A surprising number of ancient, supposedly terrifying movie threats are easily treated with obvious, sometimes even moronic solutions which somebody should have figured out long ago.
Certain groups, whose names we shall not mention, have made careers out of pointing out the ridiculous stuff pulled by Hollywood screenwriters who don't want to put in the time or effort to produce a credible scene.
Serial killers in movies are all constrained by the same limitation: The imagination of a screenwriter, who is presumably not a murderous psychopath. No matter how disgusting or outright evil the fictional killer, there's somebody out there topping them in real life.
But for every director filming a 'Schindler's List,' there's an exploitative monster taking the same tragedy and turning it into a sleazy get-rich-quick scheme.
