When The Bodies Pile Up

Yes, two posts in one night. As I explained below, I have been watching the Friday the 13th films (at least 2-5) and something bothered me very much in 4.

Trish is running from Jason and she's the one who gets to discover all the dead bodies that Jason has posed up for her (as per slasher film ritual). Nothing wrong with that, that's a genre tradition. What bothers me though, is how not very well thought out this sequence is.

So Trish opens the front door and is about to run out when she discovers a dead body lying there. Instead of just stepping over the body and running up the road, she decides that the body acts like those annoying characters in RPG games that block paths from you because you haven't completed an objective. She screams at the body and turns around and runs to the back door, where Crispin Glover is suspended on clothes lines. This is more understandable, because his body is literally blocking the door. The other body is positioned on the ground where it is extremely easy to step over. So Trish decides to chuck a chair through the window and climb out, which is much more difficult than stepping over a body.

I may be looking too much into it, as the sequence lasts no less than 15 seconds. Maybe Trish is just very respectful to the dead bodies of her peers. Or maybe they mapped that sequence wrong.