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I hate horror fake outs. There's a small-budget folk horror called The Borderlands (2015), and the last ten minutes are scary, the last thirty seconds are the best, scariest thing I've ever seen in a horror movie. But the entire run time before that is just constant fake outs, so nothing actually has any tension because you expect it to be fake. There's also one early in Nope, which honestly is not a scary movie, but the best bit of horror that actually creeped me out is when kids are dressed as aliens being creepy in the barn. They're silhouetted in shadow, so you can't tell what they are, just that they are small humanoids with weird proportions, and that is way creepier than anything that actually happens in that movie.
Also honorary mention to characters knowing they're going into a dangerous situation and taking no precautions. Why the actual fuck do the characters in It go to fight the clown, with their only weapons being a pipe and a captive bolt pistol. They don't even know its weakness until the last second. You live in the USA, if you want to kill an evil clown monster you could blow it to pieces with a shotgun. Those assholes should have been armed to the teeth, but they have literally nothing. I hate those It movies, they're so bad
"Americans do not have access to a comical amount of weaponry" is a trope/oversight I really enjoy. If you're not literally in New York City then literally everyone is strapped. Even the gun control perverts who act like it's unthinkable anyone would own or need a gun are strapped. The people who claim gun statistics are misleading because guns georg owns ten thousand guns are strapped. If you're setting a movie in america then there should be problems caused by too many guns rather than a lack of guns.
Project Zomboid is a great example of this. You can immediately tell it was made by Europeans because it's set in Kentucky but every house does not contain several shotguns and hunting rifles with a few dozen rounds of ammunition.
Tremors (1990) is a great counterexample to the gun thing lol.
The gun thing really gets me in movies set in the US. Out of all my friends family and neighbors I think there's only one that doesn't own a gun.