Tropescilloscope: Horror Films

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