Tropes & Cliches - Horror Hating

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Creepy Children

Slow Descent into Madness

Randomly Assembled Group

Lights Flickering

Genre Savvy Characters

The Rules of Survival

Death Countdown

Cabin in the Woods

Investigating the Noise

Checking If It's Really Dead

Twist Villain Reveal

Curse with Rules

Native American Burial Ground

The town is in on it

Implacable Man (Unstoppable Pursuer)

Villain Can't Be Killed

Plane Crashes Releasing Evil

The Fake-Out Death

They Were Dead the Whole Time

One Last Scare / Final Stinger

Reveal in the Background

Characters Seek Professor in Lecture Hall

Movie-Within-a-Movie

Generational Keepers

Deconstruction of Genre Conventions

Text Keeps Evil In

Big Brother is Out to Get You

Creepy Animatronics

Going Into the Basement Alone

Reading the Cursed Text Aloud

Ignoring the Local's Warning

Characters Return to Dangerous Location

Unreliable Narrator

Witness Transmission

Latin unlocks evil

Built on a Cemetary

Meta / Genre-Aware

Villain / Threat Tropes

Narrative Tropes

Scare Mechanics