Horrible horror movie clichés we all know and love

Tim Butters
5 min readNov 30, 2023

Horror films need cliches like red roses need the rain and a poet needs the pain. You may think it’s the unexpected and unexplainable that puts the horror in the movie, but if vampires weren’t strangely charismatic blood drinkers, killers didn’t come back to life, bogeymen didn’t terrorize the babysitter, women didn’t constantly take showers, and zombies weren’t driven by an insatiable and mindless…

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Tim Butters

Tim is a reporter in seven universes and sole custodian of the ninth discipline. His ambition is to keep the line serpentine. Let the healing begin!