Overall I think the characters make good decisions. She straight up says “nope” about going down the hallway initially, her first instinct upon seeing the camera room is immediately to leave, using the chair to prop open the creepy closing door, Justin Long tries extra hard to keep the gun, etc.

Sure all of these get negated to continue the plot, but compared to most horror movies I think there’s a pretty good effort made in terms of having the characters make at least some choices you might.