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* GreenwashedVillainy: CCC's image of corporate responsibility and eco-friendliness is built on lies, [[spoiler:which is why Keerat went after them]].
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* GreenwashedVillainy: CCC's Canadian Cotton Clothiers is a boutique clothing company aimed at young {{hipster}}s who market their clothes with a "socially responsible" image of corporate responsibility and eco-friendliness and fair trade. [[spoiler:In truth, CCC uses [[UnfortunateIngredients GMO cotton]] and [[NoOSHACompliance child labor]] to make their clothes. The villain is built the ghost of a 13-year-old Indian farm laborer who died in a workplace accident and [[TheScourgeOfGod seeks her revenge on lies, [[spoiler:which is why Keerat went after them]].the greedy Western corporation and consumers she died serving]].]]
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* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:The film ends with every major character dead, and Keerat murdering the shoppers entering the store. Only the stockboy Camilo, who spent the whole movie in one of the changing rooms, is spared.]]
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* DancingPants: The jeans start dancing when they hear Shruti listening to UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} music, [[spoiler:foreshadowing that the ghost possessing them is originally from India]].
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* BadInfluencer: Peyton is a downplayed example. While she's not evil, she's still presented as an AlphaBitch all grown up [[spoiler:and an AssholeVictim]].
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* OnlySaneEmployee: Libby and Shruti, the former [[NaiveNewcomer too new to the job]] and the latter [[SoulSuckingRetailJob too bitter and cynical]] to be as vain and image-obsessed as their co-workers. [[spoiler:It's why Keerat spares them.]]
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* TheScourgeOfGod: The villain is [[spoiler:the ghost of a dead child laborer taking her wrath out on the sleazy corporate suits and vapid consumers whose insatiable demand for cheap clothing got her killed]].
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* InnocentlyInsensitive: Libby when she assumes that Shruti listens to UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} music just because she's Indian. When Shruti takes out her earbud to ask her if she likes Music/GreenDay because she's from a town called Greenville, we hear that she's actually listening to metal. However, it later turns out that Shruti ''is'' a Bollywood fan, [[spoiler:which saves her life and provides a big clue as to the agenda of the possessed jeans]].
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* InnocentlyInsensitive: Libby when she assumes that Shruti listens to UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} music just because she's Indian. When Shruti takes out her earbud to ask her if she likes Music/GreenDay because she's from a town called Greenville, we hear that she's actually listening to metal. However, it later turns out that Shruti ''is'' a Bollywood fan, [[spoiler:which saves her life and provides a big clue as to the agenda of the possessed jeans]].
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* StereotypeReactionGag: Shruti jabs at Libby for assuming that she's a UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} fan just because she's Indian, but it's later revealed that she ''is'', and is quite embarrassed when Libby finds out. [[spoiler:It actually saves her life, and provides a big clue as to the agenda of the possessed jeans.]]
-->'''Shruti:''' Okay, so I like to listen to Bollywood music once in a while, [[DefensiveWhat is that a crime?]]
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* WoodChipperOfDoom: Thresher of Doom, in this case, but it’s the same principle. [[spoiler:Keerat got snagged on the blades, was dragged into it and butchered, soaking the experimental cotton used to make the killer jeans.]]
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* WoodChipperOfDoom: Thresher of Doom, in this case, but it’s the same principle. [[spoiler:Keerat [[spoiler:Keerat's scarf got snagged on the blades, was dragged dragging her into it and getting her butchered, soaking the experimental cotton used to make the killer jeans.]]
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* DancingPants: The jeans start dancing when they hear Shruti listening to UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} music, [[spoiler:foreshadowing that the ghost possessing them is originally from India]].
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* GenreThrowback: To '80s horror films like ''Film/TheStuff'' and ''Film/TheyLive'' that combined satire of consumerism with graphic violence.
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: [[spoiler:Why Keerat lets Libby live. She and Shruti were the only ones who cared about her plight, and vowed to tell her story to the world.]]
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: [[spoiler:Why Keerat lets Libby live.live, and even saves her from Craig. She and Shruti were the only ones who cared about her plight, and vowed to tell her story to the world.]]
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* SenselessSacrifice: [[spoiler:Libby's]] last act is to desperately try to barricade the doors to the boutique [[spoiler:so that the shoppers waiting outside don't get killed by Keerat. All she gets for it is crushed in a stampede of shoppers. The last thing she sees as her vision blurs and fades out is them getting torn apart.]]
