Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Dane sees Bradley as the face of all that is wrong with the world while Bradley sees Dane as just another faceless victim in the crowd.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Viciously averted.
Added DiffLines:
* GirlishPigtails: Worn by Emily during the torture session.
Added DiffLines:
* TrueCompanions: The five are a rather creepy version of this as, with the exception of Dane, They all seem to care about each other even if They are brought together by revenge. Jack and Emily even share a very sincere hug before [[spoiler: killing committing suicide]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 25 (click to see context) from:
* TheBadGuyWins
to:
* TheBadGuyWinsTheBadGuyWins: Yet it's debatable on who is considered the bad guy.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 15,16 (click to see context) from:
The film was part of the AfterDarkHorrorfest film festival.
to:
The film was part of the AfterDarkHorrorfest Creator/AfterDarkHorrorfest film festival.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Deleted line(s) 62 (click to see context) :
* FetishFuelStationAttendant: ''Emily.''
Added DiffLines:
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Although the five outcasts themselves don't really goes on a rampage, they just only wants to torture the bullies.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* HeyItsThatVoice: Emily is played by voice actress Lindsay Seidel.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
removed natter, natter that attempts to justify torture
Deleted line(s) 49 (click to see context) :
** Though anyone who has been bullied can tell You it feels about proportionate.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 20,21 (click to see context) from:
* AbortedArc: When the outcasts are setting up their torture chamber, they mention how they are rigging the place with webcams in order to send a message to high school students all across the country. This is never brought up again.
** The webcam element is supposed to be followed up on in the DevelopmentHell sequel.
** The webcam element is supposed to be followed up on in the DevelopmentHell sequel.
to:
* AbortedArc: When the outcasts are setting up their torture chamber, they mention how they are rigging the place with webcams in order to send a message to high school students all across the country. This is never brought up again.
**again. The webcam element is supposed to be followed filmmakers planned on following up on this in the DevelopmentHell sequel.sequel, but it's since fallen into DevelopmentHell.
**
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 77 (click to see context) from:
* HeyItsThatGuy: Who knew that [[DegrassiTheNextGeneration Derek Haig]] could be such a monster?
to:
* HeyItsThatGuy: Who knew that [[DegrassiTheNextGeneration [[Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration Derek Haig]] could be such a monster?
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* DirtyCoward: Bradley. Acts tough early in the movie, but once the "party" gets going, he whines constantly, and rather pathetically. When [[spoiler: given the chance to save himself pain by cutting off Bridget's fingers he accepts pretty quickly...right after Bridget refused to do the same to him.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 28 (click to see context) from:
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: The five make sure only to torture people who hurt them, although They force others to watch. They try to prevent Kurtis, who was their friend, from coming and Emily tries not to hurt Bridget, who sincerely apologized for her bullying. Dane even tells one that offering to drive him home when it was raining once years ago, is the reason why he wasn't tortured.
to:
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: The five make sure only to torture people who hurt them, although They they force others to watch. They try to prevent Kurtis, who was their friend, from coming and Emily tries not to hurt Bridget, who sincerely apologized for her bullying. Dane even tells one that offering to drive him home when it was raining once years ago, is the reason why he wasn't tortured.
Changed line(s) 41 (click to see context) from:
* CruelTwistEnding: Bradley and his friends narrowly avoid getting busted for drugs, only to arrive at a party where They will be horribly mutilated. Its actually a moment of horror when the cop says he will let them go as the audience know what awaits them.
to:
* CruelTwistEnding: Bradley and his friends narrowly avoid getting busted for drugs, only to arrive at a party where They they will be horribly mutilated. Its actually a moment of horror when the cop says he will let them go as the audience know what awaits them.
Changed line(s) 69 (click to see context) from:
** It also shows how devastatingly traumatic surviving an elaborate torture would be as seen by the victims' fates. One is even driven to suicide over her guilt in making people do what They did.
to:
** It also shows how devastatingly traumatic surviving an elaborate torture would be as seen by the victims' fates. One is even driven to suicide over her guilt in making people do what They they did.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 28 (click to see context) from:
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: The five make sure only to torture people who hurt Them, although They force others to watch. They try to prevent Kurtis, who was their friend, from coming and Emily tries not to hurt Bridget, who sincerely apologized for her bullying. Dane even tells one that offering to drive him home when it was raining once years ago, is the reason why he wasn't tortured.
to:
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: The five make sure only to torture people who hurt Them, them, although They force others to watch. They try to prevent Kurtis, who was their friend, from coming and Emily tries not to hurt Bridget, who sincerely apologized for her bullying. Dane even tells one that offering to drive him home when it was raining once years ago, is the reason why he wasn't tortured.
