 Hello everybody, E here welcome back to top five Friday where I discuss my top five of any number of things today We are talking about my top five horror movie tropes We will discuss the books at another time But today I have a special guest. So let's hear from them Hi guys nerd straight here. My friend E reached out to me recently To film a little video about what I would consider my favorite horror movie trope And it took me a while to really think of the one that For me is the best trope that there is But I think I finally landed on it and that horror movie trope is the jump scare now Doesn't matter what horror movie you watch especially nowadays it's probably the most common used trope from insidious to even like some horror TV shows like The haunting of hell house you'll see it used in such unique and Awesome ways that help deliver I Guess on the jump scare itself But probably one of my favorite uses of the jump scare of all time And I'm not sure it even comes Technically from a horror movie, but it's from the movie Jaws when Martin Brody is chumming the fish I guess the heads or whatever into the water and the shark comes out of nowhere and If you're watching the movie for the first time the way that that scene builds the It kind of builds no tension and the shark comes out. It'll really get you and I think that's when a jump scare is the most effective when you're Guard as like an audience member is completely down and you're able to get Thoroughly like stuck into a scene and then it just comes out of nowhere I think haunting of hell house did this great with the the car I don't know if it's a car crash scene, but where the sisters are arguing and all of a sudden it the jump scare comes out of nowhere and There was a similar one. I think in the movie hereditary where The mom was driving the car and then heard the daughter's sound that she makes so yeah Those are some of my favorite jump scares in horror movies But feel free to comment down below I guess in the comment section of what your favorite jump scare moments are and you can find all of nerd strud's Links and stuff down there in the doobly-doo. Thank you so much for making the video man and doing a guest post Appreciate you and now on to my top five Horror movie tropes the very first one. We were going to talk about today is scary children This is one of those ones that really gets under my skin all this stuff gets under my skin in some way shape or form so But this is this isn't an escalating Upward moving one so we're going to number one, but at number five scary kids The other four things barely barely are above this one Honestly, if the more I think about it the more all these are kind of on the same playing field For for multiple different reasons number one is a big one for me though So let's just get on with the list at number four. I have unique Creature features. I love seeing monsters in movies. I don't care if they're CGI I don't care if they're practical although like most of you I do prefer practical But I've seen some pretty good CGI monsters in my day. They are few and far between but I have seen them I enjoy anything where human beings are thrust into a situation where they are set upon by Not it doesn't have to be alien but an alien presence of some kind That's tangible. So not like a possession or demon or anything like that. I like monsters man In fact, there's one movie. I believe I believe it's called monster. It's about a Young woman and her mother breaking down the side of the road and there's a monster in the woods very simple premise Amazing movie, but yeah anything with the creep. I even love the movie bore on shutter about the massive monstrous bore It's good goofy fun. Just don't expect too much from it Okay, my number three favorite horror movie trope is anything involving weather and the Characters being against the odds because of the weather I'm gonna talk about Sun Blind by Michael McBride in the book video, but that's pretty much what I'm talking about There is another sub-genre to this genre that I'm gonna that's also on this list, but I'm splitting them up because You don't have to have the weather for number one The what I'm talking about here is just any time that the weather is a threat I absolutely love that whether it be movies or books or whatever and because of that. I'm not gonna put this on my book one I'm just gonna leave this one here because I actually found seven when I did the book one But anytime it's really really cold or even something like acid rain or you know Just rain or thunderstorm any of any of those kind kinds of things that actually affect the story I love and at number two of my favorite horror movie tropes I absolutely love anything that involves a slasher or they don't have to be masked But I I prefer them to be masked kind of like people nowadays right anyways but the the main thing is that you have this hoaking behemoth of a character that is seemingly unstoppable and They have to find a way to stop it That is not a creature like the creature features. So I really love uns you know The unstoppable monster Concept I've always enjoyed that but especially in slasher's I don't care how cheesy they are how goofy how bad the special effects are man I will at least give it a watch number one is my favorite Horror movie trope of all time and that is isolation the fewer people the better I do like the dread that comes along with people not trusting themselves when they're closed off from the rest of the world But I also like watching someone go, you know, either go crazy or deal with a situation where they're alone Buried with Ryan Ryan Reynolds. I believe it is An amazing amazing film, and I hope I got the title right Literally the entire movie is shot from his point of view inside We're not from his point of view, but it is shot in the coffin that he's been buried in I think he might be a war reporter. I can't I can't remember I do recall a lot of phone calls being done to either the embassy or something like that I don't know but the way it ends is Perfection when it comes to the horror genre. I look for very specific endings. My horror should end horrifyingly I'm not one for happy endings in my horror. But yeah, isolation is a big one John Carpenter's a thing that kind of thing man I love people being stuck somewhere and having to Fight their way out and especially if it's only one person So that's it for this week's top five Friday. Have you seen what do you like any? Sorry, do you like any of the tropes that are that were on display in this list? I would love to hear your own down there in the doobly-doo. Once again, thank you so much to NerdStra for coming by Shooting that video for me. I appreciate it. Well, he didn't come by a job by the channel anyways For doing that for me. We have another special special guest to on the next episode of top five Friday So make sure you tune in for that but until next time I have any you've been you this been another top five Friday I'll talk to you guys later. Bye. Bye