Tropescilloscope: Horror Films

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