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* SayMyName: When Goodenow taunts the tied-up Fletcher and Cutting by singing a Royalist Christmas song and dancing a jig, Fletcher very quickly loses his patience with the performance.
--> '''Goodenow:''' 𝅘𝅥𝅮 Come come, my royal ramping boys let's never be cast down, we'll never mind the female toys but loyal be to the crown! We'll never break our hearts with care or be cast down with fear-- 𝅘𝅥𝅮\\
'''Fletcher:''' Goodenow.\\
'''Goodenow:''' 𝅘𝅥𝅮 Our bellies then let us prepare to drink some Christmas beer! 𝅘𝅥𝅮\\
'''Fletcher:''' '''GOODENOOOOOW!!!'''
--> '''Goodenow:''' 𝅘𝅥𝅮 Come come, my royal ramping boys let's never be cast down, we'll never mind the female toys but loyal be to the crown! We'll never break our hearts with care or be cast down with fear-- 𝅘𝅥𝅮\\
'''Fletcher:''' Goodenow.\\
'''Goodenow:''' 𝅘𝅥𝅮 Our bellies then let us prepare to drink some Christmas beer! 𝅘𝅥𝅮\\
'''Fletcher:''' '''GOODENOOOOOW!!!'''
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* ShownTheirWork: The film goes to extreme lengths to make itself both historically accurate and immersive on a shoestring budget, from the characters' garb and accents to small historical details which warrant interesting footnotes about 17th-century Puritan culture in the behind-the-scenes footage.
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* RecurringRiff: A horrific bleating noise consisting of three notes can be heard somewhere in almost every track on the film's score, serving as a sort of {{Leitmotif}} for Fletcher and his [[SanitySlippage degrading mental state]].
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''The Sudbury Devil'' is a 2023 independent [[PsychologicalHorror Psychological]] SplatterHorror period film created by Creator/AtunSheiFilms and written and directed by Creator/AndrewRakich. Set in UsefulNotes/{{Massachusetts}} Bay Colony in the 1670s in the aftermath of King Philip's War, it follows two Puritan {{witch hunter}}s -- John Fletcher and Josiah Cutting -- who arrive in the small town of Sudbury to investigate rumors of devil worship. In addition to Rakich himself, it also stars Benton Guinness as Fletcher, Linnea Gregg as Widow Gavett, and Josh Popa as Josiah Cutting.
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''The Sudbury Devil'' is a 2023 independent [[PsychologicalHorror Psychological]] [[FolkHorror Folk]] SplatterHorror period film created by Creator/AtunSheiFilms and written and directed by Creator/AndrewRakich. Set in UsefulNotes/{{Massachusetts}} Bay Colony in the 1670s in the aftermath of King Philip's War, it follows two Puritan {{witch hunter}}s -- John Fletcher and Josiah Cutting -- who arrive in the small town of Sudbury to investigate rumors of devil worship. In addition to Rakich himself, it also stars Benton Guinness as Fletcher, Linnea Gregg as Widow Gavett, and Josh Popa as Josiah Cutting.
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* CosmicHorrorStory: Much more so than your average FolkHorror story. In the film, Satan is portrayed as an incomprehensible EldritchAbomination to whom all mortals will eventually submit, whether it be willingly as rebellion against their own evil brethren or after being coaxed and coerced into its service. The ending of the film even heavily implies that [[spoiler:modern-day Massachusetts and by extension the U.S. were intrinsically founded by Fletcher's dying curse and the physical birth of the Day Star into the world, therefore making an entire ''country'' the progeny of Satan]].
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Night falls hard here, sirs. And with it comes a most dreadful dark...and a most heavy silence."'']]
->''[[FalseReassurance "Be not afeared. Thou art safe now."]]''
--> -- '''Mr. Gavett'''
->''[[FalseReassurance "Be not afeared. Thou art safe now."]]''
--> -- '''Mr. Gavett'''
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->''"Night falls hard here, sirs. And with it comes a most dreadful dark...and a most heavy silence.
->''[[FalseReassurance "Be not afeared. Thou art safe now."]]''
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''The Sudbury Devil'' began its roadshow premiere in September 2023 and released on streaming on December 21. You can buy or rent it here at [[https://www.atunsheifilms.com/ atunsheifilms.com]].
