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** The latter is [[SubevertedTrope quickly subverted]] when Douglas [[spoiler: murders Matt]].
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** The latter is [[SubevertedTrope [[SubvertedTrope quickly subverted]] when Douglas [[spoiler: murders Matt]].
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* ImperiledInPregnancy: [[FinalGirl Mandy]] reveals that she's pregnant. She's no safer from the monster than anyone else. However, it's [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] and eventually [[SubvertedTrope]] subverted, as she's visibly very early into her pregnancy, and winds up being a PregnantBadass that manages to survive on her own.
* Jerkass: Douglas does little more than stand in everyone's way and be obnoxiously aggressive.
* Jerkass: Douglas does little more than stand in everyone's way and be obnoxiously aggressive.
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* ImperiledInPregnancy: [[FinalGirl Mandy]] reveals that she's pregnant. She's no safer from the monster than anyone else. However, it's [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] and eventually [[SubvertedTrope]] subverted, [[SubvertedTrope subverted]], as she's visibly very early into her pregnancy, and winds up being a PregnantBadass that manages to survive on her own.
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* LackOfEmpathy: Douglas seems to have no concern for others losing their loved ones at best, or [[Jerkass actively inflicts more emotional damage against them]] at worst.
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* LackOfEmpathy: Douglas seems to have no concern for others losing their loved ones at best, or [[Jerkass [[{{Jerkass}} actively inflicts more emotional damage against them]] at worst.
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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Douglas's wife Barbara is the first to die. Inverted with [[spoiler: [[DecoyProtagonist Alissa]], who is the last to die]].
* BuryYourGays: Sean and [[spoiler: Jeff]] both die.
* BuryYourGays: Sean and [[spoiler: Jeff]] both die.
* DoubleTap: [[spoiler: Mandy]] does this to one of the monsters [[CarFu with a car]].
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* {{Jerkass}}: ImperiledInPregnancy: [[FinalGirl Mandy]] reveals that she's pregnant. She's no safer from the monster than anyone else. However, it's [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] and eventually [[SubvertedTrope]] subverted, as she's visibly very early into her pregnancy, and winds up being a PregnantBadass that manages to survive on her own.
* Jerkass: Douglas does little more than stand in everyone's way and be obnoxiously aggressive.
* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler: Carl and Sean]], though the former's body is seen later.
* Jerkass: Douglas does little more than stand in everyone's way and be obnoxiously aggressive.
* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler: Carl and Sean]], though the former's body is seen later.
* LackOfEmpathy: Douglas seems to have no concern for others losing their loved ones at best, or [[Jerkass actively inflicts more emotional damage against them]] at worst.
* TheLeader: Carl, at first. [[spoiler: Alissa takes this role after he dies, with most of the others deferring to her judgement.]]
* TheLoad: Vicky doesn't do much throughout the film. She's presented as much more sympathetic than most examples.
* TheLeader: Carl, at first. [[spoiler: Alissa takes this role after he dies, with most of the others deferring to her judgement.]]
* TheLoad: Vicky doesn't do much throughout the film. She's presented as much more sympathetic than most examples.
* PetTheDog: After [[spoiler: Carl]] dies, Douglas admits he was the most capable of the group. He also admits to liking Alissa's idea to [[KillItWithFire burn the titular creature]] better than using anyone as bait.
** The latter is [[SubevertedTrope quickly subverted]] when Douglas [[spoiler: murders Matt]].
* PregnantBadass: Even after watching everyone else die, Mandy still manages to save herself and kill one of the monsters by running it over.
** The latter is [[SubevertedTrope quickly subverted]] when Douglas [[spoiler: murders Matt]].
* PregnantBadass: Even after watching everyone else die, Mandy still manages to save herself and kill one of the monsters by running it over.
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: Very shortly after [[spoiler: murdering Matt]] to use him as bait, [[spoiler: Douglas]] is killed by the creature.
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* SemperFi: Early on in the film, the group find a somewhat faded U.S. Marine Corps patch on the ground. One character ponders what the Marines would be doing out in the middle of nowhere. It’s possible this was meant to suggest that the creatures were created by the government and the military was either testing them or trying to destroy them after they got loose. This is pure speculation however as this plot point is never addressed in the film again.
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* SemperFi: Early on in the film, the group find a somewhat faded U.S. Marine Corps patch on the ground. [[AmbiguousSituation One character ponders what the Marines would be doing out in the middle of nowhere.nowhere]]. It’s possible this was meant to suggest that the creatures were created by the government and the military was either testing them or trying to destroy them after they got loose. This is pure speculation however as this plot point is never addressed in the film again.again.
