Top 10 Biggest Plot Holes in Horror Movies
We don't mean the cemetery type of plot hole... Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the most glaring inconsistencies in popular horror films. Spoilers will be revealed, so this is your official warning.
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00:00 - What the hell's going on?
00:01 - Shut up, will ya?
00:02 - Welcome to WatchMojo.
00:03 And today we're counting down our picks
00:05 for the most glaring inconsistencies
00:07 in popular horror films.
00:09 - So if y'all wanna get crazy, we can get crazy.
00:12 - Spoilers will be revealed,
00:14 so this is your official warning.
00:16 Number 10, inconsistency in the death of Katie's mom.
00:20 Paranormal Activity franchise.
00:22 - Julie?
00:23 What's wrong?
00:27 - While adding a prequel into the franchise
00:29 can be a great way of expanding on the lore,
00:31 it also runs the risk of poking holes into past movies.
00:34 Paranormal Activity is an unfortunate victim of this.
00:38 In the original film, Mika makes a comment
00:40 about how they shouldn't invite Katie's mother over
00:42 after learning about a presence
00:44 that feeds off of dark energy.
00:45 - You shouldn't let your mother come over anymore.
00:48 - Julie.
00:49 - It's a solid joke that was accidentally ruined
00:52 years later when Paranormal Activity 3 came out.
00:55 Katie's mother dies at the end of the prequel,
00:57 meaning she had been dead years before the two had even met.
01:00 It's hard to believe that Mika wouldn't know this
01:02 about his partner,
01:03 which makes his joke either extremely dark or nonsensical.
01:07 - What happened to mommy?
01:08 - Julie, come here.
01:10 - Number nine, Chucky Doesn't Bleed, Curse of Chucky.
01:13 Given that this series is about a murderous doll,
01:16 it makes sense that the viewers
01:18 would suspend their disbelief.
01:19 - The heart, shoot him in the heart.
01:21 - However, it can be hard to ignore
01:23 when sequels randomly change major attributes
01:25 about the main character.
01:26 Throughout the series, whenever the doll was killed,
01:29 he would show physical signs of injury,
01:31 primarily bleeding.
01:33 However, in 2013's Curse of Chucky,
01:35 the doll is stabbed
01:37 and white stuffing comes out instead of blood.
01:39 (Chucky grunts)
01:43 Not only was it a tad anticlimactic,
01:45 it took away an interesting characteristic of the villain
01:48 and reduced him to nothing more than a toy.
01:50 More importantly, as a sequel,
01:52 it should have remained consistent
01:53 with the endings of the previous films.
01:55 If it was a reboot, then it could have been forgiven.
01:59 - No one's ever gonna believe this, you know that.
02:01 - Number eight, Malus Gets a Phone Call, The Wicker Man.
02:04 - Give her a call.
02:06 - I already tried that, but guess what?
02:07 There's no phone service on Summer's Isle.
02:09 - This bizarre Nicolas Cage movie
02:11 isn't exactly known for its high quality,
02:13 and the plot holes only add to that reputation.
02:16 The most glaring issue is that it ignores the setting.
02:18 Despite being on a secluded coast
02:20 with no functioning cell service,
02:22 the protagonist is somehow able to receive a phone call
02:25 and hear the person on the other side.
02:27 They could have gone around as having Malus make the call,
02:30 as emergency numbers are still available
02:32 in areas with no cell signals.
02:33 - Pete, help us, help, please, please help.
02:38 - Instead, they decide to leave the confusing moment as is.
02:41 There are other inconsistencies as well,
02:44 both in tone and in the story.
02:46 - No, no, not the bees, not the bees.
02:49 - However, this feels the most egregious
02:51 just based on how easily it could have been avoided.
02:54 Number seven, Logan's Plan, Jigsaw.
02:57 It's common for the Saw series
02:58 to implement a last minute twist,
03:00 and Jigsaw is no exception.
03:02 - 10 years ago in this very barn,
03:04 a game was played.
03:09 - It introduces Logan, a supposed scientist
03:12 who is later exposed as both the Game Master
03:15 and one of Jigsaw's original victims.
03:17 He intends to take revenge on a detective
03:20 who let his wife's murderer go free,
03:22 and does so by recreating the game
03:24 that he had lived through.
03:25 - So now, 10 years later,
03:27 I've recreated Jigsaw's game
03:28 with criminals from your failed cases.
03:31 - However, it doesn't take much to realize
03:33 that most of his plan only works thanks to chance.
03:36 Everything would turn out completely differently
03:38 if even one element didn't go as planned,
03:41 leading people to wonder why recreating the first game
03:44 was even necessary.
03:45 He could have easily achieved the same result
03:47 with a new game.
03:48 - I speak for the dead.
03:52 - Number six, the killer is in two places at once.
03:55 High tension.
03:56 This French film is a solid thriller,
03:58 marred only by one choice,
04:00 revealing that the villain had actually been
04:02 one of the main characters the whole time.
04:04 This could have been a huge revelation
04:10 if there weren't multiple instances
04:12 of her being in another location when someone is attacked.
04:15 There are even times she interacts with the killer herself.
