bloggingrest.blogg.se - Tv tropes the darkness ii

In The Mummy (1999), Benni is trapped in the treasure room as the room is sealed off underground.

Masquerade (2021): After the burglars cut the power to Casey's house, Sofia wandering downstairs to investigate in the dark was never going to end well.

Averted with the first person to walk into the mist, who is seen very alive at the end. Surely, at daytime the mist is not dark, but you still can't see that far in front of you.

Jurassic Park has it with the raptors in the power station.

The sequence when Pepper goes into Section 16, where the Iron Monger awaits in the dark.

The beginning, when the terrorists are searching for Iron Man right before the killing starts.

I Am Legend, when Sam (the dog) follows a deer into a building.

The students cannot wait for nightfall and have to use their teamwork and superior knowledge of the school to fight back. They kill the only sighted person and pretty much ignore the helpless students. In the British TV Movie The Eyes Have It, assassins take over a school for the blind during a break, to turn it into a shooting post.Then Preston opens up using his Gun Fu, illuminating himself and small other parts of the room with muzzle flash, wiping out the mooks. After several seconds of gunfire intended for him, the room is completely dark, with the sense-offenders whisper to each other as to whether they got him. Another Christian Bale example in Equilibrium: during the raid on the sense-offender's camp/base in the Nether, Grammaton Cleric Preston arranges for the power and light to the last pocket of resistance to be cut, bursting into the room just as it goes dark.So all over the characters, as well as the audience, could only see as much as their helmet lights and glow sticks could show.

The Descent takes place in an underground cave.A Threatening Shark sneaks in and tries to kill her. Happens in Deep Blue Sea - female scientist goes into her dark, half-submerged room for files.The main character manages to survive his first encounter with the tooth fairy as a child, and then never goes into the darkness again until he's an adult. The "tooth fairy", a ghost of a woman who was heavily burned in life, experiences extreme pain and can be eventually destroyed when exposed to light, but can essentially teleport anywhere else. It is the outright basic gimmick of Darkness Falls.The 2002 Anna Paquin film Darkness, fits this trope to a T, as the unseen killers can only attack when there is no light.The night vision setting on the camera provides a very nice HOLY SHIT moment. There's a very eerie scene in Cloverfield where the main characters are walking through some pitch black subway tunnels and hear.

It turns out that the darkness was only half of it, since Eli was blind he wasn't handicapped by the shadows like they were, and the overpass served to heighten his already blindness-compensated sense of hearing, allowing him to react superhumanly fast.

Weaponized by the protagonist in The Book of Eli, Eli leads a gang of post-apocalyptic thugs into a dark overpass and slaughters them.

And again in The Dark Knight, when he's interrogating the Joker.

There's a good guy example in Batman Begins in the sequence on the docks, where Batman pulls a mob goon into said dark space.

Then something unseen yanks them into the dark, where they vanish without a trace.

In Banshee Chapter, several video recordings show various research subjects injected with a chemical designed for mind control purposes and restrained in a darkened room, with only a single light showing where they are.