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* OminousVisualGlitch: The entity's presence sometimes makes the cameras glitch. This is most notable when [[spoiler:it snaps the Millers' dog's neck]] and [[spoiler:during Britton's last ConfessionCam moment, which both supplies convenient censorship of what he is saying and is a big hint that all hell is about to break loose.]]
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* RiddleForTheAges:
** [[spoiler:What exactly happened with the previous investigation at the ranch? The way the scientists spoke to Rebecca implied that ''something'' may have happened to the ranch's previous owners, but no further details are offered.]]
** [[spoiler:What ''is'' the true nature of the presence haunting the ranch, and why is it abducting people? While the ending suggests it might all be due to aliens, whether this is actually the case or the ranch truly is a FantasyKitchenSink with other phenomena going on is never revealed.]]
** [[spoiler:What exactly happened with the previous investigation at the ranch? The way the scientists spoke to Rebecca implied that ''something'' may have happened to the ranch's previous owners, but no further details are offered.]]
** [[spoiler:What ''is'' the true nature of the presence haunting the ranch, and why is it abducting people? While the ending suggests it might all be due to aliens, whether this is actually the case or the ranch truly is a FantasyKitchenSink with other phenomena going on is never revealed.]]
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* DwindlingParty: Though the investigation team remains intact & cohesive for half of the film, once Matt gets ragdolled by the entity he's the first to leave, after which the climax sees [[spoiler:the entity pick off/abducting everyone left on the ranch one by one, starting with Hoyt and ending with Britton]].
* FromBadToWorse: The film starts off with a child getting snatched by an unidentifiable supernatural force, and the anguish his father goes through while the investigation team tries their best to figure out what's going on. The longer they stay there the worse things get, as the presence on the ranch assaults them with increasingly aggressive phenomena [[spoiler:and ultimately traps them there to either kill or abduct every single one of them]].
* HopeSpot: [[spoiler:Britton makes it to the ATV after the entity (presumably) snatches everyone else in a mad dash to make it off the ranch, only for it to get the drop on him just as he's about to drive away.]]
* ItCanThink: The entity on the ranch is not only clearly cognizant, it shows signs of being borderline-omniscient when it comes to everything the crew tries to do to investigate it. While it starts off manifesting itself subtly, [[spoiler:by the end of the film it outright destroys Hoyt's truck, their only means of reasonable transportation, to ensure they don't escape]]. There's also the possibility that [[spoiler:it abducted Cody knowing that more people would be attracted to the ranch as a result, essentially luring in more victims]].
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* WhamShot: [[spoiler:The final shot shows a massive alien spacecraft flying over the ranch and stopping to pick up ''someone'', or some''thing'' that's been standing there motionless for hours. While it's not clearly deducible, the figure may actually be ''Sam'', implying he was in on it the whole time.]]
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* WhamShot: WhamShot:
** Halfway through the movie, one of the remote cameras records what looks like a car driving into the ranch, visible only by its headlights in the distance. A moment after the car pauses it's revealed that [[BaitAndSwitch it isn't a car and those aren't headlights]] -- they're a pair of floating orbs that quickly separate and fly over the crop field before merging and vanishing.
** [[spoiler:The final shot shows a massive alien spacecraft flying over the ranch and stopping to pick up ''someone'', or some''thing'' that's been standing there motionless for hours. While it's not clearly deducible, the figure may actually be ''Sam'', implying he was in on it the whole time.]]
** Halfway through the movie, one of the remote cameras records what looks like a car driving into the ranch, visible only by its headlights in the distance. A moment after the car pauses it's revealed that [[BaitAndSwitch it isn't a car and those aren't headlights]] -- they're a pair of floating orbs that quickly separate and fly over the crop field before merging and vanishing.
** [[spoiler:The final shot shows a massive alien spacecraft flying over the ranch and stopping to pick up ''someone'', or some''thing'' that's been standing there motionless for hours. While it's not clearly deducible, the figure may actually be ''Sam'', implying he was in on it the whole time.]]