Changed line(s) 41 (click to see context) from:
* CruelTwistEnding: Bradley and his friends narrowly avoid getting busted for drugs, only to arrive at a party where They will be horribly mutilated. Its actually a moment of horror when the cop says he will let Them go as the audience know what awaits Them.
to:
* CruelTwistEnding: Bradley and his friends narrowly avoid getting busted for drugs, only to arrive at a party where They will be horribly mutilated. Its actually a moment of horror when the cop says he will let Them them go as the audience know what awaits Them.them.
Changed line(s) 61 (click to see context) from:
* FauxAffablyEvil: The bullies often act friendly to make Their abuse more devastating, especially the girls who bully Emily. This is later used to creepy effect by Dane who politely tells the bullies what horrors are in store for Them.
to:
* FauxAffablyEvil: The bullies often act friendly to make Their their abuse more devastating, especially the girls who bully Emily. This is later used to creepy effect by Dane who politely tells the bullies what horrors are in store for Them.them.
Changed line(s) 67 (click to see context) from:
* FromNobodyToNightmare: The five were just simple high school students who never meant harm at first but years of abuse destroyed Them. Bradley even held Dane, whose life he made miserable, in such low regard that he never even learned his name. Summarised by Dane who says that he would have just been another harmless teenager had it not been for the abuse inflicted on him.
to:
* FromNobodyToNightmare: The five were just simple high school students who never meant harm at first but years of abuse destroyed Them.them. Bradley even held Dane, whose life he made miserable, in such low regard that he never even learned his name. Summarised Summarized by Dane who says that he would have just been another harmless teenager had it not been for the abuse inflicted on him.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 28 (click to see context) from:
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: The five make sure only to torture people who hurt Them, although They force others to watch. They try to prevent Kurtis, who was Their friend, from coming and Emily tries not to hurt Bridget, who sincerely apologized for her bullying. Dane even tells one that offering to drive him home when it was raining once years ago, is the reason why he wasn't tortured.
to:
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: The five make sure only to torture people who hurt Them, although They force others to watch. They try to prevent Kurtis, who was Their their friend, from coming and Emily tries not to hurt Bridget, who sincerely apologized for her bullying. Dane even tells one that offering to drive him home when it was raining once years ago, is the reason why he wasn't tortured.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 31 (click to see context) from:
* BlackAndGreyMorality: There are no good guys. Only varying levels of badness.
to:
* BlackAndGreyMorality: BlackAndGrayMorality: There are no good guys. Only varying levels of badness.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 37 (click to see context) from:
* BullyHunter: The five outcasts. [[BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil At]] [[CompleteMonster first.]]
to:
* BullyHunter: The five outcasts. [[BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil At]] [[CompleteMonster At first.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: The five make sure only to torture people who hurt Them, although They force others to watch. They try to prevent Kurtis, who was Their friend, from coming and Emily tries not to hurt Bridget, who sincerely apologized for her bullying. Dane even tells one that offering to drive him home when it was raining once years ago, is the reason why he wasn't tortured.
Added DiffLines:
* MoralMyopia: Bridget, who had no issue heaping psychological abuse on Emily for years, refuses to torture Bradley, a fellow bully. This enrages Emily and the rest even more.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* FromNobodyToNightmare: The five were just simple high school students who never meant harm at first but years of abuse destroyed Them. Bradley even held Dane, whose life he made miserable, in such low regard that he never even learned his name. Summarised by Dane who says that he would have just been another harmless teenager had it not been for the abuse inflicted on him.
Added DiffLines:
* SchoolBullyingIsHarmless If there's a bigger subversion out there, good luck finding it.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* CruelTwistEnding: Bradley and his friends narrowly avoid getting busted for drugs, only to arrive at a party where They will be horribly mutilated. Its actually a moment of horror when the cop says he will let Them go as the audience know what awaits Them.
Added DiffLines:
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Whitney Hoy, who plays [[AlphaBitch Bridget]], has been described as one of the sweetest people You could meet.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
** Though anyone who has been bullied can tell You it feels about proportionate.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
* FauxAffablyEvil: The bullies often act friendly to make Their abuse more devastating, especially the girls who bully Emily. This is later used to creepy effect by Dane who politely tells the bullies what horrors are in store for Them.
Changed line(s) 60 (click to see context) from:
* ForTheEvulz: Bradley bullied Dane simply because he knew that Dane could not stop him.
to:
* ForTheEvulz: Bradley bullied Dane simply because he knew that Dane could not stop him. The same applies for most of the other bullies who just enjoyed being sadists.
