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* HypocriticalHumor: Walker mentions that he hates pornography because it's "clinical" and there's no "romance" to it, right after he just graphically flayed and tortured a slutty goth girl.
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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler:The black bus driver]] is the first person to be murdered by one of the killers.
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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler:The The black bus driver]] driver is the first person to be murdered by one of the killers.
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* CruelTwistEnding: Just after causing a road accident and getting rid of Walker and Wheeler, Stacia is picked up by [[spoiler: two paramedics who are also serial killers themselves]].
* DwindlingParty: Once the killers show up, all characters die one by one until only Stacia is left. [[spoiler:For the time being.]]
* EvilVersusEvil: A serial killer versus another serial killer, perfectly fitting each other's [=MOs=]. This is exploited by the heroine at the end when she goads them to kill each other instead of her. [[spoiler: Taken even further at the end, when they're both killed by a pair of killer ambulance drivers.]]
* DwindlingParty: Once the killers show up, all characters die one by one until only Stacia is left. [[spoiler:For the time being.]]
* EvilVersusEvil: A serial killer versus another serial killer, perfectly fitting each other's [=MOs=]. This is exploited by the heroine at the end when she goads them to kill each other instead of her. [[spoiler: Taken even further at the end, when they're both killed by a pair of killer ambulance drivers.]]
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* CruelTwistEnding: Just after causing a road accident and getting rid of Walker and Wheeler, Stacia is picked up by [[spoiler: two paramedics who are also serial killers themselves]].
themselves.
* DwindlingParty: Once the killers show up, all characters die one by one until only Stacia is left.[[spoiler:For For the time being.]]
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* EvilVersusEvil: A serial killer versus another serial killer, perfectly fitting each other's [=MOs=]. This is exploited by the heroine at the end when she goads them to kill each other instead of her.[[spoiler: Taken even further at the end, when they're both killed by a pair of killer ambulance drivers.]]
* DwindlingParty: Once the killers show up, all characters die one by one until only Stacia is left.
* EvilVersusEvil: A serial killer versus another serial killer, perfectly fitting each other's [=MOs=]. This is exploited by the heroine at the end when she goads them to kill each other instead of her.
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* FateWorseThanDeath: Both Walker and Wheeler willingly leave [[spoiler:Marie]] alive, but chained to a tree with barbed wire so she will die of prolongued exposure instead.
* FinalGirl: Stacia. [[spoiler:At the moment credits roll, at least.]]
* FinalGirl: Stacia. [[spoiler:At the moment credits roll, at least.]]
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* FateWorseThanDeath: Both Walker and Wheeler willingly leave [[spoiler:Marie]] Marie alive, but chained to a tree with barbed wire so she will die of prolongued exposure instead.
* FinalGirl: Stacia.[[spoiler:At At the moment credits roll, at least.]]
* FinalGirl: Stacia.
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* KarmicDeath: Both [[spoiler: Walker and Wheeler become the victims of other serial killers]].
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* KarmicDeath: Both [[spoiler: Walker and Wheeler become the victims of other serial killers]].killers.
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* MadDoctor: [[spoiler:The ambulance crew are an unrelated pair of serial killers who drive around looking for wounded people whom they can take as prey.]]
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* MadDoctor: [[spoiler:The The ambulance crew are an unrelated pair of serial killers who drive around looking for wounded people whom they can take as prey.]]
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* ProperlyParanoid: Marie's first thought about Walker and Wheeler is that they are serial killers. She's right. Ironically, both of them decide ''not'' to kill her... [[spoiler:but leave her tied to a tree with barbed wire in the middle of nowhere instead]].
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* ProperlyParanoid: Marie's first thought about Walker and Wheeler is that they are serial killers. She's right. Ironically, both of them decide ''not'' to kill her... [[spoiler:but but leave her tied to a tree with barbed wire in the middle of nowhere instead]].instead.
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* SerialKiller: The drifter and the truck driver. [[spoiler:And the ambulance crew.]]
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* SerialKiller: The drifter and the truck driver. [[spoiler:And And the ambulance crew.]]
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* DeathBySex: A rocker and his girlfriend unknowingly pick up Walker from the road. The girlfriend flashes her panties to Walker, pissing off the boyfriend. Walker kills them both, but the girl specifically for being skanky (and he tortures her whereas the boyfriend got a quick death).
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* HostileHitchhiker: Wheeler is a truck driver who kills hitchers that he picks up, Walker is a hitchhiker who kills people that pick him up.
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* HostileHitchhiker: Wheeler is a truck driver who kills hitchers that he picks up, while Walker is a hitchhiker who kills people that pick him up.
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* SexSignalsDeath: A rocker and his girlfriend unknowingly pick up Walker from the road. The girlfriend flashes her panties to Walker, pissing off the boyfriend. Walker kills them both, but the girl specifically for being skanky (and he tortures her whereas the boyfriend got a quick death).