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* PapaWolf: Hoyt is obsessed over finding out what happened to his son Cody and his occasional reaction to seeing something that may have been what took him is to grab a shotgun and give chase. [[spoiler:It works against him in the final act, when the entity manifests an illusion of Cody and Hoyt follows it, [[UncertainDoom presumably being slain or taken by the entity when he disappears from the camera's view]].]]
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* TheChick: Lisa, the vet tech and only woman in the crew.
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* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Lisa, the vet tech and only woman in the crew.
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* AmbiguousInnocence: Sam comes off as knowing more about the occurrences at the ranch, and possibly even MDE's involvement with it, than he's willing to divulge. At the same time, he's the member of the crew least willing to take a hint at the growing dangers and leave, which could mean he's simply dead-set on documenting the ranch's oddities but could also hint at him having ulterior motives for not letting the operation be abandoned. [[spoiler:In the climax of the film he's one of the people who isn't actually shown getting taken by the entity, and the figure in the final shot of the film interacting with the alien spacecraft ''might'' be him, implying that he's affiliated with the powers present at the ranch to the point of deliberately keeping the others there to ensure they don't escape.]]
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* EldritchLocation: Just like in the myths it's based on, the ranch is home to an ominous presence of some sort that causes a slew of oddities and otherwordly scares. [[spoiler:The ending posits that this presence is extraterrestrial.]]
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* EldritchLocation: Just like in the myths it's based on, the ranch is home to an ominous presence of some sort that causes a slew of oddities and otherwordly otherworldly scares. [[spoiler:The ending posits that this presence is extraterrestrial.]]
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* GovernmentConspiracy: There are hints at a [[RoswellThatEndsWell Roswell]]-esque cover-up operation going on in relation to whatever is happening on the ranch, namely an unmarked vehicle that briefly appears to spy on the crew's investigation before driving off. [[spoiler:The tape found by the crew supports this, with some sort of investigation crew having been active on the ranch in the past, and the entity present at the ranch taking them all out.]]
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* GovernmentConspiracy: There are hints at a [[RoswellThatEndsWell Roswell]]-esque cover-up operation going on in relation to whatever is happening on the ranch, namely an unmarked vehicle that briefly appears to spy on the crew's investigation before driving off. [[spoiler:The tape found by the crew supports this, with some sort of investigation crew having been active on the ranch in the past, and the entity present at the ranch taking them all out. Depending on how you interpret some events, there's an implication that MDE is engaging with the presence at the ranch intentionally, and sending investigation crews there deliberately to appease the entity.]]
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* WhamShot: [[spoiler:The final shot shows a massive alien spacecraft flying over the ranch and stopping to pick up ''someone'', or some''thing'' that's been standing there motionless for hours. While it's not clearly deducible, the figure may actually be ''Sam'', implying he was in on it the whole time.]]
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* AlienAbduction: [[spoiler:The ending implies this is what's really been going on at the ranch, with all the other activity possibly spinning off from the aliens' presence there.]]
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* DownerBeginning: The film opens up with Cody vanishing before his parents' eyes and them freaking out over it, during the poor kid's birthday no less.
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* InscrutableAliens: [[spoiler:The ending implies that aliens are what's behind everything going on at the ranch, and based on all of the horrors they inflict on everyone who tries to investigate them for seemingly no reason, they're definitely this trope.]]
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* AliensStealCattle: A cattle mutilation occurs during the investigation, with the trademark impossibly surgical cause of death being highlighted.
* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:In the end entity presiding over the ranch succeeds in either killing, capturing, or chasing off everyone involved in trying to investigate it.]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Cody is never found, everyone either leaves the farm early, dies, or vanishes just like Cody, and the entity haunting the farm -- implied to be aliens -- is still at large.]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Cody is never found, everyone either leaves the farm early, dies, or vanishes just like Cody, and the entity haunting the farm -- implied to be aliens -- is still at large. The only consolation is that it got caught on camera, but even then the person who found the footage is implied to have been eliminated as well.]]
* FramingDevice: The movie is presented as the recordings of the MDE investigation team that were somehow found by a journalist and, presumably, made public. This is only mentioned at the beginning however.
