Gregory Horror Show / YMMVTVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- Non. Commercial- Share. Alike 3. 0 Unported License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from thestaff@tvtropes. Hell Hotel - All The Tropes. Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know. A lovely family establishment. All the craziness that you avoid in the day- to- day business of life come to you in hotel rooms and eat your mind. The people they find dead in hotel rooms wouldn't have killed themselves at home. Hotel rooms don't care if you live or die. A page for describing Main: Gregory Horror Show. Note: This page was cut for reason. Follow TV Tropes. Browse TV Tropes; Ask The Tropers; Trope Finder;. Often, it's abandoned, and if it isn't, you have a good chance of being killed by your host. Similar to Abandoned Hospital and Inn of No Return. Gregory Horror Show Soul Collector Isolation. Criminal Minds (Series) - TV Tropes. The BAU Team, as of Season 1. Sometimes you do everything right. Gregory Horror Show/Characters. 1 Several characters share the following tropes: 2 Gregory; 3 The Guest; 4 Neko Zombie;. Gregory Horror Show. James being James in front of Gregory Mama. Follow TV Tropes. Browse TV Tropes; Ask The Tropers; Trope Finder;. Judgment Boy; Gregory; Horror Show; Hell’s Chef; Angel/Devil Dog; Items. Dirty Book; Angel Herb; Lost Souls;. Explore Wikis. The No- Tell Motel may be one. Like hospitals, they're insanely clean and kept in perfect order, giving the entire facility a sterile, inhuman atmosphere. Every room and floor is identical or near- identical, like a lavishly furnished chicken coop. It's so quiet, the employees are always smiling or out of sight, and the rooms are always tidied up when you're not looking. And those.. They know something is wrong with this hotel - maybe the guy at the front desk is more than a touch creepy, or they've overheard the townspeople talk about how they hate outsiders, or that the hotel is supposed to be almost fully booked but no one is around. Staying in a hotel with a lockable door is much more preferable than taking their chances sleeping in the car, or maybe they don't have a car at all. Maybe they even outright know that something might try to get them during the night, but staying outside is pure suicide. Either way, they're taking those room keys with a quiet sense of dread. Like, obscure even for them. The caretaker is trying to keep the guest there for all eternity, the other guests and staff alternate between trying to maim/kill the guest and drive them to insanity, and Gregory's mother wants to steal and eat the guest's soul. Oh and apparently once you sign in, true escape is impossible. Actually, that's not quite true.. Guests COULD have escaped, but they deliberately chose not to as they couldn't bring themselves to face reality. One Story Arc in Spawn involved a Hell Hotel, caused by the residents of an Apartment Complex being freed of personal restraint by The Violator. Hotel Shade had this quality, as lampshaded by Kathy and Lenny before they knew they were doomed to fight madness there. It didn't help that the first living tenant was a serial torture- killer, or the second one appeared to be a raving lunatic (he explained that he was a writer; they weren't reassured.) Corpses animated from the nearby graveyard, because that was the only way the Angels could communicate with Shade, but no one had any idea what was animating the hotel staff. Spoofed in some of Verizon's many . The Bates Motel from Psycho. The Hotel Earle from Barton Fink. Starting with the name. The Overlook Hotel in The Shining. Stanley Kubrick laid the set out intentionally to mess with viewers' (and actors') perceptions. Room Fourteen Oh Eight. Good lord, 1. 40. Room 1. 40. 8. The rest of the Dolphin Hotel is quite nice. The hotel in The Lost Boys The hotel from Vacancy. The hotel in Silent Hill is where the Big Bad is staying. Identity was set in a motel no character could leave. The Hollywood Tower Hotel in the Made for TV Movie. Tower of Terror, based, of course, on the Hollywood Studios ride. The Crosses the Line Twice shootout finale of The Punisher: War Zone takes place at one of these. Motel Hell, where stranded travelers are rendered mute, 'planted' up to their necks in a garden behind the motel, then processed into smoked meats. The hotel in See no Evil, inhabited by an Ax Crazy serial killer with a penchant for ripping out people's eyes. The abandoned desert motel from Resident Evil Extinction. The eponymous B& B from Dead and Breakfast: home to Sealed Evil in a Can that touches off a Zombie Apocalypse. The Red Inn, name of five movies (between 1. In that hostel, the customers are killed at nighttime and their money stolen while the bodies are buried in the garden. Exactly where Barbara goes to look for help in Dagon. Hostel Both from Stephen King, The Overlook Hotel in The Shining (King describes the place as follows: . Only one room is actually a portal to something hellish, the rest of the hotel is quite pleasant and the manager tries his damnedest to make sure no one but he and a select few of the staff go into that room. The Talisman, co- written with Peter Straub, had two of these, one at the start where Lilly slowly died of cancer and then one at the end where the Talisman was held. The sub- trope of . Marion Crawford's short story . Published 1. 89. 