Tropescilloscope: Daylight Horror

The sun shines on horror-themed stories. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Unusual Euphemism Affectionate Parody Race Lift Flipping the Bird '80s Hair Bunny-Ears Lawyer Unresolved Sexual Tension You Have Failed Me Easily Forgiven There Is No Kill Like Overkill Smoking Is Cool Gold Digger Bald of Evil Product Placement Every Car Is a Pinto Slap-Slap-Kiss Depraved Bisexual Call-Forward Babies Ever After Vomit Indiscretion Shot The Un-Reveal Room Full of Crazy Implacable Man Fourth Date Marriage Token Minority Get Out! Superhero Rule of Symbolism The Vamp The '50s I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Overprotective Dad Hidden Depths "Shaggy Dog" Story The Power of Love Motor Mouth Lighter and Softer Beard of Evil Rule of Cool Narrator Outrun the Fireball Line-of-Sight Name Ass Shove Real Life Writes the Plot Earn Your Happy Ending Chekhov's Gunman Half the Man He Used to Be Ghost Fiction Card-Carrying Villain Very Loosely Based on a True Story Large Ham No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Chiaroscuro Hollywood Darkness You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Spell My Name with an "S" Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Villainous Breakdown A Father to His Men One-Man Army Nice Guy Missing Mom Broken Pedestal Covers Always Lie The '60s Country Matters Obstructive Bureaucrat Only a Flesh Wound Overly Long Gag Never Found the Body Rated M for Manly Sequel Escalation Light Is Not Good Daylight Horror Self-Deprecation Advertised Extra Your Cheating Heart As the Good Book Says... Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Dull Surprise Creator Cameo Pimped-Out Dress Failed a Spot Check All Men Are Perverts Affably Evil Ripped from the Headlines Guile Hero Deliberately Monochrome Bowdlerise The Place The '80s Black Comedy No OSHA Compliance Adaptation Expansion Gone Horribly Right Fan Disservice Improbable Aiming Skills The X of Y Breaking the Fourth Wall Immune to Bullets Badass Bookworm How We Got Here Eiffel Tower Effect Dumb Blonde Groin Attack Cat Scare Extreme Doormat Our Vampires Are Different Knife Nut Hair-Trigger Temper In Medias Res No-Sell Accidental Murder "The Reason You Suck" Speech The Dragon Parental Abandonment Retcon Conspicuous CG Vampire Fiction Horror Comedy Running Gag Thriller Dramatic Gun Cock Informed Ability Lock and Load Montage Disney Villain Death The Oner Good Is Not Nice Genre Throwback Male Frontal Nudity Intergenerational Friendship Darker and Edgier Television Movie Index Defiant to the End Tranquil Fury Hope Spot Alas, Poor Villain Knight Templar Morality Pet Malevolent Masked Men Vitriolic Best Buds Based on a True Story Nothing Is Scarier Sinister Minister Obfuscating Stupidity Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Hero Antagonist Rousing Speech Cool Old Lady Spiteful Spit Leaning on the Fourth Wall Anachronic Order Mystery and Detective Films Fainting Off with His Head! Downer Ending Horror Films Slashed Throat The Sociopath Bond One-Liner Despair Event Horizon Action Girl Whole Plot Reference Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Alpha Bitch 20 Minutes into the Future Idiot Ball Punch-Clock Villain Obviously Evil Aside Glance My Greatest Failure Blatant Lies Agony of the Feet Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Romantic Comedy Documentary Novelization Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Did Not Get the Girl Stylistic Suck Worthy Opponent Improbable Weapon User Super Strength Adults Are Useless Toplessness from the Back Cassandra Truth Psychopathic Manchild No Antagonist Irony Black Comedy Rape Gilligan Cut The Dreaded Throwing Your Sword Always Works Animal Title Index Same Language Dub Sports Stories A.I. Is a Crapshoot Reckless Gun Usage Totally Radical Bring My Brown Pants Loophole Abuse Big-Bad Ensemble Taking the Bullet Big Bad Duumvirate Suspiciously Specific Denial Face Death with Dignity Stepford Smiler Heel–Face Turn Show Within a Show Dies Wide Open Faking the Dead Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Dwindling Party Red Oni, Blue Oni Drill Sergeant Nasty As You Know The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite War Is Hell Refuge in Audacity Historical In-Joke Our Zombies Are Different Annoying Younger Sibling Really Gets Around Smug Snake Gory Discretion Shot Does Not Like Shoes Expy Redshirt Army The Ghost Funny Foreigner Bland-Name Product Action Prologue The Stoic Fire-Forged Friends Apocalypse How Continuity Nod Ms. Fanservice Freeze-Frame