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* CellPhonesAreUseless: Robert [[WhatAnIdiot drops Mel's phone after using the flashlight to try to see outside,]] outside, his own phone is not working for some unspecified reason, and Diane's battery dies early in the film. Bobby, being a small child, doesn't have his own.
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Based on the [[TheFilmOfTheBook book of the same name]], 2021 film ''We Need To Do Something'' follows a family of four as they are forced into their (strangely large) bathroom by a tornado siren. Mother [[OnlySaneMan Diane]] (Creator/{{Vinessa Shaw}}) tries to comfort young [[CheerfulChild Bobby]] (John James Cronin) while father [[JerkAss Robert]] (Pat Healy) seethes with irritation at being forced into such close quarters for what he thinks is nothing more than a thunderstorm. Meanwhile, TroubledTeen Melissa (Creator/{{SierraMcCormick}}) sits in the corner on her phone, desperately trying to contact her friend Amy (Lisette Alexis) and [[ItsAllMyFault feeling somehow responsible for the storm.]] Once the storm passes, Robert attempts to open the bathroom door - only to find it blocked by a fallen tree. [[ItGetsWorse Things get worse from there.]]
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Based on the [[TheFilmOfTheBook book of the same name]], 2021 film ''We Need To Do Something'' follows a family of four as they are forced into their (strangely large) bathroom by a tornado siren. Mother [[OnlySaneMan Diane]] (Creator/{{Vinessa Shaw}}) tries to comfort young [[CheerfulChild Bobby]] (John James Cronin) while father [[JerkAss Robert]] (Pat Healy) seethes with irritation at being forced into such close quarters for what he thinks is nothing more than a thunderstorm. Meanwhile, TroubledTeen Melissa (Creator/{{SierraMcCormick}}) (Creator/{{Sierra McCormick}}) sits in the corner on her phone, desperately trying to contact her friend Amy (Lisette Alexis) and [[ItsAllMyFault feeling somehow responsible for the storm.]] Once the storm passes, Robert attempts to open the bathroom door - only to find it blocked by a fallen tree. [[ItGetsWorse Things get worse from there.]]
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* {{Squick}}: The family being forced to eat [[spoiler: a dog's tongue,]], the repeated flashes of [[spoiler: Spot's corpse]], and Robert [[spoiler: biting the head off of the rattlesnake.]]
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* DeathOfAChild: [[spoiler: Bobby, who dies of a snakebite.]]
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* SchoolgirlLesbians: Mel and Amy.
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* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler: Robert attempts to kill Mel after she confesses to her spells with Amy, and that she believes she caused the storm. It ends instead in {{Patricide}} - Mel is forced to kill Robert with a shard of broken mirror while he attacks Diane.]]
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Based on the [[TheFilmOfTheBook book of the same name]], 2021 film ''We Need To Do Something'' follows a family of four as they are forced into their (strangely larg) large) bathroom by a tornado siren. Mother [[OnlySaneMan Diane]] (Creator/{{Vinessa Shaw}}) tries to comfort young [[CheerfulChild Bobby]] (John James Cronin) while father [[JerkAss Robert]] (Pat Healy) seethes with irritation at being forced into such close quarters for what he thinks is nothing more than a thunderstorm. Meanwhile, TroubledTeen Melissa (Creator/{{SierraMcCormick}}) sits in the corner on her phone, desperately trying to contact her friend Amy (Lisette Alexis) and [[ItsAllMyFault feeling somehow responsible for the storm.]] Once the storm passes, Robert attempts to open the bathroom door - only to find it blocked by a fallen tree. [[ItGetsWorse Things get worse from there.]]
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* DogGotSentToAFarm: Bobby thinks that deceased family pet Spot "ran away." [[spoiler: Of course, Spot very well may have come BackFromTheDead and visited the family. And may now sound like Music/{{OzzyOsbourne}}. And gotten his tongue ripped out. [[ItMakesSenseInContext Again.]]]]
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->''"[[TemptingFate It's just a thunderstorm]], everything's going to be okay."''
