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* FromNobodyToNightmare: Sam starts as a regular business man into an homicidal mysoginist murderer.

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* FromNobodyToNightmare: Sam starts as a regular business man before turning into an homicidal mysoginist murderer.
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* FromNobodyToNightmare: Sam starts as a regular business man into an homicidal mysoginist murderer.
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%%* DropTheHammer: Bambi's death.
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* DrivenToVillainy: Sam was quite a decent guy before finding out his wife's affair. This causes him to go insane and becoming a misogynist murderer.

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%%* DaylightHorror: Most of the film.
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After successfully scoring a big deal while away on business in Sacramento, a man named Sam Butler decides to surprise his wife Ruth by returning to their Las Vegas home early, in a shiny new red car. Upon arriving at the homestead, Sam discovers Ruth in bed with another man, a sheriff's deputy, and snaps, shooting them both to death with the deputy's carelessly discarded gun. After cutting off Ruth's head, Sam (who keeps having conversations with it) stores it in his car, and begins wandering the city in a misogynistic psychosis that leads him to murder a daytime hooker named Tina, whose jaw he mutilates with a knife before tying her up and ripping her leg off with the car, dumping the severed appendage in a dumpster a little later.

After randomly blowing a bartender's brains out, Sam happens to spot a car advertising the Beautiful Lady Oil Wrestlers, and follows it to an apartment, where the lady wrestlers have gathered for a baby shower being held for their friend Barbara. Skulking around the apartment (and killing a gardener who asks what he is doing) Sam observes the women as they [[{{Padding}} watch themselves on TV, play cards and Truth or Dare, try on bikinis, and eat pizza]] for a while, before barging in and tying them all up at gunpoint, ready to enact the titular bloodbath with everything from blades to firearms to tools to his bare hands.

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After successfully scoring a big deal while away on business in Sacramento, a man named Sam Butler decides to surprise his wife Ruth by returning to their Las Vegas home early, in a shiny new red car. Upon arriving at the homestead, Sam discovers Ruth in bed with another man, a sheriff's deputy, and snaps, shooting them both to death with the deputy's carelessly discarded gun. After cutting off Ruth's head, Sam (who keeps having conversations with it) stores it in his car, car and begins wandering the city in a misogynistic psychosis that leads him to murder a daytime hooker named Tina, whose jaw he mutilates with a knife before tying her up and ripping her leg off with the car, dumping the severed appendage in a dumpster a little later.

After randomly blowing a bartender's brains out, Sam happens to spot a car advertising the Beautiful Lady Oil Wrestlers, Wrestlers and follows it to an apartment, where the lady wrestlers have gathered for a baby shower being held for their friend Barbara. Skulking around the apartment (and killing a gardener who asks what he is doing) Sam observes the women as they [[{{Padding}} watch themselves on TV, play cards and Truth or Dare, try on bikinis, and eat pizza]] for a while, before barging in and tying them all up at gunpoint, ready to enact the titular bloodbath with everything from blades to firearms to tools to his bare hands.



* BloodBath: The film ends with Sam being found in a gore drenched washroom, lying in a bathtub filled with blood and a random assortment of bodyparts.

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* BloodBath: The film ends with Sam being found in a gore drenched gore-drenched washroom, lying in a bathtub filled with blood and a random assortment of bodyparts.body parts.



%%* CreatorCameo: Several behind the scenes personnel had bit parts.

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%%* CreatorCameo: Several behind the scenes behind-the-scenes personnel had bit parts.



* PeekABooCorpse: An investigating officer finding bodies and parts of them strewn throughout the house.

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* PeekABooCorpse: An investigating officer finding finds bodies and parts of them strewn throughout the house.
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Kill Em All was renamed Everybody Dies Ending due to misuse. Dewicking


%%* KillEmAll
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%%* BlindingBangs: The pizza delivery man.

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Corpsing is now trivia, ZCE.


* AmbiguouslyJewish: Sam, according to Website/SomethingAwful.

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* %%* AmbiguouslyJewish: Sam, according to Website/SomethingAwful.



* AxCrazy: After his wife cheats on him, Sam goes completely, utterly and violently insane.
* BatterUp: Sam (really just [[SpecialEffectsFailure a barely offscreen mat]]) gets walloped with one.

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* %%* AxCrazy: After his wife cheats on him, Sam goes completely, utterly and violently insane.
* %%* BatterUp: Sam (really just [[SpecialEffectsFailure a barely offscreen mat]]) gets walloped with one.



* BoomHeadshot: The bartender and Tiffany's deaths.

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* %%* BoomHeadshot: The bartender and Tiffany's deaths.



