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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Gavin, Layna, and James are a homophobic serial killing trio who kidnap and murder same-sex couples for sport and livestream it for similarly bigoted viewers. Thus, no tears are she'd when they all get brutally done in by their latest would-be victims.]]

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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Gavin, Layna, and James are a homophobic serial killing trio who kidnap and murder same-sex couples for sport and livestream it for similarly bigoted viewers. Thus, no tears are she'd shed when they all get brutally done in by their latest would-be victims.]]
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Gavin, Layna, and James are a homophobic serial killing trio who kidnap and murder same-sex couples for sport and livestream it for similarly bigoted viewers. Thus, no tears are she'd when they all get brutally done in by their latest would-be victims.]]

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* ActionGirl: Renee proves herself as one during the film, breaking free, rescuing her girlfriend Val and with her successfully turning things on their kidnappes/would-be-murderers. This includes being good with a gun (previously she mentions going hunting with her family). Val, though not as skilled, also managed to hold her own in concert with Renee. [[spoiler:They manage to kill all their tormentors as a team.]]

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* ActionGirl: Renee proves herself as one during the film, breaking free, rescuing her girlfriend Val and with her successfully turning things on their kidnappes/would-be-murderers.kidnappers/would-be-murderers. This includes being good with a gun (previously she mentions going hunting with her family). Val, though not as skilled, also managed to hold her own in concert with Renee. [[spoiler:They manage to kill all their tormentors as a team.]]



** The gas station Renee and Val stop at sells sinister-looking masks that their captors wear lator.

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** The gas station Renee and Val stop at sells sinister-looking masks that their captors wear lator.later.



* HomophobicHateCrime: The antagonists kidnap and murder gays or lesbians due to their violent homophobia.



* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The antagonists are violent homophobes who kidnap and murders gays or lesbians, streaming it for homophobic viewers online.

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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The antagonists are violent homophobes who kidnap and murders murder gays or lesbians, streaming it for homophobic viewers online.



* SympatheticMurderer: [[spoiler:Renee kills Layna and later Gavin when both are helpless. However, as they're depraves murderers who had tried to murder her and Val it's likely no one will care.]]

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* SympatheticMurderer: [[spoiler:Renee kills Layna and later Gavin when both are helpless. However, as they're depraves depraved murderers who had tried to murder her and Val it's likely no one will care.]]


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* UnholyMatrimony: Gavin and Layna are a married couple who obviously love each other. Both are also vicious kidnappers and murderers.
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A Canadian slasher film, it stars Tommie-Amber Pirie (Renee), Sarah Allen (Val), Rossif Sutherland (Gavin), Creator/AaronAshmore (James) and Celina Sinden (Layna). It is not to be confused with the 2020 American horror film [[NamesTheSame of the same name]].

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A Canadian slasher film, it stars Tommie-Amber Pirie (Renee), Sarah Allen (Val), Rossif Sutherland (Gavin), Creator/AaronAshmore (James) and Celina Sinden (Layna). It is not to be confused with the 2020 American horror film [[NamesTheSame [[SimilarlyNamedWorks of the same name]].
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A Canadian slasher film, it stars Tommie-Amber Pirie (Renee), Sarah Allen (Val), Rossif Sutherland (Gavin), Creator/AaronAshmore (James) and Celina Sinden (Layna). It is not to be confused with the 2020 American horror film [[NamesTheSame of the same name]].
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* SympatheticMurderer: [[spoiler:Renee kills Layna and later Gavin when both are helpless. However, as they're depraves murderers doubtless no one will care.]]

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* SympatheticMurderer: [[spoiler:Renee kills Layna and later Gavin when both are helpless. However, as they're depraves murderers doubtless who had tried to murder her and Val it's likely no one will care.]]
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* InstantExpert: After just the bare minimum instruction from Renee, Val's capable of hitting a target at long range on her very first try with a sniper rifle.

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* InstantExpert: LikeADuckTakesToWater: After just the bare minimum instruction from Renee, Val's capable of hitting a target at long range on her very first try with a sniper rifle.rifle (it's made clear she's never even ''held'' a gun before).
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* ExactWords: Gavin tells an accomplice who isn't down with murderings gays and lesbians, afraid of going to jail for it, that he won't. Then he shoots the guy in the head.

