Horror Movies

I love horror movies because I love the feeling of being frightened. However, there are very few horror movies that can scare me because they’re all so stupid. They don’t make horror movies like The Exorcist anymore. What makes me angry when watching them is how bad the acting usually is. What’s worse is how ridiculous people behave in these films. For example, if I’m staying in a cabin in the woods and I hear rustling in the forest in the middle of the night during a rain storm, I don’t go wandering looking for the cause of the noise nor would anyway with sense. Also, the friends in these movies are usually very immature and pretend to be axe murderers so that when the real axe murderer is in the house no one reacts. You have the typical shower scene, the barn scene, the car with no gas or engine trouble, etc. These movies are very predictable to the point of being disappointing.
The worst is when someone wielding a 12-inch butcher knife gets knocked over or has the knife knocked out of his hand, all the victim does is throw a chair or pillow and thinks, “Ok, I’m safe now.” If it were me, I would give this guy some blunt force trauma to the head or the face. There’s no way I would collapse on the couch beside the knife or gun and say “whew, I’m glad that’s over.” I would have to make sure this nutcase was dead. I also wouldn’t go after this lunatic without proper weaponry. These horror movie flicks always seem to think they can outrun or outwit the madman without a knife or a bat or something to protect them. I watch these movies to critique them. I should be watching for the fright of it all. Does anyone out there know what I’m talking about? Does anybody else watch these and wonder why these people are always so stupid and say to themselves, “that would never happen to me?” If so, post your comments below.