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Directed by Creator/LarryCohen and based on a short story by David J. Schow. A bus containing a small number of passengers breaks down in the middle of nowhere. They are soon visited by a trucker, Wheeler (Creator/MichaelMoriarty) and a hitchhiker, Walker (Warren Kole). Both are [[SerialKiller serial killers]]. When the passengers are reduced to only one left, Stacia (Creator/FairuzaBalk), the hunt also becomes a feud between the two.
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Directed by Creator/LarryCohen and based on a short story by David J. Schow. A bus containing carrying a small number of passengers breaks down in the middle of nowhere. They are soon visited by a trucker, Wheeler (Creator/MichaelMoriarty) and a hitchhiker, Walker (Warren Kole). Both are [[SerialKiller serial killers]].killers. When the passengers are reduced to only one left, Stacia (Creator/FairuzaBalk), the hunt also becomes a feud between the two.
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* DwindlingParty: Once the killers show up, all characters die one by one until only Stacia is left. [[spoiler:For the time being.]]
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* FinalGirl: Stacia. [[spoiler:At the moment credits roll, at least.]]
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* DeathBySex: A rocker and his girlfriend unknowingly pick up Walker from the road. The girlfriend flashes her panties to Walker, pissing off the boyfriend. Walker kills them both, but the girl specifically for being skanky (and he tortures her to death whereas the boyfriend got a quick death); he actually [[NoLoveForTheWicked abhors sex]].
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* DeathBySex: A rocker and his girlfriend unknowingly pick up Walker from the road. The girlfriend flashes her panties to Walker, pissing off the boyfriend. Walker kills them both, but the girl specifically for being skanky (and he tortures her to death whereas the boyfriend got a quick death); he actually [[NoLoveForTheWicked abhors sex]].death).
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* OffWithHisHead: Wheeler knocks one of the bus passengers out with the but of his gun and then decapitates the guy with a bus bagage compartment door. Walker, who was watching this on from a distance, is quite impressed with this creativity.
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* OffWithHisHead: Wheeler knocks one of the bus passengers out with the but of his gun and then decapitates the guy with a bus bagage compartment door. Walker, who was watching this on from a distance, is quite impressed with this creativity.his creativity.
* PainMistakenForSex: Trying to sleep in the next room, Stacia mistakes Walker torturing a woman tied to a bed for a couple banging the bedframe.
* PainMistakenForSex: Trying to sleep in the next room, Stacia mistakes Walker torturing a woman tied to a bed for a couple banging the bedframe.
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* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Walker seems to have a thing for snakes as predators. He wears snake leather boots, [[ImprovisedWeapon strangles someone to death with a dead snake]] and skins one of his victims to "shed her skin".
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* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Walker seems to have a thing for snakes as predators. He wears snake leather boots, [[ImprovisedWeapon strangles someone to death with a dead snake]] snake]], and skins one of his victims to "shed her skin".
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* VillainCred: [[EvilVersusEvil Two rival serial killers]] called Walker and Wheeler pick off the passengers of a bus crew that they come across in the northwest. They both despise each other for their respective {{kill steal}}s and treading on the other's "territory", but are also quite impressed by the other's ingenuity and brutality. Walker in particular prizes Wheeler on decapitating one of his victims [[ImprovisedWeapon with a baggage compartment door]].
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* VillainCred: [[EvilVersusEvil Two rival serial killers]] called Walker and Wheeler pick off the passengers of a bus crew that they come across in the northwest. They both despise each other for their respective {{kill steal}}s and treading on the other's "territory", but are also quite impressed by the other's ingenuity and brutality. Walker in particular prizes Wheeler on decapitating one of his victims [[ImprovisedWeapon with a baggage compartment door]].
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Directed by Creator/LarryCohen and based on a short story by David J. Schow. A bus containing a small number of passengers breaks down in the middle of nowhere. They are soon visited by a trucker, Wheeler (Creator/MichaelMoriarty) and a hitchhiker, Walker (Warren Kole). Both of them are [[SerialKiller serial killers]]. When the passengers are reduced to only one left, Stacia (Creator/FairuzaBalk), the hunt also becomes a feud between the two.
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Directed by Creator/LarryCohen and based on a short story by David J. Schow. A bus containing a small number of passengers breaks down in the middle of nowhere. They are soon visited by a trucker, Wheeler (Creator/MichaelMoriarty) and a hitchhiker, Walker (Warren Kole). Bothof them are [[SerialKiller serial killers]]. When the passengers are reduced to only one left, Stacia (Creator/FairuzaBalk), the hunt also becomes a feud between the two.
Directed by Creator/LarryCohen and based on a short story by David J. Schow. A bus containing a small number of passengers breaks down in the middle of nowhere. They are soon visited by a trucker, Wheeler (Creator/MichaelMoriarty) and a hitchhiker, Walker (Warren Kole). Both
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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler:The black bus driver is the first person to be murdered by one of the killers.]]
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Stacia, near the end.
* DeathBySex: [[spoiler:A rocker and his girlfriend unknowingly pick up Walker from the road. The girlfriend flashes her panties to Walker, pissing off the boyfriend. Walker kills them both, but the girl specifically for being skanky (and he tortures her to death whereas the boyfriend got a quick death); he actually abhors sex.]]
