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*** Cooper admits that his worst fear apart from spiders is women. [[spoiler:The token female character, Meg, is; to Cooper's bitter disappointment, an incognito werewolf in human form who betrays him and the other soldiers, securing the deaths of Cooper's comrades-in-arms]].

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*** Cooper admits that his worst fear apart from spiders is women. [[spoiler:The token female character, Meg, is; is - to Cooper's bitter disappointment, disappointment - an incognito werewolf in human form who betrays him and the other soldiers, securing the deaths of Cooper's comrades-in-arms]].

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* AbandonedCampRuins:
** Although only mentioned rather than seen, Cooper mentions that the tent of the couple who were attacked in the opening was found ripped to shreds with blood everywhere.
** The evening after Ryan's team are massacred, the platoon finds their destroyed camp, spared ammunition, a few shed entrails, and a traumatized Ryan.



* AmmunitionConservation: Since the platoon believed they were on a routine training exercise, their live ammunition is limited to little more than what they scavenged from Ryan's camp and they have to worry about conserving it. Their ammunition being whittled down against the werewolves is fuel for tension as the movie goes on.



* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Cooper and Sam the dog both make it out alive and back to civilization, but they're the only two survivors out of the cast and Cooper's entire squad is dead. Whilst Cooper does get word and photos of the werewolves out as the Sarge ordered him to, the closing credits make it seem likely that no-one except for tabloids are going to take his story or the werewolf photos seriously]].

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Cooper [[spoiler:Half if not all of the murderous werewolves are dead, and Cooper and Sam the dog both make it out alive and back to civilization, but they're the only two survivors out of the cast and Cooper's entire squad is dead. Whilst Cooper does get word and photos of the werewolves out as the Sarge ordered him to, the closing credits make it seem likely that no-one except for tabloids are going to take his story or the werewolf photos seriously]].



** In the scene where the soldiers are describing their worst fears around the campfire, most of their fears in some way reflect their deaths, or they reflect other grave misfortunes in the case of the survivors.
*** Bruce describes his worst fear as "the self-destructive nature of the human condition." When his gun jams while he's alone with a werewolf pursuing him, he flees and, in his panic, doesn't notice himself fatally running himself through on a tree branch until it's too late.
*** Joe's worst fear is, [[ObsessiveSportsFan unsurprisingly]], football-related. He spends the movie bemoaning missing out on an England-vs.-Germany match, [[spoiler:and he dies never having found out who won the match]]. The same applies to Terry, who snarks that his worst fear is watching a penalty shootout with Joe.
*** Spoon's worst fear is castration. [[spoiler:Ironically, he dies in a very macho way, brutally beating a werewolf down with nothing but kitchen utensils like a berserker out of myth, and he's DefiantToTheEnd when the werewolves finally tear him apart]].
*** Cooper admits that his worst fear apart from spiders is women. [[spoiler:The token female character, Meg, is; to Cooper's bitter disappointment, an incognito werewolf in human form who betrays him and the other soldiers, securing the deaths of Cooper's comrades-in-arms]].
*** The Sarge admits he's scared by the supernatural (fitting the antagonistic threat of the movie), but he also says that the thought of never seeing his wife against scares the shit out of him. [[spoiler:He never ''does'' get to come home from that "training exercise", and he even looks at a picture of his wife one last time during his final moments to accentuate it]].



** At one point, Megan is surprised by Cooper's realisation that the "kind" owners of the house are the werewolves [[spoiler: but her earlier comment that it's just a medieval myth that werewolves have monobrows makes it clear that she has seen their human forms, so is obviously lying about how much she knows]]. Unfortunately, none of the characters notice the contradiction.



** [[spoiler: Megan starts playing the piano, the song? Clair De Lune, literally translated? ''Moonlight''.]]

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** [[spoiler: Megan starts playing the piano, the piano. The song? Clair [[spoiler:''Clair De Lune, Lune'', literally translated? translated ''Moonlight''.]]]]
** At one point, Megan is surprised by Cooper's realisation that the "kind" owners of the house are the werewolves [[spoiler: but her earlier comment that it's just a medieval myth that werewolves have monobrows makes it clear that she has seen their human forms, so is obviously lying about how much she knows]]. Unfortunately, none of the characters notice the contradiction.
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* DevouredByTheHorde: [[spoiler: Spoon's DyingMomentOfAwesome is quickly followed by grisly footage of the werewolves eating most of his body; the few remaining survivors find his nametag in a mess of guts and bones.]]

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* DevouredByTheHorde: [[spoiler: Spoon's DyingMomentOfAwesome is quickly followed by grisly footage of the werewolves eating most of his body; the few remaining survivors find his nametag the watch Sarge gave him in a mess of guts and bones.]]

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* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: Spoon's epic performance with the flares.

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* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: Spoon's epic performance with the flares.flares, as he runs around the cottage, draws all the attention to himself ''and makes it back in a single piece'', completely unscratched.


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* ImpromptuFortress: A small, quaint cottage gets turned into as strongly fortified as the characters can make it, but it involves things ranging from nailing doors shut, through boarding windows and ending with just piling up furniture for ''[[AbsurdlyIneffectiveBarricade some]]'' barrier, no matter how temporal.
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* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: [[ShootTheDog Shoot this dog]]. He refuses.