04:18 The filmmakers try to get around this
04:20 by showing that she's in the midst of a mental break
04:22 and therefore delusional about the events of the murders.
04:25 However, that still doesn't change the fact
04:27 that she would have had to teleport
04:28 to commit some of these crimes.
04:30 It goes to show that just because you can include
04:32 a bombshell ending doesn't mean you should.
04:35 Number five, Adelaide and the Tethered getting supplies.
04:51 The film is a bit like the first film,
04:53 but it's a bit more about us.
04:55 - They think like us.
04:56 They know where we are.
04:58 They won't stop until they kill us or we kill them.
05:02 - Jordan Peele's second film is a creepy look
05:04 at the duality of human nature,
05:06 and it leaves a lot of unanswered questions.
05:08 Some are clearly intentional,
05:10 but one of those questions feels like an oversight.
05:12 - Look.
05:13 It's the line.
05:18 - At one point, Adelaide and the Tethered
05:20 are wearing the same clothes.
05:22 That's all well and good,
05:23 except they're dressed in red jumpsuits
05:25 and carrying golden scissors.
05:27 - It's our time now.
05:29 - Where did they get these things?
05:31 Peele never gives us any kind of explanation.
05:33 They add to the intimidating look of the Tethered,
05:36 but realistically, the clones should be wearing scraps
05:39 and have no real weapons.
05:41 Number four, where did the egg come from?
05:43 "Alien 3."
05:44 In the third installment of the series,
05:46 the crew of the Sulaco is attacked by a facehugger
05:49 - It's here.
05:50 We got to hunt him.
05:51 - While it's an interesting concept,
05:53 there's no way it could have actually happened.
05:55 In "Aliens," Ripley finds the queen
05:57 and removes it by opening the airlock
05:59 and destroys all the eggs on board.
06:01 - Are we gonna sleep all the way home?
06:03 - With that in mind, it seems incredibly unlikely
06:06 that one would have managed to survive.
06:08 There's no plausible explanation
06:10 for how the egg got on the ship,
06:11 and none of the characters ever think to question it.
06:14 It comes across as though the creators
06:15 had just forgotten the events of the previous film,
06:18 or worse, ignored them,
06:19 just so they could have conflict for the sequel.
06:22 - It was a mistake.
06:23 There was no need for any of it.
06:24 - Number three, Michael's mask constantly changes.
06:28 "Halloween H20," 20 years later.
06:31 We don't even know what to make of this one.
06:33 The seventh Halloween movie is centered around Laurie Strode
06:35 and her attempts to survive after her brother finds her.
06:39 While it has some great moments,
06:40 they're somewhat overshadowed by one distracting aspect,
06:43 Michael's mask.
06:45 - It sets the scene.
06:45 - As stupid as what it is.
06:47 The movie starts off simply reusing
06:49 the previous installment's costume,
06:51 but it quickly goes off the rails
06:52 with a variety of rubber and CGI replacements.
06:56 - Kind of wreaks a cheap scare, doesn't it?
06:58 - It looks different in nearly every scene,
07:00 from the brows to the shape of the lips.
07:02 The filmmakers apparently tried to edit around it,
07:05 but it was still a constant distraction.
07:07 - Who was that?
07:07 - My brother.
07:11 - Number two, Mogwai rules make no sense.
07:14 "Gremlins."
07:15 - Never, never feed them after midnight.
07:18 - There are two core rules that must be followed
07:20 to prevent the Mogwai from multiplying and becoming evil.
07:23 Don't let them get wet and don't feed them after midnight.
07:26 While these guidelines are adhered to most of the time,
07:28 there are moments that don't make sense.
07:30 - Look, I know it sounds crazy.
07:32 I know it does.
07:33 - At one point, the gremlins have multiplied
07:36 and are causing havoc.
07:37 However, they're running around in the snow
07:39 and it doesn't affect them at all,
07:41 even though snow, obviously, is just water.
07:44 - Now I have another reason to hate Christmas.
07:45 - It may seem like a small issue,
07:47 but when the movie only has a few rules,
07:49 it shouldn't have been hard to actually follow them.
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08:06 - Number one, aliens coming to Earth, signs.
08:12 These creatures may have seemed vicious,
08:14 but they have one clear weakness, water.
08:17 In fact, at the end, it's the only way the protagonists
08:19 are able to kill the one in their home.
08:21 - I heard a theory that they don't like places near water.
08:25 - While it's certainly a convenient way
08:27 of handling the problem, it leads one to wonder
08:29 why the aliens would come to Earth in the first place.
08:32 It seems odd that they wouldn't be aware
08:34 that they're vulnerable to water
08:35 and that they wouldn't analyze the planet ahead of time.
08:38 - There are only a limited number of explanations.
08:41 - Even if they didn't know before arriving,
08:43 surely they would have noticed the vapor
08:45 in the atmosphere as they landed.
08:47 - It can't be luck.
08:48 - It's a plot hole that has been confusing viewers
08:50 for over 20 years.
08:52 Which horror movie do you think
08:54 has the most unforgivable plot hole?
08:56 Let us know in the comments below.
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