Tropescilloscope: Horror Films

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