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: The entire plot of the film is about CCC's corporate hypocrisy coming back to bite it when [[spoiler:the ghost of a dead laborer decides to get revenge on the company responsible for her death]].
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** The manager Craig is no better. With a product launch to attend to and [[ProfessionalButtKisser a CEO to impress]], he cares more about his career with the company than the lives of his employees. He even knocks out Libby when, after they find [[spoiler:Lord's body]], she tries to call the police.
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[[caption-width-right:350:''[[{{Tagline}} An ass to die for.]]'']]
'''''Slaxx''''' is a 2020 Canadian HorrorComedy directed by Elza Kephart and written by Kephart and Patricia Gomez, about an evil pair of jeans that murders people at a boutique. (Yes, really.)
At a Canadian Cotton Clothiers boutique, the staff are preparing for the launch of the store's latest product: the Super Shapers, an innovative pair of thermally-activated jeans that adapt and mold to any body shape. Unfortunately, the jeans they just received have a minor defect: namely, they seemingly have a mind of their own, brutally murdering people who try to handle or wear them. With the fashion influencer Peyton Jules on her way for the grand opening, however, there's no time to deal with this problem, even as it becomes obvious to everyone, save for the greedy manager Craig, that there's a most unusual killer on the loose.
Premiering at the Fantasia Film Festival on August 23, 2020, ''Slaxx'' debuted on the horror-oriented streaming service Shudder in 2021.
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!!Tropes:
* AlphaBitch: Both Peyton and her manager Barb.
* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:Lord]] loses [[{{Fingore}} his thumb]], and then both of his hands to the jeans as they kill him. The jeans later dismember him and stuff his head, hands, and feet in a box for Craig and Libby to find.
* ArtifactOfAttraction: The jeans are capable of brainwashing people into trying them on when they look at the embroidered SS logo on the back pocket.
* AssholeVictim: Save for Libby and Shruti, most of the employees at CCC are hipster douchebags. This being a SlasherMovie, you know what's about to go down.
* AttackOfTheKillerWhatever: A pair of jeans that kills people.
* BlandNameProduct: Canadian Cotton Clothiers, with its "ethical" branding, "millennial hipster" target demographic, CultOfPersonality around its founder Harold Landsgrove, and AlliterativeName, is pretty bluntly American Apparel (except Canadian).
* CerebusSyndrome: After the jeans kill [[spoiler:Peyton and rampage through the store]], the film turns a lot more serious.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive:
** Harold Landsgrove, the CEO of CCC. [[spoiler:He knows about the sweatshop labor practices that his suppliers are engaged in, even though it goes against all the company's "ethical" branding, and doesn't care so long as he makes his money.]]
** The manager Craig is no better. With a product launch to attend to and [[ProfessionalButtKisser a CEO to impress]], he cares more about his career with the company than the lives of his employees. He even knocks out Libby when, after they find [[spoiler:Lord's body]], she tries to call the police.
* CouldntFindAPen: [[spoiler:Keerat, while possessing a mannequin,]] uses a bloody severed hand to communicate with Libby and Shruti by writing on the walls. [[spoiler:Since she's writing in Hindi, Shruti has to translate.]]
* DescriptionCut: As Harold hypes up the Super Shapers in a presentation to the employees, Jemma is getting torn in half by them in the bathroom.
* DevouredByTheHorde: [[spoiler:Craig, by a horde of possessed jeans. By the time they're through with him, they've stripped off over half the flesh on his bones.]]
* FakeStatic: Jemma pulls this on Craig as she runs off to the bathroom.
* FinalGirl: Libby is framed as this almost from the get-go, the one employee at CCC who isn't either a cynic like Shruti or an asshole like everybody else. [[spoiler:She almost makes it to the end, but gets killed in the stampede of shoppers she desperately tried to stop from entering the store.]]
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Jemma gets her entire lower half bitten off after trying the jeans on. Libby later finds her body stuffed under the bathroom sink, her guts spilling out.
* HeadphonesEqualIsolation: Shruti never notices the mayhem around her because she has her headphones on.
