Drop your horror archetype tier list. I wanna see how cooked I am.
Random shower thought...
I've been thinking about horror movies less in terms of specific villains and more in terms of the archetypes they represent.
If you had to rank them by how likely you are to survive, what would your tier list look like?
Mine would be something like:
S Tier: I'd probably survive
Haunted house
Creature with strict rules
A Tier: Kinda cooked but there's hope
Vampire
Werewolf
Cult
B Tier: 50/50
Zombie outbreak
Forest monster
Alien hunter
C Tier: Yeah... not looking good
Demon/possession
Cursed object
Cosmic horror
D Tier: It's so over
Supernatural slasher
Unkillable entity
Anything that literally gets stronger because you're scared
My logic is simple: if there are rules, I can at least try to cheese the encounter.
The second the villain has infinite stamina, teleports, ignores physics, or just decides the rules don't apply anymore... I'm accepting my fate.
Curious where everyone else lands.
What's getting moved up or down, and what's your instant "nah, I'm dead" horror archetype?