Tropescilloscope: Daylight Horror

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

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