Added DiffLines:
** It also shows how devastatingly traumatic surviving an elaborate torture would be as seen by the victims' fates. One is even driven to suicide over her guilt in making people do what They did.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 13,14 (click to see context) from:
At the party, the five outcasts dress up in funny costumes that mask their identity, and serve spiked punch to their victims, knocking them unconscious. The five then change costume, creating a darker visage to wear as their personas. The guests awaken in chains, and Dane tells them that, for the years they spent abusing students that they saw as weak and helpless, they would pay for their sins: the bullies would not die, but by the end of the night, they will wish that they had.
to:
At the party, the five outcasts dress up in funny costumes that mask their identity, and serve spiked punch to their victims, knocking them unconscious. The five then change costume, creating a darker visage to wear as their personas.persona. The guests awaken in chains, and Dane tells them that, for the years they spent abusing students that they saw as weak and helpless, they would pay for their sins: the bullies would not die, but by the end of the night, they will wish that they had.
Changed line(s) 62 (click to see context) from:
* ForeShadowing: A little example, but in the scene where Bernard throws milk at the outcasts' table, Bridget has quite a different expression on her face than the others, looking unimpressed at the stunt while the others are laughing.
to:
* ForeShadowing: {{Foreshadowing}}: A little example, but in the scene where Bernard throws milk at the outcasts' table, Bridget has quite a different expression on her face than the others, looking unimpressed at the stunt while the others are laughing.
Deleted line(s) 90 (click to see context) :
** The banjo playing reminded this troper a lot of the famous banjo from {{Deliverance}}
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
** "Do you know ''why'' I'm gonna hurt you? [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Because you. Can't. Stop me."]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* EvilSoundsDeep: Dane's mask contains a voice amplifier makes his voice sound far more baritone and creepy.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
** The webcam element is supposed to be followed up on in the DevelopmentHell sequel.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Executing merge as per TRS thread: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1334415129058618500&page=1#18
Changed line(s) 9,10 (click to see context) from:
[[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory Loosely based on]] [[{{Columbine}} actual events,]] ''[[http://www.thefinalmovie.com/ The Final]]'' is a 2010 horror film about a group of high school outcasts who lure their tormentors to a party, drug them, and exact their vengeance upon them.
to:
[[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory Loosely based on]] [[{{Columbine}} [[UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} actual events,]] ''[[http://www.thefinalmovie.com/ The Final]]'' is a 2010 horror film about a group of high school outcasts who lure their tormentors to a party, drug them, and exact their vengeance upon them.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 67 (click to see context) from:
* [=~Hey, It's That Guy!~=]: Who knew that [[DegrassiTheNextGeneration Derek Haig]] could be such a monster?
to:
* [=~Hey, It's That Guy!~=]: HeyItsThatGuy: Who knew that [[DegrassiTheNextGeneration Derek Haig]] could be such a monster?
Changed line(s) 72 (click to see context) from:
* [=~It's A Costume Party, I Swear~=]: Well, [[NastyParty it started out as a costume party...]]
to:
* [=~It's A Costume Party, I Swear~=]: ItsACostumePartyISwear: Well, [[NastyParty it started out as a costume party...]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 34 (click to see context) from:
* BreakTheHaughty: The goal of the outcasts. The [[TheBeautifulPeople vain]] AlphaBitch and her GirlPosse [[spoiler:have flesh-eating chemicals slathered onto their faces to destroy their good looks and make them as ugly on the outside as they are inside]], while a womanizing JerkJock [[spoiler:is left paralyzed so that he will never play football or have sex again]].
to:
* BreakTheHaughty: The goal of the outcasts. The [[TheBeautifulPeople [[TheBeautifulElite vain]] AlphaBitch and her GirlPosse [[spoiler:have flesh-eating chemicals slathered onto their faces to destroy their good looks and make them as ugly on the outside as they are inside]], while a womanizing JerkJock [[spoiler:is left paralyzed so that he will never play football or have sex again]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thefinal_9240.jpg]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
->"Ask yourself one question: 'What did I do to get here?'"
->"Consequences. None of us are free from them."
-->'''Dane'''
->"This lesson, you will not learn in school."
-->'''Emily'''
[[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory Loosely based on]] [[{{Columbine}} actual events,]] ''[[http://www.thefinalmovie.com/ The Final]]'' is a 2010 horror film about a group of high school outcasts who lure their tormentors to a party, drug them, and exact their vengeance upon them.
