WellWritten Horror Movie Characters Ruined By One Scene

Well-Written Horror Movie Characters Ruined By One Scene

Horror movies like A Nightmare on Elm Street and Halloween have a way of going on and on. Sometimes one scene can totally ruin a character.

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Horror movies require a lot of elements working together well in order to be truly effective. Character motivations need to feel organic and villains need to be unique. The most successful horror franchises have at least one character who has resonated with audiences.

Viewers keep coming back to see their favorite horror characters grow (or not grow in the case of Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees). Then, a scene will play that significantly alters the audience’s perception of them. Sequels can come in and fix the mistake, but sometimes what’s done is done.

Roman Bridger Ruins Billy & Stu In Scream 3 (2000)

The Scream series’ most shocking deaths and twists are mostly absent from Scream 3 in favor of what were considered tepid thrills and a logic-stretching reveal.

Roman Bridger is obviously the film’s killer the moment he’s “killed” offscreen. It had never been done before in the franchise and served as a fairly clear tell. Then, Bridger’s motivation just made it worse. Billy Loomis and Stu Macher were extremely effective villains on their own in the original Scream. Bridger retconning their independence in favor of him being some sort of mastermind ruined the impact of not only Scream 3’s Ghostface, but the original film’s as well.

Emphatically Screaming “No!” In Pet Sematary (1989)

If looking for the best performances in Stephen King adaptations, viewers will receive a mixed bag in Pet Sematary (1989). On the upside is Fred Gwynne as Jud Crandall. On the other hand, there’s Dale Midkiff’s Louis Creed.

Jason Clarke made for a more stoic and book-accurate Creed, whereas Midkiff’s can come across as cartoonish. For such an important character, it’s jarring to see them react to the death of their child by screaming “No!” into the air like Darth Vader after learning he killed Padmé.

Chucky & Tiff Become Parents In Seed Of Chucky (2004)

If any slasher franchise has undergone the most significant changes to its DNA, it’s the Child’s Play series. The first three are straightforward slashers with a voodoo twist. Then, Bride of Chucky altered the formula to include dark humor and introduced another classic character in the process. The franchise would go on to be reinvented again with two non-theatrical sequels (and a terrific TV series) that incorporated characters from just about every installment.

Inbetween Bride and those later, superior installments is Seed of Chucky. Glen, Chucky and Tiffany’s son, has thus far only appeared in this installment, and that may be for the best. The scene where the three characters are introduced has a cringe moment where Glen raises his arm and shows them his “Made in Japan” label. Chucky looks down and sees the same thing on his arm. The look on his face allows viewers to know that the Chucky they’ve grown to know is now a caricature.

The Spider In It: Chapter 2 (2019)

If Cary Fukunaga’s It had been made, the movie’s third act would have been very different. It’s safe to say he was at least somewhat referring to the removal of spider-Pennywise.

This variation of the sadistic, fear-eating alien was poorly-received in the novel, the miniseries (where it looked like a toy), and It: Chapter 2 (where it looked like Pennywise’s head on a CGI blur). Arachnophobia is very common and exploiting it is a logical inclusion in Pennywise’s arsenal. However, it seems this is a special effect that can’t be pulled off, and if the villain’s final form is less intimidating than its first, that’s a problem.

Angela’s First Scene In Sleepaway Camp II (1988)

Felissa Rose’s Angela Baker made for a phenomenal and genuinely surprising villain in 1983’s Sleepaway Camp. The character returns without Rose in the sequels, Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers and Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland.

In those two films, she’s portrayed by Pamela Springsteen (Bruce’s younger sister). Springsteen gives it her all, but the character works far better as a young, silent enigma than a constantly overbearing and judgemental camp counselor. Furthermore, the character is written and played as so chipper that her presence becomes overbearing after just her introduction.

Jason Getting Shot Up In Jason Goes To Hell (1993)

The key to the 12-film Friday the 13th franchise’s success is Jason Voorhees. Fans don’t come to meet the newest group of counselors, they come to see more hockey mask-fueled gruesomeness.

The first 10 minutes of Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday are the best 10. The audience is introduced to a bulky, charred version of the character in a well-paced chase sequence with a newly-arrived “camper.” In reality, she’s not visiting the camp, she’s an FBI agent. An arsenal of agents swarm in and blows Jason to bits. Worse yet, the movie then added salt to the wound with Jason’s bizarre and uncharacteristic body-swapping ability.

Dropping The F-Bomb In A Nightmare On Elm Street (2010)

The original A Nightmare on Elm Street’s creepy dream logic is replaced with an MTV music video vibe in the 2010 remake of the same name. Furthermore, along with the whole tone, the film’s villain is altered in a significant way.

As the ANOES series progressed, Freddy notoriously started dishing out cheeky one-liners. The remake’s Freddy does something similar, just without the creativity. He’ll look at an intended victim and spout a threat with an expletive in the mix. The fedora-donning villain fans knew and loved already looked off, but then his boring dialogue sealed the deal and made them wish for more Robert Englund.

The Fate Of Hicks & Newt In Alien 3 (1992)

The always intelligent Ellen Ripley’s smart decision to sacrifice herself at the end of Alien 3 is the film’s most iconic scene, and it’s a much more respectful death than the ones given Cpl. Hicks and Newt.

While those two characters from Aliens weren’t as iconic as Ripley herself, they weren’t all that far away. To have them unceremoniously killed before the movie even begins doesn’t play well nor does it fully make sense. It also doesn’t factor much into the plot of Alien 3 or, worse yet, Ripley’s role within it. Ripley had just spent the entirety of Aliens growing as a character, only to have all of the potential further expansion swapped out for a generic plot where she’s the sole woman in a place populated by murderous men. Ripley is fortified enough to survive in this environment and then some, but it’s an unfortunately stagnant conclusion to an impressive arc.

Laurie & Michael Are Related In Halloween II (1981)

John Carpenter’s Halloween is a masterclass in terror because its antagonist is a mystery. Michael Myers kills and nothing else. All the motivation he needs to stalk Laurie Strode, Annie Brackett, and Lynda van der Klok is seeing them on the street. The randomness of his rampage is what makes him frightening because it’s as if he’s doing the only thing he knows how to do.

By making Strode Myers’s sister in Halloween II, the impact of the original is lessened significantly. The audience now knows that Myers had a direct goal, which makes Halloween nothing more than him trying (and failing) to accomplish a goal.

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