History Film / WildThings

* ItsAllAboutMe: When Sandra Van Ryan talks to the police about her daughter's rape at the hands of Sam Lombardo, she yells, "He must be ''insane'' to think he can do this to me!"
** To be fair, Lombardo had previously been in a relationship with Sandra that ended badly, so she may have thought he had raped Kelly to punish her.

Not to be confused with the 2015 [=UK=] game show of the same name.

* MassiveMultiplayerScam: Layers upon layers of deceit, many people trying to back-stab each other. It is not until the denouement that it turns out that most of them were actually working together and just ''pretending'' to backstab each other (not to say that one or two of them didn't end up dead, though).

** Every film in the ''Wild Things'' series strives to go [[SerialEscalation further]] to make each plot twenty times more convoluted and confusing than the previous film's. Chances are, if you are the protagonist, the antagonist, the victim, a background character... hell, if you're ''in the film'', you are in on the scheme and may be weaving some [[GambitRoulette incredibly complex plans]] of your own. If there are two things that "Wild Things" is known for, it's the incredibly sexy lesbian scenes, and this trope. Also death. [[KillEmAll Lots and lots of death.]]

* RedHerring: Alligators feature heavily throughout the film, from the opening credits to Suzie's brother working as a gator wrangler, to a shot of Sam feeding one off of his boat. When [[Spoiler:Suzie]] is murdered, it seems that her killer drags her out to the bayou to feed her corpse to the gators... except it's implied she's buried instead. [[Spoiler:Then it turns out she didn't die in the first place]].

* FatalAttraction: Subverted and gender-inverted between [[spoiler:Ray's female partner and Sam Lombardo]].

* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: Suzie and Kelly have a physical fight, where Kelly almost drowns Suzie. It ends with them making out in the pool.

* MaleFrontalNudity: Creator/KevinBacon in a short scene.

* TheToothHurts: [[spoiler:Suzie]] is shown pulling out one of her own teeth during the closing credits.

* TwoPersonPoolParty: [[{{Fanservice}} Hot lesbian pool sex]].

* IDrankWhat: [[spoiler: Susie murders Sam by poisoning his drink.]]

* AmoralAttorney: Ken Bowden is not above cheating workers' comp by wearing a neck brace in public without an actual neck injury or [[spoiler:being involved in Suzie's scheme]]. Sandra Van Ryan's own attorney (played by Creator/RobertWagner) is hinted to be one, though he gets beat down by the judge when he attempts to intervene in the suddenly disintegrating case after Suzie cracks on the stand.

* CreepyUncle: In the director's cut we learn that [[spoiler:Susie is Sandra's half-sister and Kelly's aunt, despite being basically the same age. Which means that lesbian pool scene was in fact incestuous. While Kelly can get a pass on the incest ([[SurpriseIncest she didn't know]]), Susie willingly seduced her niece as part of her scheme.]]

* PracticallyDifferentGenerations: A plot point that was left on the [[DeletedScene cutting room floor]] revealed that [[spoiler:Sandra Van Ryan's late father, a notorious philanderer, is also Suzie's father. This makes Suzie and Sandra half-sisters, even though Sandra is a woman roughly in her 40s and Suzie is a teenager ([[DawsonCasting played by a 20-something actress]]). Being a Van Ryan bastard also gives Suzie more plausible motivation for feeling entitled to a considerable part of the Van Ryan fortune.]]

* CreepyUncle: In the director's cut we learn that [[spoiler:Susie is Sandra's half-sister and Kelly's aunt. While Kelly can get a pass on the incest ([[SurpriseIncest she didn't know]]), Susie willingly seduced her niece as part of her scheme.]]

** [[spoiler:Ray Duquette could technically qualify, considering he is arguably the most villainous character in the film and his actions are part of what motivated Suzie. That being said, he ends up being another pawn and victim of Suzie's scheme.]]

* CreepyUncle: In the director's cut we learn that [[spoiler:Susie is Sandra's half-sister and Kelly's aunt. While Kelly can get a pass on the incest (she didn't know), Susie willingly seduced her niece as part of her scheme.]]

* IncestIsRelative: In the director's cut we learn that [[spoiler:Susie is Sandra's half-sister and Kelly's aunt. While Kelly can get a pass on the incest (she didn't know), Susie willingly had sex with her niece as part of her scheme.]]

* SelfDefenseRuse: The entire [[ThePlan plan]] began when Kelly van Ryan accuses Sam of rape. Though he was in on it too. In a variant as revealed in TheStinger [[spoiler:Ray also pulled it off]]. Using the ''false'' self-defense excuse to cover his murder of Kelly.

* ThreewaySex: Sam, Kelly and Suzie.

%%* ChickMagnet: Sam.

* GirlOnGirlIsHot: After a fight, Kelly and Suzie proceed to [[TwoPersonPoolParty make out in a pool]]. Detective Duquette, who has been recording them to expose their mutual plotting, has a ''brilliant'' EyeTake before he continues recording.