it takes brains to beat a monster
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top ten
smartest decisions made by horror movie
characters looking for more scares be
sure to check out read only the debut
edition of WatchMojo publishing fiction
quarterly for this list we’re honoring
those rare times when horror movie
characters break with the dumb
stereotype and do something smart to
survive we’re basing our picks on a mix
of resourcefulness the genius of their
ideas and how well it works out given
the final fights involved in our list a
major spoiler alert is now in effect
number ten staring at the corner layer
which when your Big Bad has its own
legend it’s best to use that to your
advantage in his return to the
found-footage legend of the Blair Witch
our heroes made sure to do their
homework first as James and Lisa arrived
at the original Blair Witch house they
find themselves at a considerable
disadvantage against the vastly
overpowering witch
according to legend however she can only
kill them if they look right at her
so they stare at the corner to stay
alive even using their camcorder to look
around without getting killed although
they’re eventually outsmarted back at
least they managed to temporarily
outsmart her number nine using a pig The
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
good things come in small packages on
our own against the chainsaw wielding
Leatherface aaron has virtually no way
to fight back so she runs into a nearby
slaughterhouse to hide tucking herself
away in a hall full of lockers Aaron
covers her mouth and tries to remain
silent but she also has a four-legged
friend along to help murderer
approaching Aaron desperately holds her
breath before Leatherface hears a noise
and opens a locker distracted by the pig
inside
Leatherface doesn’t even see Aaron until
she comes down at him with a meat
cleaver taking his arm and chainsaw off
in one clever switcheroo
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number eight almost everything Aaron
does your next under estimating your
enemy is one of the easiest ways for
your plan to fail after being invited by
her boyfriend to a family reunion Aaron
is caught in the middle of a murder
spree when the family starts getting
killed off by masked intruders the wild
card however is that Aaron’s survivalist
training means she holds her own against
the murderers even setting up traps to
stop them making use of anything to get
an edge including using a blender and
camera to kill someone
Aaron appears to have been born for the
genre thinking through every encounter
clearly and able to deliver brutal blows
without hesitating number seven
using a hanger as a weapon Halloween he
had killed the boogie man surviving a
horror movie means being able to turn
anything into a weapon chased down by
the menacing Michael Myers Laurie finds
herself in the hardest babysitting job
of her life
having to protect herself and the
children from the seemingly invincible
lunatic thinking quickly she fashions a
blade out of a coat hanger and stabs
Myers in the eye injuring him long
enough for him to get shot by dr. Loomis
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turns out Laurie had such a good head on
her shoulders but she finally relieved
Michael of the head on his shoulders
many sequels later to keep him from
coming back again
number 6 using a pen to stab a hole in
your throat saw five it’s rare to call
anyone smart for stabbing themselves in
the neck but it might just save your
life in a pinch
hunting the jigsaw killer FBI agent
Strahm stops one killer only to be
caught by another finding himself in his
own disturbing trap in the process
waking up in one of the few unbeatable
traps of the series Strom is seemingly
doomed as the box encasing his head
quickly fills with water already beating
one jigsaw killer Strom uses the pen in
his pocket to perform a tracheotomy on
himself allowing him to breathe until he
saved talk about thinking outside the
box
he didn’t make nobody man number 5 the
escape plan 10 Cloverfield Lane snow why
is the food escaping a madman takes a
lot more preparation than a spur of the
moment idea realizing Howard will almost
definitely kill her Michelle has to find
a way out of this crazy bunker after
discovering a second exit hatch while
fixing their ventilator
Michelle devises a plan to get out she
gets the upper hand on Howard long
enough to crawl through the vents and
climb to the hatch using compressed air
to freeze and shatter the lock
Michelle Dawn’s her makeshift hazmat
suit and rises to the surface to see the
outside world once again
number four shoot the bad guy in the
head to make sure scream – give me the
gun the gang in the scream series knows
how to survive a horror movie even using
internet calls as far back as the 90s to
save themselves however one thing the
group was particularly ignorant of the
first time around was making sure the
