10 Horror Movies Where Pranks Brutally Backfired

[@Krobe243]

I know it’s a video game, but if you ever play or watch a playthrough of Until Dawn, it’s entirely worth it. The plot revolves around the death of two sisters after a prank goes wrong at a family owned lodge on a mountain. The story was really well done and I wouldn’t mind seeing a film adaptation one day, even if it’s one of those “butterfly effect survival depends on your actions” games.

[@udittlamba]

house of ashes would make an amazing movie too.

[@charlesafonso5567]

Until dawn and Detroit are masterpieces.

[@JC-cn9yj]

It’s just a prank hanne

[@morriganmidnight5500]

Loved this game!!

[@brandoncole5533]

Jesus Christ I remember actively trying to kill Emily 😭😭😂

[@BonesAbernathy]

The Lodge (2019) definitely should have been on this list. Those kids deserved what they got

[@Kad6976x]

Yes they did .So did the kids in trick or treat. They mentally broke her in the lodge

[@PansexualDumbass9169]

Their still pranks that backfired so they count for the list

[@adrianachong9029]

Agreed! That was a wtf movie and I love it!

[@davidbeaver21]

They put that in the "tricked you into rooting for the villain" video.

[@StrangeTripNH]

Good movie

[@maverickhistorian6488]

Carrie is a most satisfying film for those of us who were bullied endlessly by our peers and teachers at school. In my darkest moments, I have often thought of the most horrific ways of exacting a terrible revenge against those who tormented me. My past has definitely clouded my whole life, having gone from being a passive and quiet child, to an adult who has no empathy for others, and a cynical and dark outlook on life.

[@sphynxnightmare]

The book death for Carrie is different, she lays waste to the town and then her heart gives out from overuse of her power. It's actually sad. There are some survivors and I forget her name but one girl finds her and holds her hand til she passes (if I recall correctly)

[@evernevermore-ci2so]

That was Sue Snell. The girl who had her boyfriend take Carrie to prom to make up for bullying.

[@jamieschneider6176]

Don't hang up is the #1 reason why youtube pranksters shouldn't take it too far.

[@agentverona]

You should also mention that the ‘pranks’ from Slaughter High are more commonly referred to as CRIMES. One of which should have ended up with the lot of them on a certain list. They all had it coming.

[@ArcherSuh4721]

Same with Terror Train! Anyone who cooks up a "prank" like that should be locked up in prison or a mental institution. I can't even imagine what a judge's reaction to their "It was just a joke!" defense would be.

[@adriennereyes5405]

Slaughter high is heartbreaking the actor that played the nerd committed suicide not long after the film was released

[@SixHundredWays]

You are right. Simon Scuddamore. This was one of my favorite underrated classics from the 80's.

[@sarahfuller5482]

That’s so sad

[@moralityisnotsubjective5]

Sad. I wonder why.

[@Jays6926]

The Sorority Row one makes no sense now that I think about it. He was killing everyone that wanted to keep it a secret… his gf was the one who wanted to tell.

[@alexxander966]

Maybe he thought she wouldn't tell if there was no one else to corroborate her story. Idk

[@XxRadioactiveGirlxX]

Or maybe that he thought she'd be too scared to tell after everyone started dying. Although that could have also gone completely the other way as well. I think we may be supposed to ignore that bit 😂

[@kharma7755]

I would add the short prank from "Host", since it is literally what starts the terror in that movie

[@lewislawrence8408]

In certain cases of extreme rage and emotional distress the smallest of people can easily become the biggest bullies nightmare

[@Foxxie0kun]

This is especially a good lesson to teach if the bullies are targeting a "gentle giant" type. The gentle giant can send you to the hospital or put you in the obituaries if you push that button enough times. Back when I was in high school, I was meek and non-confrontational and typically relied on school faculty to take care of issues. Then two weaselly little pieces of shit decided they'd harass me for an entire semester for being out of the closet. One day I had had enough, told them it stops today and never happens again. They decided the appropriate response would be to kick me in the crotch and start hitting me. They, uh, didn't like that I gave back tenfold what I got and then some, but the faculty handed them a three week suspension and promised to give the security camera footage to the state prosecutor if my mother and I wanted to press assault and battery charges. My mom, ever the saint she still is to this day, merely said if they paid to replace my damaged/bloodstained clothes and dropped the class, she'd not have them prosecuted and let things rest. Sadly, the Principal and VP said they couldn't compel the students to drop the class unless I had legal standing such as a restraining order or a pending criminal charges against them, so mom let it stand at them paying a few hundred bucks to replace my clothes and a 3 week out of school suspension.

