Horror movie tropes we've seen way too many times.

[Diamond_Dog]

The group of teenagers decide to explore the old abandoned building they were warned not to enter.

There’s a thunderstorm in the background..

Someone escapes being chased, finds a car, jumps in, and the engine won’t start …..

[mercuryblues]

1. As the killer approaches the Male and female either make out or have sex.

[Diamond_Dog]

3. Yep! And you know she will let out a blood curdling scream.

[Jeebo]

45. Yep, and the girl who DOESN'T have sex is always a survivor.

And the girl(s) who DO have sex are always among the victims of the mad slasher.

— Ron

[Marie Marie]

2. You think the monster is finally dead but then....NOPE!

[Diamond_Dog]

4. Oh, for sure!

[House of Roberts]

5. One of the GEICO ads is about making bad decisions when being chased in a horror movie.

'It's what you do' is the tagline.

[Diamond_Dog]

7. I guess it would be a very short movie if they made a *good* decision!

[mwmisses4289]

25. Why did they do that really stupid thing?

It's in the script!

[johnp3907]

6. "We can cover more gound if we split up."

[Diamond_Dog]

8. Not the best strategy!

Love your Bobby Hill avatar!

[johnp3907]

9. Thank you!

I chose it because it looks a bit like me with my Flying V! 🤣

[Skittles]

10. the victim is running

but the walking perpetrator easily catches up

[Diamond_Dog]

11. And the victim has to trip and fall!

[Skittles]

12. sometimes while wearing REALLY HIGH HEELS

[darkstar]

13. Character walks into bathroom shot from behind.

We see their reflection in cabinet mirror over sink.

They open cabinet for pills.

They close mirror, and we see baddie in reflection behind them now.

[nuxvomica]

15. There's a refrigerator door variation

Side view of character opening the refrigerator door but when they close it, murderer is standing there.

[Diamond_Dog]

18. The old mirror reflection scene! Yep.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

14. Cell phone

is out of range at crucial desperate moment(s).

Turns out male killer has mommy issues.

Killer explains motivation for killing in lengthy monologue to final victim, who ends up vanquishing killer, escaping and surviving.

[Diamond_Dog]

19. We mommies get blamed for everything!

[nuxvomica]

16. A character always rushes in leaving the front door ajar

Allowing the murderer to enter quietly. Once the character realizes the murderer is in the house, they head upstairs so that they have no escape route.

[Diamond_Dog]

20. I know! Why doesn't anyone close the door behind them?

Running upstairs ….. makes no sense either.

[marble falls]

29. Or worse, the basement.

[catbyte]

17. The heroine running away from the monster/killer trips and twists her ankle.

Moral of the story? Never run in heels. Or just don't wear them, full stop.

[Diamond_Dog]

21. You can count on it!

Sometimes she needs her boyfriend to pick her up and carry her! And then in the next scene she is walking just fine!

[skypilot]

22. You could have just stopped at...

..."a group of teenagers".

[mwmisses4289]

26. Lol!

[Diamond_Dog]

33. Haha so true!

[Harker]

23. "You go on ahead... I'll be fine."

[Diamond_Dog]

34. Another tired old line!

[MorbidButterflyTat]

24. The family pet is always the first to go

Usually mutilated. I hate that!

Except in "Bad Moon," Thor the German Shepherd is the hero.

[Diamond_Dog]

35. Oh I know. I hate that, too.

[mwmisses4289]

27. Formulaic, aren't they?

[Diamond_Dog]

36. They sure are.

[marble falls]

28. "Bucket" of stale popcorn out of a fifty gallon garbage bag with a squirt of coconut artery clogging "butter" for $10...

... while the box o'popcorn is only a handful of corn less and half the price.

I'm tired of seeing the concession stand.

[Diamond_Dog]

37. Haha so true!

[NBachers]

30. Radio announcer: "A homicidal maniac has escaped from the State Hospital for the Criminally Insane."

The lights go out. "Must be a fuse. I'll go down into the basement and check it out."

While running away, someone gets injured. The woman tears her skirt off up to upper-thigh level to wrap the injury, thereby exposing her tawny shapely legs.

The phone rings. Nothing but heavy breathing comes across the line.

Skeptical authorities refuse to believe it's really happening - until it's really happening to them!

The monster shuffles away carrying the fainted woman, her high heels visible as her legs dangle.

[Diamond_Dog]

38. Yep - always have to have a female victim.

Ever notice when there’s a group of teens, the boys are wearing blue jeans and jackets while the girls are wearing short shorts and tight tank tops?

[BOSSHOG]

31. Kevin bacon goes for a peaceful canoe ride

[Diamond_Dog]

39. Hahaha! You know it!

[BOSSHOG]

42. Kinda put me off of Slasher type movies

[MorbidButterflyTat]

32. Stupid witness tells murderer:

"I'm going to the police and tell them everything about you!!"

[Diamond_Dog]

40. Yeah, sure you will!

[Auggie]

41. A person or a group stand their ground in awe as a horror approaches ...

or, stand in wonderment as another person or or a group comes running by, screaming "RUN!"

[Diamond_Dog]

43. Yeah ... I think I'd be running away so fast I'd be a blur

But those idiots stand and stare or scream their heads off.

[Auggie]

44. I know ...

or, it's "What's wrong?" "What's going on?"

Run first. Ask questions later.

[Jeebo]

46. What all of y'all's contributions to this thread amount to is ...

... a script for a generic mad slasher movie! Which is a hint for screenwriters: When writing scripts for mad slasher movies, BE MORE ORIGINAL!

— Ron