* {{Hipster}}: Many of the employees and customers at CCC, save for Libby and Shruti. Harold Landsgrove resembles an older version of such, but still dresses and acts the part.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Libby when she assumes that Shruti listens to UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} music just because she's Indian. When Shruti takes out her earbud to ask her if she likes Music/GreenDay because she's from a town called Greenville, we hear that she's actually listening to metal. However, it later turns out that Shruti ''is'' a Bollywood fan, [[spoiler:which saves her life and provides a big clue as to the agenda of the possessed jeans]].
-->'''Shruti:''' Okay, so I like to listen to Bollywood music once in a while, [[DefensiveWhat is that a crime?]]
* KarmaHoudini: Harold, the CEO of CCC who is arguably more responsible than anyone for the events of the film, only appears in one scene and never gets any comeuppance.
* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:The film ends with every major character dead, and Keerat murdering the shoppers entering the store. Only the stockboy Camilo, who spent the whole movie in one of the changing rooms, is spared.]]
* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:Barb is last seen picking up the jeans off the ground, then screaming just as she steps out of the security camera's field of view.]]
* NaiveNewcomer: Libby, the new sales clerk.
* NeckSnap: The jeans kill [[spoiler:Peyton]] by strangling her until her neck breaks.
* NiceCharacterMeanActor: Peyton Jules is personable in her public persona, but an AlphaBitch to everyone around her.
* NoOSHACompliance: The Indian cotton plantation where [[spoiler:Keerat died. For starters, she was only thirteen years old.]]
* PeaceAndLoveIncorporated: Thy name is Canadian Cotton Clothiers. They are obsessed with an image of social responsibility, emphasizing fair-trade labor practices and a lack of [=GMOs=] in the cotton that goes into their clothing. It's all a sham, of course, as they don't care about anything other than their bottom line, [[spoiler:and never actually check if their suppliers follow those guidelines]].
* ProfessionalButtKisser: Craig is a sleazy corporate climber who acts extremely deferential around Harold.
* ShortDistancePhoneCall: Craig calls Hunter over the radio after Jemma goes missing. Hunter was standing right behind him the whole time.
* SocialMediaIsBad: Peyton Jules is every negative stereotype about fashion influencers in one shrill AlphaBitch package.
* SoulSuckingRetailJob: Shruti has worked at CCC since 1987, and holds nothing but contempt for the job and her boss Craig.
* TheStinger: Reveals that [[spoiler:Camilo survived the entire movie in one of the changing rooms, completely unaware of what happened until he stepped out and saw the carnage]].
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-->''Thank you for shopping at CCC and [[WeCare making a better tomorrow today!]]''
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[[caption-width-right:350:''[[{{Tagline}} An ass to die for.]]'']]
'''''Slaxx''''' is a 2020 Canadian HorrorComedy directed by Elza Kephart and written by Kephart and Patricia Gomez, about an evil pair of jeans that murders people at a boutique. (Yes, really.)
At a Canadian Cotton Clothiers boutique, the staff are preparing for the launch of the store's latest product: the Super Shapers, an innovative pair of thermally-activated jeans that adapt and mold to any body shape. Unfortunately, the jeans they just received have a minor defect: namely, they seemingly have a mind of their own, brutally murdering people who try to handle or wear them. With the fashion influencer Peyton Jules on her way for the grand opening, however, there's no time to deal with this problem, even as it becomes obvious to everyone, save for the greedy manager Craig, that there's a most unusual killer on the loose.
Premiering at the Fantasia Film Festival on August 23, 2020, ''Slaxx'' debuted on the horror-oriented streaming service Shudder in 2021.
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!!Tropes:
* AlphaBitch: Both Peyton and her manager Barb.
* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:Lord]] loses [[{{Fingore}} his thumb]], and then both of his hands to the jeans as they kill him. The jeans later dismember him and stuff his head, hands, and feet in a box for Craig and Libby to find.
* ArtifactOfAttraction: The jeans are capable of brainwashing people into trying them on when they look at the embroidered SS logo on the back pocket.
* AssholeVictim: Save for Libby and Shruti, most of the employees at CCC are hipster douchebags. This being a SlasherMovie, you know what's about to go down.
* AttackOfTheKillerWhatever: A pair of jeans that kills people.
* BlandNameProduct: Canadian Cotton Clothiers, with its "ethical" branding, "millennial hipster" target demographic, CultOfPersonality around its founder Harold Landsgrove, and AlliterativeName, is pretty bluntly American Apparel (except Canadian).
