Breaking Trends and Taking Names

 Generally, horror movies are very trope-y. Very very trope-y. According to Merriam Webster, a trope is, "a common or overused theme or device". And boy, do horror movies relish in them. From the jump scare that is a staple of the genre, shown in films such as IT (2017), Alien (1979), and The Conjuring 2 (2016), to the final girl trope in films like Scream (1996) and Halloween (1979), it is definitely not a genre defined by its originality. Because of this, it is imperative, more than in other genres, that I lean into the genre characteristics more. That includes putting in some very cliche things, such as the a dark and spooky setting, or musical cues that get louder and louder before cutting out. Obviously, I won't have much time to develop other tropes, like "Sex Means Death", or the "Killer in the Basement", but some more easily created ones might be easier to pull off.