Oh, the horror!

Why is it that around October of every year, everybody wants to get their pants scared off of them? We actually pay money to go watch terrible horror flicks, all while trying to scare ourselves silly. Why do we do it? Why do we sit and watch bad actors scream at the unforeseen zombies, or aliens, or ghosts? Are our lives really so boring that we have to watch gruesome scenes of people killing one another? The worst part about horror films, besides the sub-par actors, is the fact that no character has an ounce of intelligence. For instance, in the recent theatrical release "Quarantine," once the people in the apartment complex realize zombie-like bodies are chasing after them trying to eat their faces off, they decide to sit together in the lobby of the apartment complex. Great idea. Let's all sit together in a big group where they KNOW WHERE WE ARE, and just wait to be eaten. Once they realize that is not the best idea (duh), they all run upstairs to various rooms to try and stay safe. Of course, someone has to stand next to the GLASS door, where on the other side, a zombie is being held. Was it any surprise that the zombie can see him, breaks the window and bites his neck? No. You almost want him to die because he is acting so foolishly. What would be good to see is a horror movie when someone actually makes intelligent decisions and are smart about getting out alive and defeating the alien/zombie/ghost/killer. But, perhaps, if everyone in the movie were intelligent, it would make it difficult to have a good movie. Someone has to act like the sacrificial lamb and be the first to die, but do they have to die while being incredibly stupid? Don't even get started on teen promiscuity. Especially in horror films from the late 1990s like "I Know What You Did Last Summer;" when kids do dumb things, they get killed. If you see a teenager drinking beer with their friends, or trying to "get some" from a hot lady, you know what's coming. They're dead. Here is some advice for all those stupid fictional characters out there. First of all, don't ever go anywhere alone. You will die. No one will find you until much later in the show, and none of the characters will care. Secondly, don't turn your back to anything you think is dead or that you killed. It's not dead. It will come up from behind you, and you will die. Thirdly, if you fall, get back up, stupid. Don't try to crawl on the back of your hands and feet while the creature/ghost/killer is chasing you. Again, you will die, and no one will care because you were acting so stupid. One would think horror film makers would think twice about the patterns that are being created in these films, and try to be innovative and think of new things and new personalities to put in these films. Maybe they figure they make enough on these awful movies, because people will flock to horror movies in October, regardless of how terrible they are. Perhaps if audience members begin to demand more from their low-budget horror movies, and not see any old crap for a Halloween scare, some writer out there will actually try to be creative when writing their next horror masterpiece.