Don't go in there!

For my second theme week: Most annoying movie character behaviors. Everyone hates the idiots in horror movies that randomly end up killed or raped after ignoring a barrage of obvious signs that they probably shouldn't. It's the worst kind of cliché, but the plot demands everyone behave like a complete idiot. This also extends to nobody believing in the killer except for one person, the incompetent police force and the almost archetypical way everyone that has sex is instantly murdered. Of course it's been spoofed extensively, but that doesn't seem to stop anyone from clinging to it, as the standard horror format. Even the classier version, driven insane by knowledge of a conspiracy/underlying secret of the universe/family drama is becoming kind of grating. The last horror movie I saw, Drag me to Hell, was a great return to the kind of plot we deserve, horror morality tales. It still has random disbelief and naivité, but at least there's a great, realistic motivation.