Tropescilloscope: Daylight Horror

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

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