* TheCavalryArrivesLate: The police officer who enters the house in the end.
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* CoverDrop: Sam glaring at the camera.
* CreatorCameo: Several behind the scenes personnel had bit parts.
* DaylightHorror: Most of the film.
* {{Dedication}}: To special effects artist Craig Sadler.
* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: Oddly featured in the middle of the film, instead of the beginning.

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* %%* TheCavalryArrivesLate: The police officer who enters the house in the end.
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CoverDrop: Sam glaring at the camera.
* %%* CreatorCameo: Several behind the scenes personnel had bit parts.
* %%* DaylightHorror: Most of the film.
* %%* {{Dedication}}: To special effects artist Craig Sadler.
* %%* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: Oddly featured in the middle of the film, instead of the beginning.



* EvilIsHammy: When Sam went off the deep end, he fell ''hard''.
* EyeOpen: Sam is only briefly downed by Man With Bat.

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* %%* EvilIsHammy: When Sam went off the deep end, he fell ''hard''.
* %%* EyeOpen: Sam is only briefly downed by Man With Bat.



* FlippingTheBird: Sam gets it from two passing motorists. As noted above, he shoots it off the second one.

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* %%* FlippingTheBird: Sam gets it from two passing motorists. As noted above, he shoots it off the second one.



* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Sam uncovering his wife's affair.

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* %%* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Sam uncovering his wife's affair.



* HollywoodJehovahsWitness[=/=]KnockingOnHeathensDoor: He gets decapitated.
* HopeSpot: Wendy escaping, Tiffany getting to a phone, Cherry escaping, and Man With Bat stopping by.
* IdenticalStranger: Sam and Creator/NicolasCage.

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* %%* HollywoodJehovahsWitness[=/=]KnockingOnHeathensDoor: He gets decapitated.
* %%* HopeSpot: Wendy escaping, Tiffany getting to a phone, Cherry escaping, and Man With Bat stopping by.
* %%* IdenticalStranger: Sam and Creator/NicolasCage.



* KubrickStare: Given by Sam at the very end.

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* %%* KubrickStare: Given by Sam at the very end.



* MonsterMisogyny: Despite this, Sam kills a decent number of men.

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* %%* MonsterMisogyny: Despite this, Sam kills a decent number of men.



* NoNameGiven: Several characters, most of them victims.

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* %%* NoNameGiven: Several characters, most of them victims.



* OffWithHisHead: Happens offscreen to Ruth, and done with a slamming door to a Jehovah's Witness.

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* %%* OffWithHisHead: Happens offscreen to Ruth, and done with a slamming door to a Jehovah's Witness.



* PistolWhipping: Done to Bambi.

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* %%* PistolWhipping: Done to Bambi.



* PornStache: Most of the male characters look like they just wandered off the set of a porno.
* PowerBornOfMadness: The only viable explanation for how Sam can rip people's limbs off with his bare hands.

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* %%* PornStache: Most of the male characters look like they just wandered off the set of a porno.
* %%* PowerBornOfMadness: The only viable explanation for how Sam can rip people's limbs off with his bare hands.



* {{Recut}}: There's a few versions floating around.
* RecycledInSpace: Film/TruthOrDareACriticalMadness IN LAS VEGAS!

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* %%* {{Recut}}: There's a few versions floating around.
* %%* RecycledInSpace: Film/TruthOrDareACriticalMadness IN LAS VEGAS!



* SingleTear: Shed by one of the women, when tied up.

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* %%* SingleTear: Shed by one of the women, when tied up.



* SoundOnlyDeath: Ruth, her lover and Wendy getting shot.
* StageNames: Honeydew Mellon, Tuff Tiff, Wild Cherry, and Wet & Wild Wendy.

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* %%* SoundOnlyDeath: Ruth, her lover and Wendy getting shot.
* %%* StageNames: Honeydew Mellon, Tuff Tiff, Wild Cherry, and Wet & Wild Wendy.



* TitleIn:
** Sacremento, California, 5:00pm
** Las Vegas, Nevada, 10pm
** Later on Las Vegas Strip
* TraumaticCSection: Barbara's death.
* TwitchyEye: Sam, when Tina starts soliciting him.
* UnusualEuphemism: "Look at the size of those silver dollars."

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* %%* TitleIn:
** %%** Sacremento, California, 5:00pm
** %%** Las Vegas, Nevada, 10pm
** %%** Later on Las Vegas Strip
* %%* TraumaticCSection: Barbara's death.
* %%* TwitchyEye: Sam, when Tina starts soliciting him.
* %%* UnusualEuphemism: "Look at the size of those silver dollars."



* VillainSong: ''Las Vegas Blood Bath'', which plays over the credits.

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* %%* VillainSong: ''Las Vegas Blood Bath'', which plays over the credits.



* WouldHurtAChild: Both Ruth and Barbara were pregnant.

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* %%* WouldHurtAChild: Both Ruth and Barbara were pregnant.
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