After being continuously bullied throughout HighSchool, and having all attempts at peace-making being met with laughs, Dane and his friends (Emily, Jack, Ravi and Andy) concoct a plan to not only get revenge, but to also send a message to the entire country. After learning in class about deadly chemicals and the torture methods of cultures past, and gaining inspiration from their vast collection of horror films, the desperate teens set up the Workley ranch house with webcams and create a party, inviting all of their bullies to attend. The five then pray to God to give them a sign to stop them, and when none comes, they carry out their plan.
At the party, the five outcasts dress up in funny costumes that mask their identity, and serve spiked punch to their victims, knocking them unconscious. The five then change costume, creating a darker visage to wear as their personas. The guests awaken in chains, and Dane tells them that, for the years they spent abusing students that they saw as weak and helpless, they would pay for their sins: the bullies would not die, but by the end of the night, they will wish that they had.
The film was part of the AfterDarkHorrorfest film festival.
----
!!This film contains examples of:
* AbortedArc: When the outcasts are setting up their torture chamber, they mention how they are rigging the place with webcams in order to send a message to high school students all across the country. This is never brought up again.
* AlphaBitch[=/=]GirlPosse: Kelly, Bridget and Heather.
* AndIMustScream: One of the bullies is drugged so that he cannot move but can feel everything. Then, Emily sticks him in the throat with needle after needle, despite the desperate cries of his friends to stop. All the while, she remains completely silent.
* AssholeVictim: The bullies.
* BadassAdorable: Emily.
* TheBadGuyWins
* BeautyToBeast: [[spoiler:Bridget and Heather get ''messed up'' by Emily's chemicals.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Before years of abuse warped them, the five were (and still are, to some extent) really nice kids. And Emily genuinely just wanted to be friends with the popular girls.
-->'''Emily:''' "I wanted to be your friend. But now I'm going to be your enemy."
* BlackAndGreyMorality: There are no good guys. Only varying levels of badness.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler:Averted. Kurtis not only survives the entire movie, but also saves the day by calling the cops.]]
** Played straight, however, with [[spoiler:Ravi, the TokenMinority among the outcasts. He is the first one of them to die, having been killed by Dane for freeing Kurtis.]]
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Kelly, Heather and Bridget.
* BlondGuysAreEvil: Bradley is indeed evil. And kinda pathetic too.
* BreakTheHaughty: The goal of the outcasts. The [[TheBeautifulPeople vain]] AlphaBitch and her GirlPosse [[spoiler:have flesh-eating chemicals slathered onto their faces to destroy their good looks and make them as ugly on the outside as they are inside]], while a womanizing JerkJock [[spoiler:is left paralyzed so that he will never play football or have sex again]].
* BullyHunter: The five outcasts. [[BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil At]] [[CompleteMonster first.]]
* ColdBloodedTorture: The outcasts' stock in trade.
* CrazySurvivalist: The ex-army guy.
* CruelMercy: The outcasts left their victims alive... but with many wishing that they weren't.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: The five have trouble both at home and at school.
* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:The Vietnam veteran]] winds up getting taken out by [[spoiler:a punji stake trap -- exactly the kind once used by the Vietcong. However, it's only ''implied'' that he died.]]
** While not "death," most of the tortures inflicted by the outcasts have some relevance to their victims. See BreakTheHaughty for examples.
* DeathByRacism: Again, not actually "death," but the bulk of the jocks' interaction with the Indian kid Ravi consists of extremely racist remarks.
* DirtyCop: The police officer lets the jocks go in exchange for them handing over all their weed... which he is later seen smoking. A deleted scene reveals that he does the same thing for any good-looking women he pulls over, in exchange for sex.
* DisproportionateRetribution: ColdBloodedTorture and mutilation as a punishment for bullying.
* DrivenToSuicide[=/=]RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Kelly. See SurvivorGuilt.]]
* DysfunctionalFamily: Almost all of the outcasts come from families that are broken one way or the other.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: All of the outcasts die, but not before mutilating several victims, leaving the whole town in mourning.]] And to make it worse [[spoiler: It is revealed that everyone in the town more or less missed the point of the whole thing, painting the entire affair as being completely unprovoked and portraying the victims as saint-like.]]
** [[ScareEmStraight But the kids who survived, maimed or otherwise,]] [[spoiler: [[HeelRealization know why it happened.]]]] People talk - especially in high school. It might not have had a [[spoiler: national effect or became the "moment in history" Dane believed it would be,]] but if the victims change their behavior and their children's behavior, that's a significant amount right there, not taking into account the Urban Legend effect and the open secret environment of many small to medium size towns - when everyone knows why something really happened [[spoiler: despite what outsiders and the media may report.]] Perfect example - Remember how the movie starts [[spoiler: and ends]]- with the mother telling her curious son about the disfigured girl's "accident"
*** FridgeBrilliance: [[spoiler: The parents of bullies never know that their little angels are putting other kids through hell. The teachers frequently only catch the reaction, not what the bully did first.]]
