Horror movie tropes

2. Family unknowingly wakes up sleeping/dormant evil spirit.

rising bed sheets
bathtub scene

Don't hate on contrarians

No one who is scared to death in their house may ever turn on a damn light

First person scared cannot get anyone to take them seriously








Reach out your hand, if your cup be empty
if your cup is full, may it be again

This horror film is wall-to-wall lifts from other horror films. The list is endless....

- Evil forces make emotionally dysfunctional family more dysfunctional.
- Emotionally dysfunctional child connected to haunting.
- Noises in the attic, followed by mom creeping around attic, followed by jump scare caused by 2nd person sneaking up behind her.
- Poltergeist phenomena in kitchen.
- Demonic animals.
- Demonic hands reaching out of walls.
- Animated cartoons about ghosts playing on TV.
- Characters awakened by scary sounds at night, get out of bed and investigate without turning on lights, without arming themselves and without awakening others for assistance.
- Characters investigate scary sounds by sneaking at a glacial pace down the hallway while followed by a handheld camera.
- Jump scare when character closes a refrigerator door revealing something behind it.
- Jump scare when character closes a bathroom mirror revealing something is on it or reflected in it.
- Jump scare when character sees reflection of something terrifying, looks to the source, camera swish-pans to source, nothing's there, swish-pan back to character who looks to reflection but it's gone.
- Jump scare when character turns and someone is standing two feet away from them.
- Character discovers strange markings in the condensation on bathroom mirrors.
- Household electronic devices that inexplicably turn themselves on.
- Evil forces that leave markings on walls and ceilings.
- Light bulbs that glow too brightly and explode.
- Swinging chandeliers.
- Glass smashed on framed family photo.
- Faces on family photo defaced.
- Haunting victims desperately call in female spiritualist to combat evil.
- Haunting victims desperately call in Native American spiritualist to combat evil.
- Alcoholism.
- Husband denies reality of wife's close encounters with hauntings.
- Husband away from house while wife and kids are haunted.
- Husband failing at job.
- Wife discovers out-of-focus evil spirit lurking in background of snapshot, but doesn't show it to disbelieving husband.
- Demonic forces haunt upscale white suburban home.
- Doors discovered to be inexplicably open after character closed them.
- Woman stalked by spirits when taking bath by candlelight.
- CG dark storm clouds and distant thunder telegraph approaching evil.
- Parents repeatedly forget to watch child who repeatedly wanders off under spell of evil forces.
- Child's bedroom door blocked by evil forces until heroic dad bashes it down.
- Plastered-over "chamber of evil" discovered on other side of bedroom wall.
- Long scenes of exterior suburban house with nothing happening.
- Formerly disbelieving dad bravely saves his child from demonic forces.
- Headphones and earbuds conveniently prevent family members from hearing sounds of evil spirits thumping around the house, and cries for help from other family members.
- Characters find specific answers to mysterious haunting in 30 seconds on Google.
- Bogus Native American legends of evil spirits.