Basic Trope: A locked room turns out to be full of zombies.
- Straight: Bob and his friends are scouting for supplies in an abandoned house. Bob opens a door and fifteen zombies pour out.
- Exaggerated: Bob and his friends are scouting for supplies in an abandoned house. Bob opens a door and a hundred zombies pour out.
- Downplayed: On a scouting trip, Bob opens a door and a few zombies stagger out.
- Justified: Someone didn't have the heart to kill the Zombie Infectees, but knew it was important to isolate them.
- Inverted: Bob and his friends mow down a house full of zombies on a supply hunt. Bob opens a door to find a group of refugees huddled in the room.
- Subverted: Bob slowly opens a door and the music becomes tense...but it turns out to be a storage room for headshotted bodies that the previous owners couldn't bury because of the zombies.
- Doubly Subverted: ... However, once Bob turns around, a few bodies that weren't properly dealt with rise to their feet.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: ???
- Enforced: The movie is actually an Affectionate Parody of zombie films and the author wants to poke fun at all the common tropes of the genre.
- Lampshaded:Alice: I'll cover you while you open that door. You never know when someone might have put a dead relative in there.
- Implied: Bob has an iron set of rules about opening doors in groups of at least two and listening for any groans or snarls first.
- Invoked: One of the villains locks a Zombie Infectee in with several refugees and leaves the mess to hamper his unfortunate enemies.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Bob's group has the official policy to listen for zombie moans before opening any door to avoid this situation.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Oh, the old open-the-barrel-of-zombies moment."
- Deconstructed: ???
- Reconstructed: ???
Don't go into Room Full of Zombies! Are you crazy?
