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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.
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** [[spoiler: Megan starts playing the piano, the song? Clair De Lune, literally translated? ''Moonlight''.]]
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* IronicEcho: [[spoiler: "There is no Spoon."]]
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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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* EatenAlive: Naturally. [[spoiler: Terry is found alive as he's being eaten.]]


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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler: The cast find Sam, a dog, strangely locked in a closet. Later on, the werewolves corner Sam and the cutaway makes it seem like he may have been killed, but he is unharmed next time he is seen. The implication is that he is the werewolf family's dog: they likely recognize him even while transformed (though he doesn't seem to recognize them judging by how he barks at them), but still lock him up for protection just in case.]]

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* EstablishingCharacterMoment:
** [[spoiler:Ryan shoots a dog (not just any dog, but a highly-trained and extremely-valuable Military Working Dog) in the head in the first few minutes of the film, just because he ''can''.]]
** In the very same scene, Cooper is introduced as someone focused on doing the right thing, even if it means trouble for himself.

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* EstablishingCharacterMoment:
** [[spoiler:Ryan shoots
EstablishingCharacterMoment: Pvt. Cooper performs commendably at the end of his SAS training, but then he balks at and refuses to obey a direct order to kill a trained dog (not just any dog, but (and when the dog is senselessly killed anyway, Cooper ''punches'' the higher-ranking officer responsible), introducing him as a highly-trained tough-as-nails soldier with a conscience and extremely-valuable Military Working Dog) a soft spot for dogs. Meanwhile in contrast, Captain Ryan (the dog-shooting officer in question) demonstrates in this scene his inability to be anything other than a condescending slimeball even when he's complimenting Cooper on his top performance, and also how utterly spiteful he is since he implicitly gave Cooper the head in the first few minutes of the film, just order purely because he ''can''.]]
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was annoyed by the very same scene, dog barking. The use of the dog in relation to the characters in this scene is also important, as the dog represents military comradery: Cooper is introduced as someone focused fiercely loyal to and genuine friends with all his platoon-mates, whereas Ryan manipulates and sacrifices "expendable" soldiers like pawns on doing the right thing, even if it means trouble a chessboard and [[spoiler:later seeks DisproportionateRetribution on Cooper just for himself.punching him]].
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** Cooper closing Sarge's wound with super glue is TruthInTelevision. The US Army developed a Super Glue spray during the Vietnam War for (temporarily) closing a soldier's wounds until they could get him to a hospital.

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** Cooper closing Sarge's wound with super glue is half-way TruthInTelevision. The US Army While cyanoacrylate glues weren't developed specifically for this purpose, the US Army did trial a Super Glue spray during the Vietnam War for (temporarily) closing a soldier's wounds until they could get him to a hospital.hospital. It was a failure in the field, at least partly because it tended to seal contaminants into the wound as well as closing it. Some people do use superglue to seal cuts; it does work, but it's not recommended if you've any other alternative available.
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* BringIt: Spoon, alone in werewolf-infested woods, lights a flare and yells "Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough!"
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* MoreDakka: The sheer amount of ammunition expended throughout the course of this film is staggering. Lampshaded and subverted when the fact they're running low on ammunition becomes a plot point, and by Cooper's exasperated yell of [[PunctuatedForEmphasis "Controlled! Three-round! Bursts!"]], eminently sensible advice that nobody bothers to take.