* TheGhost: Jacob Rundels, the journalist credited with finding the footage that comprises the film itself. He doesn't actually appear in the film and is only mentioned in the OpeningScroll, which also reveals he [[{{Unperson}} mysteriously vanished]] the very same year the film was released.
* TheGhost: Jacob Rundels, the journalist credited with finding the footage that comprises the film itself. He doesn't actually appear in the film and is only mentioned in the OpeningScroll, which also reveals he [[{{Unperson}} mysteriously vanished]] the very same year the film was released.
* TwentyMinutesIntoThePast: The events of the film take place in 2010, three years before its "discovery" and release.
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* WhamShot: [[spoiler:The final shot shows a massive alien spacecraft flying over the ranch and stopping to pick up ''someone'', or some''thing''.some''thing'' that's been standing there motionless for hours.]]
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* ApocalypticLog: [[spoiler:The MDE tape found by the crew shows snippets of the activity of research team that had previously been operating on the ranch, before the entity decides to take them all out.]]
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* BrownNote: Some aspect of whatever's haunting the ranch seems to have this effect, as Lisa begins having recurring nosebleeds while staying there.
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* BrownNote: Some aspect of whatever's haunting the ranch seems to have this effect, as Lisa begins having recurring nosebleeds while staying there. [[spoiler:When it wants to it can make the effects [[YourHeadASplode far worse]].]]
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* HellIsThatNoise: The first scare the crew experiences is when a piercing, incredibly loud shrieking noise wakes them all in the dead of night. The noise was so intense that it even killed a swarm of bats passing by.
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* HellIsThatNoise: The first scare the crew experiences is when a piercing, incredibly loud shrieking noise wakes them all in the dead of night. The noise was so intense that it even killed a swarm of bats passing by. Even afterwards, the entity produces some unnerving sounds whenever it does something.
* HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler:The entity's "true form" (or at least, the final form it seems to prefer taking against groups that encounter it) is an odd cross between a werewolf and TheGreys from what's shown of it.]]
* InNameOnly: While the film is definitely based off of the Skinwalker Ranch lore, skinwalkers themselves are never actually mentioned, only alluded to with some mentions of Native American tribes not going near the ranch.
* HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler:The entity's "true form" (or at least, the final form it seems to prefer taking against groups that encounter it) is an odd cross between a werewolf and TheGreys from what's shown of it.]]
* InNameOnly: While the film is definitely based off of the Skinwalker Ranch lore, skinwalkers themselves are never actually mentioned, only alluded to with some mentions of Native American tribes not going near the ranch.
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* SatelliteCharacter: Hoyt's wife only appears at the beginning and afterwards is established to have moved off the ranch to pursue psychiatric help following Cody's disappearance.
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* WhamShot: [[spoiler:The final shot shows a massive alien spacecraft flying over the ranch and stopping to pick up ''someone'', or some''thing''.]]
* YourHeadASplode: [[spoiler:The entity can also kill people like this, as shown when Rebecca makes one of the scientists in the tape die this way.]]
* YourHeadASplode: [[spoiler:The entity can also kill people like this, as shown when Rebecca makes one of the scientists in the tape die this way.]]
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* AteHisGun: [[spoiler:How Hoyt kills himself.]]
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* AteHisGun: [[spoiler:How Hoyt Ray kills himself.]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Cody is never found, everyone either leaves the farm early or dies, and the entity haunting the farm -- implied to be aliens -- is still at large.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Hoyt, either from the influence of the entity at the ranch or just from the psychological anguish of not getting his son back, decides to end his life by shooting himself in the mouth towards the end of the film.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Hoyt, either from the influence of the entity at the ranch or just from the psychological anguish of not getting his son back, decides to end his life by shooting himself in the mouth towards the end of the film.]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: CreepyChild:
** While Codyis never found, everyone either leaves himself isn't creepy, the farm early or dies, and apparitions the entity haunting produces of him certainly are.
