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The Life and Mind of DamnBlackHeart
This is to help me stay actively writing. So expect to see rants, tips on writing, thoughts on subjects, me complaining of boredom, reviews, anime, movies, video games, conventions, tv shows and whatever life throws at me.
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If you're one of those people that spend most of their life watching slasher films, you tend to notice a lot of things. One of those things is the cliches, especially with the characters and their actions.
1. Parents. For some reason they never understand or believe their kids. It doesn't even matter if the children are acting crazy or odd. They either refuse to care, ignore it or they blame it on the kids doing drugs. If not they figured they are having nightmares and are mixing it up with reality or it's the lack of sleep. Whatever it is, they'll make any excuse for their strange behavior and when they do believe them it's usually too late. In real life, when kids are acting very odd it concerns the parents greatly. They would've kept a close watch on them and try to figure out what the cause of it is. But in most horror films it never gives much of a reason as to why the parents choose not to believe their kid other than they want attention or are on drugs. Even if it seems very weird that they don't believe their kid...for example they're a honor roll student, never gets into trouble and is trustworthy/honest...but once they tell them there is a killer on the loose? No...according to the parents they're lying for some stupid reason that makes sense to them.
2. Groups. It's always a group, containing at least six or ten members. In these groups it's always, always seems to consist of stereotypes, different genders and races. Maybe not all but usually the different genders and stereotypes. And when one or two members go missing they decide to spilt up to find them without a means of communicating or a meeting spot. Or if they know they're dead they still fall into a trap by being lured by the bad guy which results in them being split up instead of all going to check it out together.
3. Fake death. There's always that one scene near the ending where the bad guy seems to finally meet his end. But he's not finished, he somehow overcomes his doom moment for a surprise attack only for the character to react just in time to REALLY finish him off. It's not much of a surprise when the audiences are suspecting that...after all, he's the bad guy. He can't be finished off that quickly, especially for all the crap he did and put the surviving character(s) through.
4. Investigate. Honesty, who in their right mind would go to their basement unarm (or even armed with a baseball bat) because they heard something? Maybe a few people would but come on...when the lights suddenly go out and they're in the middle of no where surround by trees? Majority of people would've locked their basement door and locked themselves in their bedroom with their phone or cell phone calling 911. Better to be safe than sorry I say. There's also those that despite having electricity still running, they don't bother turning on the lights when they walk around the house. If they did they could have noticed the muddy shoe prints on the floor or carpet alerting them to an intruder.
5.Low signal. If the power is out, so are the phone lines. Last source of help is a cell phone but usually when one uses it, it happens to have a low signal or the battery died out right at that moment. Fate must really hate them. When this happens the next step is to get the hell out of the house and get to the car. Once in the car they either forgot the keys in which they need to go back and get it or they manage to get it but the car is having some trouble starting. They must have done something to pissed Fate off.
6. Run. There's always a chase scene and the character makes a quick choice. Either run to the car, to the house or to the dark forest. Where do they run to? The dark forest...hmmm how does a forest give a person an advantage? None, really.
7. Hot and Smart. Interesting enough, when the heroine has showed nothing but stupidity as a stereotypical cheerleader with no brains throughout the entire movie. She magically becomes smart and clever to build a weapon or a trap to get the bad guy. Maybe it has to do with being the only survivor and realizing she needs to do it herself because no one is going to save her? Either way, something smells fishy with how this happen.
8. Sex. It's an unspoken rule that every slasher and/or monster movie must have sex it in. An added bonus is that those that do the nasty are usually the soon to be victims.
9. Answer me! If one of the character is alone and they see or hear a figure and they don't respond, why would you keep walking deeper into the woods following them? You're only walking into your own death trap. I really doubt friends that have been missing for a while would go that far to not answer back and keep moving away from you. Or even if they are lying in bed looking like they're sleeping or rocking in a chair and appeared to be resting. Either way, if they haven't responded to their name by the first time, even if you scream it, haul a** out of there!
10. The wind. There's always that scene with two teens about to get it on. But they're interrupted by a sound. The girl asks, "What's that?". The guy ignore it, using the excuse, "that's just the wind" only for them to get killed. Of course, it seems to be a common theme that if one is having sex or about to do it will end up dead.
11. The crazy one. They're the ones that the town's people called the crazy guy (sometimes they're a hermit or an antisocial and labeled as the weirdoes). They warn the soon to be victims to not do something or not to go somewhere. But they're always ignored. Majority of the time they are always right and knows exactly what they're talking about.
12. Just leave, you fools! Sometimes some survivors have a legitimate chance to pack up while they're still alive and get the hell out of there. More times than not, though, they develop this personal grudge and decide to stay and kill it/him instead. I don't know about you, but if I just saw 10 or more people savagely killed, I'd give the baddie his/its due and get the hell outta there alive. Besides, local law enforcement can handle the situation, it IS their job.
13. Serial killers never run. Instead they walk slowly to create tension. Yet, they manage to capture their running victims as they trip, run into dead-ends and locked doors, can't start their cars, or just because the killer seems to literally teleport out of no where.
14. The black guy. Or any minority seem to always die. This has become a standard since the advent of the slasher in the late 70s.
15. Creepy music. Sometimes the music gives away the surprise. Really. If it suddenly starts to get darker and suspenseful at a certain part then it starts to become oblivious that something will happen whether it's the killer appearing or they got scared from a cat, popping out of no where.
 DamnBlackHeart · Wed Feb 23, 2011 @ 06:59am · 0 Comments |
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