Tropescilloscope: Psychological Thriller

A Thriller that focuses on characters' psyches. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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