User blog comment:Dorkpool/Stupid Horror Characters/@comment-4849011-20141027001252

I was looking through a couple of my Roger Ebert books recently and found a couple quotes on this very topic. The first comes from Ebert’s Bigger Little Movie Glossary (an expanded version of Ebert’s Little Movie Glossary, which also appeared in a British edition titled The Little Book of Hollywood Clichés). One of the entries reads, “'''Dead Teenager Movie. 'Generic term for any movie primarily concerned with killing teenagers, without regard for logic, plot, performance, humor, etc. Often imitated, never worse than in the Friday the 13th'' sequels. Requires complete loss of common sense on the part of the characters. Sample dialogue: ‘All of our friends have been found horribly mutilated. It is midnight and we are miles from help. Hey, let’s take off our clothes, walk through the dark woods, and go skinny-dipping!’”

The other is from I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie, his first compilation of bad movie reviews. The review for Prison Girls also mentions the movies The Devil’s Widow and The Blind Dead. The part about The Blind Dead reads, “The Blind Dead is a movie about centuries-old corpses who rise from the dead and chase people around cemeteries and churches. They are blind. After being dead 200 years, I think it’s pretty good that they can even walk.

They have to listen for you before they can chase you. Sometimes they ride slow-motion horses. The horses are not blind, but they do have arthritis, and the lead horse suffers from the heartbreak of psoriasis. The way to escape from the blind dead is to keep real quiet. Then they don’t know where you are, and the movie would be over. To avoid this, the people in the movie bang on doors, shout, breathe heavily, scream, gasp, cough, clear their throats, snap their fingers, tap their toes, step on twigs, grind their teeth, and ream out their ears. Then the blind dead chase them, catch them, and eat them.”