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* HeyItsThatGuy: The Lonely Twin is played by Jack Gleeson, now known as [[CompleteMonster King Joffrey]] on ''GameOfThrones'', though we never see his face. Similarly unrecognizable is [[BoardwalkEmpire Richard Harrow]] as Jake.
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** Later, when Tara in the children's home, she nervously opens a door into... an empty room (save for a lone, tiny chair). She leaves, only for the Black Brother to emerge from the very same room and silently follow her. This is a reference to a similar scene from ''TheExorcist III''.

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** Later, when Tara in the children's home, she nervously opens a door into... an empty room (save for a lone, tiny chair). She leaves, only for the Black Brother to emerge from the very same room and silently follow her. This is a reference to a similar scene from ''TheExorcist III''.''TheExorcistIII''.

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--> '''Ernie:''' You asked did we have a phone. You never asked did it work.

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* AssholeVictim: Arguably, [[spoiler:Bluto and Lisa]]. True, what happens to them is extremely harsh, but they are the least sympathetic characters in the movie. YourMileageMayVary, though.
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* ButYouScrewOneGoat: Ernie and Bernie are heavily implied to be into doing... [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean unsavoury]] things with livestock.

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* ButYouScrewOneGoat: Ernie and Bernie are heavily implied to be into doing... [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean unsavoury]] unsavoury things with livestock.
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* MindScrew / OrIsIt: Regarding Tara's apparent visions of the future, and it is also left unclear as to whether [[spoiler: the story of the children's home is real or not.]] It is also left open to interpretation just how aware [[spoiler:Tara is of the murders she commits.]]

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* MindScrew / OrIsIt: MindScrew: Regarding Tara's apparent visions of the future, and it is also left unclear as to whether [[spoiler: the story of the children's home is real or not.]] It is also left open to interpretation just how aware [[spoiler:Tara is of the murders she commits.]]
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* PsychicPowers: After eating the deathcap, Tara seems to have gained powers of precognition. It's left [[OrIsIt deliberately vague as to whether this is the case or not]].

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* PsychicPowers: After eating the deathcap, Tara seems to have gained powers of precognition. It's left [[OrIsIt deliberately vague as to whether this is the case or not]].not.
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* [[spoiler:KillEmAll: Tara is the only main character to survive.]]

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* [[spoiler:KillEmAll: Tara is the only main character to survive. Ernie also survives, but, unfortunately for him, he is falsely arrested for the murders.]]
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** Later, when Tara in the children's home, she nervously opens a door into... an empty room (save for an lone, tiny chair). She leaves, only for the Black Brother to emerge from the very same room and follow her. This is a reference to a similar scene from ''TheExorcist III''.

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** Later, when Tara in the children's home, she nervously opens a door into... an empty room (save for an a lone, tiny chair). She leaves, only for the Black Brother to emerge from the very same room and silently follow her. This is a reference to a similar scene from ''TheExorcist III''.
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* DeadpanSnarker: The cow.
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* YouNeverAsked: When Holly attempts to use Bernie and Ernie's phone and finds that it doesn't work:

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* YouNeverAsked: YouDidntAsk: When Holly attempts to use Bernie and Ernie's phone and finds that it doesn't work:

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* ThoseTwoGuys: Bernie and Ernie.



* VomitIndiscretionShot: When Tara has her fit, a small trickle of vomit can be seen on her chin. Later, when Bluto is tripping out, he vomits all over his chin and down his front.

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* VomitIndiscretionShot: When Tara has her first fit, a small trickle of vomit can be seen on her chin. Later, when Bluto is tripping out, he vomits all over his chin and down his front.



* WomanScorned: [[spoiler:Possibly Tara.]]

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* WomanScorned: [[spoiler:Possibly Tara.]]]]
* YouNeverAsked: When Holly attempts to use Bernie and Ernie's phone and finds that it doesn't work:
--> '''Holly:''' You said you had a phone.
--> '''Ernie:''' You asked did we have a phone. You never asked did it work.
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* GoryDiscretionShot: Most of the deaths.
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* NothingIsScarier: The segment of the film that takes place in the children's home.
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* AWomanScorned: [[spoiler:Possibly Tara.]]

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* AWomanScorned: WomanScorned: [[spoiler:Possibly Tara.]]