* DramaticUnmask: Upon realizing that their hostages have a pretty good idea of who they are, the five take their masks off and introduce themselves.
* DressingAsTheEnemy: The five dress in costumes in order to walk about the party unnoticed, until the time is right.
* EmotionlessGirl: Emily. [[spoiler: Until Ravi is killed, that is.]] Then she goes right back to this.
* EvilVersusEvil: The five versus the bullies.
* FacelessGoons: There are actually eight outcasts, but only five are of any importance to the plot, are named and actually shown planning their revenge. The other three [[spoiler:[[CannonFodder only exist in order to be killed off by a crazy Vietnam vet]]]]. They were initially seen on the school steps, and their presence was meant to prevent the victims from leaving and to confuse police officers when the plan was over, but time constraints forced this subplot to be mostly removed bar a few lines of dialogue.
* FateWorseThanDeath: The five mutilate and torture their tormentors, disfiguring them and causing them unspeakable harm.
* FetishFuelStationAttendant: ''Emily.''
* {{Fingore}}: Emily offers Bridget one chance to avoid pain: cut off all of Bradley's fingers in exchange for her own safety. [[spoiler:When she refuses, Emily offers the same deal to Bradley, who accepts.]]
* ForTheEvulz: Bradley bullied Dane simply because he knew that Dane could not stop him.
* ForcedToWatch: All but one of the five's victims was brutally tortured in front of their friends.
* ForeShadowing: A little example, but in the scene where Bernard throws milk at the outcasts' table, Bridget has quite a different expression on her face than the others, looking unimpressed at the stunt while the others are laughing.
* GenreDeconstruction: Of the "unpopular kids get revenge on the bullies" plot, and the "psycho classmate" plot. Instead of [[HumiliationConga the comical revenge]] that so many teen movie protagonists desire, the outcasts wish to [[PayEvilUntoEvil make their bullies suffer the way that they made the outcasts suffer]] for so many years. It's also implied that the outcasts were (and, to a degree, still are) genuinely nice people whose crappy home lives, combined with years of bullying, turned them into such dark characters, as seen with the way they treat [[NiceGuy Kurtis]]. In addition, the popular kids (especially Bridget) are shown to have shades of gray, rather than portraying them as the total {{jerkass}}es so commonly seen in teen movies.
* GiveMeASign: The five pray to God to give them a sign that they should stop. [[spoiler:[[CaptainObvious He doesn't.]]]]
* GoryDiscretionShot: Surprisingly for a film of this nature, there is little to no blood, with most of the violence being off-screen and suggested. However, it works.
* TheGrotesque: [[spoiler:Bridget and Heather]] get turned into this by Emily.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: The five become worse than their tormentors on their quest for vengeance.
* HellBentForLeather: Emily's torture outfit includes [[ShoutOut a black]] [[{{Audition}} leather smock]].
* [=~Hey, It's That Guy!~=]: Who knew that [[DegrassiTheNextGeneration Derek Haig]] could be such a monster?
* HighSchool: Where the first act is set.
* HowWeGotHere: The film opens with one of the victims in a diner, her face horribly disfigured, with her fellow patrons all staring at her.
* IGaveMyWord: Dane promised that he would not kill a single one of the bullies. [[spoiler: He keeps his promise, but maybe it would have been better if he hadn't...]]
* IronicEcho: Just as the GirlPosse are getting ready for the party, Bridget remarks "Red meat is for people who don't care how they look". [[spoiler:In the opening scene, which takes place [[HowWeGotHere after her face was disfigured]], she orders a burger.]]
* [=~It's A Costume Party, I Swear~=]: Well, [[NastyParty it started out as a costume party...]]
* JerkJock: Bradley and his friends.
* KidsAreCruel: The bullies are mean just because they are. And, of course, there's the outcasts...
* LectureAsExposition: The film opens with a {{high school}} history teacher describing how [[ImperialChina the Han Dynasty]] would sometimes [[CruelMercy leave their defeated enemies alive, disfiguring them]] in order to serve as an example to those who would oppose them. Sets the tone rather well for what follows...
* MalevolentMaskedMen: The outcasts.
* MonsterClown: Ravi's second costume.
* NastyParty
* NiceGuy: Kurtis tried his best to be friends to everybody, and defended Ravi from Bradley. As a result, the five try (and fail) to keep him from coming to their "party."