[@derrickhaggard]

No Escape/Follow Me is a very good example of how a prank that is taken to far can ruin someone's life.

[@jeltevl8868]

yeah I was sure that one would be in here.

[@ceasarcruz8312]

riddle me this: they all stood there watching as dude kills that other dude with his bare hands, turning his whole head into bloody pulp, why didn't they turn the light on and stop him from killing? shit was ridiculously stupid...

[@derrickhaggard]

@@ceasarcruz8312 Don't know because when Cole snaps and goes into his revenge-fueled psychotic rage his soon to be ex-girlfriend, and soon to be ex-best friends for some unknown reason decide to not burst in there and stop Cole from unknowingly murder an innocent person by revealing this whole ordeal he went through was a prank to celebrate the 10th anniversary of their KZbin show Escape from Reality.

[@Daniel-nn8mr]

Sorority Row is very good. I really enjoyed it, especially with Carrie Fisher.

[@teasjalamiles9058]

🙌

[@sassypantsg.6617]

💓

[@crystalrickett2302]

Yeah Carrie fisher was the only death I was sad about

[@Daniel-nn8mr]

@@crystalrickett2302 but she went down fighting like a boss.

[@Handsome_Black]

I'm surprised jaw breaker didnt make this list

[@DHGlee2013]

That’s what I thought! But I guess cause it’s not a horror movie. But that’s a good example too!

[@crowgrl13]

Came here to say this.

[@kareningram6093]

That was my thought, too.

[@BreezyStreamy]

@@DHGlee2013 Speak for yourself! High school is always a nightmarish hellscape, even for the 30 year olds attending!

[@jillianpantano6461]

I was going to comment thus. Jaw breaker all the way

[@ArcherSuh4721]

Bob Clark's cult classic Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things! The entire movie is this cycle of "is it real?-no, it's a prank!-or is it?-no, only joking!!-is this actually happening?-no, just kidding!" and so on and so on. Some people praise the movie for it or just find it exhaustively frustrating. So like all Bob Clark movies, you'll either love it or hate it. There is no in-between!

[@mikeenglish2318]

I love how in horror movies they always explain superhuman strength with being crazy or evil. Because science? 🤯

[@mechasatsu6214]

Its true that a man's psychological state of mind can aaffect its strength by several folds, but not to a super human degree. 😆

[@nunyabiznes33]

@P P to skip leg day is evil

[@jarianharris8240]

Ikr! I never understood that.

[@NordicVigilante]

Or adrenaline.

[@buuam7555]

@@mechasatsu6214 tell that to the crack head who faught off several armed police officers naked. Whilst masturbating furiously. True story

[@l.salisbury1253]

MY favorite film prank: MOE: if you had a choice between a shoe full of fives or two socks full of tens which would you take? SHEMP: I'd take the two socks. MOE: You got 'em! Moe socks Shemp. Twice.

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

Nyuk nyuk nyuk

[@patricklee802]

I saw Jamie Chung and clicked. After that I read the title.

[@jarrettowens6073]

These movies prove that if you take your prank too far, and push someone too far, it's going to get bloody.

[@katiemaycosplay]

I love how in the burning all the medical staff were trying to talk him out of taking revenge on the "kids" only to immediately start taking revenge. Lol

[@amandacarter7252]

The movie 'Tamara' is another one where, if the girl wasn't pranked, there wouldn't have been a succubus demon

[@RH-beefhemoth]

You're a succubus demon

[@mechengr1731]

Yeah, and similar to Carrie She wasn't getting bullied at home and at school

[@cherrypotion27]

"The Burning" has a character named Cropsey. Wonder if that's a reference to a certain New York urban legend.

[@sandraelliott4435]

It is.

[@rachelbruno3098]

Not surprised Joyride isn't on here but I really think it should be.

[@dawnatkinson7704]

Now that was a good movie! Although in the UK i knew it as RoadKill.

[@timchambers170]

Good call!

[@alisonn7200]

Agreed. "Candy Cane." Definitely a worthy contender.

[@CraftySouthpaw]

I haven't even started watching yet, but I presume Carrie is #1?

[@MediocreTCG]

Fuck, I hope not.