** [[spoiler:Rebecca, thefarm -- implied to be aliens -- little girl shown in the tape found by the crew, is still either possessed by or a manifestation of the entity at large.the ranch. She kills the entire research team that finds her and shows a NightmareFace before killing the person recording the tape.]]
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:After the second encounter with the giant wolf, Lisa apparently gets possessed by the entity and starts assaulting the rest of the crew, only to not remember any of it later one.]]
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Cody is never found, everyone either leaves the farm early, dies, or vanishes just like Cody, and the entity haunting the farm -- implied to be aliens -- is still at large.]]
* DrivenToSuicide:[[spoiler:Hoyt, either from [[spoiler:One of the influence of ways the entity at can kill people is by forcing them to kill themselves. It inflicts this on one of the ranch or just from scientists in the psychological anguish of not getting his son back, decides video tape recording by making her stab herself in the neck with a syringe, then causes Ray to end his life by shooting shoot himself in the mouth towards the end of the film.later on.]]
** While Cody
** [[spoiler:Rebecca, the
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:After the second encounter with the giant wolf, Lisa apparently gets possessed by the entity and starts assaulting the rest of the crew, only to not remember any of it later one.]]
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Cody is never found, everyone either leaves the farm early, dies, or vanishes just like Cody, and the entity haunting the farm -- implied to be aliens -- is still at large.]]
* DrivenToSuicide:
* EvilDetectingDog: The Millers' dog is shown in one scene to be able to sense the entity when it manifests, which unfortunately results in it immediately getting killed.
* FantasyKitchenSink: Whatever's haunting the ranch manifests in quite a few distinct supernatural phenomenon, such as floating orbs of light, giant monster wolves, invisible ''and'' visible apparitions, [[spoiler:and aliens]]. Though the implication is that all the seemingly unrelated phenomenon happening are deliberately manifested by the latter.
* FantasyKitchenSink: Whatever's haunting the ranch manifests in quite a few distinct supernatural phenomenon, such as floating orbs of light, giant monster wolves, invisible ''and'' visible apparitions, [[spoiler:and aliens]]. Though the implication is that all the seemingly unrelated phenomenon happening are deliberately manifested by the latter.
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* GovernmentConspiracy: There are hints at a [[RoswellThatEndsWell Roswell]]-esque cover-up operation going on in relation to whatever is happening on the ranch.
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* GovernmentConspiracy: There are hints at a [[RoswellThatEndsWell Roswell]]-esque cover-up operation going on in relation to whatever is happening on the ranch.ranch, namely an unmarked vehicle that briefly appears to spy on the crew's investigation before driving off. [[spoiler:The tape found by the crew supports this, with some sort of investigation crew having been active on the ranch in the past, and the entity present at the ranch taking them all out.]]
* InUniverseCamera: Naturally for FoundFootage, courtesy of Britton.
* KickTheDog: Literally -- the entity kills the Millers' farm dog via NeckSnap when it shows signs of being aware of the thing.
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* MissingChild: Hoyt loses child right before his very eyes and has absolutely no idea what happened to him.
* NothingIsScarier: A lot of the downtime in the film is spent focusing on empty shots of the various camera locations.
* NothingIsScarier: A lot of the downtime in the film is spent focusing on empty shots of the various camera locations.
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* MissingChild: Hoyt loses his child right before his very eyes and has absolutely no idea what happened to him.
* NothingIsScarier: A lot of the downtime in the film is spent focusing on empty shots of the various camera locations. Additionally, a lot of the handiwork of the entity on the ranch isn't explicitly shown, only its effects.
* NothingIsScarier: A lot of the downtime in the film is spent focusing on empty shots of the various camera locations. Additionally, a lot of the handiwork of the entity on the ranch isn't explicitly shown, only its effects.
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* UncertainDoom: Uncovering Cody's fate after he vanished is what kickstarts the plot. [[spoiler:Everyone either dies or leaves before they can discover what happened to him, but going by the ending it was likely AlienAbduction.]]
* UncertainDoom: Uncovering Cody's fate after he vanished is what kickstarts the plot. [[spoiler:Everyone either dies or leaves before they can discover what happened to him, but going by the ending it was likely AlienAbduction.]]
