User blog comment:Dorkpool/Stupid Horror Characters/@comment-24821182-20141013160440

Horror movies would suck if everyone acted rationally, and even more so if death was unavoidable. I think it's easy for us as viewers to call them stupid and say things like, "If I were that guy, I would not be making out with my girlfriend while the zombie werewolf Martian is out there killing people."

Well, you're not that guy; you're a person who sits comfortably at home and watches this movie about the bloody vengeance of a holographic ghost that escaped from Hell.

Keep in mind that characters in horror movies don't know they're in a horror movie, so it's not like they even know that there's a mummy samurai serial killer on the loose - certainly not until they're already at the point of no return.

And when the teens finally do realize that a robot dinosaur from an alternate dimension is on their tracks, they are panicking (and rightfully so), meaning that any sort of reasoning is out the window. The three F's of primal instincts are in play by then: Fight, Flight, or Freeze.