* SoleSurvivor: [[FinalGirl Mandy]] is the only one to survive.
* SoleSurvivor: [[FinalGirl Mandy]] is the only one to survive.
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* GoryDiscretionShot: [[spoiler: Carl]]'s death is left offscreen, with only some blood splattering onto his light to signify it.
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Carl]] pulls one of these trying to save an injured Matt.
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Carl]] pulls one of these trying to save an injured Matt. [[spoiler: Doubles as SenselessSacrifice when Douglas murders Matt shortly thereafter.]]
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Carl]] pulls one of these trying to save an injured Matt.
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** [[spoiler: Carl]] is initially presented as the calm, heroic leader of the group from the [[ActionPrologue group from the opening]], and retains shades of this after the college students meet up with him. [[spoiler: It doesn't save him.]]
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** [[spoiler: Carl]] is initially presented as the calm, heroic leader [[TheLeader leader]] of the group from the [[ActionPrologue group from the opening]], and retains shades of this after the college students meet up with him. [[spoiler: It doesn't save him.]]
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* CampGay: Sean has all the stereotypical mannerisms of a gay man, which hints at TheReveal that he was [[spoiler: secretly in a relationship with Jeff]].
* DecoyProtagonist: Both [[spoiler: Carl]] and [[spoiler: Alissa]] have shades of this, the latter more so.
** [[spoiler: Carl]] is initially presented as the calm, heroic leader of the group from the [[ActionPrologue group from the opening]], and retains shades of this after the college students meet up with him. [[spoiler: It doesn't save him.]]
** [[spoiler: Alissa]] is initially presented as the movie's FinalGirl. She's calm, resourceful, and [[TheSmartGuy relatively intelligent]] when compared to the others in her group. She's also [[TheHeart the emotional centerpiece]] of the group, which consists of her brother, her best friend, her boyfriend, and her brother's [[spoiler: secret [[CampGay lover]].]] She makes it very far into the movie, [[spoiler: but still dies at the end]].
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** [[spoiler: Alissa]] is initially presented as the movie's FinalGirl. She's calm, resourceful, and [[TheSmartGuy relatively intelligent]] when compared to the others in her group. She's also [[TheHeart the emotional centerpiece]] of the group, which consists of her brother, her best friend, her boyfriend, and her brother's [[spoiler: secret [[CampGay lover]].]] She makes it very far into the movie, [[spoiler: but still dies at the end]].
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* FinalGirl: Allison has all the makings of one, being a capable girl with a strong sense of justice and the wits to try to keep the group in check. [[spoiler:Sadly, she doesn't make it to the end, being killed by the second monster, leaving Mandy with this title.]]
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* FinalGirl: Allison Alissa has all the makings of one, being a capable girl with a strong sense of justice and the wits to try to keep the group in check. [[spoiler:Sadly, she doesn't make it to the end, being killed by the second monster, leaving Mandy with this title.]]
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* KillItWithFire: Allison comes up with the idea of killing the creature by trapping it inside the house and setting the whole thing on fire, letting it burn to death. [[spoiler:It works for the first one.]]
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** [[spoiler:Mandy was pregnant with Jeff's child and Jeff and Sean turn out to be in love with each other, despite Jeff being in a relationship already.]]
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** [[spoiler:Mandy was pregnant with Jeff's child child, and Jeff and Sean turn out to be in love with each other, despite Jeff being in a relationship already.]]
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* IdiotBall: After coming across the monster for the first time, one of the characters has the genius idea of throwing a rock at/towards it in order to scare it away. Right, [[SarcasmMode because the first time you see a bipedal monster that you have reason to believe has already killed a person, your first instinct is going to be to try and scare it instead of running like hell]].
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* TheEndOrIsIt: While Mandy [[spoiler:manages to kill the second creature and presumably drive away to safety, a third creature then appears and inspects the corpse of its deceased kin. The creature then cries out, suggesting it is calling to even more creatures which implies that there may be a far greater number of them out there.]]
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* DiabolusExNihilo: Neither the characters nor we of the audience receive any insight into what the monsters in the film are. Where did they come from? How long have they existed? Are they a natural creature that just went unnoticed until now or are they some kind of mutants? Your guess is as good as anyone’s.
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[[caption-width-right:250:[[{{Tagline}} It's feeding time.]]]]
''Animal'' is an American 2014 horror thiller film directed by Brett Simmons.
