Tropescilloscope: Slasher Movie

nan (read more at tvtropes.org)

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