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>Dark and mysterious scene
>"somethings out there"
>suspenseful music starts playing
>music swelling
>at its peak
>Something wacky/non-threatening reveals itself from the dark
>"See there was nothing to worry about ha-ha"
>Right after this an actual threat appears and kills everybody
Name 5 movies and 2 kinos where this happened.
>horror
>character looking for their friend
>calling out to them
>music swelling
>at peak friend pops out and scares them
>"IT'S JUST A PRANK BRO!"
>>71505925
Personally I've seen this trope dozens of times in TV, though I'm sure you could easily find 20+ horror movies with it
Is there a tvtrope name for it?
>>71505983
Found it just by searching 'false scare'
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CatScare
>>71505983
>"has" dozens of examples
>yet he still won't provide examples
>>71505983
its called "le spook n switch n spook"
>>71506056
It's right there on the page. If you want me to spoonfeed you:
>/tv/
Smallville
X-Files (tons of times, from personal experience)
Supernatural
LOST
Doctor Who
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
NCIS
Law and Order: SVU
Star Trek (tons of times, from personal experience)
Gotham
Hawaii Five-0
>film
Halloween II
Alien
Predator
Alien vs Predator
Friday the 13th
The Ring
Wrath of Khan
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Spectre
Amityville Horror
Fatal Instinct
Scream
When a Stranger Calls
Drag me to Hell
Pet Sematary
Cat People
Darkness Falls
I Am Legend
Battle LA
Chernobyl Diaries
Apocalypse Now
Sunshine
Jurassic Park II
Apocalypse now is kino, you can probably argue Alien is too
>>71506227
You wouldn't consider Wrath of Khan kino?
>>71506227
game Of thrones even did this.
>>71506310
The Motion Picture is the only Trekino, though WoK is a great film