[@derrickhaggard]

Yep. I was hoping that it would be No Escape/Follow Me at the number 1 as that film definitely shows how a prank gone to far can ruin a person's life. Basically the plot is "spoiler alert" A Logan Paul-esque KZbinr named Alex who has a successful prank/stunt show on KZbin called Escape from Reality and in honor of the show's 10th anniversary Alex along with his girlfriend and best friend decide to do a special episode filmed in Moscow Russia where they go through a escape room, however Alex and his friends are kidnapped by a man who is seemingly a serial killer and Alex is put through various mental and psychological tortures however when Alex sees his girlfriend and best friend supposedly dying brutal and gruesome deaths he snaps and seemingly avenges them by beating to the death the man who put him through this mental and psychological torture session and seemingly murder his girlfriend, and best friend however the shocking ending reveals that Alex's girlfriend and best friend are still alive due to the fact this whole nightmare Alex went through was a prank his girlfriend and best friend wanted to pull on him in order to celebrate Escape from Reality's 10th anniversary meaning Alex who had no idea it was a prank murdered in cold blood via psychotic rage a innocent man in on the prank and to make things worse the whole thing including the murder Alex committed in his psychotic-rage fueled state was being video-taped and uploaded onto the show's KZbin Channel, with the film's closing scene being Alex's combined look of shock and guilt over the realization of the brutal crime he had no idea he was committing. And this film's ending does not get any better upon further examination as the horrifying realization is even if Alex is not found guilty of the murder due to insanity his entire life is for a lack of a better term the murder being taped lived and uploaded onto the Internet means Alex's Social Media Career is over, his fans are all gone, his girlfriend is going to break up with him and his best friend is going to want nothing to do with him due to the fact they now believe he is a unhinged psychopath, and because of this whole incident including unknowingly murdering someone Alex is now going to have massive mental and emotional trauma for a good while.

[@synvice7491]

@@derrickhaggard That's a really stupid ending, if a chick killed someone she thought murdered me, I would be flattered, not break up with her. JS.

[@derrickhaggard]

@@synvice7491 Well here's the thing Alex had no idea his GF and best friend were going to prank him he thought the 10th anniversary episode of Escape from Reality was them heading to Moscow to go through a escape room so he was not aware he was the target of a elaborate prank, and before the supposed brutal and gruesome murders of his GF, and best friend the supposed serial killer kidnapper puts Alex through various mental/psychological tortures, with the supposed brutal and gruesome murders of his GF, and best friend being the thing that finally makes him snap also Alex's GF, and best friend assumed that Alex would get scared via their prank but he wouldn't get mentally/psychologically broken to the point to where he snaps and murders a guy who ultimately turns out an innocent bystander in on the elaborate prank.

[@mrdeer111]

Amazing content as always. Keep them coming! 🔥🔥

[@KaeyaAlberich30]

I wonder if the character Sam from Don’t Hang Up is a small reference to Sam Pepper. The guy that did that awful “killing his best friend” prank

[@svetomov6997]

I swear - Jess & Josh keep it alive

[@alphawolf2638]

This video: *Exists* No escape: Hold my beer

[@jillianpantano6461]

I'm sad no jaw breaker. That one's a classic to me

[@xxkori123xx]

Not a horror movie though. This list is specifically horror movies.

[@markalexander3659]

RE: 120lb Rebecca Gayehart - crazy people really do have crazy strength (her character I mean, lol)

[@matxalenc8410]

Yes. Crazy people do have crazy strength!

[@althealee9375]

Okay who the hell thinks it’s a good idea to prank someone with a corpse??? Those pranksters need serious therapy

[@alisonn7200]

I can't believe that Jawbreaker wasn't on this list. You'll have to do a part two and include Joy Ride as well:)

[@DinsRune]

Some of these prank victims should just call the police. I'm pretty sure "oh my prank gave you third-degree burns" is assault, maybe even felony assault, even if it's an accident.

[@jamesvance7908]

Hatchet series is the reason I love horror slasher movies. It's so bloody it makes the Friday the thirteenth movies seem tame

[@Max_Sinister_26]

Hatchet and Re-Animator are my two favorite horror series.

[@lincolnpascual]

Horror movies are the reason why I hate stupid pranks. I renege when I was a teen, my dumbass brother jumped out of a garbage can dressed like an evil clown, trying to scare me. I didn't hesitate, I pinched him repeatedly in the face, head and throat before kicking the whole can down the stairs, breaking his arm and collar bone. My brother was lucky he didn't die. My mom was absolutely pissed about the whole situation, and my brother got so much shit for doing that, while I only got a little scolding, since I reacted in self defense. It was a lesson neither of us would soon forget. He never pranked anyone after that, and to this day I despise pranksters. I'm all for a good joke, but powering on others for your own entertainment is not funny. It's selfish, narcissistic, and when it inevitably goes wrong, you have nobody to blame but yourself.

[@markalexander3659]

Everybody in both Carrie and Slaughter High completely deserved what they got.

[@danderson8431]

There were some students at the Prom in Carrie that didn’t even know her who were presumably killed when she set the gym on fire.