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* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: "I love you [[spoiler:Tara.]]" Subverted, as it later turns out that [[spoiler: [[UnreliableNarrator it didn't actually happen]].]]

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* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: "I love you you, [[spoiler:Tara.]]" Subverted, as it later turns out that [[spoiler: [[UnreliableNarrator it didn't actually happen]].]]



* BlackEyesOfEvil: [[spoiler:Tara]] has them in some of the flashbacks during the ending.



* CreepyMonotone: [[spoiler:''(Axe to the head)'' "I love you, Jake".]]



* HilariousOuttakes: Present as a DVD extra. Oddly, they're interspliced between deleted scenes.



* MindScrew / OrIsIt: Regarding Tara's apparent visions of the future, and it is also left unclear as to whether [[spoiler: the story of the children's home is real or not.]]

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* MindScrew / OrIsIt: Regarding Tara's apparent visions of the future, and it is also left unclear as to whether [[spoiler: the story of the children's home is real or not.]] It is also left open to interpretation just how aware [[spoiler:Tara is of the murders she commits.]]



* ShoutOut: Tara's fit after ingesting the deathcap is a direct ShoutOut to a visually similar scene from ''ATaleOfTwoSisters''.

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* ShoutOut: Tara's first fit after ingesting the deathcap is a direct ShoutOut to a visually similar scene from ''ATaleOfTwoSisters''.



* SlasherMovie: Sort of.

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* SlasherMovie: Sort of.Partly.



* VomitIndiscretionShot: When Tara has her fit, a small trickle of vomit can be seen on her chin. Later, when Bluto is tripping out, he vomits all over his chin and down his front.

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* VomitIndiscretionShot: When Tara has her fit, a small trickle of vomit can be seen on her chin. Later, when Bluto is tripping out, he vomits all over his chin and down his front.front.
* WildChild: The feral boy known as "The Dog".
* AWomanScorned: [[spoiler:Possibly Tara.]]
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* [[PaedophilePriest Paedophile Monk]]: The Black Brother is heavily implied to be this.
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American student Tara and her college friends (Bluto, Lisa, Holly and Troy) travel to Ireland to meet with local resident and friend Jake (and Tara's love interest), and go camping in woodlands surrounding a long-disused children's home. Whilst collecting psilocybin mushrooms for later consumption, Tara ingests a deathcap mushroom and suffers a seizure after which she experiences dream-like trances in which she begins having premonitions of future events.

When night falls, the group gathers around the camp fire, with a still-weak Tara resting in her tent. Jake tells a ghost story of the empty children's home nearby, and of a violent sadistic monk who survived an assault by one of his charges, as revenge for killing his twin brother.

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American student Tara and her college friends (Bluto, Lisa, Holly and Troy) travel to Ireland to meet with local resident and friend Jake (and Tara's love interest), and go camping in woodlands surrounding a long-disused children's home. Whilst collecting psilocybin mushrooms for later consumption, Tara ingests a deathcap mushroom and suffers a seizure after which she experiences dream-like trances in which she begins having [[PsychicPowers premonitions of future events.

events]].

When night falls, the group gathers around the camp fire, with a still-weak Tara resting in her tent. Jake tells a [[GhostStory ghost story story]] of the empty children's home nearby, and of a violent [[SinisterMinister violent, sadistic monk monk]] who survived an assault by one of his charges, as revenge [[YouKilledMyFather for killing his twin brother.
brother]].
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** Later, when Tara in the children's home, she nervously opens a door into... an empty room (save for an lone, tiny chair). She leaves, only for the Black Brother to emerge from the very same room and follow her. This is a reference to a similar scene from ''TheExorcist III''.
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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Tara towards Jake. [[spoiler:It's implied (and mentioned in the Director's Commentary) that this, combined with the deathcap-induced craziness, unleashes Tara's repressed rage and causes her to kill everyone.]]



* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: "I love you [[spoiler:Tara.]]" Subverted, as it later turns out that [[spoiler: [[UnreliableNarrator it didn't actually happen]].]]



* BreakTheCutie: Holly. [[spoiler:Possibly Tara.]]



* DoItYourselfThemeTune: The song "Curveball", featured in the ending credits, was performed by the Rig Brothers, but features vocals by Lindsey Haun (Tara). Additionally, she also co-wrote the song.



