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* AluminumChristmasTrees: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Saturday_in_October There really is]] an annual [[UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball American college football rivalry game]] called "The Third Saturday in October".
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* {{Pastiche}}: Of long-running slasher franchises inspired by ''Film/{{Halloween}}''.

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* {{Pastiche}}: Of long-running slasher franchises inspired by ''Film/{{Halloween}}''.''Film/{{Halloween|1978}}''.
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* PluckyGirl: The outgoing and good-natured PJ, who will dance with outcasts to cheer them up and toss kitchen knives to the FinalGirl to help take down Jack.
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* StupidGood: After Jack is finally defeated, we cut to Jack and Maggie being wheeled down a hospital hallway side-by-side, with the resident doctor insisting that he try to save the unstoppable killing machine as PJ ineffectually protests.
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* {{Cliffhanger}}: The ending: [[spoiler:The injured Maggie is trapped in a hospital elevator with Jack just as he's reviving himself. She' grips a carving knife given to her by PJ, and we cut to credits]].

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* {{Cliffhanger}}: The ending: [[spoiler:The injured Maggie is trapped in a hospital elevator with Jack just as he's reviving himself. She' She grips a carving knife given to her by PJ, and we cut to credits]].
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* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: A tagline for the film is "He's back! Again! Just like the last time!"
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Saturday_in_October There really is]] an annual [[UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball American college football rivalry game]] called "The Third Saturday in October".


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* {{Expy}}: The fictional Alabama-Mobile Seahawks and Tennessee A&M Commonwealth football teams stand in for the University of Alabama Crimson Tide and University of Tennessee Volunteers football teams, who make up the real life "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Saturday_in_October Third Saturday in October]]" [[UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball rivalry]].

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* ElectiveMute: Jack never speaks, though he does giggle wordlessly.



* TooStupidToLive: People keep [[spoiler:coming up to the bedroom and getting distracted by the scene they find there, allowing Jack to add them to the body pile]].
* TheVoiceless: Jack never speaks, though he does giggle wordlessly.

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* TooStupidToLive: People keep [[spoiler:coming up to the bedroom and getting distracted by the scene they find there, allowing Jack to add them to the body pile]].
* TheVoiceless: Jack never speaks, though he does giggle wordlessly.
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* StylisticSuck: The film plays up its low budget and limited resources to portray a low-budget 1990s-era horror flick film.

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** The film has an [[https://www.angelfire.com/al3/HaddonFieldHorrors/ Angelfire website]] portraying itself as a fan site of the series. It's designed using atrociously 1990s-era website aesthetics, including giant green text over screencaps from the movies.
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* SeriousBusiness: Everyone in Mobile, Alabama, watches the big game between the two local colleges.

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* SeriousBusiness: Everyone in Mobile, Alabama, watches the big game between the two local colleges.Alabama-Mobile Seahawks and the Tennessee A&M Commonwealth.

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* FinalGirl: Maggie, though it's teased as to whether she'll survive or have to give her life to protect PJ.



** Dancing. Jack Harding dances after several kills. Maggie dances with PJ before they take off from PJ's parents' house. Peter dances by himself and then with both Angela and Holcomb. PJ dances with Lester.

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** Dancing. Jack Harding dances after several kills. Maggie dances with PJ before they take off from PJ's parents' house. Peter dances by himself and then with both Angela and Holcomb. PJ dances with Lester. One of the Catfish Cabin waiters dances while closing up.
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* CloudCuckoolander: Lester's physical therapist Neil is a weird guy. In spite of being somewhere in his 50s, he attends the party of a bunch of 20-year-olds. He makes a number of decisive declarations on strange subjects, like he never wears long pants and never eats pizza because it can get too hot. He also gets too into his referee costume and makes penalty calls on his whistle at inappropriate moments.
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* CreatorCameo: PJ's father Arthur is played by Ian J. Cunningham, one of the film's producers as well as the real-life father of PJ's actress, Poppy Cunningham.


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* OffWithHisHead: PJ's father Arthur is killed by having his head yanked off while still wearing a football helmet.
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** Cats. We see a number of cats in various scenes throughout the film. PJ has a whole conversation with a hung picture of Glamourpuss, a cat. PJ also spends much of the film begging to be taken to Catfish Cabin.

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** Cats. We see a number of cats in various scenes throughout the film. PJ has a whole conversation with a hung picture of Glamourpuss, a cat. The coach of the local football team introduces his cat and delivers a public service announcement to spay and neuter your pets. PJ also spends much of the film begging to be taken to Catfish Cabin.
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* CreatorProvincialism: The film takes place in Alabama, and it was shot in Alabama by Alabamans.

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The first installment of the fictional series, supposedly released in 1979, was DeFictionalized as ''Film/TheThirdSaturdayInOctoberPartI'' and released in 2023.

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The first installment of the fictional series, supposedly released in 1979, was DeFictionalized as the prequel ''Film/TheThirdSaturdayInOctoberPartI'' and released in 2023.



