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1Car won't start
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2No cell phone service
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3Batteries in the flashlight die
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4Shoehorned Sex Scene suggested bymac121mr0
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5Mirror Cliche suggested bymac121mr0
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6Fake-Out Jump Scare suggested bymac121mr0
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7Characters Piss Off or Summon Dangerous Otherworldly Entities Either By Using Ouija Boards or Performing Seances suggested bymac121mr0
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8Characters Investigate the Strange Noise or Don't Run Away from a Potential Threat suggested bymac121mr0
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9Shouldn't have gone alone suggested byDirector22
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10Discovery Deaths a.k.a. Off-Screen Death Reveals suggested bymac121mr0
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11Hanging By a Noose Deaths suggested bymac121mr0
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12Diagetic Jump Scare suggested bymac121mr0
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13Characters Hide In the Most Cliched Hiding Spots: Either In The Closet or Under the Bed suggested bymac121mr0
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14Characters Asking ''Who's There?'' As a Death Wish suggested bymac121mr0
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15Running & Then Falling Down/Tripping suggested bymac121mr0
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16Phone battery dies
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17Characters of Color Almost Always Die First suggested bymac121mr0
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18Animal Scare suggested bymac121mr0
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19Families Knowingly Move Into Dangerous Homes or Take An Eternity To Move Out After Discovering Their Scary Histories suggested bymac121mr0
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20Supposedly dead villain gets up for one more attack suggested byzendaddy621
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21Decapitations suggested bymac121mr0
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22Virtuous female protagonist survives to the end suggested byzendaddy621
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23Splitting the Party. Every time. Even in the one movie, Scream, that was aware of the rules of horror movies. suggested byTom Reece
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24Gratuitous profanity suggested byChristian Frates
