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[[File:RuleOfScary 9298.jpg|link=Alien (franchise)|frame|[[Pimp My Ride|Yo dawg, I heard you like mouths.]] [[Memetic Mutation|So I put a mouth in your mouth, so you can scream while you scream]].]]
[[File:RuleOfScary 9298.jpg|link=Alien (franchise)|thumb|250px|A mouth inside a mouth. [[Fridge Logic|When you think about it...]]]]


{{quote|"Yo, check it out! There's the right, and there's the scary way. '''Now do you wanna make a scary movie or not?'''"
''(Zoom with eerie music to the director Leo Gabriadze as he gets dumbfounded.)''
"That's what I thought. '''Now get that logic outta my face!'''"
|'''YourMovieSucks''' (as the writer Nelson Greaves), ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}WF_Ko8ljCgY Unfriended Review Part 2]''}}


Like the [[Rule of Cool]] and the [[Rule of Funny]], the '''Rule of Scary''' says that if it's creepy enough, it doesn't matter how illogical it is. Why the maniac has a hockey mask, where he got it, and how it survived a shotgun blast to the face are irrelevant. All that matters is that it [[Nightmare Fuel|creeps you out]].
Like the [[Rule of Cool]] and the [[Rule of Funny]], the '''Rule of Scary''' says that if it's creepy enough, it doesn't matter how illogical it is. Why the maniac has a hockey mask, where he got it, and how it survived a shotgun blast to the face are irrelevant. All that matters is that it [[Nightmare Fuel|creeps you out]].
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* The ghost/demon from ''[[Paranormal Activity]]''. It causes a lot of jump scares by stomping around, dropping pans and slamming doors, but why? None of that helps its objective of {{spoiler|kidnapping children}}. Maybe it just likes to play pranks?
* The ghost/demon from ''[[Paranormal Activity]]''. It causes a lot of jump scares by stomping around, dropping pans and slamming doors, but why? None of that helps its objective of {{spoiler|kidnapping children}}. Maybe it just likes to play pranks?
** The parapsychologist/exorcist guy from the first film explains that demons feed on fear and that interacting with it only makes it stronger. By freaking everyone out and provoking them, it's making itself stronger.
** The parapsychologist/exorcist guy from the first film explains that demons feed on fear and that interacting with it only makes it stronger. By freaking everyone out and provoking them, it's making itself stronger.
* Watching ''[[Film/Tetsuo The|Tetsuo The]] Iron Man'' can bring up many questions, such as "How is the protagonist able to live with all that metal growing out of his body?" or "How are the rocket jets in his ankles fueled?" or even "How is this even possible?" The answer to all these is [[Nightmare Fuel"Because|Shinya Tsukamoto hates you and does not believe in this peculiar idea you call 'sleep'."]]
* Watching ''[[Tetsuo: The Iron Man]]'' can bring up many questions, such as "How is the protagonist able to live with all that metal growing out of his body?" or "How are the rocket jets in his ankles fueled?" or even "How is this even possible?" The answer to all these is [[Nightmare Fuel|Because Shinya Tsukamoto hates you and does not believe in this peculiar idea you call 'sleep'."]]




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