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* ActionSurvivor: Bobby becomes this when he's determined to save Kevin and beat Ms. Burton.
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* ShoutOut: In one scene [[Film/TheShining Bobby is trapped in the bathroom while Ms. Burton is smashing the door with an axe.]]
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* BigDamnHero: [[spoiler: A police officer shoots and kills Ms. Burton just before she could kill the kids.]]
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* WouldHurtAChild: Ms. Burton who kidnaps children and then hands them over to paying pervert customers and has no qualms in trying to even murder them in order to cover her crimes.
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* AccidentalMurder: How the Creep is dispatched. He springs upwards towards Bobby while he's holding a knife and ends up impaling himself against the blade.
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* AccidentalMurder: How the Creep is dispatched. He springs upwards towards Bobby while he's holding a knife and ends up impaling himself against the blade. [[AssholeVictim Not that he does not deserve it.]]
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* HateSink: Ms. Burton given that she's serial children kidnapper whom later sells to pedophiles to be molested and later tries to kill the two protagonists to cover the truth.
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* YouGotSpunk: Creepy variant: Ms. Burton comments that Bobby's toughness would make him quite the appealing sale to her clients.
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* AnAxeToGrind: Ms. Burton wields an axe as her primary choice of weapon.
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* {{Fingore}}: [[spoiler: Bobby cuts off Ms. Burton's thumb with a cutter when she digs it into his gunshot wound.]]
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* {{Fingore}}: [[spoiler: Bobby [[spoiler:Bobby cuts off Ms. Burton's thumb with a cutter when she digs it into his gunshot wound.]]
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* YouGotSpunk: Creepy variant: Ms. Burton comments that Bobby's toughness would make him quite the appealing sale to her clients.
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* YouGotSpunk: Creepy variant: Ms. Burton comments that Bobby's toughness would make him quite the appealing sale to her clients.clients.
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* YouGotSPunk: Creepy variant: Ms. Burton comments that Bobby's toughness would make him quite the appealing sale to her clients.
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* YouGotSPunk: YouGotSpunk: Creepy variant: Ms. Burton comments that Bobby's toughness would make him quite the appealing sale to her clients.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:The boys might need some serious therapy, but they survive and recover, still close friends.]]
* PaedoHunt: The Creep is one pedophile of many whom Ms. Burton sells children to in order for them to molest and murder.
* PoliceAreUseless: Quite averted. [[spoiler: The first officer to investigate instantly twigs to something being wrong and tries to investigate. When informed of the killing, the cops send more officers, one of whom kills Ms. Burton while she's attacking the kids.]]
* PoliceAreUseless: Quite averted. [[spoiler: The first officer to investigate instantly twigs to something being wrong and tries to investigate. When informed of the killing, the cops send more officers, one of whom kills Ms. Burton while she's attacking the kids.]]
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* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: The child abductor turns out to be a seemingly kindly woman.
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* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: The child abductor turns out to be a seemingly kindly woman.woman.
* YouGotSPunk: Creepy variant: Ms. Burton comments that Bobby's toughness would make him quite the appealing sale to her clients.
* YouGotSPunk: Creepy variant: Ms. Burton comments that Bobby's toughness would make him quite the appealing sale to her clients.
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* PunkInTheTrunk: Ms. Burton traps both Bobby and Kevin in the car trunk during the kidnapping. She takes Kevin out, but leaves Bobby trapped, admitting that she was planning to simply leave him to suffocate. Thankfully, he manages to escape.
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* BestFriend: Kevin is this to Bobby, hence why Bobby refuses to abandon him despite having the opportunity to.
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* ShockCollar: Ms. Burton outfits Kevin with one to keep him from straying too far out of the house. [[spoiler: He ultimately escapes the house, withstanding the frequent electrocution, in order to reach the injured Bobby.]]
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* ShockCollar: Ms. Burton outfits Kevin with one to keep him from straying too far out of the house. [[spoiler: He ultimately escapes the house, withstanding the frequent electrocution, in order to reach the injured Bobby.]]]]
