Less Talked about Horror/Slasher tropes?

[TheGentleArtist]

Like, it's understandable if the killer is superhuman; but if it's just a basic human who is good at killing, I don't see how the protags don't just jump em' or at least one of them stalls/counter them in someway. Yes, you will not escape unscathed, but you stopped the situation from getting worse by dealing with it early.

[skicoak]

Really? I would have put my bets on the kitchen ._.

It is. Feel free to look it up so it doesn't look like I'm cherry picking supporting information.

Psychologically, the bathroom also is a room we most often put ourselves in a state of mental vulnerability by being naked or in compromising biological activities.

[Pony_wearing_a_hat]

Houses are evil, we've established that.

[TheGentleArtist]

Monster House really puts that in perspective.

[Jenny-Toons]

The family pet is always well-behaved. Literally could not hurt a fly. The villain walks up, or they're near the bad space, and they start freaking out. They will not go into the house, and they might even try to attack the villain. This has never happened before with this family pet.

No one thinks "hey, maybe this person is sus" or "hey, maybe this house is sus"

[Pony_wearing_a_hat]

Eh, dog's probably just wiggin out or somethin

[Pony_wearing_a_hat]

I want to see an r rated version of that movie

[Pony_wearing_a_hat]

Here's one: the stoner dies, but not until late in the story so the audience can enjoy the stoner antics.

[Tromroan]

Hmm.....

• The annoyed/buzzkill guy who brings everyone down and ends up slowing people down
• Elegant, genius serial killers who are cultured and SUPER intelligent (most serial killers in real life have average or below average intelligence)

[Pony_wearing_a_hat]

Oh! I haven't considered the buzzkill thing yet. Yeah... it seems like theres always someone who just wants the group to give up. I can use that.

[Kiweevil]

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[Pony_wearing_a_hat]

Yeah, screw survival. our dead friend has a 0.0001% chance of not actually being dead.

[Pony_wearing_a_hat]

Kind of a racist example, but what about the magical hispanic person expositing the supernatural elements to the poor, scared, clueless white kids.

[crowstories]

There's also the very famous "black character is immediately killed off" racist trope.

You know what really pisses me off? In the novel of The Shining, Hallorann (the one black character) isn't killed, but of course in the movie he gets axed.

[Pony_wearing_a_hat]

People of color are just tools for the white protagonist's survival, or tools for the (usually white) villain's threat establishment.

[crowstories]

Of course! And women need to suffer and die so male protagonists can be motivated to advance the plot/experience personal growth.

[Pony_wearing_a_hat]

Oh! Oh! here's another one, the members of the opposite sex who are left alive so they can be heterosexual together.

[Pony_wearing_a_hat]

And if the genders are reversed it's always the woman saving her brother or something, woman aren't allowed to have male romantic interests who are in danger and need to be saved by them.

[crowstories]

In my comic they are

[UrMom]

There is one I can think of off the top of my head that isn't too common.

Parental horror. Horror revolving around the concept of parenthood and the existentialism revolving around that. There aren't that many horror movies that with this concept, the only two I've seen so far are 'We Need to Talk About Kevin' and 'Eraserhead'. The former being technically a thriller, but I found it rather disturbing.