* CerebusSyndrome: After the jeans kill [[spoiler:Peyton and rampage through the store]], the film turns a lot more serious.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive:
** Harold Landsgrove, the CEO of CCC. [[spoiler:He knows about the sweatshop labor practices that his suppliers are engaged in, even though it goes against all the company's "ethical" branding, and doesn't care so long as he makes his money.]]
** The manager Craig is no better. With a product launch to attend to and [[ProfessionalButtKisser a CEO to impress]], he cares more about his career with the company than the lives of his employees. He even knocks out Libby when, after they find [[spoiler:Lord's body]], she tries to call the police.
* CouldntFindAPen: [[spoiler:Keerat, while possessing a mannequin,]] uses a bloody severed hand to communicate with Libby and Shruti by writing on the walls. [[spoiler:Since she's writing in Hindi, Shruti has to translate.]]
* DescriptionCut: As Harold hypes up the Super Shapers in a presentation to the employees, Jemma is getting torn in half by them in the bathroom.
* DevouredByTheHorde: [[spoiler:Craig, by a horde of possessed jeans. By the time they're through with him, they've stripped off over half the flesh on his bones.]]
* FakeStatic: Jemma pulls this on Craig as she runs off to the bathroom.
* FinalGirl: Libby is framed as this almost from the get-go, the one employee at CCC who isn't either a cynic like Shruti or an asshole like everybody else. [[spoiler:She almost makes it to the end, but gets killed in the stampede of shoppers she desperately tried to stop from entering the store.]]
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Jemma gets her entire lower half bitten off after trying the jeans on. Libby later finds her body stuffed under the bathroom sink, her guts spilling out.
* HeadphonesEqualIsolation: Shruti never notices the mayhem around her because she has her headphones on.
* {{Hipster}}: Many of the employees and customers at CCC, save for Libby and Shruti. Harold Landsgrove resembles an older version of such, but still dresses and acts the part.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Libby when she assumes that Shruti listens to UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} music just because she's Indian. When Shruti takes out her earbud to ask her if she likes Music/GreenDay because she's from a town called Greenville, we hear that she's actually listening to metal. However, it later turns out that Shruti ''is'' a Bollywood fan, [[spoiler:which saves her life and provides a big clue as to the agenda of the possessed jeans]].
-->'''Shruti:''' Okay, so I like to listen to Bollywood music once in a while, [[DefensiveWhat is that a crime?]]
* KarmaHoudini: Harold, the CEO of CCC who is arguably more responsible than anyone for the events of the film, only appears in one scene and never gets any comeuppance.
* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:The film ends with every major character dead, and Keerat murdering the shoppers entering the store. Only the stockboy Camilo, who spent the whole movie in one of the changing rooms, is spared.]]
* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:Barb is last seen picking up the jeans off the ground, then screaming just as she steps out of the security camera's field of view.]]
* NaiveNewcomer: Libby, the new sales clerk.
* NeckSnap: The jeans kill [[spoiler:Peyton]] by strangling her until her neck breaks.
* NiceCharacterMeanActor: Peyton Jules is personable in her public persona, but an AlphaBitch to everyone around her.
* NoOSHACompliance: The Indian cotton plantation where [[spoiler:Keerat died. For starters, she was only thirteen years old.]]
* PeaceAndLoveIncorporated: Thy name is Canadian Cotton Clothiers. They are obsessed with an image of social responsibility, emphasizing fair-trade labor practices and a lack of [=GMOs=] in the cotton that goes into their clothing. It's all a sham, of course, as they don't care about anything other than their bottom line, [[spoiler:and never actually check if their suppliers follow those guidelines]].
* ProfessionalButtKisser: Craig is a sleazy corporate climber who acts extremely deferential around Harold.
* ShortDistancePhoneCall: Craig calls Hunter over the radio after Jemma goes missing. Hunter was standing right behind him the whole time.
* SocialMediaIsBad: Peyton Jules is every negative stereotype about fashion influencers in one shrill AlphaBitch package.
* SoulSuckingRetailJob: Shruti has worked at CCC since 1987, and holds nothing but contempt for the job and her boss Craig.
* TheStinger: Reveals that [[spoiler:Camilo survived the entire movie in one of the changing rooms, completely unaware of what happened until he stepped out and saw the carnage]].
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-->''Thank you for shopping at CCC and [[WeCare making a better tomorrow today!]]''
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