History Literature / Apeshit

%%* {{Gorn}}: All over the place.

* MisplacedWildlife: One of the dead animals seen on the side of the road leading to the cabin is a peacock.

* DeathBySex: Required [[spoiler:but weirdly averted for most of them.]]

* ExtremeMeleeRevenge: Good Lord, the climax.
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: ''Every single one'' of the protagonists has some sort of weird sexual hangup, kink, fetish, deformity, or issue.
* {{Gorn}}: All over the place.

* AwesomeMcCoolname: Desdemona.

* UpToEleven: This is an even gorier take on an already gory genre.

%%* AdultsOnlyRating

* NotSoDifferent: [[spoiler: The mutants' unborn fetus is ''completely human''.]]

* BiTheWay: Des, Kevin, and Rick are just [[BlatantLies one big happy three-way]].

* ImmortalityField: By the end of ''Apeshit'', it is revealed that the reason why none of the characters in the book end up dying despite the [[{{Gorn}} massive physical trauma]] their bodies endure is because of a supernatural force in the woods that prevents anybody there from dying. In the sequel ''Literature/{{Clusterfuck}}'', it is revealed that [[spoiler:this is because of a meteor that crashed into the valley millions of years ago, the strange mineral giving off an unusual radiation]] that leaves those who are near it immortal. Unfortunately, while it makes people immortal, it does not make them invulnerable, making them a Type 2 or 3 form of undead on the SlidingScaleOfUndeadRegeneration.

%%* IntentionallyAwkwardTitle

** [[spoiler:Also Jason's dad, who, believing fear to be a weakness, used techniques such as locking Jason in a cellar for a weekend to help him overcome his fear of the dark. Taken to the extreme when a thirteen-year-old Jason was forced to have sex with a man when he expressed a homophobic opinion to his father.]]

* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: The "surviving" characters at the end of the novel; character injuries include genital-impalement, being shot, being stabbed, having their skull blown off and losing some brains, disemboweling, being sodomized with a knife, multiple dismemberment, and having a fetus torn from the abdomen to name a few. And they're still alive, meaning they're going to be like that ''forever'' save for massive surgery or leaving the forest to die.]]

* AxCrazy: The mutants[[spoiler:, Crystal, and Jason.]]

* DeathBySex: Required[[spoiler: but weirdly averted for most of them.]]

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: [[spoiler: Jason and Crystal, who eventually snap and graphically rape and mutilate the monsters.]]
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Steph, who has vagina dentata, and [[spoiler: Kevin, who is hiding he is HIV+ to avoid being ostracized.]]

** When discussing the possibilities of psychos in the woods, Jason warns his friends not to piss off the wrong rednecks, or "they might go ''{{Deliverance}}'' on your ass."

** During the climax, one of the mutants is sodomized with a butcher knife. Remember the Lust killing in ''Film/{{Se7en}}''?

* AdultsOnlyRating
* AffectionateParody

* BizarroFiction
* BlackHumor

* IntentionallyAwkwardTitle

* [[spoiler:AndIMustScream: The "surviving" characters at the end of the novel; character injuries include genital-impalement, being shot, being stabbed, having their skull blown off and losing some brains, disemboweling, being sodomized with a knife, multiple dismemberment, and having a fetus torn from the abdomen to name a few. And they're still alive, meaning they're going to be like that ''forever'' save for massive surgery or leaving the forest to die.]]

* [[spoiler: HeWhoFightsMonsters: Jason and Crystal, who eventually snap and graphically rape and mutilate the monsters.]]

* [[spoiler: ImmortalityHurts: Apparently, things in the forest don't die. Ever. No matter how horrifically damaged they are.]]

* [[spoiler:RapeAsDrama: Stephanie, who is bearing her brother's rape baby, and Jason, who's father forced him to have sex with a man after he made homophobic remarks.]]

''Apeshit'' is CarltonMellickIII’s love letter to the great and terrible B-horror movie genre. Six trendy teenagers (three cheerleaders and three football players) go to an isolated cabin in the mountains for a weekend of drinking, partying, and crazy sex, only to find themselves in the middle of a life and death struggle against a horribly mutated psychotic freak that just won’t stay dead.

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** During the climax, one of the mutants is sodomized with a butcher knife. Remember the Lust killing in ''{{Seven}}''?

!This work provides examples of:

* SureWhyNot: The ending provides a fairly brilliant explanation for the archetypal unkillable psycho.

* XMeetsY: ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' meets ''VisitorQ''.

** Rick's lengthwise impalement [[spoiler:[[ItMakesSenseInContext through his vagina]]]] conjures up a similar impalement in ''CannibalHolocaust''.

* CanYouHearMeNow: Of course there's no cell reception. They're in the middle of the goddamn woods.

** Kevin compares the cabin where they are staying to the one in ''EvilDead''.

* RefugeInAudacity: [[spoiler:Jason corners the male monster, repeatedly smashes its head with a bowling ball on a chain, then starts anally raping it while pummeling it and ripping limbs off of it's conjoined fetus.]] Believe it or not, '''''[[ItGetsWorse that isn't even the worst of it.]]'''''