killers were even dead but in the sequel
Sidney Prescott does not mess around she
did I don’t know
now he’s come back after seemingly
killing Mickey and mrs. Lummis Sidney
and cotton take a breath before Mickey
comes back getting immediately shot by
Sidney and Gale learning her lesson
Sidney shoots Loomis in the head just to
be safe just in case number three
setting up booby traps and waking up a
Nightmare on Elm Street home-field
advantage is can work two ways with her
friends getting murdered around her
Nancy decides she has to take the fight
against Freddy Krueger into her own
hands realizing she can bring him out of
her dream nancy booby traps her house
and asks dawn to help her once she gets
Freddy on her turf managing to pull him
out Nancy gets Freddy into the real
world and even lures him into her traps
long enough to set him on fire not so
easily defeated however Krueger of
course returns number two scientific
method the thing I’ll show you what I
already know the researchers in this
claustrophobic horror classic are faced
with quite the conundrum how do you find
a monster that can look like your
friends using their brains however the
surviving members of the arctic facility
go about revealing the alien in the most
rudimentary way possible a simple blood
test this is pure nonsense doesn’t prove
a thing knowing the creatures blood will
try to protect itself
RJ McCready takes a sample of everyone’s
blood and heats it with a copper wire
will do you last
as he gets the wire in Palmer’s blood
the sample jumps from the dish and flees
revealing the alien among them before we
get to our top pick here are some
honorable mentions Paul you can’t why
not I learn it from you number one Danny
stopping his snow footprint trail The
Shining
[Music]
never doubt the resourcefulness of a kid
at death’s door running for his life
from his deranged and homicidal father
Danny heads for the hedge maze at the
Snowden and very haunted Overlook Hotel
knowing he can’t outrun his father
forever
Danny realizes he has to throw his dad
off the scent and ditches running for a
better plan backtracking through his own
steps and hiding his father reaches the
end of his trail and proceeds to search
aimlessly for him in the giant maze
following his own prints out of the maze
Danny runs into his mother’s arms
leaving dad to suffer in the cold
[Music]
do you agree with our picks check out
these other great clips from watch mojo
and subscribe for new videos every day
[Music]
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top ten
smartest decisions made by horror movie
characters looking for more scares be
sure to check out read only the debut
edition of WatchMojo publishing fiction
quarterly for this list we’re honoring
those rare times when horror movie
characters break with the dumb
stereotype and do something smart to
survive we’re basing our picks on a mix
of resourcefulness the genius of their
ideas and how well it works out given
the final fights involved in our list a
major spoiler alert is now in effect
number ten staring at the corner layer
which when your Big Bad has its own
legend it’s best to use that to your
advantage in his return to the
found-footage legend of the Blair Witch
our heroes made sure to do their
homework first as James and Lisa arrived
at the original Blair Witch house they
find themselves at a considerable
disadvantage against the vastly
overpowering witch
according to legend however she can only
kill them if they look right at her
so they stare at the corner to stay
alive even using their camcorder to look
around without getting killed although
they’re eventually outsmarted back at
least they managed to temporarily
outsmart her number nine using a pig The
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
good things come in small packages on
our own against the chainsaw wielding
Leatherface aaron has virtually no way
to fight back so she runs into a nearby
slaughterhouse to hide tucking herself
away in a hall full of lockers Aaron
covers her mouth and tries to remain
silent but she also has a four-legged
friend along to help murderer
approaching Aaron desperately holds her
breath before Leatherface hears a noise
and opens a locker distracted by the pig
inside
Leatherface doesn’t even see Aaron until
she comes down at him with a meat
cleaver taking his arm and chainsaw off
in one clever switcheroo
[Music]
number eight almost everything Aaron
does your next under estimating your
enemy is one of the easiest ways for
your plan to fail after being invited by
her boyfriend to a family reunion Aaron
is caught in the middle of a murder
spree when the family starts getting
killed off by masked intruders the wild
card however is that Aaron’s survivalist
training means she holds her own against
the murderers even setting up traps to
stop them making use of anything to get
an edge including using a blender and
camera to kill someone
