Random Plot Holes That'll Ruin Your Favorite Horror Movies (28 items)

(#8) Hollow Man
- Film (2000)
We get that Sebastian (Kevin Bacon) is invisible in Hollow Man, but he still has to obey the other laws of physics. At the end of the movie, after he has been set on fire, he somehow appears from on top of the elevator and grabs the character played by Elisabeth Shue. But he's invisible... he can't walk through walls.
(#20) Darkman
- Film (1990)
If your lips were burned off like Peyton's (Liam Neeson) were in Darkman, you would have an extremely difficult time talking and forming words. You could possibly learn over time, but Peyton does it immediately so that audiences would be spared subtitles from the dark hero.
(#17) The Setting of A Nightmare on Elm Street Mysteriously Changed
Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street was clearly set in Los Angeles. The teens casually discuss the possibility of another earthquake, palm trees are visible in several shots (especially at the funeral), and there is a scene on the Venice canals. As the series went on without Craven, however, someone must have decided to ignore all these details in the original until it is eventually revealed that the Elm Street from the series is supposed to be in Springwood, Ohio. The L.A. part must have been just a dream... or a plot hole!
(#13) Poltergeist
- Film (1982)
Tangina triumphantly declares, "This house is clean" in Poltergeist, but shouldn't the gifted psychic have known and warned the Freelings that the spirits were at unrest because their bodies were never moved with the cemetery headstones? If she was communicating with the other side in the Freelings' house, surely some spirit might have mentioned it.
(#10) Slither
- Film (2006)
In Slither, Starla decides to check out what Grant has been up to in the basement and, after she opens the door, she recoils from the stench of rotting animals and meat. It's a wooden door, not a sealed tomb. She would have not only been able to smell that all around the house, the stench would have likely wafted out into the neighborhood as well.
(#1) Texas Chainsaw 3D
- Film (2013)
2013's Texas Chainsaw 3D is supposed to be a direct sequel to 1973's Texas Chainsaw Massacre. In the sequel, which picks up right after the first movie ends, a baby is rescued from the cannibalistic house of horrors. Years later, Heather Miller (Alexandra Daddario) returns to Texas to claim property she inherited from a relative she didn't know she had. It turns out that she's that baby from the beginning as well as Leatherface's cousin.
That's fine, but Heather appears to be in her twenties, so if the movie follows the timeline of the first film, it should be set in the '90s. And yet, during one scene, a cop uses an iPhone when he creeps around a house looking for Leatherface. Since the iPhone certainly wasn't around in the '90s, that either means it travels back in time or we're supposed to believe Heather is the most supple-looking 40-year-old on Earth who hangs around with people half her age.