Though some, like Scary Movie, have spoken the truth about one of the stupidest tactics in a horror situation....I'm gonna go ahead and be another one.

Splitting up in a horror situation is one of the stupidest ideas out there. Nearly every horror antagonist is on his own, so WHY make everyone else on their own? Are they trying to be FAIR and go one-on-one? Well, good idea! Lets get picked off one by one!

Seriously.

While things like militaristic combat can benefit from splitting up GROUPS of people, staying in a group in a horror situation seems like the better option. More hands, more potential fire/melee power, more eyes to watch...seems like a no brainer.

It reminds me of a brilliant example thanks to our humorous associates at Achievement Hunter, who, in a GTAV Slasher vid, the killer is obviously overpowered. But then somebody discovers you can just BEAT THE GUY with a flashlight. This goes down into a conversation from the now-creative-director, Gavin, about "why don't we just rum rush him?" to which chum Micheal replies"we should!".

Accumulating into why we never see a group of victims just gang up on the killer, it really makes one think....why NOT?

Ok sure, some people may get stabbed or shot...but hey, not like it was going to happen anyway.

And if you think that splitting up is still a good idea, take a page from Cabin in the Woods, which really DID have some weird gas be pumped into said-cabin to have characters agree that it was....the goal of the gas use to get them to split up? TO GET THEM KILLED.

Granted, at the end of the film we WANTED the monsters to rip those two stubborn jerks at the end for letting the whole world go down just because "they wanted a win".

So, I don't know why I had to go all leader on the group to tell them how stupid the tactic was....

Just to say, ya got a decent track-record Az, I voted for ya!

And like anything voted for, it's frustrating dealing with it...