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: The child abductor turns out to be a seemingly kindly woman.
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: The child abductor turns out to be a seemingly kindly woman.
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* AnAxeToGrind: Ms. Burton wields an axe as her primary choice of weapon.
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* CopKiller: Ms. Burton murders the first officer that arrives to investigate the kidnappings.
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* ExtremelyShortTimespan: Sans the very last scene, the entirety of the film takes place over the course of one day and night.
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* HumanTraffickers: Ms. Burton is a child sex trafficker who abducts minors and sells them off to pedophiles, having done this to numerous other children before targeting Bobby and Kevin.
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After Bobby and his best friend Kevin are kidnapped and taken to a strange house in the middle of nowhere, Bobby manages to escape. But as he starts to make a break for it, he hears Kevin's screams for help and realizes he can't leave his friend behind.
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After Bobby and his best friend Kevin are kidnapped and taken to a strange house in the middle of nowhere, Bobby manages to escape. But as he starts to make a break for it, he hears Kevin's screams for help and realizes he can't leave his friend behind.behind.
!!This film provides examples of:
* AccidentalMurder: How the Creep is dispatched. He springs upwards towards Bobby while he's holding a knife and ends up impaling himself against the blade.
* AloneWithThePsycho: Bobby and Kevin spend the entire movie in this situation, first against the Creep, and later on with Ms. Burton.
* ArcWords: "We're friends till the end."
* BigBad: Ms. Burton, a child trafficker who abducts the two boys for this very purpose.
* EvilRedhead: The child abductor, Ms. Burton, has red hair.
* {{Fingore}}: [[spoiler: Bobby cuts off Ms. Burton's thumb with a cutter when she digs it into his gunshot wound.]]
* InTheBack: [[spoiler: The arriving police officer shoots Ms. Burton in the back seconds before she can kill the boys.]]
* NoNameGiven: The pedophile Ms. Burton intends on handing Kevin over to isn't named. He's only referred to as "The Creep" in the credits.
* ShockCollar: Ms. Burton outfits Kevin with one to keep him from straying too far out of the house. [[spoiler: He ultimately escapes the house, withstanding the frequent electrocution, in order to reach the injured Bobby.]]
!!This film provides examples of:
* AccidentalMurder: How the Creep is dispatched. He springs upwards towards Bobby while he's holding a knife and ends up impaling himself against the blade.
* AloneWithThePsycho: Bobby and Kevin spend the entire movie in this situation, first against the Creep, and later on with Ms. Burton.
* ArcWords: "We're friends till the end."
* BigBad: Ms. Burton, a child trafficker who abducts the two boys for this very purpose.
* EvilRedhead: The child abductor, Ms. Burton, has red hair.
* {{Fingore}}: [[spoiler: Bobby cuts off Ms. Burton's thumb with a cutter when she digs it into his gunshot wound.]]
* InTheBack: [[spoiler: The arriving police officer shoots Ms. Burton in the back seconds before she can kill the boys.]]
* NoNameGiven: The pedophile Ms. Burton intends on handing Kevin over to isn't named. He's only referred to as "The Creep" in the credits.
* ShockCollar: Ms. Burton outfits Kevin with one to keep him from straying too far out of the house. [[spoiler: He ultimately escapes the house, withstanding the frequent electrocution, in order to reach the injured Bobby.]]
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''The Boy Behind the Door'' is a 2020 horror film written and directed by David Charbonier and Justin Powell.
After Bobby and his best friend Kevin are kidnapped and taken to a strange house in the middle of nowhere, Bobby manages to escape. But as he starts to make a break for it, he hears Kevin's screams for help and realizes he can't leave his friend behind.
After Bobby and his best friend Kevin are kidnapped and taken to a strange house in the middle of nowhere, Bobby manages to escape. But as he starts to make a break for it, he hears Kevin's screams for help and realizes he can't leave his friend behind.
