Top 20 Smartest Decisions in Horror Movies

finally we're celebrating instead of shaking our heads in disbelief welcome to watchmojo.com Ovie's for this list we're examining those choices that helped characters in horror movies make it out alive or at least survive for a little while obviously a spoiler alert is now in effect number 20 drawing blood The Invisible Man stabbing yourself in the wrist doesn't seem like a great idea on the surface but when you've got an invisible foe you have to think outside the box knowing her tormentor wants her alive Cecilia stabs herself with a pin faking her own suicide to catch the invisible man's attention lo and behold he pops up right beside her close enough for Cecilia to get in some solid jabs at the suit the attack proves effective enough to get Cecilia out of the mental institution and all it took was drawing a little bit of blood number 19 staring at the corner Blair which when your Big Bad has its own legend it's best to use that to your advantage in this return to the found-footage legend of The Blair Witch our heroes made sure to do their homework first as James and Lisa arrived at the original Blair Witch house they find themselves at a considerable disadvantage against the vastly overpowering witch according to legend however she can only kill them if they look right at her so they stare at the corner to stay alive even using their camcorder to look around without getting killed although they're eventually outsmarted back at least they managed to temporarily outsmart her number 18 turning on the car lights lights out when you're dealing with the literal personification of fear of the dark there's not much you can do when it's nighttime Diana can only be seen in the dark and that's where her power comes from brett is thwarted and attacked at every turn in his attempts to escape the nightmare creature just before he bites the dust however he uses his phone as a light to ward Diana away only to be caught again outside this time however his car is parked in front of him and he activates the headlights with his keys quick thinking Brett number 17 using a pig The Texas Chainsaw Massacre good things come in small packages on her own against the chainsaw wielding Leatherface aaron has virtually no way to fight back so she runs into a nearby slaughterhouse to hide tucking herself away in a hall full of lockers Aaron covers her mouth and tries to remain silent but she also has a four-legged friend along to help murderer approaching Aaron desperately holds her breasts before Leatherface hears a noise and opens a locker distracted by the pig inside Leatherface doesn't even see Aaron until she comes down at him with a meat cleaver taking his arm and chainsaw off in one clever switcheroo number 16 burning the book as a distraction misery this time will be too much there's only so much you can do when you're immobilized and no one knows you've been kidnapped sure Paul's last attempt at escape isn't as elaborate as his previous ideas but it works trapped and forced to write a sequel to his captors favorite story Paul ends up burning it right after he's finished it destroying all the answers it had to any unanswered questions [Music] while Annie desperately tries to remedy this situation Paul uses the distraction to finally end the nightmare he's endured number fifteen setting fireworks a quiet place when the killer you're avoiding is hypersensitive to noise the last thing you want to be doing is giving birth after stepping on a nail on her way to the basement Evelyn's presence is exposed to the nearby creatures thankfully her husband Lee has a solution prepared for just this occasion with his son Marcus at the ready fireworks are ignited to create an auditory diversion masking Evelyn's cries as she gives birth to their new son while their troubles were far from over this clever solution saved almost the entire family and made for possibly the most thrilling moment of the entire movie number 14 setting a trap the final girls to be honest it would be pretty cool if we could be transported into our favorite movies wouldn't it well unless it's a horror movie and you could actually die trapped inside the silver screen Max and her friends must find a way to defeat their masked Terrorizer Billy they decide to set a trap for him making weapons luring him out and attacking him while it is a good plan involving flaming arrows and a bucket of gasoline a lot of friendlies died but at least we get the kick-ass self-referential slow-mo escape scene [Music] number thirteen using a hanger as a weapon Halloween surviving a horror movie means being able to turn anything into a weapon chased down by the menacing Michael Myers Laurie finds herself in the hardest babysitting job of her life having to protect herself and the children from the seemingly invincible lunatic thinking quickly she fashions a blade out of a coat hanger and stabs Myers in the eye injuring him long enough for him to get shot by dr. Loomis [Music] number 12 giving himself the chainsaw hand Evil Dead 2 when you've lost a limb there's no need to completely lose hope forced to chop off his own possessed hand ash makes the most out of the situation after all he still has to face off against the Deadites right when a demonic force is physically and psychologically destroying you you're gonna have to be a little unhinged yourself to fight back and sometimes that means sticking the stump of your own hand into a freaking chainsaw let's hope he doesn't get an itch number 11 using a pen to stab a hole in your throat saw five it's rare to call anyone smart for stabbing themselves in the neck but it might just save your life in a pinch hunting the jigsaw killer FBI agent Strahm stops one killer only to be caught by another finding himself in his own disturbing trap in the process waking up in one of the few unbeatable traps of the series Strom is seemingly doomed as the box encasing his head quickly fills with water already beating one jigsaw killer Strom uses the pen in his pocket to perform a tracheotomy on himself allowing him to breathe until he saved talk about thinking outside the box number 10 pass it on to a streetwalker it follows being stalked by a murderously malevolent presence that was passed to you through sexual intercourse has gotta suck what's even worse is that the only way to get rid of it is by siccing it on someone else again through sex however when it kills that person you're right back to square one because then it's gonna set its sights on you again so how do you buy yourself some time or help