door so they had to make it seem like she didn’t 😭😭😭