4, this sub- trope is thus Older Than Television and almost- but- not- quite Older Than Radio. There's the motel at . That's a pretty creepy place. It is abandoned, but not technically haunted. Parodied in the animal fantasy novel Welkin Weasels: Vampire Voles!, in which Scruff, for a prank, tricks Maudlin into thinking that their host is a serial killer. The Gilman House, in H. P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth. Even more so in the game, Dark Corners of the Earth, where the innkeeper's diary reveals that he routinely tortures and murders his customers for lulz. The Hotel Denouement in A Series of Unfortunate Events is a variant. Although it's not especially creepy or unpleasant for the guests, the protagonists are employed there (under the bizarre or nonexistent child labor laws of their universe) as concierges. The hotel is organised by the Dewey Decimal System . Also, the children are not given breaks, even for sleeping, they just have to kind of doze at the concierge desk. The Right Inn, where a very set- in- his- routine salesman passes out from the sheer horror. Frank Herbert's short story Gambling Device. There is a short story about a family that comes across this.. Turns out there's nothing supernatural about it.. And this was in a book aimed atchildren. Sarah Monette's short story The Devil in Gaylord's Creek features one of these. Inverted in Jean- Paul Sartre's play No Exit. Rather than have a hellish hotel, Hell itself is a hotel, a fairly normal one at that, in which the furnishings of the room and the people you are assigned to live with are designed precisely to drive you crazy. Also an Ironic Hell and Self- Inflicted Hell. The Percy Jackson and The Olympians series has the Lotus Hotel and Casino, a modernized version of the Island of the Lotus Eaters from The Odyssey. People go in, get sucked into the awesome food and activities, and lose all track of time. Most people aren't that lucky, and they end up trapped for years. The Give Yourself Goosebumps book . For starters, the mint on your pillow makes you a ghost. Somehow. Live Action TV. The Hyperion Hotel on Angel was abandoned and haunted for several decades by a demon that fed off people's fear. Later a vampire and other assorted beings killed the demon and took control of the hotel themselves - but since they're the heroes, it probably doesn't count anymore. Supernatural. The episode . The episode . An aging hotel is suddenly transformed into a Haunted Castle- esque one with a vampire waiter, an ogre bellboy, etc. Meanwhile, the confused owner tries to conduct business as usual despite the fact that he's slowly turning into a wolfman. Even Death takes a holiday here! The Candlewick Inn from Harper's Island. An episode of Newhart had Dick and Joanna traveling through a very rural area, only to stop at a small motel. The M in the Motel sign had burned out, prompting Dick to call it . The Sunshine Motel from The Lost Room could be considered this. The Criminal Minds episode . Parodied in the . The Trotters become stranded in Margate, but cannot find anywhere to stay the night, so they end up in a terrifying- looking guest house which in Rodney's words . On the surface the song describes the tale of a weary traveler who becomes trapped in a nightmarish luxury hotel that, at first, appeared inviting and tempting. The video for . Think of it as Max Fleischerpresents. Fourteen Oh Eight. The video for . In the video, the band members wander the corridors of an otherwise deserted hotel, encountering various ghostly inhabitants before respectively coming face- to- face with their own evil, tuxedoed dopplegangers. The band wanders around the hotel, encounters the twins, and gets lost in a human maze. Homer and Jethro's song . That tends to look bad on any hotel's record. A real example, the . Since then, the economy roared and now once again whimpers, and in all that time the structures remain left behind, the only thing complete being the parking lot. In Fallout 3 the Statesman Hotel. It is filled to the brim with Super Mutants, Centaurs, and mines. You can come here for an optional sidequest to save the Riley's Rangers. There are three explorable rooms. D holds a dead Chinese spy killed before he could start his mission. G holds the skeletons of two bank robbers who died in a gunfight with each over about how to split the cash. Finally 1. K holds a Clown Masked serial killer'sbloody satanic altar.. Fallout: New Vegas brings us the El Rey Motel. Every bit as ramshackle as the Statesman, but populated with angry drug addicts instead of Super Mutants. There's only one luxury hotel on Super Mario Sunshine's Isle Delfino, and it's haunted. The hotel in the game Gregory Horror Show for the Play. Station 2 wasn't exactly haunted.. But the guests in the game definitely made it hell. In Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines the player character must exorcise the two ghosts trapped in the Ocean House Hotel. This is also where Heather Poe, your ghoul, meets her unfortunate death. What really makes the first hotel scary is the cleverest element about it. It builds up the tension throughout your progression through the building, relying on atmosphere and environment along with the build- up of this brutal murder story to make the player psych him/herself out. It keeps building and building, and you're waiting for something to happen—some monster to pop out and fight you. As a game reviewer, this troper has played a lot of scary games, but that hotel is the only time I've almost jumped out of my seat because of it.
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