User blog comment:Dorkpool/Stupid Horror Characters/@comment-24324608-20141019040054

The thing is horror movie characters don't know they are in a horror movie. It is easy to criticize their decisions when you are camly watching the scene unfold on your TV screen knowing before hand that something bad will happen. People that are confused, panicking and possibly intoxicated as well are not going to make the same decisons a calm outside observer would.

Natural human curiosity is the reason anybody would keep watching a "lost episode" or playing a "haunted game" in real life. OP, I bet if you saw a really messed up episode of your favorite TV show you wouldn't turn it off, you'd keep watching to see what the heck was going on. The same goes for heaing a strange sound in a house.