[@markalexander3659]

@@danderson8431 I was referring to the bullies and her mom, but no, they all knew her.

[@Kay-jv2ks]

I mean, not everyone. Tommy didn't do anything to deserve it. Neither did many of the other students.

[@markalexander3659]

@@Kay-jv2ks Carrie didn't do anything to Tommy, either. The metal bucket fell and fracture his skull.

[@Kay-jv2ks]

@@markalexander3659 no, she didn't, but you did say "everybody in... Carrie... deserved what they got" which includes Tommy and multiple others who never did anything to Carrie

[@grapeshot]

Yeah the movie Terror Train had a young David Copperfield starring in it.

[@frankandreaswenzel]

"gory chaos in shoes"! gonna use that one now.

[@jreliford34]

Ahhhh, yes. Slaughter High. A staple of Blockbuster's 99 cent rentals.

[@MiniM0usee]

If Carrie wasn't the top, I was going to riot. Lol.

[@abellewis3062]

I love movies like this! Enough said!

[@Jotiqua]

I dont know how far it fits on the List, but Bill Muray getting himself killed in Zombieland was kind of a Prank that Backfired

[@SD_N1234]

As a mother to a both physically and mentally challenged child, believe me...I get it .. it's hard.. I may threaten to send him away but he never hears it and I don't face him when I said it so I know he doesn't know it

[@shadowblaze_0014]

No Escape (2020) was definitely could've also been on the list too. The ending of it was so messes up!

[@kirstencosta8010]

I don’t think I ever thought of anything how strong Brenda was on Urban Legend because I was a kid when I first viewed it! I always thought it was crazy that Brenda from the noxzema commercials would be the killer!!

[@wiederganger1959]

Ain't gonna lie, clicked because of whoever that is in the thumbnail.

[@msgriffin8478]

Host should've made this list

[@notfamedtvpersonalitydrphil]

Yesss

[@malcolmcummings4871]

no escape, the lodge, and april fools day should have been on this list

[@cokaroch69]

id let that cute lil scarecrow kill me he's adorable

[@LlorDrei]

This may be more of a crime one, then a horror one, but one movie where a prank led to death, 1999's "Jawbreaker".

[@KrystalTwilight]

First movie I thought of when I saw the videos title!

[@alltheprettyflowers]

not technically a horror film but Jawbreaker could have gotten an honorable mention

[@gheata_playz874]

Number 1 for me is this one movie where a guy’s friends all dies because of another friend and he (the guy) kills him which only turns out to be a prank and he killed someone

[@Natalie66796]

What are you doing in my swamp?! (Sorry about that haha)

[@jacobdrolet4262]

Totally amazing video what culture horror

[@tokyodeathghoul2313]

3:57 am I the only one who at first saw a young David Tennant??

[@njoYYY]

So... what movie was the thumbnail about? lol

[@user-vn7ce5ig1z]

3:28 - Just 3 years after _Urban Legends_ came out, Rebecca Gayhart became a killer in real life.

[@jarianharris8240]

WHAT!!??

[@AsylumWalker]

@@jarianharris8240 She ran over a kid and killed a young boy

[@LaBrew]

Yes, I was gonna mention that, but scrolled through the comments first. She hit and killed someone....a little boy, I believe. I can't remember the details specifically, but yeah, she hit someone with her car.

[@jarianharris8240]

Yeah that reveal in Sorority Row to me is what kills the movie.

[@JJ-ul7bd]

Wooow all of these movies are throw back. Love the old movies like terror train and slaughter high are good ones too

[@jimpickens5936]

5:33 while I understand you were talking explicitly about that character I feel your choice of words was a bit insensitive to burn victims

[@xxkori123xx]

I knew Carrie would be number 1. I'm surprise Follow Me AKA No Escape wasn't on here. That was a huge prank gone wrong movie.

[@luzmaria5006]

Trick r treat is a masterpiece in horror, I wish another movie used plot twist and deception like it. I is so hard to be truly surprised be a horror movie and Trick r Treat really surprise me how ingenious it was, no jump scares only truly well executed horror fairytale.

[@johnny1902]

Those teens in Carrie got what they deserved I still think it's a shame Carrie died in the end

[@disableddragonborn]

I don't think it should even be on the list. Those weren't pranks, they tormented her.

[@davidhill2020]

No mention that the magician on Terror Train was played by David Copperfield?

[@joefelice5062]

Jamie Lee Curtis, costumes, train?? Beef jerky time!! There’s plenty, you know…

[@DrilArm]

I think the best adaptation of a Stephen King work is The Shawshank Redemption.

[@fortifarse]

Dolores Claiborne is up there as well, and was criminally ignored by most awarding bodies that year!

