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* EvilBrit: Sir speaks with a British accent.


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* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Barry Lynch puts on a British accent somewhere between painful and hilarious.

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* AppliedPhlebotinum: The marijuana-farming sewage mutated the ticks.

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* AppliedPhlebotinum: The marijuana-farming sewage mutated the ticks.AttackOfTheKillerWhatever: Cat-sized forest ticks which jump on people and cause BodyHorror.



* BearTrap: Jarvis is startled by [[spoiler:a giant tick]] and stumbles onto a bear trap he was playing with earlier.



* BigCreepyCrawlies: The ticks are bigger than normal due to pollution. Late in the film, [[spoiler:one giant-sized also appears]].



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%%* DontGoInTheWoods* DontGoInTheWoods: The premise is that ticks mutated by herbal steroids are swarming a forest.



* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Sir’s attempt to get the van to leave everyone else behind backfires when it takes Jerry out entirely, leading to a chain of events that leads directly to his death.
** Sir does this to himself multiple times over, [[spoiler:since what ultimately does him in is a super-mutant tick that was mutated by steroids in his own illegal weed farm and further mutated due to Panic’s steroids he took to dull the pain of a gunshot Sir inflicted on him]].

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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Sir’s Sir's attempt to get the van to leave everyone else behind backfires when it takes Jerry out entirely, leading to a chain of events that leads directly to his death.
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death. Sir does this to himself multiple times over, [[spoiler:since what ultimately does him in is a super-mutant tick that was mutated by steroids in his own illegal weed farm and further mutated due to Panic’s Panic's steroids he took to dull the pain of a gunshot Sir inflicted on him]].



* {{Mutants}}: The killer ticks were mutated by run off from a marijuana farmer's steroid experiments. [[spoiler:The one whose head burrowed into Panic's body is further mutated by steroids he takes to try and dull the pain from a gunshot, becoming a gigantic beast.]]

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* {{Mutants}}: The killer ticks were are mutated by run off runoff from a marijuana farmer's steroid experiments. [[spoiler:The one whose head burrowed burrows into Panic's body is further mutated by steroids he takes to try and dull the pain from a gunshot, becoming a gigantic beast.]]



* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: [[spoiler:Sir tries to hold the group hostage. While this was possible when he had Jerry and a high powered shotgun, when he's battered, having a VillainousBreakdown, and only has a small pistol left, the group takes advantage of the first change the get, pin him down, disarm, and stab him. Taking your eyes off a group that completely outnumber you and fully know you want to kill them anyway is just asking for this to happen.]]
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: [[spoiler:Sir tries to hold the group hostage. While this was possible when he had Jerry and a high powered high-powered shotgun, when he's battered, having a VillainousBreakdown, and only has a small pistol left, the group takes advantage of the first change the get, pin him down, disarm, and stab him. Taking your eyes off a group that completely outnumber you and fully know you want to kill them anyway is just asking for this to happen.]]
%%* * RapeAsBackstory: Kelly.Kelly, the shyest of the campers, is there at the rehab excursion because she was assaulted and has had trouble communicating ever since.



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* ToxicWasteCanDoAnything: The marijuana-farming sewage mutated the ticks.

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* WhipItGood: Jerry carries a whip.
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A group of troubled inner-city teens are taken into the woods for a wilderness camp to learn teamwork and overcome their differences. Unfortunately for them, trouble is on its way in the guise of dangerous pot farmers and mutated overgrown ticks.

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A group of troubled inner-city teens are taken into the woods for on a wilderness camp retreat in the woods to learn teamwork and overcome their differences. Unfortunately for them, trouble is on its way in the guise of dangerous pot farmers and mutated overgrown ticks.
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''Ticks'' (also known as ''Infested'') is a horror movie from 1993.

A bunch of troubled cityslicker teens are taken to the woods to learn teamwork and overcome their differences. Unfortunately to them, trouble is on its way in the guise of dangerous marihuana farmers and mutated overgrown ticks.

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''Ticks'' (also known as ''Infested'') is a horror movie from 1993.

1993 SciFiHorror film directed by Tony Randel (''Film/HellboundHellraiserII''), starring Creator/PeterScolari, Creator/SethGreen, and Ami Dolenz.

A bunch group of troubled cityslicker inner-city teens are taken to into the woods for a wilderness camp to learn teamwork and overcome their differences. Unfortunately to for them, trouble is on its way in the guise of dangerous marihuana pot farmers and mutated overgrown ticks.
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* BadBoss: Sir has no problem forcing Jerry to go out in the middle of the tick-infested woods to get the van. [[HoistByHisOwnPetard This comes back to bite him in the ass big time]].


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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Sir’s attempt to get the van to leave everyone else behind backfires when it takes Jerry out entirely, leading to a chain of events that leads directly to his death.
** Sir does this to himself multiple times over, [[spoiler:since what ultimately does him in is a super-mutant tick that was mutated by steroids in his own illegal weed farm and further mutated due to Panic’s steroids he took to dull the pain of a gunshot Sir inflicted on him]].

