History Film / MidnightMovie

* WhyDidIthaveToBeSnakes: Babe is afraid of heights, and Harley is afraid of small spaces. Both phbias become a hindrance while attempting to escape the killer.

* ExtremelyShortTimeframe: Barring the prelude, the entire film plays out over one night: starting just before midnight and ending before dawn.

* CellPhonesAreUseless: Once the cinema has been sealed, eveyone trapped inside finds that their cell phobes no longer work.

* ExtremelyShortTimeframe: Barring the prelude, the entire film plays out over one night.

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* AllPartOfTheShow: It takes the in-film theater patrons a disturbingly long time to realize that the changes in scenery and the murders are not part of the movie.
%%* AxeBeforeEntering
%%* CassandraTruth: [[spoiler:Timmy at the end.]]

%%* GenreSavvy: Several people show this in the film, though [[WrongGenreSavvy it doesn't go very far.]]
%%* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Bridget]]
%%* InfantImmortality: [[spoiler:PlayedStraight]]
%%* ImmuneToBullets
%%* ImpendingDoomPOV: {{Lampshaded}} at one point.
%%* ImplacableMan

%%* ShowWithinAShow: ''The Dark Beneath''.
%%* SlashedThroat

* CassandraTruth: [[spoiler:Timmy at the end.]]

* [[ShowWithinAShow Film Within a Film]]: ''The Dark Beneath''
* GenreSavvy: Several people show this in the film, though [[WrongGenreSavvy it doesn't go very far.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Bridget]]
* InfantImmortality: [[spoiler:PlayedStraight]]

* ImpendingDoomPOV: {{Lampshaded}} at one point.

* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: In universe.
** A death scene, for either a character in the [[ShowWithinAShow Film Within A Film]] or the film itself, results in odd glitches with the movie.

* GenreSavvy: Several people show this in the film, though it doesn't go very far.

* NotAfraidOfYouAnymore: Bridget says this as a method to try and defeat the killer.

** A death, of either a character in the ShowWithinAShow or the film itself, results in odd glitches with the movie.
** The killer is able to splice any part of the location the film is being played into the film to drag someone to their death.

* TheFaceless: The killer is never seen without his mask.

* WeaponOfChoice: The strange corkscrew thing that gets several close-up shots and two scenes of it getting sharpened.

''Midnight Movie'' is a 2008 {{slasher film}} which focuses on a lumbering, [[TheFaceless masked]] serial killer who breaks free from the movie ''[[ShowWithinAShow The Dark Beneath]]'' to begin stalking the patrons and employees of the movie theatre. Called out of the movie by fear, the killer's transition from film to real life is marked by a {{Melting Film Effect}}. The kill is then projected onto the screen for those still in the theatre to watch. The killer then transitions back into the film with the body of his now limp victim to drag the victim to his secret lair.

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* AxeBeforeEntering

* ImmuneToBullets

* ImplacableMan

* SlashedThroat
* SlasherMovie

* ShoutOut: The hallway in the house in the [[ShowwithinAShow Film Within a Film]] is fairly identical to the one from the original ''TheTexasChainsawMassacre''.

* [[ShowwithinAShow Film Within a Film]]: ''The Dark Beneath''

''Midnight Movie'' is a 2008 {{slasher dilm}} which focuses on a lumbering, [[TheFaceless masked]] serial killer who breaks free from the movie ''[[ShowWithinAShow The Dark Beneath]]'' to begin stalking the patrons and employees of the movie theatre. Called out of the movie by fear, the killer's transition from film to real life is marked by a {{Melting Film Effect}}. The kill is then projected onto the screen for those still in the theatre to watch. The killer then transitions back into the film with the body of his now limp victim to drag the victim to his secret lair.

''Midnight Movie'' is a 2008 {{Slasher Film}} which focuses on a lumbering, [[TheFaceless masked]] serial killer who breaks free from the movie ''[[ShowWithinAShow The Dark Beneath]]'' to begin stalking the patrons and employees of the movie theatre. Called out of the movie by fear, the killer's transition from film to real life is marked by a {{Melting Film Effect}}. The kill is then projected onto the screen for those still in the theatre to watch. The killer then transitions back into the film with the body of his now limp victim to drag them to his secret lair.

The audience watching the film is slow on the uptake at first deeming it all a prank. After figuring it out, the plot plays out like a more traditional slasher film.

* AllPartoftheShow : It takes the people in the theater a disturbingly long time to realize the changes in scenery and the murders are not part of the movie.

* CassandraTruth : [[spoiler: Timmy at the end.]]
* TheFaceless : The killer is never seen without his mask.
* [[ShowwithinAShow Film Within A Film]] : ''The Dark Beneath''
* GenreSavvy : Several people show this in the film though it doesn't go very far.
* InfantImmortality : [[spoiler: PlayedStraight]]
* ImmunetoBullets
* ImpendingDoomPOV: {{Lampshaded}} at one point

* NotAfraidofYouAnymore : Bridget as a method to try and defeat the killer.
* PoliceAreUseless : Detective Barrons tries his hardest but he still doesn't make it very far. Arguably the cop outside the theatre.
* ShoutOut : The hallway in the house in the [[ShowwithinAShow Film Within A Film]] is fairly identical to the one from the original ''TheTexasChainsawMassacre''

* WeaponofChoice : The strange corkscrew thing that gets several close-up shots and two scenes of it getting sharpened.