Horror has been around for long enough that its modern-day entries usually have to contend with genre tropes in some form or another. That’s especially true of horror movies, which have redefined how contemporary moviegoers see chainsaws, lonely cabins, Victorian manors, Halloween masks, and countless other pieces of horror iconography. As a result, most modern horror movies are forced to make a choice: either buck against their genre’s biggest tropes, or lean into them.
