6 Real Horror Movie Scenes That Are Accidental Comedy

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Jeepers Creepers 3 Is Set In Broad Daylight

There's a reason most movie monsters skulk around in the shadows. Darkness is naturally scarier to viewers, and it also has a handy way of covering up a bad makeup job. It's a large part of what made the weird leathery bird man in 2001's Jeepers Creepers look pretty good, despite the film's low budget.

Screen Media Films By not showing the monster clearly, you'd almost think that they'd seen a horror movie before.

And then Jeepers Creepers 3 inexplicably filmed in bright sunlight, showing the Creeper in all his obvious latex glory.

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Screen Media Films "Could we move this along? That suit's supposed to be in an episode of Power Rangers this afternoon."

This isn't a series of publicity stills. That's what the actual movie looks like. If you saw that thing coming toward you in the middle of the afternoon, you'd probably be less likely to run than to ask if he needs directions to Comic-Con. The bright light did no favors to his (what we now know are) CG wings, either.

Screen Media Films If only there was a natural and inexpensive way to make bad CG appendages look less fake and more scary. Thinking, thinking.

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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.

Universal PicturesImagine it doing a Michigan J. Frog voice.

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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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. We don't really need to show you, as you've likely seen this scene enough in your nightmares, but we will:

We should never have power.

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?

DreamWorks PicturesAlso, the visuals somehow manage to get worse, despite the first movie's scariest parts all happening on a VHS tape.

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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.

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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 an upcoming reboot.

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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.