Watching the characters in a horror movie die while you yell at the TV for them not to go into the next room. You do this in hopes that somehow they will hear your pleas and run away, but they never do. Instead, you are left feeling anguish and anger at their stupidity when you watch them get murdered. I bet you even begin to believe that you could survive a horror movie if you were given the opportunity.

For whatever reason, characters in horror movies think it is a genius idea to go party in an abandoned warehouse or old church. Excuse me? Why? You could have plenty of fun at a perfectly normal party at a perfectly normal venue, and if you wanted to make things more interesting, then dress up in costume. 

The first rule of horror movie survival is to never go to an abandoned place, especially if it looks haunted because if it looks haunted, then it is haunted.

Second, these characters go into an unknown place and start touching everything. I know my mother did not raise me like that, and sure neither did yours. No wonder the ghosts would haunt people; I would too if someone just came into my house and started touching my stuff. 

Moving forward, don’t for whatever reason split up the group unless you know for a fact that you’re not going to die. It’s textbook knowledge that once the group splits up that the ghost, spirit, entity, serial killer, or whatever has a greater chance to pick you off one by one. If there’s no one around you, there’s no one for you to lean on or to share the burden of being chased by an ax murderer. More importantly, if there is no one for you to sacrifice to ensure your survival. DON’T split up. 

Contradicting what I said before, don’t sacrifice anyone. Sacrificing people is only going to end badly for you. You don’t want to be a carpet for people to walk all over, but you also don’t want to make enemies among the people around you. If you have enemies because of an attitude, when worst comes to worst, nobody’s going to want to save you in a life or death situation. You have to know how to observe your surroundings, analyze the people around you, and gauge the intensity of the situation. 

Possibly one of the most obvious mistakes one could make is being too curious. A healthy level of curiosity is just fine, but being overly inquiring and just walking into any random room is borderline psychotic. First of all, I don’t even go into every room in my house on a given day, and I live there. So, there is no valid reason in any dimension that you should follow the noise you heard in the other room. You hear a noise run in the other direction. 

Life is all about survival of the fittest, and this assertion could not be more true when you are under attack. I can confidently say that if you contradict and do the opposite of any of the things I mentioned above, you are not the fittest for survival, and anything that comes hurtling towards you moving forward is on you.