As they get comfortable, they might stumble upon a horror movie or two that look ... One of the most common tropes of scary movies is a group of friends splitting up, despite common sense ...

From the jerk-character dying to adults being useless, some of the best (and worst) horror movies utilize the classic tropes ... and contort (with the all-too-common “bones breaking” sound ...

They’ve also been hell on the horror genre. Smartphones have rendered many classic horror movie tropes ridiculous ... Here are the most-common ways horror movies get around smartphones, along ...

What’s your favorite scary movie (trope)? No matter how much the horror genre continues to evolve, there will always be room for tropes. Those tried-and-true plot devices and character ...

So to celebrate Halloween, and Del Toro being a horror movie nerd, we traced the lineage of the most common horror tropes back to their (mostly) silent sources. A lot of the standards of horror ...

Writer/director Parker Finn’s feature debut, “Smile,” boasts the thinnest of premises based on a laundry list of horror movie trends and tropes, from the historical to the contemporary.