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** Detective Brown's Niece
** Ghetty's Girl
** All members of Gil's Gang
** Gil's Little Brother
** Undercover Officer
** Many of the people at Jay's party
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** Ghetty's Girl
** All members of Gil's Gang
** Gil's Little Brother
** Undercover Officer
** Many of the people at Jay's party
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** Ghetty's Girl
** All members of Gil's Gang
** Gil's Little Brother
** Undercover Officer
** Many of the people at Jay's party
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* HairTriggerTemper: Stokes beats up Winston for lightly bumping into him, even though the latter apologized for it. Then, later when the gang are talking about how Jay once beat up Stokes, he nearly blows Chauncey's head off for making fun of him.

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* DeathBySex: Ghetty gets his throat slashed while receiving oral.



* OutWithABang: Ghetty gets his throat slashed while receiving oral.



* PsychoKnifeNut: The South Central Slasher's WeaponOfChoice is the knife on the movie poster.

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* KnifeNut: The South Central Slasher's WeaponOfChoice is the knife on the movie poster.


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''Cutthroat Alley'' is a 2003 American SlasherMovie directed by Timothy Wayne Folsome.

A masked SerialKiller is targeting a specific gang in South Central, Los Angeles. As his homies are killed off, the leader, Robinson "Jay" Jacobs tries to find the killer before he himself is blamed for the murders.

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!!This film contains examples of:

* AbusiveParents: Winston's Father, though it's never clear if it was physical or sexual. Also, when Stokes pulls a gun on Chauncey, he says the only person who would whoop his ass, is his mama.
* AssholeVictim:
** Brian Stokes, a jerkass that is antagonistic towards his own gang members and beats up Winston, just for bumping into him.
** Winston accidentally kills his father, when the latter tries to abuse him.
* AttemptedRape: [[spoiler:Half Pint]] tries to rape Angie, upon being revealed. Luckily, she manages to bite [[spoiler:his]] lip and escape.
* BigBad: The South Central Slasher/[[spoiler:Bones and Half Pint]]
* CoolMask: The South Central Slasher's skull mask.
* DeathBySex: Ghetty gets his throat slashed while receiving oral.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Stokes beats the crap out of Winston for lightly bumping into him, and later pulls a gun on Chauncey, simply for cracking a joke.
* EvilPlan: [[spoiler:The killers' was to kill Jay's gang and girlfriend, frame him, and walk out looking like heroes.]]
* EveryoneIsASuspect: Pretty much everyone is set up to have motives for the murders.
* FrameUp: The South Central Slasher tries to frame Jay; by putting the bloody knife, gloves, and hoodie in his gym bag.
* FreudianExcuse:
** [[spoiler:Bones hates his former gang for selling him out to the police and getting him locked up in prison for fifteen years, where he "lost his manhood"[[note]]It's not really clear what this means, but it could either mean he was [[PrisonRape raped in prison]] or had his [[GroinAttack genitals cut off]].[[/note]]]]
* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: As Jay points out: [[spoiler:it is entirely Bones' fault for getting locked up, as he killed a guy in cold blood.]]
* HairTriggerTemper: Stokes beats up Winston for lightly bumping into him, even though the latter apologized for it. Then, later when the gang are talking about how Jay once beat up Stokes, he nearly blows Chauncey's head off for making fun of him.
* IBangedYourMom: When Jay and his gang meet with Gil to talk about the murders, Gil insults Chauncey's music and the latter responds with: "Nah, what you heard last night, was me banging your mother."
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: When Rome is stabbed in the back, the knife sticks out through his chest.
* InTheHood: The killer wears a black hoodie.
* JerkassHasAPoint: When interrogated by Detectives Brown and Anderson, Gil mentions that if he were to kill someone, he'd just shoot them, instead of using a knife like the South Central Slasher does.
-->'''Gil:''' It's too messy. I'd just blow their head off.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Half Pint evades being arrested and presumably comes back to kill Angie at the end.]]
* KilledOffscreen:
** Winston's Father, only mentioned.
** Mr. Jacobs, there's a gunshot and a body shown, but the actual murder is not shown.
** Detective Brown's Niece, only mentioned.
** Undercover Officer, found later with his throat slashed.
** Chauncey, found by Ray, bleeding from several stab wounds.
** Gil's Little Brother, only mentioned.
* KnifeNut: The South Central Slasher's WeaponOfChoice is the knife on the movie poster.
* MeaningfulLook: [[spoiler:Bones reveals himself to Angie, by doing the same finger-to-mouth gesture he did while in disguise, when he attacked her earlier at her house.]]
* NoNameGiven:
** Detective Brown's Niece
** Ghetty's Girl
** All members of Gil's Gang
** Gil's Little Brother
** Undercover Officer
** Many of the people at Jay's party
* OneNameOnly:
** Angie
** Chauncey
** Detective Brown
** Detective Anderson
** Gil
** Mr. Jacobs
** Mrs. Jacobs
** Mr. Lewis
** Mr. Parks
** Mrs. Parks
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname:
** Bones
** Ghetty
** Half Pint
** Rome
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Jay drops the f-slur[[note]]faggot[[/note]] during the killer's MotiveRant.
* RedHerring:
** Mrs. Jacobs says she doesn't like Jay's gang and doesn't want them hanging around her house anymore. Sometime, after she wields a kitchen knife, and the framing of the knife is very similar to how the killer's knife was framed during the opening kills.
** Detective Brown is revealed to have had a niece that got killed in the crossfire of a gang war between Jay's crew and Gil's crew.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler:Bones and Half Pint committed the murders in order to take revenge on his former gang that sold him out to police and got him sent to prison.]]
* SlashedThroat:
** The opening victims, Ghetty and his date.
** Terri, though she doesn't die from it. She's killed by a final stab to her back.
** The undercover officer sent to surveil Jay.
* TheReveal: When the killer attacks Angie, she pulls off their mask, revealing [[spoiler:Half Pint]]'s face underneath. Also, [[spoiler:there are two killers. The other one is Bones.]]
* WhiteMaskOfDoom: The killer's skull mask is white.
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