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* PeekABooCorpse: [[TheSheriff Sheriff]]'s corpse in the pond.

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* PeekABooCorpse: [[TheSheriff Sheriff]]'s Sheriff Parker's corpse in the pond.
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* KnifeNut: Subverted with Panic, who likes to act big and bad but isn't as bad as he seems.
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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Jerry makes comments on several occasions that imply he and Sir have done this before, and Sir makes some comments suggesting he's interested in doing so with Panic.


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* SerialRapist: Sir makes some implications he's interested in raping Panic, and later Jerry says Rome is 'just how he likes them,' implying that this is common behavior.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: [[spoiler:Sir tries to hold the group hostage. While this was possible when he had Jerry and a high powered shotgun, when he's battered, having a VillainousBreakdown, and only has a small pistol left, the group takes advantage of the first change the get, pin him down, disarm, and stab him. Taking your eyes off a group that completely outnumber you and fully know you want to kill them anyway is just asking for this to happen.]]

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* BigBadEnsemble: The ticks and the human villain Sir, a psychotic marijuana farmer who's willing to kill anyone who stumbled on his operation.

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* BigBadEnsemble: The ticks and the human villain Sir, a psychotic marijuana farmer who's willing to kill anyone who stumbled on his operation.operation, which spawned the mutated ticks in the first place.


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* HillbillyHorrors: The human antagonists are a pair of psychotic redneck marijuana farmers.

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* BigBadEnsemble: The ticks and the human villain Sir, a psychotic marijuana farmer who's willing to kill anyone who stumbled on his operation.



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%%* * KnifeNut: Panic.Subverted with Panic, who likes to act big and bad but isn't as bad as he seems.
* MercyKill: Javis, infested with ticks, begs Didi to do this to him. The ticks kill him before he can.



* {{Mutants}}: The killer ticks were mutated by run off from a marijuana farmer's steroid experiments.

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* {{Mutants}}: The killer ticks were mutated by run off from a marijuana farmer's steroid experiments. [[spoiler:The one whose head burrowed into Panic's body is further mutated by steroids he takes to try and dull the pain from a gunshot, becoming a gigantic beast.]]
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:The mutant tick inside Panic's body mutates even further thanks to the steroids he ingests to try and get through a gunshot and grows into gigantic monster.]]
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* BodyHorror: Considering the movie is about mutated killer ticks who burrow into people's bodies, the movie has its share of this.


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* {{Mutants}}: The killer ticks were mutated by run off from a marijuana farmer's steroid experiments.
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'''''Ticks''''' (also known as ''Infested'') is a horror movie from the year 1993.

Bunch of troubled cityslicker teens are taken to the woods to learn teamwork and overcome their differences. Unfortunately to them, trouble is on its way in the guise of dangerous marihuana farmers and mutated overgrown ticks.

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'''''Ticks''''' ''Ticks'' (also known as ''Infested'') is a horror movie from the year 1993.

Bunch A bunch of troubled cityslicker teens are taken to the woods to learn teamwork and overcome their differences. Unfortunately to them, trouble is on its way in the guise of dangerous marihuana farmers and mutated overgrown ticks.
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* FlatCharacter: Holly has no contributions at all to the plot and seems to be in the movie only to give Charles a girlfriend.


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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: For a good chunk of the movie, Charles is an irresponsible jerk who snaps at the kids, leaves them unsupervised and often behaves like he doesn't even want to deal with them despite the fact that he's supposed to be in charge. Ultimately, however, he does fight hard to keep them alive once the danger has been made clear.
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* AgonyOfTheFeet: When startled by a giant tick, Jarvis stumbles on the bear trap which he was playing with earlier.

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* AgonyOfTheFeet: When startled by a giant tick, Jarvis stumbles on the bear trap BearTrap which he was playing with earlier.

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* KnifeNut: Panic.

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* RapeAsBackstory: Kelly.
* TheQuietOne: Kelly.

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* AppliedPhlebotinum: The marihuana farming sewage mutated the ticks.

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* AppliedPhlebotinum: The marihuana farming marijuana-farming sewage mutated the ticks.
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* KillItWithFire: Ticks blow up when they're are touched by fire.

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* KillItWithFire: Ticks blow up when they're are touched by fire.
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* AxeBeforeEntering



* AttackOfTheKillerWhatever
* BearTrap
* BigCreepyCrawlies
* BigNo



* BodyHorror
* CarCushion
* CarMeetsHouse
* DangerTakesABackseat



* ImpendingDoomPOV



* PercussiveMaintenance



* WalkingShirtlessScene

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* TheEndOrIsIt: One of the cocoons survived back to the city.



* OrIsIt: One of the cocoons survived back to the city.

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