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''The Sudbury Devil'' began its roadshow premiere in September 2023 and released on streaming on December 21. You can buy or rent it here at [[https://www.atunsheifilms.com/ here at atunsheifilms.com]].
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''The Sudbury Devil'' began its roadshow premiere in September 2023 and released on streaming on December 21.
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''The Sudbury Devil'' began its roadshow premiere in September 2023 and released on streaming on December 21.
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* BigShutUp: After Cutting defiantly refuses to stop praying in front of Patience and her coven, she goes [[VoiceOfTheLegion full demon mode on him]]:
-->'''Patience:''' '''BE SILENT! BE SILENT! THOU PRAT-SWIVE! THOU MOLLY! THOU MILK-PIGEON! [[DevilButNoGod THY GOD IS NOT HERE! HE NEVER WAS!]] NOW ''BE SILENT!'''''
-->'''Patience:''' '''BE SILENT! BE SILENT! THOU PRAT-SWIVE! THOU MOLLY! THOU MILK-PIGEON! [[DevilButNoGod THY GOD IS NOT HERE! HE NEVER WAS!]] NOW ''BE SILENT!'''''
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* VoiceOfTheLegion: Patience gains this when she loudly tells Cutting to shut up and stop praying.
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* GeneralRipper: Samuel Moseley, whom Fletcher served under, was notoriously brutal and vicious during King Philip's War, and did not spare even friendly, Christianized Native Americans during his rampages. Fletcher calls him a "mad rogue for whom murder was a pleasure."
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* TheSavageIndian: {{Invoked|Trope}} and {{discussed|Trope}}. On the heels of a brutal war with the Wampanoag and other Native American tribes of New England, this is how most of the white characters view them.
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* TheSavageIndian: {{Invoked|Trope}} and {{discussed|Trope}}. On the heels of a brutal war with the Wampanoag and other Native American tribes of New England, this is how most of the white characters view them. The Native American alliance ''did'' commit some pretty heinous atrocities during the war -- massacring homesteads and hamlets and sacking English towns -- and the reason the Canadian traders bought the heads of murdered Algonquins was to sell them on to the Mohawk, who were evidently happy to pay off white people to kill their enemies. However, the film makes it clear that the Native American violence was principally a reaction and retaliation to an inherently violent and oppressive society bent on their subjugation or destruction, that believed itself to have a divine mandate to rule over them.
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* CampfireCharacterExploration: As Fletcher leads Russel and Gavett back into the woods, they make camp for the night and build a fire to sit around and drink strongwater. Before long, Gavett suggests they tell war stories, and we immediately learns something about each character: [[WouldHurtAChild Fletcher is haunted by the Indian children whom he killed and whose heads he sold during the war]], [[DirtyCoward Russell sat the war out by claiming that God wanted him to tend to his congregation first]], and "Mr. Gavett" is a DevilInPlainSight, especially when he (possibly on purpose) jumbles the Lord's Prayer and [[SpottingTheThread Fletcher is immediately distrustful of him]].
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* TheGreatOffscreenWar: King Philip's War serves as this for the duration of the story, as basically every character either fought in or was affected by it in some way. Fletcher is a ShellShockedVeteran missing an eye, Goodenow lost an arm, Patience's husband died at the hands of the Natives, etc.
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* SarcasticClapping; "Mr. Gavett" does this after getting Fletcher to unearth the horrible deeds he committed during the war, such as killing children and harvesting their heads to sell for profit, [[TheGadfly clearly deeply hurting Fletcher as he is forced to relive the trauma]].
--> '''Mr. Gavett:''' [[SarcasmMode What vim! What martial valour!]]
--> '''Mr. Gavett:''' [[SarcasmMode What vim! What martial valour!]]
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** For their part, the Wampanoag-led alliance committed extreme violence on white civilians during the war as well, including the opening battle of the war, the Sudbury Fight. Goodenow is a survivor of that battle, and is clearly traumatized.
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Josiah Cutting is depicted with a limp and requiring a cane to walk steadily. In-universe this is implied to be the result of a war wound, but in real life, actor Josh Popa had injured his leg days before shooting and there was no opportunity to reschedule.