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* MoreDakka: The sheer amount of ammunition expended throughout the course of this film is staggering. Lampshaded and subverted when the fact they're running low on ammunition becomes a plot point, point - "I think we might have pissed on our chips," Spoon remarks on showing Cooper how little ammo they have left after the first few encounters - and by Cooper's exasperated yell of [[PunctuatedForEmphasis "Controlled! Three-round! Bursts!"]], eminently sensible advice that nobody bothers to take.
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* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: Capt. Ryan is established as being a right bastard by ordering Cooper to shoot a dog in order to join his team, then shooting it himself when he refuses. He's about to kill Megan's dog, until Joe vomits on him.
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* BrokenMasquerade: The squad's training is brutally tested by towering bipedal wolves capable of strategy. Eventually, Cooper is unable to write them off as escaped unshaven psychopaths.
-->'''Megan:''' Up until today, you believed there was a line between myth and reality. May have been a very fine line sometimes, but... at least it was a line. Those things out there... are ''real''. And if they're real, what else is real? You know what lives in the shadows, now. You may never get another night's sleep as long as you live.
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** [[spoiler:If one looks closely, Megan has a faint scar on her arm similar to Sarge and Ryan's werewolf-inflicted scars, hinting that she's also a werewolf who was infected by the family]].

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* DontGoIntoTheWoods: The werewolves hunt and devour humans they catch in the woods, with the soldiers only avoiding them during the first night due to camping inside a ravine, and the werewolves use the treeline as their cover during the siege of the house.
* DoubleEntendre: [[spoiler: Megan]], sadly looking down: [[AllPeriodsArePMS "It's that time of the month".]]



* DoubleEntendre: [[spoiler: Megan]], sadly looking down: [[AllPeriodsArePMS "It's that time of the month".]]



*** Even more fitting, Cooper, Ryan and Wells are the only soldiers who don't help themselves to the stew at all -- [[spoiler:theose three are the only ones who don't get EatenAlive, with Cooper who was at the table and chose not to eat being the SoleSurvivor]].



* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Slightly. They have a silver vulnerability, turn with the full moon, etc. However, they can resist the transformation (albeit with difficulty), and killing them without silver is possible - it's just ''extremely'' hard.

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* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Slightly. They have physically resemble the depiction established by ''Film/TheHowling''. While transformed, they operate like a silver vulnerability, turn with pack and are [[ItCanThink tactical]]. They transform during the full moon, etc. However, they but can resist the transformation (albeit 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 difficulty), and killing them without silver is possible - it's just ''extremely'' hard. ''lots of'' fire.



* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:Cooper]].

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* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:Cooper]].[[spoiler:Cooper, though it's worth noting the dog also survived alongside him]].

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%%* OrphanedSetup: The setup of a joke is heard, but not the punchline. The reaction to what happens next might compensate for this, though.

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%%* * OrphanedSetup: The setup of a Almost entire joke is heard, but not the punchline. The reaction to what happens next might compensate for this, though.though.
-->'''Spoon''': So the bloke walks into a pub right, with a little dog under his arm. Puts it down on the bar, goes and sits down. The bar-tender's lookin' at him thinking "what the fuckin' hell's goin' on here?". Then he looks back at the dog, and to his surprise the dog turns around and...
-->[[[spoiler:Out of nowhere, a cow carcass falls right into their campfire]]]
-->[Everyone reacts in shock, and Terry starts firing his gun, despite it being loaded with blanks and carrying the highly visible Blank Firing Attachment]
-->'''Cooper''': [[spoiler: Fuckin' cow]]!
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* OrphanedPunchline: Reversed, in that we hear the beginning, but not the punchline. The reaction to what happens next might compensate for this, though.

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* OrphanedPunchline: Reversed, in that we hear the beginning, %%* OrphanedSetup: The setup of a joke is heard, but not the punchline. The reaction to what happens next might compensate for this, though.
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->''"So, if Little Red Riding Hood should show up [[LittleRedFightingHood with a bazooka and a bad attitude]], I expect you to chin the bitch!"''

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->''"So, if Little Red Riding Hood should show up [[LittleRedFightingHood with a bazooka and a bad attitude]], attitude, I expect you to chin the bitch!"''

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* WhyAreYouLookingAtMeLikeThat: "We need a diversion...something fast and loud." (Everyone looks at Spoon, who wasn't paying attention). '''Spoon:''' What? You what?