Aaron appears to have been born for the
genre thinking through every encounter
clearly and able to deliver brutal blows
without hesitating number seven
using a hanger as a weapon Halloween he
had killed the boogie man surviving a
horror movie means being able to turn
anything into a weapon chased down by
the menacing Michael Myers Laurie finds
herself in the hardest babysitting job
of her life
having to protect herself and the
children from the seemingly invincible
lunatic thinking quickly she fashions a
blade out of a coat hanger and stabs
Myers in the eye injuring him long
enough for him to get shot by dr. Loomis
[Music]
turns out Laurie had such a good head on
her shoulders but she finally relieved
Michael of the head on his shoulders
many sequels later to keep him from
coming back again
number 6 using a pen to stab a hole in
your throat saw five it’s rare to call
anyone smart for stabbing themselves in
the neck but it might just save your
life in a pinch
hunting the jigsaw killer FBI agent
Strahm stops one killer only to be
caught by another finding himself in his
own disturbing trap in the process
waking up in one of the few unbeatable
traps of the series Strom is seemingly
doomed as the box encasing his head
quickly fills with water already beating
one jigsaw killer Strom uses the pen in
his pocket to perform a tracheotomy on
himself allowing him to breathe until he
saved talk about thinking outside the
box
he didn’t make nobody man number 5 the
escape plan 10 Cloverfield Lane snow why
is the food escaping a madman takes a
lot more preparation than a spur of the
moment idea realizing Howard will almost
definitely kill her Michelle has to find
a way out of this crazy bunker after
discovering a second exit hatch while
fixing their ventilator
Michelle devises a plan to get out she
gets the upper hand on Howard long
enough to crawl through the vents and
climb to the hatch using compressed air
to freeze and shatter the lock
Michelle Dawn’s her makeshift hazmat
suit and rises to the surface to see the
outside world once again
number four shoot the bad guy in the
head to make sure scream – give me the
gun the gang in the scream series knows
how to survive a horror movie even using
internet calls as far back as the 90s to
save themselves however one thing the
group was particularly ignorant of the
first time around was making sure the
killers were even dead but in the sequel
Sidney Prescott does not mess around she
did I don’t know
now he’s come back after seemingly
killing Mickey and mrs. Lummis Sidney
and cotton take a breath before Mickey
comes back getting immediately shot by
Sidney and Gale learning her lesson
Sidney shoots Loomis in the head just to
be safe just in case number three
setting up booby traps and waking up a
Nightmare on Elm Street home-field
advantage is can work two ways with her
friends getting murdered around her
Nancy decides she has to take the fight
against Freddy Krueger into her own
hands realizing she can bring him out of
her dream nancy booby traps her house
and asks dawn to help her once she gets
Freddy on her turf managing to pull him
out Nancy gets Freddy into the real
world and even lures him into her traps
long enough to set him on fire not so
easily defeated however Krueger of
course returns number two scientific
method the thing I’ll show you what I
already know the researchers in this
claustrophobic horror classic are faced
with quite the conundrum how do you find
a monster that can look like your
friends using their brains however the
surviving members of the arctic facility
go about revealing the alien in the most
rudimentary way possible a simple blood
test this is pure nonsense doesn’t prove
a thing knowing the creatures blood will
try to protect itself
RJ McCready takes a sample of everyone’s
blood and heats it with a copper wire
will do you last
as he gets the wire in Palmer’s blood
the sample jumps from the dish and flees
revealing the alien among them before we
get to our top pick here are some
honorable mentions Paul you can’t why
not I learn it from you number one Danny
stopping his snow footprint trail The
Shining
[Music]
never doubt the resourcefulness of a kid
at death’s door running for his life
from his deranged and homicidal father
Danny heads for the hedge maze at the
Snowden and very haunted Overlook Hotel
knowing he can’t outrun his father
forever
Danny realizes he has to throw his dad
off the scent and ditches running for a
better plan backtracking through his own
steps and hiding his father reaches the
end of his trail and proceeds to search
aimlessly for him in the giant maze
following his own prints out of the maze
Danny runs into his mother’s arms
leaving dad to suffer in the cold
[Music]
do you agree with our picks check out
these other great clips from watch mojo
and subscribe for new videos every day
[Music]
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