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Despite the film taking place in [[EverythingIsBigInTexas Texas]], Marc Donato makes little effort to hide his [[CanadaEh Canadian accent]], dropping several "aboots" over the course of the film.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: The five outcasts punish psychological and emotional torture with physical torture.
* PuttingOnTheReich: Andy's torture outfit is an SS uniform.
* {{Revenge}}: The outcasts' plan and motives.
* SayMyName: Near the end, Dane has Bradley [[StrappedToAnOperatingTable strapped to a chair]] and tells him to say his name. [[spoiler:Dane is shocked to learn that, despite Bradley bullying him for years, Bradley does not even know his name]].
* ShoutOut: Emily's outfit, and the scene where she tortures the JerkJock, are big ones for ''{{Audition}}''.
* SoundtrackDissonance: Upbeat banjo music played by one of the five during a torture.
** The banjo playing reminded this troper a lot of the famous banjo from {{Deliverance}}
* SuicidePact: [[spoiler: The five had never intended to live past the night, according to Emily]].
* SurvivorGuilt: At the end, Kelly, having escaped torture and feeling that [[AlphaBitch her behavior]] was at least partly responsible for what happened, [[spoiler:is seen [[DrivenToSuicide taking a bunch of pills in order to kill herself]]]].
* TitleDrop
* ToThePain: Dane loves telling his tormentors how much they will hurt.
* TokenMinority: Ravi.
* TortureCellar: The Workley ranch house, which was left to Dane in his uncle's will.
* ValleyGirl: Again, the GirlPosse.
* TheVietnamWar: [[spoiler:While running away, Kurtis]] seeks help from a veteran of an unnamed war that is strongly implied to be Vietnam.
* VillainProtagonist: The five.
* WithUsOrAgainstUs
* YouHaveFailedMe: [[spoiler:Dane murders Ravi after he intentionally drops a key in order to free Kurtis, one of their friends that they hadn't intended to arrive, despite Dane telling him that Kurtis was not to leave]].
----
->"Consequences. None of us are free from them."
-->'''Dane'''
->"This lesson, you will not learn in school."
-->'''Emily'''
[[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory Loosely based on]] [[{{Columbine}} actual events,]] ''[[http://www.thefinalmovie.com/ The Final]]'' is a 2010 horror film about a group of high school outcasts who lure their tormentors to a party, drug them, and exact their vengeance upon them.
After being continuously bullied throughout HighSchool, and having all attempts at peace-making being met with laughs, Dane and his friends (Emily, Jack, Ravi and Andy) concoct a plan to not only get revenge, but to also send a message to the entire country. After learning in class about deadly chemicals and the torture methods of cultures past, and gaining inspiration from their vast collection of horror films, the desperate teens set up the Workley ranch house with webcams and create a party, inviting all of their bullies to attend. The five then pray to God to give them a sign to stop them, and when none comes, they carry out their plan.
At the party, the five outcasts dress up in funny costumes that mask their identity, and serve spiked punch to their victims, knocking them unconscious. The five then change costume, creating a darker visage to wear as their personas. The guests awaken in chains, and Dane tells them that, for the years they spent abusing students that they saw as weak and helpless, they would pay for their sins: the bullies would not die, but by the end of the night, they will wish that they had.
The film was part of the AfterDarkHorrorfest film festival.
----
!!This film contains examples of:
* AbortedArc: When the outcasts are setting up their torture chamber, they mention how they are rigging the place with webcams in order to send a message to high school students all across the country. This is never brought up again.
* AlphaBitch[=/=]GirlPosse: Kelly, Bridget and Heather.
* AndIMustScream: One of the bullies is drugged so that he cannot move but can feel everything. Then, Emily sticks him in the throat with needle after needle, despite the desperate cries of his friends to stop. All the while, she remains completely silent.
* AssholeVictim: The bullies.
* BadassAdorable: Emily.
* TheBadGuyWins
* BeautyToBeast: [[spoiler:Bridget and Heather get ''messed up'' by Emily's chemicals.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Before years of abuse warped them, the five were (and still are, to some extent) really nice kids. And Emily genuinely just wanted to be friends with the popular girls.
-->'''Emily:''' "I wanted to be your friend. But now I'm going to be your enemy."
* BlackAndGreyMorality: There are no good guys. Only varying levels of badness.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler:Averted. Kurtis not only survives the entire movie, but also saves the day by calling the cops.]]
** Played straight, however, with [[spoiler:Ravi, the TokenMinority among the outcasts. He is the first one of them to die, having been killed by Dane for freeing Kurtis.]]
