Years ago (around 12ish according to the time stamp) I remembered being recommended a video of people making smart decisions in horror movies. Was probably shared through BoingBoing or Cracked or some such. Something I watched a couple of times and enjoyed. One clip in particular, one poking fun at The Ring, especially stuck with me. Would drift back up in memory from time to time.
Alas, I had lost any links or bookmarks to get back to it.
Admittedly it’s an old and often tired trope. “Why so dumb in horror movie? Surely they can understand they are in a fictional universe and could just guess all the rules and it will work out ok even if it destroys the plot!”
Are you telling me if you got a million dollar home in inheritance you would throw it all away the first time your kid paints a strange picture and talks to a dark closet? Some ghosts you try and live with. Especially when jackass authors have saddled you with a million dollars of gambling debt and a divorce or some such.
It’s a story. There is no character an author can write that is so clever as to not be subjected to the evils the author visits upon them. And vice versa. At the same time. Entertainment is found in the balance.
STILL…when the joke is done well it is worth a hearty chuckle.
I am glad that Youtube just went “Oh, you want to watch this again?” out of nowhere, yesterday.
When his friend brags about having the cursed tape “which kills you in five days” (inflation apparently hitting hard in the post-Ringu economy) he takes the tape and smashes it. And it has cracked me up for some time because of the sheer degree he smashes it.
It’s like the scene in Office Space.
