History Film / TheConspiracy

* TheBadGuysWin: [[spoiler: The Tarsus Club kills off Aaron and likely Terrence whom were the closes to exposing their evil practices. Afterwards, they reveal themselves to the world and go on a VillainWithGoodPublicity campaign, claiming they're just a political society that has world leaders meet to discuss business and nothing more. All the dissenting voices of the documentary which Mark is behind are members of the Tarsus Club and the film turns out not to be about exposing an evil conspiracy, but about defending the organization as a MoveAlongNothingToSeeHere, and pointing out how sad and miserable conspiracy theorist are.]]

* TheBadGuysWin: [[spoiler: The Tarsus Club kills off Aaron and likely Terrence whom were the closes to exposing their evil practices. Afterwards, they reveal themselves to the world and go on a VillianWithGoodPublicity campaign, claiming they're just a political society that has world leaders meet to discuss business and nothing more. All the dissenting voices of the documentary which Mark is behind are members of the Tarsus Club and the film turns out not to be about exposing an evil conspiracy, but about defending the organization as a MoveAlongNothingToSeeHere, and pointing out how sad and miserable conspiracy theorist are.]]

* AnimalMotifs: Members of the [[spoiler: Tarsus Club are divided into ravens and lions, complete with masks, and the core of their mythos is the worship of Mithras with a heavy focus on the bull hunting-and-slaying scene. [[spoiler:The bull is also a mask, forced on people who try and infiltrate the club [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame who are then hunted and slain]]. It is heavily implied these infiltration's, and therefore slayings, are an annual occurrence.]]

* IHaveYourWife: Its implied during the twist [[spoiler: that Jim’s wife and son are kidnapped by the Tarsus Club, and is the reason Mark lets his best friend Aaron get hunted and killed.]]

* BecarefulWhatYouWishFor: Aaron more so than Mark wanted to find out if a secret society that does human sacrifices really exist. [[spoiler: Not only does he find out they do exist, he becomes the one sacrificed.]]
* BeingWatched: After Mark and Aaron start to investigate Terrence disappearance, a black vehicle starts following them where ever they go.

* EvilAllAlong: Played with. [[spoiler: Was Mark forced to let his friend get sacrificed, or was he an inspiring member of the Tarsus Club from the beginning and helped set his friend up to prove himself loyal enough to become an official member.]]
* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler: Both Terrence and Aaron are killed for this reason. And both seems to have been led to their sacrificial deaths by an insider in the Tarsus Club, who either posed as a truther or a whistle blower, and possibly in Mark's case, a friend.]]

* IHaveYourWife: Its implied during the twist [[spoiler: that Mark's wife and son are kidnapped by the Tarsus Club, and is the reason Mark lets his best friend Aaron get hunted and killed.]]
* TheInfiltration: With the help of an insider, [[spoiler: Mark and Aaron are able to sneak into a Tarsus Club human sacrifice night. Turns out that insider set them up. Mark possibly being part of the setup is left to interpretation.]]
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: The Tarsus Club, the Insider who set Aaron and possibly Terrence up to be killed, and Mark, who may or may not have been with them all along, completely get away with their actions and do a good job doing damage control.]]

** Mark and Aaron sneaking into the [[spoiler: Tarsus Club, is similar to Alex Jones and his cameraman sneaking into the Bohemian Grove and recording it.]]

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: [[spoiler: Once it becomes clear to the Tarsus Club that too many people know about them. They decide to use the conspiracy video Aaron and Mark were going to make to reveal themselves and claim they are an honest political society. This turns out to be the film the viewers are watching in the end.]]

* SoundEffectBleep: Used in the title and used phonetically: when characters name important figures their names are
bleeped and the characters' mouths are blurred, and all faces at the Tarsus Club are blurred.

* AnimalMotifs: Members of the Tarsus Club are divided into ravens and lions, complete with masks, and the core of their mythos is the worship of Mithras with a heavy focus on the bull hunting-and-slaying scene. [[spoiler:The bull is also a mask, forced on people who try and infiltrate the club [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame who are then hunted and slain]]. It is heavily implied these infiltrations, and therefore slayings, are an annual occurrence.]]
* TheBadGuysWin: [[spoiler: The Tarsus Club kills off Aaron and likely Terrence whom were the closes to exposing their evil practices. Afterwards, they reveal themselves to the world and go on a VillianWithGoodPublicity campaign, claiming they're just a political society that has world leaders meet to discuss business and nothing more. All the dissenting voices of the documentary which Aaron is behind are members of the Tarsus Club and the film turns out not to be about exposing an evil conspiracy, but about defending the organization as a MoveAlongNothingToSeeHere.]]

* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler: Both Terrence and Aaron are killed for this reason. And both seems to have been led to their sacrificial deaths by an insider in the Tarsus Club, who either posed as a truther or a whistle blower, and possibly in Mark's case, a friend.]]

* TheBadGuysWin: [[spoiler: The Tarsus Club kills off Mark and likely Terrence whom were the closes to exposing their evil practices. Afterwards, they reveal themselves to the world and go on a VillianWithGoodPublicity campaign, claiming they're just a political society that has world leaders meet to discuss business and nothing more. All the dissenting voices of the documentary which Aaron is behind are members of the Tarsus Club and the film turns out not to be about exposing a evil conspiracy, but about defending the organization as a MoveAlongNothingToSeeHere.]]
* BecarefulWhatYouWishFor: Mark more so than Aaron wanted to find out if a secret society that does human sacrifices really exist. [[spoiler: not only does he find out they do exist, he becomes the one sacrificed.]]

* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler: Both Terrence and Aaron are killed for this reason. And both seems to have been led to their sacrificial deaths by an insider in the Tarsus Club, who either posed as a truther or a whistle blower.
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame]]

%%* AncientConspiracy

* TheBadGuysWin: [[spoiler: The Tarsus Club kills off Mark and likely Terrence whom were the closes to exposing their evil practices. Afterwards, they reveal themselves to the world and go on a VillianWithGoodPublicity campaign, claiming they're just a political society that has world leaders meet to discuss business and nothing more. All the decenting voices of the documentary which Aaron is behind are members of the Tarsus Club and the film turns out not to be about exposing a conspiracy, but about defending the organization.]]

%%* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame]]

* SoundEffectBleep: Used in the title and used phonetically: when characters name important figures their names are bleeped and the characters' mouths are blurred, and all faces at the Tarsus Club are blurred.

%%* BeingWatched

%%* HeKnowsTooMuch
%%* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame
%%* IHaveYourWife
%%* TheInfiltration
%%* {{Mockumentary}}

Not to be confused with ''Film/{{Conspiracy}}''.

* AnimalMotifs: Members of the Tarsus Club are divided into ravens and lions, complete with masks, and the core of their mythos is the worship of Mithras with a heavy focus on the bull hunting-and-slaying scene. [[spoiler:The bull is also a mask, forced on people who try and infiltrate the club [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame who are then hunted and slain]]. It is heavily implied infiltrations, and therefore slayings, are an annual occurrence.]]

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''The Conspiracy'' is a 2012 Canadian ConspiracyThriller film written and directed by Christopher [=MacBride=] and features actors Aaron Poole, James Gilbert, Alan C. Peterson, and Julian Richings. It tells the story of two documentary filmmakers who set out to create a film about a conspiracy theorist named "Terrance G" who disappears during the making of the film. The two filmmakers are subsequently drawn into the world of a global syndicate whose aims and machinations are clouded in secrecy.

''The Conspiracy'' is a 2012 Canadian conspiracy thriller film written and directed by Christopher [=MacBride=] and features actors Aaron Poole, James Gilbert, Alan C. Peterson, and Julian Richings. It tells the story of two documentary filmmakers who set out to create a film about a conspiracy theorist named "Terrance G" who disappears during the making of the film. The two filmmakers are subsequently drawn into the world of a global syndicate whose aims and machinations are clouded in secrecy.

''The Conspiracy'' is a 2012 Canadian conspiracy thriller film written and directed by Christopher MacBride and features actors Aaron Poole, James Gilbert, Alan C. Peterson, and Julian Richings. It tells the story of two documentary filmmakers who set out to create a film about a conspiracy theorist named "Terrance G" who disappears during the making of the film. The two filmmakers are subsequently drawn into the world of a global syndicate whose aims and machinations are clouded in secrecy.

* TheDanza: Aaron and Jim are played by an Aaron and James, respectively.

* PlotBasedVoiceCancellation: Used in the title and used phonetically: when characters name important figures their names are bleeped and the characters' mouths are blurred, and all faces at the Tarsus Club are blurred.

* ConvenientlyInterruptedDocument: Used in the title and used phonetically: when characters name important figures their names are bleeped and the characters' mouths are blurred, and all faces at the Tarsus Club are blurred.

* AncientConspiracy

* BeingWatched

* HeKnowsTooMuch
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame
* IHaveYourWife
* TheInfiltration
* {{Mockumentary}}
* RoomFullOfCrazy: Terrance's, which Jim takes up after his disappearance.

* [[spoiler:HuntingTheMostDangerousGame]]
* [[spoiler:IHaveYourWife]]