Bingo CardsHorror Trope Bingo Cards
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These bingo cards contain 66 horror-genre tropes and clichés for college students and adult audiences on a 5×5 grid. The word list includes classic archetypes like the Final Girl and masked killer, common plot devices like twist villains and revenge plots, and recurring visual and audio elements like creaky floorboards and blood splatter. Use them during horror-film screenings, literature courses covering the genre, or as an icebreaker for movie nights and horror-themed events.
Word List
- Final Girl
- Woodsy setting
- Cannibalism, metaphorical or literal
- "What was that?" or similar question
- A knife!
- Dark, stormy, and/or night
- Skeptic is very, very wrong
- Someone trips over something
- The word "bloodcurdling"
- Abandoned property
- Unknowable eldritch monster is unknowable and eldritch
- Creepy kids
- Behind you!
- MC is secretly the monster/killer
- Police report/newspaper clipping/etc.
- Vampires
- Ghosts
- Werewolves
- Zombies
- Somebody loses a body part
- Comic relief dies
- Somebody tells a spooky story
- A body is found
- Spiders/bugs
- Revenge plot
- Masked killer
- Aliens, robots, or evil science
- Demons
- Someone is possessed
- Spooky message left for the MC
- Twist villain
- REALLY bad smell
- A wild harbinger appears!
- Clowns or dolls
- The lights go out
- The phrase "pitch black" or "pitch dark"
- MC follows a weird sound
- MC dies
- The killer reveals their identity
- Creaky floorboards
- Improvised weapon
- Poison/drugs
- Someone disappears
- Scream in the distance
- Teenaged protagonist(s)
- The phrase "too late"
- MC is too slow to escape
- Something is hidden underground
- Rusty/rusted metal
- Eww, gross!
- Meat, teeth, or butchery
- Off-page death
- On-page death
- Cults/cultists
- Blood splatter of any kind
- Trespassing
- Monster/killer dies
- A door shuts/locks on its own
- Backed into a corner
- Deus ex machina
- The killer has a signature style
- Creepy animals
- Villain monologue
- Evil laughter
- Sacrifice, ritual or otherwise
- Very hot or very cold weather
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