Tropescilloscope: Horror Films

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