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* ExactWords: Gavin tells an accomplice who isn't down with murderings murdering gays and lesbians, afraid of going to jail for it, that he won't. Then he shoots the guy in the head.

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* BoundAndGagged: Renee wakes up in this position after being knocked out.



* {{Foreshadowing}}: The gas station Renee and Val stop at sells sinister-looking masks that their captors wear lator.

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The gas station Renee and Val stop at sells sinister-looking masks that their captors wear lator. lator.
** Renee mentions while walking in the woods with Val how she'd cull deer with her family in the past. [[spoiler:At the end, they "cull" their tormentors using Renee's skills.]]

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* AnAxeToGrind: [[spoiler:Gavin murders Connor with an axe. James then does the same with Scotty. Later on James gets it in the head himself from Val.]]


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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Gavin murders Connor with an axe. James then does the same with Scotty. Later on James gets it in the head himself from Val.]]
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* ActionGirl: Renee proves herself as one during the film, breaking free, rescuing her girlfriend Vel and with her successfully turning things on their kidnappes/would-be-murderers. This includes being good with a gun (previously she mentions going hunting with her family). Val, though not as skilled, also managed to hold her own in concert with Renee. [[spoiler:They manage to kill all their tormentors as a team.]]

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* ActionGirl: Renee proves herself as one during the film, breaking free, rescuing her girlfriend Vel Val and with her successfully turning things on their kidnappes/would-be-murderers. This includes being good with a gun (previously she mentions going hunting with her family). Val, though not as skilled, also managed to hold her own in concert with Renee. [[spoiler:They manage to kill all their tormentors as a team.]]
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Renee and Vel, a city lesbian couple, go out into the country on a trip to a cabin that's owned by a gay couple they're friends with. Once there, however, they find the cabin empty and no signs of their friends (it had been shown earlier that the men were attacked). While looking around the area, they soon find themselves hunted down and held captive by mysterious attackers with deadly intentions. Alone in their captor's grasp, Renee and Vel must fight to survive.

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Renee and Vel, Val, a city lesbian couple, go out into the country on a trip to a cabin that's owned by a gay couple they're friends with. Once there, however, they find the cabin empty and no signs of their friends (it had been shown earlier that the men were attacked). While looking around the area, they soon find themselves hunted down and held captive by mysterious attackers with deadly intentions. Alone in their captor's grasp, Renee and Vel must fight to survive.



* ActionGirl: Renee proves herself as one during the film, breaking free, rescuing her girlfriend Vel and with her successfully turning things on their kidnappes/would-be-murderers. This includes being good with a gun (previously she mentions going hunting with her family). Vel, though not as skilled, also managed to hold her own in concert with Renee. [[spoiler:They manage to kill all their tormentors as a team.]]
* AffectionateNickname: Renee usually calls her girlfriend Valerie “Val”.

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* ActionGirl: Renee proves herself as one during the film, breaking free, rescuing her girlfriend Vel and with her successfully turning things on their kidnappes/would-be-murderers. This includes being good with a gun (previously she mentions going hunting with her family). Vel, Val, though not as skilled, also managed to hold her own in concert with Renee. [[spoiler:They manage to kill all their tormentors as a team.]]
* AffectionateNickname: Renee usually calls her girlfriend Valerie “Val”."Val".



* BattleCouple: Renee and Vel, after breaking free, become this when they go after their tormentors. [[spoiler:They successfully kill them as a couple, using whatever weapons they've gotten.]]

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* BattleCouple: Renee and Vel, Val, after breaking free, become this when they go after their tormentors. [[spoiler:They successfully kill them as a couple, using whatever weapons they've gotten.]]



* DamselInDistress: Vel is rescued by Renee when she's set to be murdered next.
* DamselOutOfDistress: Renee manages to free herself upon being tied up and rescue Vel.

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* DamselInDistress: Vel Val is rescued by Renee when she's set to be murdered next.
* DamselOutOfDistress: Renee manages to free herself upon being tied up and rescue Vel.Val.



* MalevolentMaskedMan: Renee and Vel's attackers are at first only seen as masked men in ferocious-looking masks who have guns, wearing camo fatigues.