the demons progress altogether sleep with a prostitute which is exactly what one of the protagonists does problem solved as long as you don't think about how many people are dying in your place all you can do is pass it along somewhere else number nine the escape plan 10 Cloverfield Lane escaping a madman takes a lot more preparation than a spur of the moment idea realizing Howard will almost definitely kill her Michelle has to find a way out of this crazy bunker after discovering a second exit hatch while fixing their ventilator Michelle devises a plan to get out she gets the upper hand on Howard long enough to crawl through the vents and climb to the hatch using compressed air to freeze and shatter the lock Michelle Dawn's her makeshift hazmat suit and rises to the surface to see the outside world once again number eight putting on the sweater Friday the 13th part two done your job well mommy is pleased Norman Bates Freddy Krueger Jason Voorhees all the best horror movie villains have mommy issues however there are ways to use that to your advantage to beat the bad guy Ginny is being chased around Camp Crystal Lake by Jason as per huge when she finds herself an altar dedicated to his dead mother Ginny ingeniously decides to psychologically mess with the mask wearing killer by convincing him that she is mrs. Voorhees by donning her sweater persuading him to let his guard down for what she hopes is enough time for her to administer a killing blow thanks unfortunately he realizes it's just a ruse but he meets his end shortly thereafter anyway or does he number 7 shoot the bad guy in the head to make sure scream 2 time give me the gun the gang in The Scream series knows how to survive a horror movie even using internet calls as far back as the 90s to save themselves however one thing the group was particularly ignorant of the first time around was making sure the killers were even dead but in the sequel Sidney Prescott does not mess around consider it done after seemingly killing Mickey and mrs. Loomis Sidney and cotton take a breath before Mickey comes back getting immediately shot by Sidney and Gale learning her lesson Sidney shoots Loomis in the head just to be safe number six using everything to get the upper hand hush I think being completely deaf certainly isn't gonna do you any favors when you're being terrorized in your home by a crossbow wielding invader Maddy uses anything she can grab to defend herself and in her case doing so is her only chance at survival whether it's insecticide or corkscrews are using a specialized smoke alarm to deafen the assailant it all ultimately helps when she finally kills him as a writer Maddy is always reworking scenarios in her head luckily for her she found the one where the hero lives in the end number five setting up booby traps and waking up a Nightmare on Elm Street home-field advantage is can work two ways with her friends getting murdered around her Nancy decides she has to take the fight against Freddy Krueger into her own hands realizing she can bring him out of her dream Nancy booby traps her house and asks dawn to help her once she gets Freddy on her turf managing to pull him out Nancy gets Freddy into the real world and even lures him into her traps long enough to set him on fire not so easily defeated however Krueger of course returns number four pushing the system purge button the cabin in the woods this movie contains almost every horror movie cliche in the book and it's damn entertaining for that exact reason after Dana and Marty find themselves pinned down by a dozen armed and dangerous security forces there's only one thing left to do push the system purge button sure in retrospect it doesn't seem like a great alternative but it appears to work out okay for them the button releases all the captive monsters and boy did they have a great time tearing everyone to pieces giving Dana and Marty time to escape it begs the question though why does this button even exist in the first place number three scientific method the thing I'll show you what I already know the researchers in this claustrophobic horror classic are faced with quite the conundrum how do you find a monster that can look like your friends using their brains however the surviving members of the Arctic facility go about revealing the alien in the most rudimentary way possible a simple blood test is pure nonsense doesn't prove a thing knowing the creatures blood will try to protect itself our Jay McCready takes a sample of everyone's blood and heats it with a copper wire will do you last as he dips the wire in Palmer's blood the sample jumps from the dish and flees revealing the alien among them number 2 picking cotton out of the chair get out get out scrit achill reception was well deserved the film delves into issues of racism as well as themes typical to the horror genre while featuring a main character that is far from clueless in almost every regard right from the get-go chris has a strange feeling about the family he's staying with when your possible future mother-in-law is a hypnotist who wants to make you docile enough for a brain transplant there's only one thing you can do make sure you don't listen to her Chris literally picks cotton to keep himself alive by using his chair stuffing to block his ears and then breaks free to take his revenge in genius before we continue be sure to subscribe to our Channel and bring the bell to get notified about our latest videos you have the option to be notified for occasional videos or all of them if you're on your phone make sure you go into your settings and switch on notifications number one Danny stopping his snow footprint trail The Shining never doubt the resourcefulness of a kid at death's door running for his life from his deranged and homicidal father Danny heads for the hedge maze at the snowed in and very haunted Overlook Hotel knowing he can't outrun his father forever Danny realizes he has to throw his dad off the scent and ditches running for a better plan backtracking through his own steps and hiding his father reaches the end of his trail and proceeds to search aimlessly for him in the giant maze following his own prints out of the maze Danny runs into his mother's arms leaving dad to suffer in the cold [Music] do you agree with our picks check out this other recent clip from WatchMojo and be sure to subscribe and ring the bell to be notified about our latest videos [Music]

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Length: 14min 47sec (887 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 09 2020