Tropescilloscope: Daylight Horror

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

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