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* WhyAreYouLookingAtMeLikeThat: "We WhyAreYouLookingAtMeLikeThat:
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What? You what?

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* InformedAttribute: In universe the Uaths are described as "[[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter good people, they're kind people]]". [[spoiler: This might hold up better if they didn't have human corpses in their cellar, human skeletons in their wardrobes, and regularly hunt and murder people to the point where the authorities notice.]]



* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Not the werewolves, but the story of Eddie Oswald that Wells tells around the fire. An old friend of Wells, he got a tattoo of a laughing devil when going into war, reasoning that his soul belonged to God but it was up to Satan to save his skin. He was blown up, but when they were looking for pieces, they found the devil tattoo completely intact and immaculate, [[JackassGenie thus technically saving his skin]].

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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Not the werewolves, but the story of Eddie Oswald that Wells tells around the fire. An old friend of Wells, he got a tattoo of a laughing devil when going into war, reasoning that his soul belonged to God but it was up to Satan to save his skin. He was blown up, but when they were looking for pieces, they found the devil tattoo completely intact and immaculate, [[JackassGenie thus technically saving his skin]]. "Just not all of it."



* RealityEnsues: The werewolves initially attract attention from the authorities after too many hikers go missing, and doing a poor job cleaning up the campsites of their victims.



--> '''Wells''': Now you just [[ShutUpHannibal shut up]] [[SophisticatedAsHell like a good gentleman]], [[AFatherToHisMen you're scaring my lads]].

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--> '''Wells''': Now you just [[ShutUpHannibal shut up]] [[SophisticatedAsHell like a good gentleman]], [[AFatherToHisMen you're you are scaring my lads]].

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* AnAxeToGrind: Joe uses one during the siege on the house.

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* AnAxeToGrind: Joe uses picks one during the siege on the house.house, but never uses it as a weapon.



* BraveScot: Cooper is Scottish and is TheLeader of the team. He's the only one who doesn't freak out, and keeps a cool head.

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* BoringButPractical: Cooper's reaction toward being besieged in a cottage which has internal gas and water supply? Boiling water to save on ammo.
* BraveScot: Cooper is Scottish and is TheLeader of the team. He's the only one who doesn't freak out, and keeps a cool head.head consistently through the whole duration of the plot.



* CannibalLarder: There's a grisly mound of bones hidden under the werewolves' house.

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* CannibalLarder: There's a grisly mound of bones hidden under the werewolves' house. And a literal [[VisualPun skeleton in the closet]].



* ChewingTheScenery: Ryan loves to do this.
* ClusterFBomb: The entire film probably counts.
* CombatBreakdown: The defense of the cottage starts fairly organised but gradually disintegrates over the course of the film, as body toll rises and ammo runs scarce. Spoon's fight with the werewolf also has shades of this. He starts off throwing well-placed punches and using a knife to keep the werewolf at bay but as the werewolf pushes forward, all he can do is to use anything he can find in a frantic effort.

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* ChewingTheScenery: Ryan loves to do this.
Ryan, when sufficiently aggitated, goes bombastic.
* ClusterFBomb: The entire film probably counts.
counts, as the squaddies casually swear. ''Non-stop''. To the point the final ratings were more about the amount of swearing than gore or other elements.
* CombatBreakdown: CombatBreakdown:
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The defense of the cottage starts fairly organised but gradually disintegrates over the course of the film, as body toll rises and ammo runs scarce. Cooper even invokes it verbatim when discussing their situation with Megan.
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Spoon's fight with the werewolf also has shades of this. He starts off throwing well-placed punches and using a knife to keep the werewolf at bay but as the werewolf pushes forward, all he can do is to use anything he can find in a frantic effort.effort.
** DoubleSubversion with [[spoiler: Sarge]]. After initially being [[spoiler: barely conscious and piss drunk to help with the pain, he not only gets sober, but back to fighting shape thanks to the werewolves' HealingFactor. However, as he succumbs to his transformation in the finale, he quickly loses control over himself, being reduced to twitching on the ground in spasms of pain]].



