Original Tip #8 - Do not search the basement, especially if the power has just gone out.

This sounds mortally dangerous, even if there weren't a maniacal axe-murdering demonic spirit lurking about. So unless you've been beaten with a Martha Stewart stick, by wandering about your basement with no light except the clicheed and doomed-to-fail flashlight, you can kiss your shins goodbye. And if you're in a horror movie, you'll join your shins soon enough in the ranks of the bloody dead.