Tropes & Clichés

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Self-Sacrifice

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Creepy Children

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Slow Descent into Madness

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Youth Groups

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Randomly Assembled Group

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Jump Scare

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Trapped Souls

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Genre Savvy Characters

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Lights Flickering

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The Rules of Survival

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Hidden Room

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Cabin in the Woods

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Investigating the Noise

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Splitting Up

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Death Countdown

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Curse with Rules

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Twist Villain Reveal

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Native American Burial Ground

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Madwoman

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Sentient House

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The town is in on it

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The Fake-Out Death

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They Were Dead the Whole Time

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Villain Can't Be Killed

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One Last Scare / Final Stinger

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Implacable Man (Unstoppable Pursuer)

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Plane Crashes Releasing Evil

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Masked Killer

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Movie-Within-a-Movie

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Deconstruction of Genre Conventions

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Cursed Object

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Fortune Teller

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Human Hunter

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Big Brother is Out to Get You

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Text Keeps Evil In

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Generational Keepers

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Characters Seek Professor in Lecture Hall

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Creepy Animatronics

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Checking If It's Really Dead

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Reading the Cursed Text Aloud

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Characters Return to Dangerous Location

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Unreliable Narrator

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Witness Transmission

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Latin unlocks evil

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Truth or Dare

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TV as Portal

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Built on a Cemetary

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Creepy Clowns

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Bad Decisions

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Group Dynamics

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Meta / Genre-Aware

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Villain / Threat Tropes

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Setting Tropes

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Narrative Tropes

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Scare Mechanics

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