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Kelly, Heather and Bridget.
* BlondGuysAreEvil: Bradley is indeed evil. And kinda pathetic too.
* BreakTheHaughty: The goal of the outcasts. The [[TheBeautifulPeople vain]] AlphaBitch and her GirlPosse [[spoiler:have flesh-eating chemicals slathered onto their faces to destroy their good looks and make them as ugly on the outside as they are inside]], while a womanizing JerkJock [[spoiler:is left paralyzed so that he will never play football or have sex again]].
* BullyHunter: The five outcasts. [[BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil At]] [[CompleteMonster first.]]
* ColdBloodedTorture: The outcasts' stock in trade.
* CrazySurvivalist: The ex-army guy.
* CruelMercy: The outcasts left their victims alive... but with many wishing that they weren't.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: The five have trouble both at home and at school.
* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:The Vietnam veteran]] winds up getting taken out by [[spoiler:a punji stake trap -- exactly the kind once used by the Vietcong. However, it's only ''implied'' that he died.]]
** While not "death," most of the tortures inflicted by the outcasts have some relevance to their victims. See BreakTheHaughty for examples.
* DeathByRacism: Again, not actually "death," but the bulk of the jocks' interaction with the Indian kid Ravi consists of extremely racist remarks.
* DirtyCop: The police officer lets the jocks go in exchange for them handing over all their weed... which he is later seen smoking. A deleted scene reveals that he does the same thing for any good-looking women he pulls over, in exchange for sex.
* DisproportionateRetribution: ColdBloodedTorture and mutilation as a punishment for bullying.
* DrivenToSuicide[=/=]RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Kelly. See SurvivorGuilt.]]
* DysfunctionalFamily: Almost all of the outcasts come from families that are broken one way or the other.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: All of the outcasts die, but not before mutilating several victims, leaving the whole town in mourning.]] And to make it worse [[spoiler: It is revealed that everyone in the town more or less missed the point of the whole thing, painting the entire affair as being completely unprovoked and portraying the victims as saint-like.]]
** [[ScareEmStraight But the kids who survived, maimed or otherwise,]] [[spoiler: [[HeelRealization know why it happened.]]]] People talk - especially in high school. It might not have had a [[spoiler: national effect or became the "moment in history" Dane believed it would be,]] but if the victims change their behavior and their children's behavior, that's a significant amount right there, not taking into account the Urban Legend effect and the open secret environment of many small to medium size towns - when everyone knows why something really happened [[spoiler: despite what outsiders and the media may report.]] Perfect example - Remember how the movie starts [[spoiler: and ends]]- with the mother telling her curious son about the disfigured girl's "accident"
*** FridgeBrilliance: [[spoiler: The parents of bullies never know that their little angels are putting other kids through hell. The teachers frequently only catch the reaction, not what the bully did first.]]
* DramaticUnmask: Upon realizing that their hostages have a pretty good idea of who they are, the five take their masks off and introduce themselves.
* DressingAsTheEnemy: The five dress in costumes in order to walk about the party unnoticed, until the time is right.
* EmotionlessGirl: Emily. [[spoiler: Until Ravi is killed, that is.]] Then she goes right back to this.
* EvilVersusEvil: The five versus the bullies.
* FacelessGoons: There are actually eight outcasts, but only five are of any importance to the plot, are named and actually shown planning their revenge. The other three [[spoiler:[[CannonFodder only exist in order to be killed off by a crazy Vietnam vet]]]]. They were initially seen on the school steps, and their presence was meant to prevent the victims from leaving and to confuse police officers when the plan was over, but time constraints forced this subplot to be mostly removed bar a few lines of dialogue.
* FateWorseThanDeath: The five mutilate and torture their tormentors, disfiguring them and causing them unspeakable harm.
* FetishFuelStationAttendant: ''Emily.''
* {{Fingore}}: Emily offers Bridget one chance to avoid pain: cut off all of Bradley's fingers in exchange for her own safety. [[spoiler:When she refuses, Emily offers the same deal to Bradley, who accepts.]]
* ForTheEvulz: Bradley bullied Dane simply because he knew that Dane could not stop him.
* ForcedToWatch: All but one of the five's victims was brutally tortured in front of their friends.
* ForeShadowing: A little example, but in the scene where Bernard throws milk at the outcasts' table, Bridget has quite a different expression on her face than the others, looking unimpressed at the stunt while the others are laughing.