* DeadpanSnarker: Ryan. Megan also has her moments.

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* DeadpanSnarker: Ryan. Megan also has her moments. [[WordOfGod According to Marshall]], this was enforced by the studio and they weren't like that in the first draft.



* DidNotGetTheGirl: [[spoiler: Megan turns out to be a werewolf, so Cooper has to kill her]].

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* DidNotGetTheGirl: [[spoiler: Megan turns out to be a werewolf, so Cooper has to kill her]].her[[note]]Technically, it's Sarge who kills her[[/note]]]].



* DoubleEntendre: Megan, sadly looking down: [[AllPeriodsArePMS "It's that time of the month".]]

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* DoubleEntendre: Megan, [[spoiler: Megan]], sadly looking down: [[AllPeriodsArePMS "It's that time of the month".]]



* EstablishingCharacterMoment: [[spoiler:Ryan shoots a dog (not just any dog, but a highly-trained and extremely-valuable Military Working Dog) in the head in the first few minutes of the film, just because he ''can''.]]

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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: EstablishingCharacterMoment:
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[[spoiler:Ryan shoots a dog (not just any dog, but a highly-trained and extremely-valuable Military Working Dog) in the head in the first few minutes of the film, just because he ''can''.]]]]
** In the very same scene, Cooper is introduced as someone focused on doing the right thing, even if it means trouble for himself.



* TheFaceless: The werewolves are never seen in their human form.

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* TheFaceless: The werewolves are never seen in their human form. There are however photos of [[spoiler: the family living in the house]].



* FatalFamilyPhoto: [[spoiler: Sarge]] has a photo of his wife, which he looks at before he dies.

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* FatalFamilyPhoto: [[spoiler: Sarge]] has a photo of his wife, which he looks at before he dies. Unlike a typical example, he checks the photo when already dying, rather than before being killed.



* {{Gorn}}: Buckets of it.

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* {{Gorn}}: Buckets of it. Let's just say few times people slip on someone's intestines.



* HealingFactor: Part of the werewolf package it seems. Also [[spoiler: a sign of Ryan being a werewolf Infectee]].

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* HealingFactor: Part of the werewolf package it seems. Also [[spoiler: a sign of Ryan and Sarge being a werewolf Infectee]].infectees]].



* MauveShirt: [[spoiler:Bruce]] is the first one to be killed by the werewolves.

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* MauveShirt: [[spoiler:Bruce]] is the first one to be killed - and not even [[spoiler: by the werewolves.werewolves]].



* MortalWoundReveal: Inverted. [[spoiler:Sarge shows Cooper that his mortal wound is gone, revealing that he's becoming a werewolf.]]

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* MortalWoundReveal: Inverted. [[spoiler:Sarge shows Cooper that his mortal wound is gone, gone within mere seconds, revealing that he's becoming a werewolf.]]



* SteelEarDrums: Averted and referenced when Sarge fires an automatic rifle in a cupboard. Before he fires, he tells Cooper to cover his ears and open his mouth specifically to avoid hearing damage.

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* SteelEarDrums: Averted and referenced when Sarge [[ItMakesSenseInContext fires an automatic rifle gun in a cupboard.cupboard]]. Before he fires, he tells Cooper to cover his ears and open his mouth specifically to avoid hearing damage.



* TeamPet: Sam.

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* TeamPet: Sam.Sam the dog.
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* RewatchBonus: [[spoiler: From her first scene, a lot of Megan's dialogue can be viewed in a different perspective. When she first pulls up, she asks if the soldiers are in the middle of a rescue mission. Watching the film a second time, she could be asking about her own rescue. The fact she wasn't hunting with the rest of the pack, but driving along the road, she was waiting for Ryan's mission to succeed and for the pack to pay for her 'adoption'.]]

