Tropescilloscope: Horror Films

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