-->-- '''Diane'''
Based on the [[TheFilmOfTheBook book of the same name]], 2021 film ''We Need To Do Something'' follows a family of four as they are forced into their (strangely larg) bathroom by a tornado siren. Mother [[OnlySaneMan Diane]] (Creator/{{Vinessa Shaw}}) tries to comfort young [[CheerfulChild Bobby]] (John James Cronin) while father [[JerkAss Robert]] (Pat Healy) seethes with irritation at being forced into such close quarters for what he thinks is nothing more than a thunderstorm. Meanwhile, TroubledTeen Melissa (Creator/{{SierraMcCormick}}) sits in the corner on her phone, desperately trying to contact her friend Amy (Lisette Alexis) and [[ItsAllMyFault feeling somehow responsible for the storm.]] Once the storm passes, Robert attempts to open the bathroom door - only to find it blocked by a fallen tree. [[ItGetsWorse Things get worse from there.]]
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!!We Need To Do Something contains examples of the following tropes:
* AdultsAreUseless: Played with - in this situation, ''no one'' is of much use. However, Robert certainly doesn't make their plight any better.
* TheAlcoholic: Robert. At one point he chugs a bottle of Listerine, and later [[spoiler: nearly blinds himself by chewing on rubbing alcohol pads.]]
* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler: Was the man outside shot to death by someone else? Or was he attempting to shoot ''something'' but was overpowered?]]
** Is the dog the family hears outside [[spoiler: the deceased family pet Spot? Or is some other monster?]]
** Did Mel actually cause the tornado?
* {{Angrish}}: Robert is prone to it, especially about "useless asshole technology" like his broken cell phone.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Mel appears to see Bobby as this, but throughout the film she shows that she cares about him. She teases him playfully about enjoying eggs when he's sad, and [[spoiler: weeps uncontrollably as he lays dying.]]
* AwfulWeddedLife: Diane and Robert. [[spoiler: It's the reason that Diane is having an affair.]] They were even fighting mere minutes before the tornado sirens go off.
* BigFancyHouse: Though we only see the bathroom, the sheer size of it can be extrapolated to the rest of the house.
* BloodFromTheMouth: During Mel's first NightmareSequence, she vomits blood because of [[spoiler: the dog tongue in her stomach.]]
* BloodSpatteredInnocents: Mel gets covered in blood [[spoiler: after being attacked by the dog outside]], and Diane ends up in a similar situation when [[spoiler: she finally breaks out of the bathroom and goes outside.]]
* BottleEpisode: The entire film takes place in the family's bathroom, save for a few flashbacks of Mel and Amy's relationship.
* TheCameo: Of all people, Music/{{Ozzy Osbourne}} plays [[spoiler: the dog who may or may not be Spot.]]
* CellPhonesAreUseless: Robert [[WhatAnIdiot drops Mel's phone after using the flashlight to try to see outside,]] his own phone is not working for some unspecified reason, and Diane's battery dies early in the film. Bobby, being a small child, doesn't have his own.
* ClusterFBomb: Robert lets out several throughout the film, but the most truly epic one is after he's unable to get his cell phone working.
--> '''Robert:''' Fucking piece of shit! Stupid fucking battery! You fucking useless asshole technology! You fucking [[CountryMatters cunt!]] Fuck you!
* DemonicPossession: What [[spoiler: Amy]] thinks has happened to her as part of her experimentation with witchcraft.
* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: If the dog that the family hears is in fact Spot, he may be attacking Mel for cutting his tongue out post-mortem and using it in a spell.]]
* DysfunctionalFamily: Oh yeah.
* GainaxEnding: Overlaps with NoEnding. [[spoiler: Diane returns from the outside world, covered in blood and refusing to talk about what she saw out there. A sudden loud noise makes both Diane and Mel scream - and [[SmashToBlack cut to red.]]]]
* GoneHorriblyRight: Amy and Mel's spell to make Joe stop spreading rumors about them works... [[spoiler: because he chokes on his own tongue and dies.]]
* {{Gorn}}: Mel getting attacked by the dog through the crack in the door results in [[spoiler: her somehow ripping out its tongue, complete with bloody veins.]]
**During Mel's first NightmareSequence later in the film, she rips open her own stomach and pulls out [[spoiler: the dog tongue she used to curse (and accidentally kill) Joe.]] In her second, Amy appears in the bathroom and attacks her with ropes of viscera that burst out of the scars on her wrist and her mouth.