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** [[spoiler:After getting sucked into the air by the entity, entity and getting injured, Matt gets fed up with the operation and leaves the ranch.]]
* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:[[FridgeHorror Assuming he actually made it off of the ranch]], Matt is the only member of the investigation team who survives the film by virtue of having enough sense to leave before everything goes FromBadToWorse.]]
* UncertainDoom:Uncovering Cody's fate after he vanished is what kickstarts [[spoiler:With the plot. [[spoiler:Everyone either dies or exception of Matt who leaves before they can discover what happened to him, but going early, and Ray who kills himself, the ultimate fate of everyone on the ranch is left up in the air. Most of them are presumably abducted by the entity just like Cody was, while Hoyt is last seen chasing an apparition of Cody off into the ranch and is never seen again. The ending it was likely implies everyone became a casualty of AlienAbduction.]]
* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:[[FridgeHorror Assuming he actually made it off of the ranch]], Matt is the only member of the investigation team who survives the film by virtue of having enough sense to leave before everything goes FromBadToWorse.]]
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* BrownNote: Some aspect of whatever's haunting the ranch seems to have this effect, as Lisa begins having recurring nosebleeds while staying there.
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* GovernmentConspiracy: There are hints at a [[RoswellThatEndsWell Roswell]]-esque cover-up operation going on in relation to whatever is happening on the ranch.
* HellIsThatNoise: The first scare the crew experiences is whenapiercing, a piercing, incredibly loud shrieking noise wakes them all in the dead of night. The noise was so intense that it even killed a swarm of bats passing by.
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* ABirthdayNotABreak: Cody disappears right in the middle of his birthday party.
* TheChick: Lisa, the vet tech and only woman in the crew.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Cody is never found, everyone either leaves the farm early or dies, and the entity haunting the farm -- implied to be aliens -- is still at large.]]
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Cody is never found, everyone either leaves the farm early or dies, and the entity haunting the farm -- implied to be aliens -- is still at large.]]
* EldritchLocation: Just like in the myths it's based on, the ranch is home to an ominous presence of some sort that causes a slew of oddities and otherwordly scares. [[spoiler:The ending posits that this presence is extraterrestrial.]]
* FoundFootageFilms: Of the mock documentary variety.
* HellIsThatNoise: The first scare the crew experiences is when apiercing, incredibly loud shrieking noise wakes them all in the dead of night. The noise was so intense that it even killed a swarm of bats passing by.
* JitterCam: As to be expected from a FoundFootage flick. Though there are also quite a few stationary shots thanks to the crew using a lot of remote cameras.
* FoundFootageFilms: Of the mock documentary variety.
* HellIsThatNoise: The first scare the crew experiences is when apiercing, incredibly loud shrieking noise wakes them all in the dead of night. The noise was so intense that it even killed a swarm of bats passing by.
* JitterCam: As to be expected from a FoundFootage flick. Though there are also quite a few stationary shots thanks to the crew using a lot of remote cameras.
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* MissingChild: Losing your child right before your very eyes and having absolutely no idea what happened to them. [[spoiler:And because Cody's true fate is never uncovered, Hoyt is so distraught by this that he kills himself.]]
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* {{Mockumentary}}: The film is structured, for the most part, like a documentary made by the crew, complete with interviewing the crew members and an opening with testimonies from the local townsfolk. It veers more toward a conventional horror film at the end, though.
* MissingChild:Losing your Hoyt loses child right before your his very eyes and having has absolutely no idea what happened to them. [[spoiler:And because Cody's true fate him.
* NothingIsScarier: A lot of the downtime in the film isnever uncovered, Hoyt is so distraught spent focusing on empty shots of the various camera locations.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: A lot of the events in the film are based on the accounts of the real-life happenings at the Sherman Ranch, such as the floating orbs, giant wolves, and entities coming into the house at night.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere:
** Ahote, after realizing just how screwed up things are on the Ranch, immediately leaves after telling the crew he can't help them
** After getting sucked into the air bythis that he kills himself.]]the entity, Matt gets fed up with the operation and leaves the ranch.
