Okay, last question from me (probably) what are your favorite and least favorite tropes in horror movies?
Hmmm let's see....
Favorites include (but are not limited to):
Everything was hinting that there was a ghost / monster, but then a perfectly rational explanation showed up, except that OOPS! RED HERRING! Say hi to your doom with a big sexy reveal scare.
This person is horrible. They will come to an appropriately gruesome end. Let's watch, shall we?
Go back and watch this movie again to see all the clues to the wonderfully twisty ending!
Here are some obscure but accurate mythology / history / literature references just for the nerdy people in the audience.
Nature abhors a rich asshole.
Sometimes it's good to have a monster on your side.
Sometimes that monster can be you.
The marginalized character is 100% done with this bullshit and that monster / killer should be running.
Here's a monster. It is unaccountably sexy. Make of that what you will. (AKA the This One's For The Monsterfuckers trope.)
All of this could have been avoided if you just listened to the spooky people.
Least Favorites include (but are not limited to):
All of this could have been avoided if the protagonists weren't so arrogant and abysmally stupid.
All of this could have been avoided if people would just FUCKING TALK TO EACH OTHER.
Sure, the female lead will wreak bloody vengeance, but first we have to have gratuitously graphic assault scenes to give her purpose.
Exactly how long can we drag out this intricate torture scenario / really gross injury visual? Let's find out.
Here's a twist that makes no fucking sense whatsoever. And a plot hole the size of the fucking moon because we ran out of ideas.
You want an explanation? Here's a racist stereotype as a plot device. That's all you're getting.
And here, have a grossly inaccurate witch stereotype while we're at it.
Let's kill some animals for shock value.
Pregnancy is already scary. Let's make it worse.
Fetishizing real-life serial killers sounds like a moneymaker.


