Bonus Bottomless Magazines Silence Is Golden An Arm and a Leg Let's Get Dangerous! Villain Song Bad Boss Twist Ending Demoted to Extra Silent Movie Take a Third Option Artistic License – History Paper-Thin Disguise Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Asshole Victim Pragmatic Adaptation Precision F-Strike Sir Swears-a-Lot Deconstruction Death by Sex Dying Moment of Awesome Anguished Declaration of Love Moment Killer Betty and Veronica Off-into-the-Distance Ending Guns Akimbo Break the Haughty Bond Villain Stupidity Never Trust a Trailer Deliberate Values Dissonance Wrong Genre Savvy "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Jump Scare Arranged Marriage Evil Brit The Mafia Drowning My Sorrows Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Police Brutality Aluminum Christmas Trees Butt-Monkey Intrepid Reporter Happily Married Brick Joke Casting Gag Due to the Dead This Is Gonna Suck Artistic License – Military The Great Depression Trailers Always Spoil Coming-of-Age Story Meaningful Name Historical Villain Upgrade Sexy Discretion Shot Honor Before Reason Karma Houdini Kubrick Stare Arc Words Needs Wiki Magic Love From Bad to Worse Crucified Hero Shot Mr. Fanservice The Musical Scenery Porn Better to Die than Be Killed Bi the Way Laughing Mad Suddenly SHOUTING! Bavarian Fire Drill Fun with Acronyms Noodle Incident Artistic License – Biology Shirtless Scene Spanner in the Works Mundane Made Awesome Police are Useless Fanservice Extra Accidental Misnaming Adaptational Badass Rape as Drama Psycho for Hire Shown Their Work Well-Intentioned Extremist Dirty Coward May–December Romance Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Crazy-Prepared Mythology Gag Five-Man Band The Lancer Historical Hero Upgrade Say My Name Made of Explodium Suspiciously Similar Substitute Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Not So Different Peek-a-Boo Corpse Face–Heel Turn Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Department of Redundancy Department Big "NO!" And the Adventure Continues Non-Indicative Name Important Haircut Slasher Smile Batman Gambit Offscreen Teleportation Double Entendre A God Am I Animal Motifs Scare Chord Soft Glass The Stinger Expository Hairstyle Change Drugs Are Bad Faux Affably Evil Chase Scene Mercy Kill The Alleged Car Auto Erotica Epic Movie Meet Cute He Who Fights Monsters Dual Wielding Maybe Ever After Heel Realization Tempting Fate Insistent Terminology Hollywood Law Badass Longcoat Kill It with Fire Beauty Is Never Tarnished Black and Gray Morality Unspoken Plan Guarantee Rule of Three An Axe to Grind Romantic False Lead Attempted Rape Mind Screw I Have Your Wife Plucky Comic Relief Evil Counterpart Big Brother Instinct Stock Footage For Want of a Nail Danny Peary Cult Movies List Hooker with a Heart of Gold Russian Films The Remake What Happened to the Mouse? Dogged Nice Guy O.O.C. Is Serious Business Australian Movies Crapsack World Unusually Uninteresting Sight No Ending Dropped a Bridge on Him Developing Doomed Characters Car Fu Pretty in Mink Curse Cut Short Made of Iron Title Drop Wham Shot Chekhov's Skill Parental Incest Mr. Exposition Cool Old Guy Character Development What You Are in the Dark Martial Arts Movie The End... Or Is It? Catch-Phrase Adaptational Attractiveness Science Fiction Films Your Head A-Splode Anti-Hero Dirty Old Man All Just a Dream Early Installment Weirdness Corpsing Canadian Movies Fanservice Wham Line Undying Loyalty The Dog Bites Back Fake Shemp Big Damn Heroes Mugging the Monster Dramatic Irony Random Events Plot Animated Credits Opening Even Evil Has Loved Ones Soundtrack Dissonance Didn't Think This Through Mistaken for Gay Woman Scorned Air-Vent Passageway Villain with Good Publicity Recycled IN SPACE! Bloodier and Gorier Corrupt Corporate Executive Drives Like Crazy Major Injury Underreaction Evil Is Hammy Stuff Blowing Up N-Word Privileges Final Girl Not What It Looks Like Serial Killer The '90s Not So Stoic Bar Brawl Exact Words Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Kids Are Cruel Unwitting Instigator of Doom Bury Your Gays Arch-Enemy Ugly Guy, Hot Wife The Hero Dies Instant Death Bullet Mad Scientist Jerkass Has a Point Antagonist Title French Films The Smurfette Principle Serious Business Kick the Dog Public Domain Feature Films Celebrity Paradox Nice Hat What the Hell, Hero? Psychological Thriller Enemy Mine Lampshade Hanging Those Two Guys Would Hit a Girl Scary Black Man Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Diabolus ex Machina Evil Plan Rasputinian Death Sequel