31 Ways to Survive a Horror Movie (According to Horror Movies) | Rotten Tomatoes

Find yourself in a house all alone with a killer on the loose? Trying to outrun a horde of zombies? Notice your mom's been a little bit possessed of late? If you wanna live, pay attention. Over the decades, some of the best – and most wildly cliché-ridden – horror films to hit theaters have been dropping pretty big hints about what to do, and not to do, to survive a horror movie-like scenario. Never split up. Never pick up the scary-looking book. And always run out the door and not up the stairs. And that's just a start. Here, we've collected 31 rules for surviving a horror movie, as plucked from some of the most memorable horror movies ever made.