Decay
Both words in one sentence
- Hellraiser: After two movies where Pinhead suffered Villain Decay and an overuse of splatter horror while losing the creepy atmosphere, the fifth movie in the series returns Pinhead to his roots and tones down the gore a lot by moving to mainly psychological horror.
Source: Surprisingly Improved Sequel - Trope Decay: In the past few years, the overuse of the term Alien Space Bats to mean "anything that seems implausible or not very probable to this board member" had lead to the erosion of its original meaning.
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