User blog comment:Dorkpool/Stupid Horror Characters/@comment-25425579-20141013194230

If people were smart and avoided danger, then the murderer/monster/spirit/whatever wouldn't have anything to do and the movie would suck. Plus, don't you think that part of the fun is watching the character walk into the haunted house and thinking, 'God, what an idiot!' As for the sex part, I think it's to appeal to the viewers. I know that lots of ladies love horror movies (I'm one of them), but there's this lingering stereotype in the horror industry that every consumer is a young, brainless male, so they add boobs to keep them pacified. It's the same in 'male-oriented' games, there's gonna be boobs so the men will like it. (Think Tomb Raider's Lara Croft.)