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* RapePillageAndBurn: Several English characters in the film have a romantic view of King Philip's War as a war of noble Englishmen fighting off [[TheSavageIndian rapacious heathen Indians]], but Fletcher says it was more like this, a systematic razing and brutalization of numerous Algonquin civilizations along the Massachusetts coast almost purely out of revenge and zealotry. He couldn't know it at the time, but the film makes a point of subtly connecting King Philip's War with the Indian Wars of the late 1800s, which are increasingly considered by modern historians to be an ethnic cleansing if not outright genocide.
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** Several English characters in the film have a delusionally romantic view of King Philip's War as a war of noble Englishmen fighting off [[TheSavageIndian rapacious heathen Indians]], but Fletcher says it was more like this, a systematic razing and brutalization of numerous Algonquin civilizations along the Massachusetts coast almost purely out of revenge and zealotry. He couldn't know it at the time, but the film makes a point of subtly connecting King Philip's War with the Indian Wars of the late 1800s, which are increasingly considered by modern historians to be an ethnic cleansing if not outrightgenocide.genocide.
** For their part, the Wampanoag-led alliance committed extreme violence on white civilians during the war as well, including the opening battle of the war, the Sudbury Fight. Goodenow is a survivor of that battle, and is clearly traumatized.
** Several English characters in the film have a delusionally romantic view of King Philip's War as a war of noble Englishmen fighting off [[TheSavageIndian rapacious heathen Indians]], but Fletcher says it was more like this, a systematic razing and brutalization of numerous Algonquin civilizations along the Massachusetts coast almost purely out of revenge and zealotry. He couldn't know it at the time, but the film makes a point of subtly connecting King Philip's War with the Indian Wars of the late 1800s, which are increasingly considered by modern historians to be an ethnic cleansing if not outright
** For their part, the Wampanoag-led alliance committed extreme violence on white civilians during the war as well, including the opening battle of the war, the Sudbury Fight. Goodenow is a survivor of that battle, and is clearly traumatized.
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* KnightTemplar: Deconstructed. Our two main protagonists are a pair of literally puritanical witch hunters, but in an effort to make them three-dimensional and historically accurate Fletcher is shown having serious doubts about the atrocities he's committed for God and country. However, the film also shows that people who are remorseful about such things can still be a part of the problem if their fundamental worldview and culture encourages such acts, and because the goals of the Sudbury coven are never really explained in detail Fletcher and Cutting appear to just be trying to kill them for following a different religion from them no matter what they say otherwise.
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* RapePillageAndBurn: Several English characters in the film have a romantic view of King Philip's War as a war of noble Englishmen fighting off [[TheSavageIndian rapacious heathen Indians]], but Fletcher says it was more like this, a systematic razing and brutalization of numerous Algonquin civilizations along the Massachusetts coast almost purely out of revenge and zealotry. He couldn't know it at the time, but the film makes a point of subtly connecting King Philip's War with the Indian Wars of the late 1800s, which are increasingly considered by modern historians to be an ethnic cleansing if not outright genocide.
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* WouldHurtAChild: Fletcher is revealed to be this when "Gavett" presses him to tell stories of the time when he served in Mosely's Company. Part of his job was burning down Native American villages, and shooting any children trying to flee. The wretchedness of this and other horrible atrocities he committed during the war have stuck with Fletcher and made him into the ShellShockedVeteran he is in the film.
--> '''Fletcher:''' [visibly holding back tears] I set one longhouse afire that had at least...''four'' families within it? There were...gaps in the wall, ''just'' large enough for a small child to wiggle out...and we shot them. We shot them as they ran away, we shot them through the body. And we took care ne'er to spoil the head, for there are Canadians who will pay three English pounds for an Indian head. [[PragmaticVillainy And children's heads are lighter]].
--> '''Fletcher:''' [visibly holding back tears] I set one longhouse afire that had at least...''four'' families within it? There were...gaps in the wall, ''just'' large enough for a small child to wiggle out...and we shot them. We shot them as they ran away, we shot them through the body. And we took care ne'er to spoil the head, for there are Canadians who will pay three English pounds for an Indian head. [[PragmaticVillainy And children's heads are lighter]].
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* DontGoInTheWoods: Almost everything bad in the film happens in the forests of Sudbury Plantation, including devil worship, weird and gross sex stuff and unspeakable mutilation and carnage.