* TheFaceless: The Lonely Twin.

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* TheFaceless: The Lonely Twin.Twin, who wears a sack over his head.



* HauntedHouse: [[spoiler:At least, that's what the characters (and the audience) are lead to believe the children's home is at first...]] However, WordOfGod says that the issue of [[spoiler: the home being haunted or not]] was intended to be vague - hence the brief shots of it at the beginning of the film.

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* HauntedHouse: [[spoiler:At least, that's what the characters (and the audience) are lead to believe the children's home is at first...]] However, WordOfGod says that the issue of [[spoiler: the story of the home being haunted real or not]] was intended to be vague - hence the brief shots of it at the beginning of the film.



* ImplacableMan: The Black Brother.



* MindScrew / OrIsIt: Regarding Tara's apparent visions of the future, and it is also left unclear as to whether [[spoiler: there really ''is'' a haunted children's home or not.]]

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* MindScrew / OrIsIt: Regarding Tara's apparent visions of the future, and it is also left unclear as to whether [[spoiler: there really ''is'' a haunted the story of the children's home is real or not.]]



* VomitIndiscretionShot: When Tara has her fit, a small trickle of vomit can be seen on her chin.

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* [[spoiler:UnreliableNarrator]]
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* AlphaBitch: Lisa, to a certain extent.



* TheLibby: Lisa, to a certain extent.

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* TheFaceless: The Lonely Twin.



* VomitIndescretionShot: When Tara has her fit, a small trickle of vomit can be seen on her chin.

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* EverythingsBetterWithCows



* HauntedHouse: [[spoiler:At least, that's what the characters (and the audience) are lead to believe the children's home is at first...]]

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* HauntedHouse: [[spoiler:At least, that's what the characters (and the audience) are lead to believe the children's home is at first...]]]] However, WordOfGod says that the issue of [[spoiler: the home being haunted or not]] was intended to be vague - hence the brief shots of it at the beginning of the film.



* JumpScare: The goat.



* NiceJobBreakingItHero: While Jake's reasons for confiscating the group's mobile phones is understandable given the nature of the trips they could have after ingesting the mushrooms, it still isn't exactly a wise idea.
* ObviouslyEvil: Completely averted with Ernie and Bernie. They are extremely odd and come across as more than a little creepy, but seem to be fairly nice people (if rather disturbed).

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* MindScrew / OrIsIt: Regarding Tara's apparent visions of the future, and it is also left unclear as to whether [[spoiler: there really ''is'' a haunted children's home or not.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: While Jake's reasons for confiscating the group's mobile phones is understandable given the nature of the trips they could have after ingesting the mushrooms, it still isn't exactly a wise idea.
idea (arguably). To be fair to him, though, he wasn't to know that the phones would get stolen...
* ObviouslyEvil: Completely averted with Ernie and Bernie. They are extremely odd and come across as more than a little creepy, creepy (and are, as mentioned in the Director's Commentary, intended to be the Irish version of backwoods hillbillies), but seem to be fairly nice people (if rather disturbed).disturbed).
* PsychicPowers: After eating the deathcap, Tara seems to have gained powers of precognition. It's left [[OrIsIt deliberately vague as to whether this is the case or not]].
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Ernie and Bernie.]]
* SceneryPorn: The woods are ''gorgeous''.
* ShoutOut: Tara's fit after ingesting the deathcap is a direct ShoutOut to a visually similar scene from ''ATaleOfTwoSisters''.
* SlasherMovie: Sort of.
* SurrealHorror



* TwistEnding

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* [[spoiler:HowWeGotHere]]

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* [[spoiler:HowWeGotHere]][[spoiler:HowWeGotHere: The first few shots of the film show an unidentified woman running through the woods, clearly panicked. At the end of the film, Tara runs into the woods after escaping from the ambulance.]]


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* [[spoiler:KillEmAll: Tara is the only main character to survive.]]


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* TomatoSurprise: [[spoiler:Tara turns out to have been the killer all along, having been driven crazy from ingesting the deathcap.]]
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* TheLibby: Lisa, to a certain extent.
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The scene with the talking cow. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], as it happens as part of Bluto's trip. Also doubles as a CrowningMomentOfFunny.



* TwistEnding
* TheWoobie: Holly and Tara.

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* [[spoiler:TheKillerInMe]]

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