The movie follows a group of five college students on a camping trip to the woods, with one of them guiding them to find a waterfall. Getting lost in the way, however, causes the group to come across a group of savage beasts bent on killing them for food, and they're chased into a cabin in the woods, trapping them together with a group of previous survivors, sieged under the attacks of the creatures, they try to figure out a way to survive.
The movie had a limited released and through VOD.
!Tropes
* ActionPrologue: The movie starts with 2 couples running through the woods, trying to get away from an unseen assailant, with one of them dying, dragged away by the creature. After that, the movie cuts to the five college students driving to the woods.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Everyone besides Mandy is dead, who managed to kill one of the monsters and leave the woods, but there are more creatures out there, and they might have picked up her scent.]]
* CarFu: [[spoiler:Mandy kills the second monster when it gets atop of the car, letting it drop forward then running over him, and driving back over him once more.]]
* ClosedCircle: The main characters get trapped in a cabin, trying to find some protection from the monsters. While it does help to keep them at bay, they're also now sieged inside the house with the other three survivors as the monster circle around the place.
* FinalGirl: Allison has all the makings of one, being a capable girl with a strong sense of justice and the wits to try to keep the group in check. [[spoiler:Sadly, she doesn't make it to the end, being killed by the second monster, leaving Mandy with this title.]]
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Douglas attempts to justify trapping Sean and Carl to die outside the cabin with the monster as this, referring to it as simply a hard decision he had to make.
* {{Jerkass}}:
* KillItWithFire: Allison comes up with the idea of killing the creature by trapping it inside the house and setting the whole thing on fire, letting it burn to death. [[spoiler:It works for the first one.]]
* MoodWhiplash: [[spoiler:While Matt is dying, he shares a sweet moment with Alissa, only for a newly released Douglas to immediately take that opportunity to bash Matt's head to death.]]
* TheReveal:
** [[spoiler:Mandy was pregnant with Jeff's child and Jeff and Sean turn out to be in love with each other, despite Jeff being in a relationship already.]]
** [[spoiler:The monster is not alone. There's at least three of them.]]
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Jeff, the biggest and most physically fit member of the team is the first one to get killed right after the group finds a cabin.]]
* SuperPersistentPredator: Once the creature had set sight on the members of the group, it will not rest until it has eaten them.
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[[caption-width-right:250:[[{{Tagline}} It's feeding time.]]]]
''Animal'' is an American 2014 horror thiller film directed by Brett Simmons.
The movie follows a group of five college students on a camping trip to the woods, with one of them guiding them to find a waterfall. Getting lost in the way, however, causes the group to come across a group of savage beasts bent on killing them for food, and they're chased into a cabin in the woods, trapping them together with a group of previous survivors, sieged under the attacks of the creatures, they try to figure out a way to survive.
The movie had a limited released and through VOD.
!Tropes
* ActionPrologue: The movie starts with 2 couples running through the woods, trying to get away from an unseen assailant, with one of them dying, dragged away by the creature. After that, the movie cuts to the five college students driving to the woods.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Everyone besides Mandy is dead, who managed to kill one of the monsters and leave the woods, but there are more creatures out there, and they might have picked up her scent.]]
* CarFu: [[spoiler:Mandy kills the second monster when it gets atop of the car, letting it drop forward then running over him, and driving back over him once more.]]
* ClosedCircle: The main characters get trapped in a cabin, trying to find some protection from the monsters. While it does help to keep them at bay, they're also now sieged inside the house with the other three survivors as the monster circle around the place.
* FinalGirl: Allison has all the makings of one, being a capable girl with a strong sense of justice and the wits to try to keep the group in check. [[spoiler:Sadly, she doesn't make it to the end, being killed by the second monster, leaving Mandy with this title.]]
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Douglas attempts to justify trapping Sean and Carl to die outside the cabin with the monster as this, referring to it as simply a hard decision he had to make.
* {{Jerkass}}:
* KillItWithFire: Allison comes up with the idea of killing the creature by trapping it inside the house and setting the whole thing on fire, letting it burn to death. [[spoiler:It works for the first one.]]
* MoodWhiplash: [[spoiler:While Matt is dying, he shares a sweet moment with Alissa, only for a newly released Douglas to immediately take that opportunity to bash Matt's head to death.]]
* TheReveal:
** [[spoiler:Mandy was pregnant with Jeff's child and Jeff and Sean turn out to be in love with each other, despite Jeff being in a relationship already.]]
** [[spoiler:The monster is not alone. There's at least three of them.]]
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Jeff, the biggest and most physically fit member of the team is the first one to get killed right after the group finds a cabin.]]
* SuperPersistentPredator: Once the creature had set sight on the members of the group, it will not rest until it has eaten them.
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