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* RewatchBonus: [[spoiler: From her first scene, a lot of Megan's dialogue can be viewed in a different perspective. When she first pulls up, she asks if the soldiers are in the middle of a rescue mission. Watching the film a second time, she could be asking about her own rescue. The fact she wasn't hunting with the rest of the pack, but driving along the road, she was waiting for Ryan's mission to succeed and for the pack to pay for her 'adoption'. Likewise, her objection to the soldiers helping themselves to dinner in the cottage makes more sense--she knows it could be human meat and is trying to save them from eating it.]]
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* BerserkBoardBarricade: Downplayed. Spoon is busy boarding the entrance door, but does it in normal manner. When suddenly a werewolf's paw slides inside through the letter hole, Spoon reacts by frantically hammering the paw instead and then boarding the hole in excessive way.

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* TheFaceless: The werewolves are never seen in their human form.



** Cooper closing Sarge's wound with super glue is
* TheFaceless: The werewolves are never seen in their human form.
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** Cooper closing Sarge's wound with super glue is
* TheFaceless: The werewolves are never seen in their human form.
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** Cooper closing Sarge's wound with super glue is TruthInTelevision. The US Army developed a Super Glue spray during the Vietnam War for (temporarily) closing a soldier's wounds until they could get him to a hospital.

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** Cooper closing Sarge's wound with super glue is is
* TheFaceless: The werewolves are never seen in their human form.
TruthInTelevision. The US Army developed a Super Glue spray during the Vietnam War for (temporarily) closing a soldier's wounds until they could get him to a hospital.
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** Also, judging from the screams we hear when the squad [[spoiler: retreat from Ryans mangled camp, even people used to the transformation find it agonizing, being that the werewolf family are the only people in the area apart from the squad, so those screams must be them transforming.]]
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* CreatorCameo: The insurance didn't cover the actors jumping out of the helicopter at the start of the film. As many of the crew were ex-military, they doubled up and did it themselves. They also doubled for the soldiers during some of the tabbing shots.
* {{Corpsing}}: This was apparently the director's reaction when they shot the barn exploding.
--> "Luckily it wasn't sound-dependent, but I thought it was just awesome."

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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Sergeant Wells blows himself, and the werewolves, up with the gas cooker.]]



* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Sergeant Wells blows himself, and the werewolves, up with the gas cooker.]]

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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Sergeant Wells blows himself, and the werewolves, up with the gas cooker.]]{{Homage}}: Captain Ryan's transformation was inspired by, of all things, ''Film/CarryOnScreaming'', one of Marshall's favourite films growing up.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Not the werewolves, but the story of Eddie Oswald that Wells tells around the fire. An old friend of Wells, he got a tattoo of a laughing devil when going into war, reasoning that his soul belonged to God but it was up to Satan to save his skin. He was blown up, but when they were looking for pieces, they found the devil tattoo completely intact and immaculate, [[JackassGenie thus technically saving his skin]].
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* 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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* ImprobableInfantSurvival: [[spoiler: The canine version. Sam's the only survivor other than Cooper.]]



* InfantImmortality: [[spoiler: The canine version. Sam's the only survivor other than Cooper.]]

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* ArtisticLicenceMilitary:

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* ArtisticLicenceMilitary:ArtisticLicenseMilitary:



** Cooper is seen holding his rifle over his left shoulder. The rifle in question - the SA80 - is always held in the right shoulder. Even if the user is left-handed.

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** Cooper is seen holding his rifle over his left shoulder. The rifle in question - the SA80 [=SA80=] - is always held in the right shoulder. Even shoulder due to the way how it's designed, regardless if the user might be left-handed.
** [[spoiler: Ryan's group
is left-handed.armed predominately with submachine guns and shotguns]]. They make perfect weapons in enclosed space (like inside a house, where most of the plot happens), but are really weird choice for their original deployment.
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* BlindingCameraFlash: Used deliberately by Megan, since the werewolves are NoSell to conventional attacks.

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