* CallForward: The PreviouslyOn montage at the beginning includes a few snippets from the prequel, ''Film/TheThirdSaturdayInOctoberPartI'', which was being filmed while this film was still in postproduction.
* {{Cliffhanger}}: The ending: [[spoiler:The injured Maggie is trapped in a hospital elevator with Jack just as he's reviving himself. She' grips a carving knife given to her by PJ, and we cut to credits]].
* DamselOutOfDistress: Maggie's job is to protect PJ, but PJ comes to Maggie's aid about as much as vice versa.



* DeathByIrony: After spending the film [[spoiler:picking on Lester for being handicapped and trying to sleep with two girls on the same night, Peter gets hobbled and forced to crawl into Lester's wheelchair, then gets fatally stabbed in the crotch]].



* FanService: The DecoyProtagonist woman strips down to her bra and panties. We also see some nudity in the PreviouslyOn section, which is FanService lifted from the prequel.



** Dancing. Jack Harding dances after several kills. Peter dances by himself and then with both Angela and Holcomb.

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** Dancing. Jack Harding dances after several kills. Maggie dances with PJ before they take off from PJ's parents' house. Peter dances by himself and then with both Angela and Holcomb. PJ dances with Lester.


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* {{Pastiche}}: Of long-running slasher franchises inspired by ''Film/{{Halloween}}''.


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* StylisticSuck: The film plays up its low budget and limited resources to portray a low-budget 1990s-era horror flick film.
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''The Third Saturday in October, Part V'' is a 2022 horror-comedy written and directed by Jay Burleson. Purported to have been released in 1994 as the [[RetroactiveLegacy fifth installment of series of horror films]] dating back to the 1970s, the film is a {{pastiche}} of low-budget slasher films. The plot concerns Jakkariah "Jack" Harding, an unstoppable, undead killer who only comes out of hiding on the third Saturday in October to wreak havoc on small communities in Alabama, when the residents are distracted by a SeriousBusiness annual college football game.

It stars Poppy Cunningham and Kansas Bowling as precocious nine-year-old PJ and her babysitter Maggie, who must survive the night.

The first installment of the fictional series, supposedly released in 1979, was DeFictionalized as ''Film/TheThirdSaturdayInOctoberPartI'' and released in 2023.

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* TheDeadCanDance: Jack Harding tends to dance in exaltation after kills.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Maggie is affectionate to PJ but also smokes in front of her, something PJ herself tells her she ought not do. She's more like a somewhat irresponsible big sister than a babysitter.
* JerkJock: Peter is an asshole.
* KickTheDog: Peter establishes what an asshole he is by mocking his handicapped friend Lester, slapping him in the face, and leaving him downstairs while he and George go upstairs to get high.
* ImplacableMan: Much like Michael Myers, Jack Harding can be momentarily stunned, but will get back up from any injury.
* MalevolentMaskedMen: Jack Harding wears a white skull-face mask.
* {{Motif}}: Both motifs get carried into the prequel.
** Cats. We see a number of cats in various scenes throughout the film. PJ has a whole conversation with a hung picture of Glamourpuss, a cat. PJ also spends much of the film begging to be taken to Catfish Cabin.
** Dancing. Jack Harding dances after several kills. Peter dances by himself and then with both Angela and Holcomb.
* TheNineties: The film takes place in 1994 and was supposedly filmed around that time. There is no internet to be seen, video cassette rentals are de jour, and the television is an old CRT. A few characters are seen in flannel, and Maggie wears a Music/DinosaurJr t-shirt.
* OffScreenMomentOfAwesome: Jack is lurking around, so PJ arms herself with some scissors as she goes to bed in case Jack comes around. When Maggie arrives to rescue her, PJ has already stabbed and incapacitated Jack.
* RetroactiveLegacy: The film is presented as the fifth installment of a nonexistent slasher film series.
* RunningGag: People keep coming up to the bedroom of the house, only to be attacked by Jack, while [[spoiler:Peter remains tied to the bed, helplessly watching]].
* SeriousBusiness: Everyone in Mobile, Alabama, watches the big game between the two local colleges.
* SexSignalsDeath: [[spoiler:Peter tries to have sex with both Angela and Holcomb in one night. They are both willing until they realize he's two-timing them. They all die. By contrast, Maggie wants to take her budding romance with George slow and won't even kiss him because he just broke up with her friend]].
* ShoutOut:
** Maggie wears a Music/DinosaurJr t-shirt throughout the film.
** PJ rents ''Film/{{Hoosiers}}'' and ''Film/ClassOfNukeEmHigh''. She watches a few scenes of the latter.
* TooStupidToLive: People keep [[spoiler:coming up to the bedroom and getting distracted by the scene they find there, allowing Jack to add them to the body pile]].
* TheVoiceless: Jack never speaks, though he does giggle wordlessly.

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