Tropescilloscope: Horror Films

nan (read more at tvtropes.org)

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