** Robert [[spoiler: biting off the head of the rattlesnake.]]
* HopeSpot: The family hears a man outside and Robert is able to get his attention, [[spoiler: but the man is almost immediately either gunned down or killed by ''something'' before he's able to get to the family.]]
* HostileWeather: A tornado hits the family house, knocks a tree in front of the only exit to the bathroom, [[spoiler: and may have killed the rest of the people in the neighborhood. Also, it may have been caused [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane by a demon.]]]]
* ImAHumanitarian: Discussed but averted. [[spoiler: After Bobby's death, Robert talks briefly about eating him to survive but it never comes to pass because Mel kills him first.]]
* ImprovisedWeapon: A shard of broken mirror and [[ItMakesSenseInContext a snake]] are both used to great effect near the end of the film.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Not said aloud, but after Robert drives out the rattlesnake [[spoiler: the first time]], he immediately goes to the cabinet and chugs out of a bottle of Listerine with a positively manic look on his face.
* InfantImmortality: [[spoiler: Completely averted with Bobby, who dies of a snakebite.]]
* LockedInARoom: The entire premise of the film - the family is trapped inside their bathroom by a fallen tree.
* MamaBear: Diane, especially when Robert [[spoiler: tries to kill Mel for her supposed involvement in the tornado.]]
-->'''Diane:''' Speak to my daughter like that again and [[spoiler: ''I'll slit your fucking throat!'' ]]
* MadnessMantra: Diane's "Everything's going to be okay," said throughout the film but repeated incessantly after [[spoiler: she returns to the bathroom from the outside world.]]
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: A driving question throughout the film, especially in regards to Mel's wondering whether she'd somehow caused the tornado [[spoiler: by casting a spell with Amy. Diane returning to the bathroom covered in blood and nearly catatonic after venturing outside seems to support the latter.]]
* NobodyPoops: Averted - all of the characters use the toilet mostly onscreen. Probably because the movie takes place in a bathroom.
* ParentalNeglect: Robert. Apparently he wasn't even present for his own son's birth and was instead drunk at a bowling alley.
** In addition, Diane says that she was still cooking for the family while being ''nine months pregnant.''
* SchoolgirlLesbians: Mel and Amy.
* SelfHarm: Both Mel and Amy are seen engaging in this, and Mel repeatedly picks at the horizontal scab across her wrist during the film. [[spoiler: They also both slit their wrists as part of the ritual to exorcise the demon inside Amy.]]
* SnakesAreSinister: A rattlesnake slithers through the opening in the bathroom door, frightening the hell out of the family. [[spoiler: And it just keeps coming back - biting and killing Bobby and later biting Robert. It only stops showing up after Robert bites its head off.]]
* {{Squick}}: The family being forced to eat [[spoiler: a dog's tongue,]], the repeated flashes of [[spoiler: Spot's corpse]], and Robert [[spoiler: biting the head off of the rattlesnake.]]
* SuckOutThePoison: Robert insists on doing this after [[spoiler: Bobby is bitten by a rattlesnake]]. Diane instead tries to use a tourniquet to prevent the venom from reaching the heart. [[spoiler: Of course, as in real life, it's already too late.]]
** [[spoiler: No one attempts to do it for Robert when he's later bitten in the face.]]
* SurrealHorror: Mel's nightmares are a prime example, but also happens in the waking world with [[spoiler: a rattlesnake that somehow stalks the family and a dog voices by Music/{{Ozzy Osbourne}}.]]
* TearsOfBlood: [[spoiler: Robert gets these after eating several rubbing alcohol pads.]]
* TheVoice: Both the man [[spoiler: and the dog]] outside are only ever heard, never seen. [[spoiler: Unless, that is, the dog is Spot - who we see as a corpse several times in flashbacks and nightmares.]]
* WhamLine: ''[[spoiler: [[SuddenlyVoiced "I'm a]] [[TalkingAnimal good boy!"]]]]''
* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler: Diane is having an affair with another man, who calls her a few times at the movie's start to see if she's okay.]] Unfortunately, [[spoiler: he never fulfills his promise to come check on her.]]
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->''"[[TemptingFate It's just a thunderstorm]], everything's going to be okay."''
