Tropescilloscope: Horror Films

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