Yeah and they hide there breathing really hard trying to look out into the room. If you can see him, he can see you.....At least in The Crazies when she ran into the closet she hid behind stuff and looked away.

Another one is when they "relax" because they think its over, they always take a shower lol. Its like an easy excuse as to why you have a naked girl in your movie.

Yeah I can see your point. The only issue is people, especially film fanatics like us, are thinking its stupid. I was watching a horror movie with my girlfriends family and even her dad was like "yeah cus people do that all the time, how stupid." and we all kept saying it.

They at least get creative doing it now. She hides in the closet, he doesn't see her, but uh oh! He somehow got in there with her! What now! lol

I think a real imaginitive horror person should make a "typical" horror movie, but avoid these common cliches. When people run, make it realistic. I dunno about you but when i get the shit scared outta me and I run, i become the most arobic football player in the world jumping over stuff and winning races. When they jump in a car let it start with no one in the back seat. When they drive make sure there isnt a giant wall that somehow leaps infront of them.

For example. Guy likes building cars, has a project car in the garage. He comes across a "monster" has his keys in his pocket or on the counter, grabs them, runs out the door (not up the stairs), jumps in the car. It doesnt start, he forgot to hook the battery up so he hides near the garage door and sneaks behind the bad guy as he walks out and runs to another car. This car starts fine, and he races off. The bad guy hears the car start, and grabs a motorcycle and chases.

Avoided all your typical trends and changed it up a bit, no one would expect that. They would anticipate it but nothing would happen, so that leaves you with optioons the rest of the time because now no one knows when anything is building up for a reason.

I indeed would like to see one done intelligently as in the characters doing things we would find to be the smarter options. Like you said, not running upstairs. Not sitting there trying to keep cranking the obviously not working car. And other things, like: I never got the "killer hiding in the back seat" thing. Maybe it's just me but when I get in my car, obviously I have a clear view into the back window as well, and I always take a quick glance. Not in a paranoid sort of way, just in a "it's right in front of me I can't miss it" sort of way.

And it's funny you mention the running thing. Yes, I would be a world-class sprinter if my life depended on it like that. However, in some horror movies, it's even the jocks that I've seen suddenly become a klutz when running. I'm like "I'm supposed to believe that the star high school football player suddenly forgot to how to keep his footing and lost half of his agility when his life is on the line?".