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* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: Captain Ryan tests the loyalty of potential soldiers for his unit by ordering them to [[ShootTheDog Shoot this shoot a dog]]. Cooper refuses. He refuses.even points out that he would shoot a dog if the dog was attacking him, not just for the hell of it.
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* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: They physically resemble the depiction established by ''Film/TheHowling''. While transformed, they operate like a pack and are [[ItCanThink tactical]]. They transform during the full moon, but can resist the transformation if they wish, though apparently not until the night's end. Silver weapons don't kill them, but they do cancel out their NighInvulnerability. When not harmed by silver, they're impervious to and recover from being pumped full of lead and having their faces scalded, but can be killed with ''lots of'' fire.

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* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: They physically resemble the depiction established by ''Film/TheHowling''.''Film/TheHowling1981''. While transformed, they operate like a pack and are [[ItCanThink tactical]]. They transform during the full moon, but can resist the transformation if they wish, though apparently not until the night's end. Silver weapons don't kill them, but they do cancel out their NighInvulnerability. When not harmed by silver, they're impervious to and recover from being pumped full of lead and having their faces scalded, but can be killed with ''lots of'' fire.
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* BlindingCameraFlash: Used deliberately by Megan, since the werewolves are NoSell to conventional attacks.

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* BlindingCameraFlash: Used deliberately by Megan, since the werewolves are NoSell to conventional attacks. [[spoiler: The resulting photos end up being part of the end credits, after Cooper failed to get any sort of media attention with them]].
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He is referencing the historical skirmish, not its depiction in the movie


** Spoon directly references ''Film/{{Zulu}}'' when he compares their situation with the werewolves to the British Army's stand against the huge contingent of Zulu warriors. [[SignatureScene "Men of Harlech" is also name-dropped]].

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* TheSiege: The main point of the plot is a squad of soldiers being besieged by werewolves in a small cottage in the middle of nowhere.

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* TheSiege: The main point of the plot is a squad of soldiers being besieged by werewolves in a small cottage ([[spoiler: that happens to belong to said werewolves]]) in the middle of nowhere.



** To ''Film/JurassicPark'', with [[spoiler: one soldier's demise being shown in a manner visibly evocative of Dennis Nedry's- an outside shot of a car violently rocking back and forth while someone inside is being mauled and eaten]].



** Spoon directly references ''Film/{{Zulu}}'' when he compares their situation with the werewolves to the British Army's stand against the huge contingent of Zulu warriors.

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** Spoon directly references ''Film/{{Zulu}}'' when he compares their situation with the werewolves to the British Army's stand against the huge contingent of Zulu warriors. [[SignatureScene "Men of Harlech" is also name-dropped]].
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[[caption-width-right:300:''[[TagLine Six men. Full moon. No chance.]]'']]

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* DaylightHorror: Just before nightfall, the squad, in a clearing, find the deserted, gore-strewn Special Forces camp. Shortly afterwards, the Lycanthropes can be seen flitting through the trees.



* DigitalDestruction: The 2015 collector’s edition Blu-ray by Scream Factory, while praised for its expansive supplementary material, was widely criticized for a near colorless, and ''very'' grainy picture transfer. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] as director Neil Marshall (who worked alongside Shout! Factory on the Blu-ray), [[WordOfGod confirmed that they were unable to locate the original negatives at the time and had to use the best available sources for the new HD transfer]].

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* DigitalDestruction: The 2015 collector’s collector's edition Blu-ray by Scream Factory, while praised for its expansive supplementary material, was widely criticized for a near colorless, and ''very'' grainy picture transfer. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] as director Neil Marshall (who worked alongside Shout! Factory on the Blu-ray), [[WordOfGod confirmed that they were unable to locate the original negatives at the time and had to use the best available sources for the new HD transfer]].
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* DoomedTacticalTeam: Sergeant Well's Section finds themselves outmatched in the face of the Werewolves, as were Captain Ryan's SAS Patrol during their ill-fated off screen mission.
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** Ryan remotely observing the team and saying on the radio that the "flock" are entering the "fold" is an odd way for someone playing the enemy in the training exercise to alert his team to their arrival [[spoiler: but a perfect way to say "the sacrificial lambs are in place".]]


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** At one point, Megan is surprised by Cooper's realisation that the "kind" owners of the house are the werewolves [[spoiler: but her earlier comment that it's just a medieval myth that werewolves have monobrows makes it clear that she has seen their human forms, so is obviously lying about how much she knows]]. Unfortunately, none of the characters notice the contradiction.
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** [[spoiler: In the ending, the attempt ToUnmasqueTheWorld fails because no one but a cheap tabloid takes Cooper's story and photos seriously. And they put it at lower priority than reporting the outcome of a football match.]]

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** [[spoiler: In the ending, end, the attempt ToUnmasqueTheWorld fails because no one but a cheap tabloid takes Cooper's story and photos seriously. And they put it at lower priority than reporting [[BrickJoke the outcome of a football match.match]].]]
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** [[spoiler: In the ending, the attempt ToUnmasqueTheWorld fails because no one but a cheap tabloid takes Cooper's story and photos seriously. And they put it at lower priority than reporting the outcome of a football match.]]
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* DoomedTacticalTeam: Sergeant Well's Section finds themselves outmatched in the face of the Werewolves, as were Captain Ryan's SAS Patrol during their ill-fated off screen mission.
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Kill Em All was renamed Everybody Dies Ending due to misuse. Dewicking


* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:Cooper and Sam are the only characters to survive.]]
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* AnAxeToGrind: Joe picks one during the siege on the house, but never uses it as a weapon.

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