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* NothingIsScarier: A lot of the downtime in the film is
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: A lot of the events in the film are based on the accounts of the real-life happenings at the Sherman Ranch, such as the floating orbs, giant wolves, and entities coming into the house at night.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere:
** Ahote, after realizing just how screwed up things are on the Ranch, immediately leaves after telling the crew he can't help them
** After getting sucked into the air by
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''Skinwalker Ranch'' is a 2013 FoundFootage SciFiHorror film. As the name implies, it draws inspiration from folklore and myths surrounding [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinwalker_Ranch the real-life Skinwalker Ranch]], otherwise known as Sherman Ranch, located in Ballard, Utah.
The Millers, a family that owns an runs a ranch in Utah, suddenly witness an unexplainable occurrence when their son Cody vanishes from thin air before their eyes. Determined to get his son back, Cody's father Hoyt (John Gries) enlists the help of a ParanormalInvestigation team to uncover what happened to Cody and document the odd phenomenon happening on the ranch. However, despite the team's confidence to handle whatever they witness, before too long it becomes clear they might be in over their heads.
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!!''Skinwalker Ranch'' contains examples of:
* AdultFear: Losing your child right before your very eyes and having absolutely no idea what happened to them definitely qualifies [[spoiler:Even more so because Cody's true fate is never uncovered and Hoyt is so distraught by this that he kills himself.]]
* AteHisGun: [[spoiler:How Hoyt kills himself.]]
* CanisMajor: The wolf the team encounters out on the ranch is gigantic.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Hoyt, either from the influence of the entity at the ranch or just from the psychological anguish of not getting his son back, decides to end his life by shooting himself in the mouth towards the end of the film.]]
* MagicalNativeAmerican: Ahote, whom Sam asks to bless the ranch by "communicating with the energy that speaks from the earth" and does so by performing a chant at a bonfire. After [[FaintingSeer passing out]] during the ritual he very bluntly tells the investigation team that [[EldritchLocation blessing the ranch won't help]] and they need to [[CassandraTruth get the fuck out of there]], before [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere doing so himself]].
* UncertainDoom: Uncovering Cody's fate after he vanished is what kickstarts the plot. [[spoiler:Everyone either dies or leaves before they can discover what happened to him, but going by the ending it was likely AlienAbduction.]]
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The Millers, a family that owns an runs a ranch in Utah, suddenly witness an unexplainable occurrence when their son Cody vanishes from thin air before their eyes. Determined to get his son back, Cody's father Hoyt (John Gries) enlists the help of a ParanormalInvestigation team to uncover what happened to Cody and document the odd phenomenon happening on the ranch. However, despite the team's confidence to handle whatever they witness, before too long it becomes clear they might be in over their heads.
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!!''Skinwalker Ranch'' contains examples of:
* AdultFear: Losing your child right before your very eyes and having absolutely no idea what happened to them definitely qualifies [[spoiler:Even more so because Cody's true fate is never uncovered and Hoyt is so distraught by this that he kills himself.]]
* AteHisGun: [[spoiler:How Hoyt kills himself.]]
* CanisMajor: The wolf the team encounters out on the ranch is gigantic.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Hoyt, either from the influence of the entity at the ranch or just from the psychological anguish of not getting his son back, decides to end his life by shooting himself in the mouth towards the end of the film.]]
* MagicalNativeAmerican: Ahote, whom Sam asks to bless the ranch by "communicating with the energy that speaks from the earth" and does so by performing a chant at a bonfire. After [[FaintingSeer passing out]] during the ritual he very bluntly tells the investigation team that [[EldritchLocation blessing the ranch won't help]] and they need to [[CassandraTruth get the fuck out of there]], before [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere doing so himself]].
* UncertainDoom: Uncovering Cody's fate after he vanished is what kickstarts the plot. [[spoiler:Everyone either dies or leaves before they can discover what happened to him, but going by the ending it was likely AlienAbduction.]]
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