Hook Camp Gay Darkest Hour Here We Go Again! The Big Guy Hypocritical Humor Creative Closing Credits Death by Adaptation Closed Circle Older Than They Look Big Eater The Alcoholic Only Sane Man Playing Gertrude Combat Pragmatist Boom, Headshot! timeperiod Hate Sink Plot Hole Epic Fail Index of Film Westerns Evil Cannot Comprehend Good I Did What I Had to Do It Can Think More Dakka Zombie Stories All Girls Want Bad Boys It's Personal Back from the Dead After the End Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Genre Shift Dutch Angle Mood Whiplash Bloodless Carnage Reasonable Authority Figure In the Back You Killed My Father Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Evil Sounds Deep Greater-Scope Villain Bait-and-Switch Funny Background Event The Smart Guy Facial Horror Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene From Nobody to Nightmare The Bad Guy Wins Sealed Evil in a Can My God, What Have I Done? Decoy Protagonist Dark Reprise Broken Bird Actor Allusion Bound and Gagged Mooks Roaring Rampage of Revenge Adaptation Dye-Job I'm a Humanitarian Italian Films Mexican Standoff She's Got Legs Bilingual Bonus Stealth Pun Badass Grandpa Interrupted Suicide One Steve Limit Contrived Coincidence Politically Incorrect Villain Body Horror Cool Guns Eye Scream Man on Fire Redemption Equals Death For the Evulz Anyone Can Die Loads and Loads of Characters Dirty Cop Daddy's Girl Cluster F-Bomb Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Determinator The Film of the Book Leave the Camera Running Manchild Does This Remind You of Anything? The Ditz Exactly What It Says on the Tin Meaningful Background Event Determinator aka: The Determinator Tagline Put on a Bus Red Eyes, Take Warning Bloody Hilarious Adaptation Name Change Death Seeker Re-Cut The Mole Translation Convention Dressing as the Enemy Race Against the Clock Dark Is Not Evil "Awesome McCool" Name Author Appeal Authority Equals Asskicking Cool Car Villain Protagonist Manly Tears All There in the Script Revenge Pet the Dog Not So Above It All Leitmotif Men Are the Expendable Gender Once More, with Clarity! Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Eyepatch of Power Sassy Black Woman Riddle for the Ages Break the Cutie The Voiceless Film Noir Index Male Gaze Vomit Discretion Shot She Cleans Up Nicely Be Careful What You Wish For Heroic BSoD Disproportionate Retribution The '70s And I Must Scream Japanese Films Spared by the Adaptation Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Humans Are Bastards Ship Tease Empathic Environment Reality Ensues Creepy Child Unreliable Narrator The Lost Lenore Sadistic Choice Shoot the Shaggy Dog Jerkass Dramedy Visual Pun Age Lift Fish out of Water Eldritch Abomination Training Montage Took a Level in Badass Femme Fatale Scenery Gorn It's All About Me Red Herring Punny Name Music Stories The Quiet One Killed Mid-Sentence Works Set in World War II Comically Missing the Point Gender Flip Stalker with a Crush Straight Gay Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Small Name, Big Ego Curb-Stomp Battle Christmas Movies Index Retired Badass My Beloved Smother Abhorrent Admirer Fate Worse than Death Children Are Innocent Wicked Cultured Not Using the "Z" Word Eureka Moment Rich Bitch Names to Run Away from Really Fast Tap on the Head Composite Character A Minor Kidroduction Those Two Bad Guys Real Life Villain Opening Scene Catapult Nightmare Would Hurt a Child Wounded Gazelle Gambit Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Blood Knight Death by Irony The Atoner Death Glare He Knows Too Much Match Cut Flashback Abusive Parents Only Known by Their Nickname Mighty Whitey Chewing the Scenery Establishing Character Moment Blood from the Mouth Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Belligerent Sexual Tension German Films Sacrificial Lion Those Wacky Nazis Black Dude Dies First Fingore MacGuffin No Celebrities Were Harmed Gorn Deal with the Devil Shipper on Deck Famous Last Words Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Oh, Crap! Awesome, but Impractical Brutal Honesty Death of a Child Becoming the Mask Artistic License – Geography Left the Background Music On Skewed Priorities And Starring Deus ex Machina Hypocrite Artistic License – Physics Crazy Jealous Guy Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality An Aesop Badass Normal Extremely Short Timespan Evil Is Petty Foreshadowing Parental Neglect Parental Substitute Word of God Amoral Attorney Homage Adorkable Domestic Abuse Artistic License – Law A Date with Rosie Palms I Need a