[@DrilArm]

@@fortifarse I've never seen it, but I like the book a lot. I'll look into it, thanks.

[@brokenfoxx]

It's irrelevant if it's *actually* Brenda doing the killing. She's shown at the end in the group as telling the story, an urban legend itself, so it doesn't have to make sense that tiny Rebecca Gayheart couldn't physically do those feats, at least that quickly. But I'd argue it would take a specially fit dude to be able to be as effective and as quick as the killer. Also, it's why they threw in the Noxema-girl comment

[@SheilaTheGrate]

Surprised the mailbox in the Butterfly Effect was not mentioned.

[@frankmoniz1467]

The original Carrie is my favorite horror movie, OF ALL TIME!

[@WraythSkitzofrenik]

Honorable mention: Tamara

[@KnightRiderowner]

THUMBNAIL PLEASE???

[@valeriaabsinthe]

Tamara (2005) could have fit on the list as well.

[@theldraspneumonoultramicro405]

leave it to movies to have what is essentially a fly weight girl overpower light heavy weight to heavy weight men with little to no struggle, some of which is even well performing athletes in american football among the more popular sports options for them to practice. if memory serves, what makes things in the Carrie movie even sadder is the fact that the guy who became prom king was not in on the prank and was actually a decent guy who happened to have relations to the bullies.

[@Shippo28]

What about Jawbraker, that defiantly backfired

[@Box2able]

Movies On This List In Order: 10- Friday the 13th: Part 3 (1982) 9- Soroity Row (2009) 8- Urban Legend (1998) 7- Slaughter High (1986) 6- The Burning (1981) 5- Terror Train (1980) 4- Trick 'r Treat (2007) 3- Don't Hang Up (2016) 2- Hatchet Series 1- Carrie (1976)

[@MzuMzu-nx1em]

What a funny story , mark ..

[@wearehappilyndpendant7593]

im kind of surprised that Catacombs isnt on here.

[@fernandosalvador369]

Mister Lee is the hero we need.

[@smiththeinspiringanimator7042]

HOLY COW!

[@maggiallison3151]

Love the hatchet movies!

[@ExquisiteViren]

my birthday this year was 13th of friday just yesterday :D

[@enclaveleader6245]

Don’t hang up - was Justice Served done right

[@irisdivinemessages1350]

A new prank horror movie. Aspiring KZbinrs do a prank that ends up killing someone and it goes I know what you did last summer.

[@remyfacade]

Umm. Compared to the others on this list "Friday the 13th III" being on here is a reach.

[@christophermollan1684]

Fun fact... One of the cast members of Friday 3 played ice hockey (as a goalie) and had a game right after filming so he brought his equipment with him so he could go right from filming to the game. ..they were looking for a mask for Jason and voila!! hockey mask!!!!!!

[@Sadik90tom]

What about Joy Ride 2001 and Cry Wolf 2005?

[@j4eeee]

What movie is the thumbnail?

[@seancoffey3340]

Can't class it as a horror movie but Jawbreaker-1999 classic prank gone wrong... dunno how many times I've been stuck in that same situation 🤔

[@VerifiedValueReviews]

Great !!!!

[@kimberlykasper1316]

Jawbreaker had a great prank that started a tail of hiding the truth and what happens as a result

[@scottibrown3274]

Sorority Row is a guilty pleasure, and the bullies in Carrie deserved the karma

[@tempusedaxrerum3087]

Using the scene featured in the thumbnail would be nice; or reference it at some point.

[@littlebigbunnyrabbit9520]

Have to suggest "Scare Campaign". It's not like the prank itself was the reason of their downfall, but it was one of the main points.

[@alexanderstottlemyre3679]

if it's a horror movie there's always gonna be likely chance for a prank to go wrong and end up killing or wounding someone

[@blaze556922]

Please use time stamps or keep the title up so people can avoid spoilers. Not hard to do that right?

[@mrs.thomas-usmcwife5686]

Has anyone noticed that there is a pentagram in Carrie's prom queen crown? I wonder if this was on purpose or just coincidence.

[@lookzbyraelois]

I knew Carrie would be #1!!!

[@destroyedforcomfort]

Surprised you didn't include the outhouse prank from the original My Bloody Valentine.

[@buuam7555]

Man...... the Hatchet series is a Gem isnit?

[@johnsampy9807]

Ned from the original Friday The 13th

[@jarianharris8240]

When you mentioned Friday the 13th part 3 I thought you'd be talking about the prank those 3 bikers tried to do.

[@jamespope7669]

Why. The bikers weren't pranking Jason lol

[@dell10781]

@@jamespope7669 even the one they use was not a prank on jason