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Titles of the definite-article + gerund format, i.e. "The [verb]ing".
The use of this format for titling Horror Films is sometimes parodied, and is usually a good indicator that the film is very definitely a B-Grade one. It's also a very easy way to give your sequel a memorable subtitle.
Compare Verbing Nouny. See also Stock Subtitle.
The Listing:[]
Film[]
- The Awakening
- The Burning
- The Changeling
- The Happening
- The Haunting
- Highlander II the Quickening
- The Howling
- The Killing
- The Reaping
- The Reckoning (multiple movies with this title)
- The Shining
- The Unearthling
Literature[]
- Bentley Little's novels The Summoning, The Walking, The Burning, The Vanishing
- The Gathering
- The Shunning
Live Action TV[]
- An in-universe example occurs on iCarly: Carly, Sam and Freddy help some friends make a trailer for a movie called... The Blowing.
- The Killing
Tabletop Games[]
Video Games[]
- Privateer 2: The Darkening
- The Baconing, the third part of the Death Spank saga.
- A cancelled title in the Castlevania series for the 32X would've gone by the name of Castlevania: The Bloodletting.
Webcomics[]
Western Animation[]
- Ruthlessly parodied in season 3 of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, with such episode titles as "The Shaving", "The Cubing", and of course, "The The".
- Also parodied in The Simpsons, when it is mentioned that Lenny had a bit part in a movie called "The Redeadening".
- The episode "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken" involves the kids wanting to see a movie called The Bloodening (a parody of Village of the Damned).
- Invader Zim: episode title "The Wettening".
- Futurama: episode title "The Honking".