6 Real Horror Movie Scenes That Are Accidental Comedy

5 Dawn Of The Dead's Zombie Baby

Zack Snyder's Dawn Of The Dead remake is reasonably good on the Zack Snyder scale of things, but there's one scene that simply can't be overlooked by even the most determined Snyder apologists. We're talking about zombie birth, folks.

The decision to zombify a pregnant person who then gives birth to a zombie baby is already one that raises a host of unnecessary questions, but we'd be willing to let Snyder show us where he's going if the end result wasn't so downright silly. Have you ever seen a newborn baby? The things are already disgusting. Add some rotting limbs, and boom, terrifying zombie baby. This just looks like a Cabbage Patch Kid whose owner went a little too hard with mommy's makeup.

Snyder seems to have realized quickly that the zombie baby logistics weren't gonna add up in the long run. How would this thing eat? Would it grow? What's the zombie diaper situation? So the characters quickly dispatch it to Zombie Baby Heaven, making the entire scene a pointless six minutes that no one can ever get back.

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4 The Ring 2's Killer Deer

The Ring took everyone by surprise when it featured a demonic girl who killed people with images straight from the deep web before that was even a thing, which was a big part of why it was so successful. Although this was refreshingly unique to U.S. audiences, you probably know that it was a remake of a Japanese movie called Ringu. And yet, shockingly, it was still quite good. But of course, a sequel had to be made. And now the evil girl is less into creepy abstract art and more into ... tricking deer into attacking people?

3 The Villains From Children Of The Corn II Hack An Old Woman's Wheelchair

The last Children Of The Corn movie to get a theatrical release, Children Of The Corn II: The Final Sacrifice features another group of kids intent on murdering all the adults in their Nebraska town. One of them, a boy named Micah, is possessed by an evil entity called He Who Walks Behind the Rows, who's all the more terrifying for the fact that we're probably paying him a hefty farm subsidy. Sounds like some solid scares, right? Well, at first the kids try to make their murders look like accidents. This involves less mind control and more remote controls. Seriously, they use one to hijack an old lady's electric wheelchair.

They roll her into traffic, but most of the drivers reasonably swerve to avoid hitting an old lady, so she's just sitting there for like two minutes until an oblivious truck driver comes along. He rolls right into her, all comically slow, never even tapping the brakes. Then she turns into a dummy and goes flying through a window.

2 Wrong Turn Builds Tension By Ignoring How Screen Doors Work

2003's Wrong Turn follows your basic slasher flick premise: A group of attractive people on vacation are stranded in the middle of nowhere, becoming a tasty potential meal for a trio of inbred cannibals. It was a largely forgotten game of horror movie Mad Libs that nevertheless somehow spawned five sequels and a reboot.

While the premise of this surprisingly profitable series is lazier than a sloth on opiates, there's one scene in particular that reaches new lows of apathy. Early in the first film, the characters stumble upon Cannibal Manor right before the fam gets back from a long day of corpse-eating. They're forced to hide and wait to escape until the gang drifts off to a satisfied post-dinner slumber, but they're foiled by a screen door that's held shut by the world's loudest spring. One guy grabs it to muffle the noise, and when they open the door, the coils pinch together and slice into his hand. He holds it together in more ways than one while his friends leave, but once everyone's out, he realizes he's stuck.

He manages to rip himself free after the residents suddenly wake up, because the threat of being eaten really puts a tetanus shot into perspective, but this never should have happened. For one thing, it seems like he could have just removed the spring, which are usually loosely attached to small hooks, but we'll give him a pass, due to the stress of potential cannibal murder. But more importantly, opening a screen door pulls the attached spring apart, making the coils separate. So we can add "doors" to the list of things the filmmakers have apparently never seen, which also includes "people who live in West Virginia" and "any good horror film." We're talking about a movie in which the rebellious cheerleader from Bring It On fights cannibals. Was it really necessary to rewrite the laws of physics?

1 Carrie 2 Kills With Outdated Technology

The Rage: Carrie 2 was a wholly unnecessary follow-up to the Brian de Palma masterpiece Carrie. It picks up 20 years after the gruesome prom night, which taught no one any lessons at all about maybe not bullying psychokinetic girls. We're introduced to Carrie's goth half-sister, Rachel, a student at the local high school, where jocks compete for sex like their football careers depend on it. Rachel's best friend, Lisa, gets entangled in their little game, which drives her to jump off the school's roof and into better teen movies. Fearing the end of their football careers, a cover-up ensues, which includes silencing Rachel. In the process, Rachel and the one good jock end up falling in love and having sex, both unaware that the act is secretly filmed to be broadcast at the prom after-party.

In a fit of rage (ohhhh, we get it now), Rachel whips out her stigmata of Jesus thorns and starts doing some Carrie stuff. She shatters the glass doors, which somehow decapitate at least one guy, before comically driving a fireplace poker into the heads of two people on opposite sides of a door. At some point in her killing spree, she even sends a bunch of obviously CG CDs flying through the air to slice up some folks.

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