Tropescilloscope: Horror Films

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