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* MalevolentMaskedMan: Renee and Vel's Val's attackers are at first only seen as masked men in ferocious-looking masks who have guns, wearing camo fatigues.
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Renee and Vel, a city lesbian couple, go out into the country on a trip to a cabin that's owned by a gay couple they're friends with. Once there, however, they find the cabin empty and no signs of their friends (it had been shown earlier that the men were attacked). While looking around the area, they soon find themselves hunted down and held captive by mysterious attackers with deadly intentions. Alone in their captor's grasp, Renee and Vel must fight to survive.

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* ActionGirl: Renee proves herself as one during the film, breaking free, rescuing her girlfriend Vel and with her successfully turning things on their kidnappes/would-be-murderers. This includes being good with a gun (previously she mentions going hunting with her family). Vel, though not as skilled, also managed to hold her own in concert with Renee. [[spoiler:They manage to kill all their tormentors as a team.]]
* AffectionateNickname: Renee usually calls her girlfriend Valerie “Val”.
* AnAxeToGrind: [[spoiler:Gavin murders Connor with an axe. James then does the same with Scotty. Later on James gets it in the head himself from Val.]]
* BattleCouple: Renee and Vel, after breaking free, become this when they go after their tormentors. [[spoiler:They successfully kill them as a couple, using whatever weapons they've gotten.]]
* BoomHeadshot: Gavin shoots a compatriot in the head at close range who's got cold feet about their plan to murder gays and lesbians.
* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler:Scotty and Connor, a gay couple, are both murdered on livestream. It's also later shown many others have been murdered before too. Indeed, this is the basis of the whole plot.]]
* DamselInDistress: Vel is rescued by Renee when she's set to be murdered next.
* DamselOutOfDistress: Renee manages to free herself upon being tied up and rescue Vel.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Gavin is a vicious murderer, but clearly still loves his wife Layna, who's his accomplice in the crimes he commits.
* ExactWords: Gavin tells an accomplice who isn't down with murderings gays and lesbians, afraid of going to jail for it, that he won't. Then he shoots the guy in the head.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The gas station Renee and Val stop at sells sinister-looking masks that their captors wear lator.
* HeteronormativeCrusader: Gavin, James and Layna are all homophobic extremists who catch gays or lesbians to murder them on livestreaming video.
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: Renee and Val initially seek to escape on foot, as they're hunted down by masked attackers. [[spoiler:Later they turn the tables, hunting down their tormentors instead, whom they kill.]]
* IncompatibleOrientation: James hits on Val at the gas station, and doesn't realize she's a lesbian at first. [[spoiler:Or possibly he does, but was scouting her out with Renee ahead of their arrival at the cabin where the trap is set for them.]]
* InstantExpert: After just the bare minimum instruction from Renee, Val's capable of hitting a target at long range on her very first try with a sniper rifle.
* LipstickLesbian: Val has long hair and a slightly more feminine style. Renee is a bit more tomboyish, though neither is that pronounced.
* MalevolentMaskedMan: Renee and Vel's attackers are at first only seen as masked men in ferocious-looking masks who have guns, wearing camo fatigues.
* MinimalistCast: There are only about six characters with multiple scenes.
* MonochromeCasting: The whole cast of the film is white.
* MurderDotCom: The homophobes run a site where they stream videos showing them murdering gays and lesbians brutally. Val and Renee later come across this as they escape, to their horror.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Val is only called her full name Valerie a couple times.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The antagonists are violent homophobes who kidnap and murders gays or lesbians, streaming it for homophobic viewers online.
* PreserveYourGays: [[spoiler:Val and Renee, after killing all their tormentors, manage to escape.]]
* {{Sadist}}: Gavin and James clearly enjoy harming their victims, from the happy expressions which they have while doing so or anticipating the acts.
* SlashedThroat: [[spoiler:Renee finishes off Gavin this way.]]
* StraightGay: Scotty and Connor, a gay couple, show no stereotypical traits, aside from very mild vocal fry on Scotty's part.
* SympatheticMurderer: [[spoiler:Renee kills Layna and later Gavin when both are helpless. However, as they're depraves murderers doubtless no one will care.]]
* TapOnTheHead: Renee is apparently knocked out with a rifle butt. She wakes up with no ill effects.
* YouWouldntShootMe: Layna says this when Renee is holding her at gunpoint. [[spoiler:Rather than shoot her, Renee crushes her skull with a computer.]]
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