Tropescilloscope: Daylight Horror

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

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