Halloween advice

[sinanju]

There's a comment thread on wicked_wish's livejournal about rules for surviving Halloween/your typical horror movie. My contribution: "Run, don't hide. Run OUT. Run AWAY. Do not run upstairs, unless you're in the basement. Do not run downstairs, unless you're above the ground floor. DO NOT HIDE. Hiding never works, and this is one game of hide-n-seek you do NOT want to lose."

Also, if you ever--by some miracle of luck or clean living--get the initiative, never, ever let up! Say you're grappling with the monster and you flail around in utter despair...and you hit in the head with an axe or a baseball bat, or you catch it a good one in the chest with a shotgun round.

Don't run. Chop/hit/shoot it again. And again and again and again. Remove the head. Dismember it. Kill it very, very thoroughly. (And, frankly, if it gets up after you've decapitated and dismembered it, just shoot yourself and get it over with.)

Comments

[fallenpegasus]

"When I am a slasher movie victim".

I see a Great Need. I should be kept on the "When I Am The Evil Overlord" website.

[coffeeinhell.livejournal.com]

That's always been the most egregious thing to me in slasher movies -- the person running away from the monster/slasher (usualy a nubile girl-person) gets in one good smack with a hatchet or a sledge, knocks the guy down ... then drops the weapon and runs away.

Jesus, this fellow just slaughtered half your friends! Keep hitting him until his head's a mass of mushy pulp, fer gawd's sake. Make sure he's not getting back up!

Sheesh.

[sinanju.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I have this vision of a movie. It starts as a classic horror/slasher flick. Then the Psycho Killer runs into the wrong crowd, who quickly turn the tables on him, and it winds up with the Psycho Killer fleeing for his life from the crowd of bloodthirsty would-be victims who are tired of this shit and intend to make sure he never sees another Halloween.

[coffeeinhell.livejournal.com]

Heh. Before he took on the LOTR franchise, Peter Jackson had pitched a Nightmare on Elm Street script to New Line in which the teenagers, who've finally figured out that Freddy's not a threat if they're not scared of him, are going to sleep on purpose just so they can fuck with Freddy in their dreams.

New Line didn't bite and he went on to make his little hobbit movies ... but I would have loved to have seen his Nightmare movie.

[dhole.livejournal.com]

My plan is to try and change the genre on the slasher type. Move from a slasher movie to a kung-fu movie. Because the thing about the horror movie bad guys is that they tend to move rather slowly. And tend to be more repetetive than skilled with their weapon of choice.

Because, seriously, though I'm far from an actually dangerous person, if someone's mode of attack is lumbering toward me in a menacing manner, I could mess him up pretty good.