-->-- '''Diane'''
Based on the [[TheFilmOfTheBook book of the same name]], 2021 film ''We Need To Do Something'' follows a family of four as they are forced into their (strangely larg) bathroom by a tornado siren. Mother [[OnlySaneMan Diane]] (Creator/{{Vinessa Shaw}}) tries to comfort young [[CheerfulChild Bobby]] (John James Cronin) while father [[JerkAss Robert]] (Pat Healy) seethes with irritation at being forced into such close quarters for what he thinks is nothing more than a thunderstorm. Meanwhile, TroubledTeen Melissa (Creator/{{SierraMcCormick}}) sits in the corner on her phone, desperately trying to contact her friend Amy (Lisette Alexis) and [[ItsAllMyFault feeling somehow responsible for the storm.]] Once the storm passes, Robert attempts to open the bathroom door - only to find it blocked by a fallen tree. [[ItGetsWorse Things get worse from there.]]
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!!We Need To Do Something contains examples of the following tropes:
* AdultsAreUseless: Played with - in this situation, ''no one'' is of much use. However, Robert certainly doesn't make their plight any better.
* TheAlcoholic: Robert. At one point he chugs a bottle of Listerine, and later [[spoiler: nearly blinds himself by chewing on rubbing alcohol pads.]]
* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler: Was the man outside shot to death by someone else? Or was he attempting to shoot ''something'' but was overpowered?]]
** Is the dog the family hears outside [[spoiler: the deceased family pet Spot? Or is some other monster?]]
** Did Mel actually cause the tornado?
* {{Angrish}}: Robert is prone to it, especially about "useless asshole technology" like his broken cell phone.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Mel appears to see Bobby as this, but throughout the film she shows that she cares about him. She teases him playfully about enjoying eggs when he's sad, and [[spoiler: weeps uncontrollably as he lays dying.]]
* AwfulWeddedLife: Diane and Robert. [[spoiler: It's the reason that Diane is having an affair.]] They were even fighting mere minutes before the tornado sirens go off.
* BigFancyHouse: Though we only see the bathroom, the sheer size of it can be extrapolated to the rest of the house.
* BloodFromTheMouth: During Mel's first NightmareSequence, she vomits blood because of [[spoiler: the dog tongue in her stomach.]]
* BloodSpatteredInnocents: Mel gets covered in blood [[spoiler: after being attacked by the dog outside]], and Diane ends up in a similar situation when [[spoiler: she finally breaks out of the bathroom and goes outside.]]
* BottleEpisode: The entire film takes place in the family's bathroom, save for a few flashbacks of Mel and Amy's relationship.
* TheCameo: Of all people, Music/{{Ozzy Osbourne}} plays [[spoiler: the dog who may or may not be Spot.]]
* CellPhonesAreUseless: Robert [[WhatAnIdiot drops Mel's phone after using the flashlight to try to see outside,]] his own phone is not working for some unspecified reason, and Diane's battery dies early in the film. Bobby, being a small child, doesn't have his own.
* ClusterFBomb: Robert lets out several throughout the film, but the most truly epic one is after he's unable to get his cell phone working.
--> '''Robert:''' Fucking piece of shit! Stupid fucking battery! You fucking useless asshole technology! You fucking [[CountryMatters cunt!]] Fuck you!
* DemonicPossession: What [[spoiler: Amy]] thinks has happened to her as part of her experimentation with witchcraft.
* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: If the dog that the family hears is in fact Spot, he may be attacking Mel for cutting his tongue out post-mortem and using it in a spell.]]
* DysfunctionalFamily: Oh yeah.
* GainaxEnding: Overlaps with NoEnding. [[spoiler: Diane returns from the outside world, covered in blood and refusing to talk about what she saw out there. A sudden loud noise makes both Diane and Mel scream - and [[SmashToBlack cut to red.]]]]
* GoneHorriblyRight: Amy and Mel's spell to make Joe stop spreading rumors about them works... [[spoiler: because he chokes on his own tongue and dies.]]
* {{Gorn}}: Mel getting attacked by the dog through the crack in the door results in [[spoiler: her somehow ripping out its tongue, complete with bloody veins.]]
**During Mel's first NightmareSequence later in the film, she rips open her own stomach and pulls out [[spoiler: the dog tongue she used to curse (and accidentally kill) Joe.]] In her second, Amy appears in the bathroom and attacks her with ropes of viscera that burst out of the scars on her wrist and her mouth.
