Tropescilloscope: Daylight Horror

The sun shines on horror-themed stories. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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