A jump scare isn’t a jump scare if we see it coming, and the final girl can’t be just that if we know who she’s going to be in the first five minutes! We want our horror films to be unpredictable and scare us in ways we haven’t been before.Â
In this article, we’ll explore the tropes we love to see, and those which we just need to bury for good, never to be seen or heard from again.