* GenreDeconstruction: Of the "unpopular kids get revenge on the bullies" plot, and the "psycho classmate" plot. Instead of [[HumiliationConga the comical revenge]] that so many teen movie protagonists desire, the outcasts wish to [[PayEvilUntoEvil make their bullies suffer the way that they made the outcasts suffer]] for so many years. It's also implied that the outcasts were (and, to a degree, still are) genuinely nice people whose crappy home lives, combined with years of bullying, turned them into such dark characters, as seen with the way they treat [[NiceGuy Kurtis]]. In addition, the popular kids (especially Bridget) are shown to have shades of gray, rather than portraying them as the total {{jerkass}}es so commonly seen in teen movies.
* GiveMeASign: The five pray to God to give them a sign that they should stop. [[spoiler:[[CaptainObvious He doesn't.]]]]
* GoryDiscretionShot: Surprisingly for a film of this nature, there is little to no blood, with most of the violence being off-screen and suggested. However, it works.
* TheGrotesque: [[spoiler:Bridget and Heather]] get turned into this by Emily.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: The five become worse than their tormentors on their quest for vengeance.
* HellBentForLeather: Emily's torture outfit includes [[ShoutOut a black]] [[{{Audition}} leather smock]].
* [=~Hey, It's That Guy!~=]: Who knew that [[DegrassiTheNextGeneration Derek Haig]] could be such a monster?
* HighSchool: Where the first act is set.
* HowWeGotHere: The film opens with one of the victims in a diner, her face horribly disfigured, with her fellow patrons all staring at her.
* IGaveMyWord: Dane promised that he would not kill a single one of the bullies. [[spoiler: He keeps his promise, but maybe it would have been better if he hadn't...]]
* IronicEcho: Just as the GirlPosse are getting ready for the party, Bridget remarks "Red meat is for people who don't care how they look". [[spoiler:In the opening scene, which takes place [[HowWeGotHere after her face was disfigured]], she orders a burger.]]
* [=~It's A Costume Party, I Swear~=]: Well, [[NastyParty it started out as a costume party...]]
* JerkJock: Bradley and his friends.
* KidsAreCruel: The bullies are mean just because they are. And, of course, there's the outcasts...
* LectureAsExposition: The film opens with a {{high school}} history teacher describing how [[ImperialChina the Han Dynasty]] would sometimes [[CruelMercy leave their defeated enemies alive, disfiguring them]] in order to serve as an example to those who would oppose them. Sets the tone rather well for what follows...
* MalevolentMaskedMen: The outcasts.
* MonsterClown: Ravi's second costume.
* NastyParty
* NiceGuy: Kurtis tried his best to be friends to everybody, and defended Ravi from Bradley. As a result, the five try (and fail) to keep him from coming to their "party."
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Despite the film taking place in [[EverythingIsBigInTexas Texas]], Marc Donato makes little effort to hide his [[CanadaEh Canadian accent]], dropping several "aboots" over the course of the film.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: The five outcasts punish psychological and emotional torture with physical torture.
* PuttingOnTheReich: Andy's torture outfit is an SS uniform.
* {{Revenge}}: The outcasts' plan and motives.
* SayMyName: Near the end, Dane has Bradley [[StrappedToAnOperatingTable strapped to a chair]] and tells him to say his name. [[spoiler:Dane is shocked to learn that, despite Bradley bullying him for years, Bradley does not even know his name]].
* ShoutOut: Emily's outfit, and the scene where she tortures the JerkJock, are big ones for ''{{Audition}}''.
* SoundtrackDissonance: Upbeat banjo music played by one of the five during a torture.
** The banjo playing reminded this troper a lot of the famous banjo from {{Deliverance}}
* SuicidePact: [[spoiler: The five had never intended to live past the night, according to Emily]].
* SurvivorGuilt: At the end, Kelly, having escaped torture and feeling that [[AlphaBitch her behavior]] was at least partly responsible for what happened, [[spoiler:is seen [[DrivenToSuicide taking a bunch of pills in order to kill herself]]]].
* TitleDrop
* ToThePain: Dane loves telling his tormentors how much they will hurt.
* TokenMinority: Ravi.
* TortureCellar: The Workley ranch house, which was left to Dane in his uncle's will.
* ValleyGirl: Again, the GirlPosse.
* TheVietnamWar: [[spoiler:While running away, Kurtis]] seeks help from a veteran of an unnamed war that is strongly implied to be Vietnam.
* VillainProtagonist: The five.
* WithUsOrAgainstUs
* YouHaveFailedMe: [[spoiler:Dane murders Ravi after he intentionally drops a key in order to free Kurtis, one of their friends that they hadn't intended to arrive, despite Dane telling him that Kurtis was not to leave]].
----