** Robert [[spoiler: biting off the head of the rattlesnake.]]
* HopeSpot: The family hears a man outside and Robert is able to get his attention, [[spoiler: but the man is almost immediately either gunned down or killed by ''something'' before he's able to get to the family.]]
* HostileWeather: A tornado hits the family house, knocks a tree in front of the only exit to the bathroom, [[spoiler: and may have killed the rest of the people in the neighborhood. Also, it may have been caused [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane by a demon.]]]]
* ImAHumanitarian: Discussed but averted. [[spoiler: After Bobby's death, Robert talks briefly about eating him to survive but it never comes to pass because Mel kills him first.]]
* ImprovisedWeapon: A shard of broken mirror and [[ItMakesSenseInContext a snake]] are both used to great effect near the end of the film.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Not said aloud, but after Robert drives out the rattlesnake [[spoiler: the first time]], he immediately goes to the cabinet and chugs out of a bottle of Listerine with a positively manic look on his face.
* InfantImmortality: [[spoiler: Completely averted with Bobby, who dies of a snakebite.]]
* LockedInARoom: The entire premise of the film - the family is trapped inside their bathroom by a fallen tree.
* MamaBear: Diane, especially when Robert [[spoiler: tries to kill Mel for her supposed involvement in the tornado.]]
-->'''Diane:''' Speak to my daughter like that again and [[spoiler: ''I'll slit your fucking throat!'' ]]
* MadnessMantra: Diane's "Everything's going to be okay," said throughout the film but repeated incessantly after [[spoiler: she returns to the bathroom from the outside world.]]
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: A driving question throughout the film, especially in regards to Mel's wondering whether she'd somehow caused the tornado [[spoiler: by casting a spell with Amy. Diane returning to the bathroom covered in blood and nearly catatonic after venturing outside seems to support the latter.]]
* NobodyPoops: Averted - all of the characters use the toilet mostly onscreen. Probably because the movie takes place in a bathroom.
* ParentalNeglect: Robert. Apparently he wasn't even present for his own son's birth and was instead drunk at a bowling alley.
** In addition, Diane says that she was still cooking for the family while being ''nine months pregnant.''
* SchoolgirlLesbians: Mel and Amy.
* SelfHarm: Both Mel and Amy are seen engaging in this, and Mel repeatedly picks at the horizontal scab across her wrist during the film. [[spoiler: They also both slit their wrists as part of the ritual to exorcise the demon inside Amy.]]
* SnakesAreSinister: A rattlesnake slithers through the opening in the bathroom door, frightening the hell out of the family. [[spoiler: And it just keeps coming back - biting and killing Bobby and later biting Robert. It only stops showing up after Robert bites its head off.]]
* {{Squick}}: The family being forced to eat [[spoiler: a dog's tongue,]], the repeated flashes of [[spoiler: Spot's corpse]], and Robert [[spoiler: biting the head off of the rattlesnake.]]
* SuckOutThePoison: Robert insists on doing this after [[spoiler: Bobby is bitten by a rattlesnake]]. Diane instead tries to use a tourniquet to prevent the venom from reaching the heart. [[spoiler: Of course, as in real life, it's already too late.]]
** [[spoiler: No one attempts to do it for Robert when he's later bitten in the face.]]
* SurrealHorror: Mel's nightmares are a prime example, but also happens in the waking world with [[spoiler: a rattlesnake that somehow stalks the family and a dog voices by Music/{{Ozzy Osbourne}}.]]
* TearsOfBlood: [[spoiler: Robert gets these after eating several rubbing alcohol pads.]]
* TheVoice: Both the man [[spoiler: and the dog]] outside are only ever heard, never seen. [[spoiler: Unless, that is, the dog is Spot - who we see as a corpse several times in flashbacks and nightmares.]]
* WhamLine: ''[[spoiler: [[SuddenlyVoiced "I'm a]] [[TalkingAnimal good boy!"]]]]''
* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler: Diane is having an affair with another man, who calls her a few times at the movie's start to see if she's okay.]] Unfortunately, [[spoiler: he never fulfills his promise to come check on her.]]
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