# Help me list the worst Horror Movie Cliches. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 31, 2006, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-list-the-worst-horror-movie-cliches/366769 "2006-07-31T20:50:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Arrimus\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f08c70/32.png) [@Arrimus\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrimus_2)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-list-the-worst-horror-movie-cliches/366769/41 "2006-08-01T19:00:21Z")
_rustle, rustle_ “Billy, is that you?” _rustle_ “Billy?” _rustle, rustle, thump_ “C’mon, Billy. This isn’t funny!” _peripheral glimpse_ _PANIC_ _wild-eyed_ “BILLY?!” _runs off wildly_ _TACKLED_ _gasp_ _sudden realization_ Wha? It is Billy! _incredulous_ “Billy!?” _Billy smiles_ “Hey, baby…” _playful flirting_ _stunned at insensitvity_ “Biiiiiilly! Ga-awwd!” _stomps off_ _utterly confused_ “Come awwn, baby! Don’t be that way…” _roll eyes_ “Women!” _scene ends_ ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-list-the-worst-horror-movie-cliches/366769/42 "2006-08-02T00:57:07Z")
[QUOTE=Hampshire] The scene where our hero is in the bathroom in front of the sink looking in the mirror on the medicine cabinet. They open the medicine cabinet to get something. Then when they close it they see **REFLECTION OF BAD GUY/GHOST** standing right behind them!! [/QUOTE] > [@Max Torque](#): > > What’s really ridiculous is, this cliche persists in this age of electronic fuel injection and computer-controlled ignition. Sigh. No, what’s really ridiculous is that no one read post #13. Bad luck? ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-list-the-worst-horror-movie-cliches/366769/43 "2006-08-02T01:46:41Z")
Bedsheets only come up the navel on the man, but go up to just below her neck on the woman. If a man & woman are in bed the man is under the sheet, but the woman is on top of the sheet yet under the blanket. She get’s up using the blanket to preserve her modesty and the sheet stays to preserve the man’s. ---
**Author:** ![Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilvert_s_Pagan)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-list-the-worst-horror-movie-cliches/366769/44 "2006-08-02T01:49:22Z")
[Frank Zappa Discusses Cheesy Movies](http://www.cupandblade.com/cheepnis/mst/fzoncheep.htm) : this lnk goes to a page listing Zappa’s Preamble to his song Cheepnis. This includes the female ankle twisting noted by **AskNott** above. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-list-the-worst-horror-movie-cliches/366769/45 "2006-08-02T02:17:51Z")
Sex is Bad. Whomever has sex, will die. Basements are scary. No good ever came out of a basement. No matter what time of year, there will be a bare-branched tree casting shadows into the protaganist’s bedroom. A very long kitchen knife will be sitting out on the otherwise bare countertop of an immaculate kitchen when the heroine walks downstairs in her underwear looking for a weapon. The dial tone of a telephone will immediately buzz when the call is disconnected. There is no lag time of silence first. (Actually, this is a every-movie thing, not limited to horror.) I once began to form a theory that the killer was the fifth character introduced. It holds true for quite a surprising number of movies, but of course I can’t remember any of them right now. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-list-the-worst-horror-movie-cliches/366769/46 "2006-08-02T22:10:00Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] Sex is Bad. Whomever has sex, will die. Basements are scary. No good ever came out of a basement. [/QUOTE] I take it then that going down into the basement to have sex isn’t a good idea. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-list-the-worst-horror-movie-cliches/366769/47 "2006-08-02T23:48:24Z")
The music during the dramatic chase scene never includes any accordions or polka themes. And instead of Carmina Burana, how about Beethoven’s Ode to Joy once for a change? ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-list-the-worst-horror-movie-cliches/366769/48 "2006-08-03T01:58:16Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] The authorities will always vastly underestimate the severity of a threat and will react to it in a manner guaranteed to fail. [/QUOTE] That’s because the mayor, the sheriff and the police chief are ALWAYS the first ones the aliens possess. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-list-the-worst-horror-movie-cliches/366769.md?page=2)