My apology to all the horror movie victims on tv I screamed at before

[Dominus]

One of the most common horror movie tropes is the victims always try to run backward, stumble, and try to crawl backward slowly while screaming. I have always yelled at them to simply calm down, turn around, and run. Surely, anyone can outrun that fat guy holding the chainsaw or that monster looking thing.

Well, here is a video proving that people indeed try to run backward, stumble, crawl backward, etc. While being chased by something so slow.

Surely, anyone can outrun a seal, right? Apparently, even real life people don't know how to run when something slow was chasing them.

 

[EddMarkStarr]

My dad threw his shoe at the television because no one could simply run away from Boris Karloff as "The Mummy" from 1932.

 

[unloadonme]

You forgot the women who run away, fall and sprain their ankles, and then have to be carried by the men.

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

Not to forget the greatest instance of all, Shelley Duval's Wendy Torrance stopping to hug her kid in the snow while Jack is still coming after them with a hatchet.

 

[Peloso]

Not to forget the greatest instance of all, Shelley Duval's Wendy Torrance stopping to hug her kid in the snow while Jack is still coming after them with a hatchet.

Wasn't he already frozen when that happened?

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

Wasn't he already frozen when that happened?

Not yet, no. That's why everybody screams when Wendy stops and kneels down to hug the kid: he's still coming after them. Every fiber in every audience member's being is yelling RUN, YOU IDIOT! HUG HIM LATER!

 

[Peloso]

As I remember it, Jack is still stumbling around in the maze, having been left far behind by Danny. He also runs quite a distance to Wendy once he gets out. Plenty of time for them to escape since Jack is limping anyway.

Isn't that also when she pointedly throws the knife down into the snow?

 

[cabinfever]

Zombie movies (and TV shows) where the alive person starts melting down and screaming instead of getting the fuck out of there.

 

[Peloso]

Not yet, no. That's why everybody screams when Wendy stops and kneels down to hug the kid: he's still coming after them. Every fiber in every audience member's being is yelling RUN, YOU IDIOT! HUG HIM LATER!

Yes but look at Jack at that point (both before and after the hug) . . he can barely walk straight.

I like that move less and less every time I see it. Kubrick inverted so many horror movie tropes that I think he actually had contempt for the genre rather than a need to be clever. And that shot of the skeletons in the ballroom is one of my most hated shots in all of cinema. Even in 1980, skeletons hadn't been scary for at least a decade.

 

[EddMarkStarr]

"The Creeping Terror" from 1964.
It's a giant burlap bag and you can walk faster than it can move.

 

[pigface]

You forgot the women who run away, fall and sprain their ankles, and then have to be carried by the men.

They have to pause to put on a pair of high-heeled shoes before they run away.