LMST 345 Horror Tropes

List of some horror tropes:

• Forest (representing natural figures vs. civilization)
• Old buildings
• Bad weather (fog, rain, thunder storm)
• Darkness, night time, basement, shadows, lack of color
• Sources of limited light (candles, moon)
• Animals (rats, wolves, cats, scared horses)
• Orchestral music (+ pipe organ)
• Imageries of death (skulls, tombs, cemeteries)
• Footsteps (figures approaching from out of vision)
• Secret passageways
• Isolation