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[–] [email protected] 144 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I absolutely hated the latest Halloween movie because of that. Oh a rural American town has a serial killer problem? Let's go out with baseball bats and hockey sticks. Motherfucker people go out with automatic rifles when an unknown car does a U turn using their driveway.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'd like to see a horror film where the the generic killer navigates a small town that's had its locals form into a militia under homegrown martial law, and the killer actually thrives in the paranoia that comes from it.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Oh shit, that sounds pretty cool actually

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

There's something of a character and chapter like that in Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson. It's a good book otherwise, too.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be fair, Michael Myers is supposed to be at least slightly inhuman. Same with Jason Vorhees or Freddy Kruger.

Ghostface is literally just a dude.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well yeah but then they should explore that. I don't want to see a couple hillbillies try to beat Myers to death using baseball bats and kitchen knives only for him to slash them all.

! what's even stupider is when they get him down and one of the main characters stabs him in the shoulder when one of the townfolks tells her to go take care of her daughter. Like it would take the same amount of time to stab him in the face.!<

I'm fine with inhuman as long as everyone else acts like they have half a brain. That's why that movie is rated like shit.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

This trope (the baddie is down, let's run away) has frustrated the heck out of me for as long as I can remember. If I was facing a murderous loon and I had successfully taken them down, I would be making sure they don't get back up again. That would be reasonable force against someone trying to kill you, surely.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And yet, The Shape would be undeterred

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Shame we haven't seen The Shape in a while.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

automatic

I fucking wish lmao