Freaking Drink Author Avatar All There in the Manual You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Only One Name Demonic Possession Military and Warfare Films Spiritual Successor Papa Wolf Freudian Excuse Pragmatic Villainy Framing Device Gratuitous English Setting Update Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Fantasy Films Film Series Time Skip Fat Bastard Jitter Cam Insane Troll Logic Cat Fight The Starscream Evil Laugh Yandere Eagleland Frame-Up Ominous Latin Chanting La Résistance Pretty Little Headshots Mama Bear Disappeared Dad Canon Foreigner Slasher Movie Beware the Nice Ones Armor-Piercing Question Evil vs. Evil Ambiguous Ending Dark and Troubled Past Foregone Conclusion In Name Only Handicapped Badass Posthumous Character Adaptation Distillation Love at First Sight Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Biopic Driven to Suicide Not Quite Dead Captain Obvious Market-Based Title Big Applesauce Not Even Bothering with the Accent Grievous Bottley Harm Bare Your Midriff Film Noir Cowboy Cop Manic Pixie Dream Girl Ambiguous Disorder Friend to All Children Truth in Television Pyrrhic Victory Hero of Another Story Grey and Gray Morality The Faceless Imagine Spot One-Word Title Badass Boast Evil-Detecting Dog Sanity Slippage Star-Crossed Lovers Woman in White Victoria's Secret Compartment Stealth Hi/Bye Shut Up, Hannibal! Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Hong Kong Films Ax-Crazy Fantastic Racism British Films Adaptational Heroism Big Bad Gainax Ending Shell-Shocked Veteran Deadpan Snarker Dark Action Girl The Chessmaster The Hero Rule of Funny Chekhov's Gun Love Triangle True Companions Foil Sole Survivor Dissonant Serenity Actually Pretty Funny "Well Done, Son!" Guy The Stoner Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Captain Ersatz The Cavalry Heroes Want Redheads Take That! Retirony Hoist by His Own Petard Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Karmic Death Storming the Castle Bolivian Army Ending Anachronism Stew Disguised in Drag Getting Crap Past the Radar The Cameo Red Right Hand Too Dumb to Live No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Broken Aesop Fatal Family Photo Taking You with Me Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Villain Ball Pay Evil unto Evil Cruel and Unusual Death Ironic Echo The Casanova Improvised Weapon Call-Back Insult Backfire Adapted Out Adult Fear Early-Bird Cameo Jerk with a Heart of Gold Historical-Domain Character Fatal Flaw It Will Never Catch On Brainless Beauty Humiliation Conga Double-Meaning Title Credits Gag Red Shirt Brother–Sister Incest Four-Temperament Ensemble Shout-Out The Brute Laser-Guided Karma Only in It for the Money No Name Given Hell Is That Noise Up to Eleven Ascended Extra Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Married to the Job Monumental Damage Big Fancy House Adaptational Villainy Destination Defenestration Bullying a Dragon Manipulative Bastard Neck Lift Berserk Button Have a Gay Old Time Camera Abuse Never My Fault As Himself World of Ham As Long as It Sounds Foreign Reality Is Unrealistic Badass in a Nice Suit Beta Couple Wretched Hive Ungrateful Bastard Protagonist Title Jerk Jock Bad "Bad Acting" Fiery Redhead The Bully Henpecked Husband BFG Calling the Old Man Out Cloudcuckoolander Meaningful Echo Ambiguously Gay Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil NO INDOOR VOICE Green-Eyed Monster Artistic License – Gun Safety Make It Look Like an Accident Pre-Mortem One-Liner Neck Snap Almost Kiss Disney Death Book-Ends Last-Name Basis Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun The Chick Shower Scene Together in Death Vacation Films Amusing Injuries Chuck Cunningham Syndrome The Load Anti-Villain B-Movie Rewatch Bonus Properly Paranoid Reality Has No Subtitles Bittersweet Ending Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Kick the Son of a Bitch Central Theme I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Took a Level in Jerkass Everyone Has Standards All for Nothing Offscreen Moment of Awesome Logo Joke Damsel in Distress Madness Mantra Distracted by the Sexy Heroic Sacrifice Even Evil Has Standards Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Award-Bait Song Kill 'em All Action Genre Poor Communication Kills Heterosexual Life-Partners Cold-Blooded Torture Genre Savvy Black Best Friend Video Credits Defrosting Ice Queen Naked People Are Funny Costume Porn Naïve Newcomer Blackmail The Ace Cool Shades Sci-Fi Horror Alliterative Name folderlabel The Reveal Cain and Abel Action Survivor