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What is your least favourite horror trope? (hexbear.net)

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One of the things I hate is (usually amateur stuff on YouTube) in which the person is getting overly scared even when it makes no sense.

Like they'll over act and start hyperventilating at a leaf and saying shit like "Oh my god what is that?!?!?! WHAT IS THAT?!?!" at like...a thud in the distance.

YouTube and Ghost Hunting shows seem to be the worst offender.

Another trope I hate is a horror game one but it's somewhat related; I hate it when the game tells you when to be scared by having a "sanity" effect or by the player character gasp or scream or whatever. Worst is if they have some kind of heartbeat sound effect that plays when you're supposed to be spooked.

But yeah, if a character starts saying shit like "WhAt ThE FuCk WaS ThAt?!" then I just get more annoyed than scared.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I absolutely hate when a horror movie has some kind of cool premise and makes you wonder what’s going on the whole time and at the end of the movie it was “just in their head the whole time” or “they were crazy.” If you can’t write a proper ending for your movie don’t make the fucking movie. Also “they were dead the whole time” annoys me too. But not as much as the crazy cop out.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Also I hate when a horror movie spends the first 40 minutes developing boring characters and nothing scary starts happening till half way through.