6 Greatest Horror film follies

What you can always expect from a horror film in the Modern age



1) Fall of the Blacks

There is no question that Hollywood screenwriting spend little time dispensing of minorities in horror films. This has been apparent since horror film first introduced blacks into the syndicate of horror production. The prime example for this can be seen in the film [Scream 2] where within the first 5 minutes, both Jada Pinkett and Omar Epps were done away with, along with Elise Neal later in the film. In fact, of the 5 black actors who appeared in the Scream series, 4 were murdered, with only one surviving due to his wisdom to flee till the killings were over.

2) The Trip

Why does it always occur? Why must it always occur? Victims running and the killer in hot pursuit, one can almost bet their life saving that someone will trip, fall and be decapitated. Only a hand full of horror film since the early 90's are innocent of this criminal repetition.

3) The Split

Again comes what occurs just before someone trips and falls over their own feet; the group of 4-6 decides to split up and find a way out of whatever labryinth that they are trapped in. This inevitably leads to a killer knocking them off while they are vunerable, which then plays into....

4) The Sole Survivor

Usually the innocent, emancipated, white actress who is a crowd favorite, or one introduced early in the film as someone of especial character which the cinephile of horror gains a instinct that she will literally be invincible throughout the film. She always seems to escape death, eludes the killer who never misses his victims (besides her) or finds a way to kill him, even if he cannot be killed but stopped long enough to set up the following film.

5) The Pledge

This is the idea given to the crowd to venture on what is knowingly a suicide mission, or trip, or adventure. Take the film [Chernobyl Diaries], in which the older brother offers the idea of going to the desolate city of Chernobyl, destroyed by a nuclear reaction, knowingly causing the ones who escaped birth defects. Who doesn't love an adventure but to roam around in a city with little radiation at all is not the greatest idea in a world or people much too educated on cancer.

6) The Borrow

"Hey, that was a great idea, let's borrow that from a film and alter it into our own." One doesn't have to mention "The Lazarus Effect" too much but it has to be done if only to explain. Partial "Lucy," partial "Flatliners;" in fact, if those ideas borrowed from those films were chromosomes, then "The Lazarus Effect" took on too many and developed Down's Syndrome. A stern warning, if you have the idea to make a horror film, rely on originality, not what has already been made.