Thursday, 19 September 2013

Tropes of horror genre

Horror is a very popular genre, they have certain tropes and memes that usually appear somewhere within the creation. This is because usually people are then able to associate their genre with those tropes.

Tropes of the horror genre include:

  • Abandoned area - school, house, forest, etc.
  • Ghost town
  • Haunted castle
  • Always nighttime
  • Ankle drag
  • Bat scare
  • Bloody bath
  • Body horror
  • Cat scare
  • Creepy child
  • Dark world
  • Evil hand
  • Eyeless face
  • Final girl
  • Ghost story
  • I can see you
  • Jump scare
  • Long neck
  • Man-eating plant
  • Mummy
  • No face under mask
  • Who you gonna call?
  • Zombie apocalypse

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