About horror elements. What's it called?

[Daemian]

MMmmh, I don't think that's what I mean, another example:
In Amnesia, the brute chases you in a corridor, before he kills you, you enter a level door.

The solution to "recover" from the scare forks into two solutions:
1) player enters the level door.
2) he dies by the brute.

If none of these solutions existed the brute would just stand looking at the player doing nothing and the door wouldn't open.

So these solutions, to wake up, to get saved by other, the floor opens, another level loads, the ghost banishes, grunt spoof, etc. What are they called?