* DiabolusExMachina: Just after causing a road accident and getting rid of Walker and Wheeler, [[spoiler: Stacia is picked up by two paramedics who turn out to also be serial killers themselves]].
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Stacia, near the end.
* DeathBySex: [[spoiler:A rocker and his girlfriend unknowingly pick up Walker from the road. The girlfriend flashes her panties to Walker, pissing off the boyfriend. Walker kills them both, but the girl specifically for being skanky (and he tortures her to death whereas the boyfriend got a quick death); he actually abhors sex.]]
* DiabolusExMachina: Just after causing a road accident and getting rid of Walker and Wheeler, [[spoiler: Stacia is picked up by two paramedics who turn out to also be serial killers themselves]].
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* AloneWithThePsycho: Anyone who agrees to go alone with either Walker or Wheeler, or finds themself at their mercy.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler:The black busdriver driver]] is the first person to be murdered by one of the killers.]]
killers.
* BreakingTheFourthWall:Stacia, near In the end.
final scene, after finding herself prisoner of ''another'' serial killing couple, Stacia screams while looking at the camera.
* CruelTwistEnding: Just after causing a road accident and getting rid of Walker and Wheeler, Stacia is picked up by [[spoiler: two paramedics who are also serial killers themselves]].
* DeathBySex:[[spoiler:A A rocker and his girlfriend unknowingly pick up Walker from the road. The girlfriend flashes her panties to Walker, pissing off the boyfriend. Walker kills them both, but the girl specifically for being skanky (and he tortures her to death whereas the boyfriend got a quick death); he actually [[NoLoveForTheWicked abhors sex.]]
* DiabolusExMachina: Just after causing a road accident and getting rid of Walker and Wheeler, [[spoiler: Stacia is picked up by two paramedics who turn out to also be serial killers themselves]].sex]].
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* CruelTwistEnding: Just after causing a road accident and getting rid of Walker and Wheeler, Stacia is picked up by [[spoiler: two paramedics who are also serial killers themselves]].
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* DiabolusExMachina: Just after causing a road accident and getting rid of Walker and Wheeler, [[spoiler: Stacia is picked up by two paramedics who turn out to also be serial killers themselves]].
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* EvilerThanThou: Wheeler looks down on Walker for being what he terms a "poacher", a killer who roams around in another's territory surreptitiously. He also dislikes him for going after easy prey, when in fact [[{{Hypocrite}} he does much the same thing]].
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* EvilerThanThou: Wheeler looks down on Walker for being what he terms a "poacher", a killer who roams around in another's territory surreptitiously. He also dislikes him for going after easy prey, when in fact [[{{Hypocrite}} he does much the same thing]].
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* FateWorseThanDeath: Both Walker and Wheeler leave [[spoiler:Marie]] alive, chained to a tree with barbed wire so she will die of prolongued exposure instead.
* FlayingAlive: Walker ties one of his victims up in a motel room and cuts off large parts of her skin until she dies.
* {{Gorn}}: "You sure are more confortable without all those clothes... and all that skin..."
* FlayingAlive: Walker ties one of his victims up in a motel room and cuts off large parts of her skin until she dies.
* {{Gorn}}: "You sure are more confortable without all those clothes... and all that skin..."
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* FateWorseThanDeath: Both Walker and Wheeler willingly leave [[spoiler:Marie]] alive, but chained to a tree with barbed wire so she will die of prolongued exposure instead.
* FlayingAlive: Walker ties one of his victimsup in a motel room and cuts off large parts of her skin until she dies.
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* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: If any victim asks Wheeler too many questions or questions his credibility, he just shows them a sherrif deputy's ID to convince them that he's actually an off-duty officer.
* ImprovisedWeapon:
** Walker strangles a person with a dead snake.
** Wheeler decapitates another with the door of the bus' suitcase compartment.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Walker and Wheeler become the victims of two other serial killers]].
* ImprovisedWeapon:
** Walker strangles a person with a dead snake.
** Wheeler decapitates another with the door of the bus' suitcase compartment.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Walker and Wheeler become the victims of two other serial killers]].
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Wheeler dislikes Walker for going after easy prey, when he does pretty much the same thing.
* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: If any victim asks Wheeler too many questions or questions his credibility, he just shows them asherrif sheriff deputy's ID to convince them that he's actually an off-duty officer.
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**ImprovisedWeapon: Walker strangles a person victim with a dead snake.
**snake. Wheeler decapitates another with the door of the bus' suitcase compartment.
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* NoLoveForTheWicked: Walker abhors sex and kills a woman for flirting with him.
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Directed by Creator/LarryCohen and based on a short story by David J. Schow. A bus containing a small number of passengers breaks down in the middle of nowhere. They are soon visited by a trucker, Wheeler (Creator/MichaelMoriarty) and a hitchhiker, Walker (Warren Kole). Both of them are [[SerialKiller serial killers]]. When the passengers are reduced to only one left, Stacia (Creator/FairuzaBalk), the hunt also becomes a feud between the two.
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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler:The black bus driver is the first person to be murdered by one of the killers.]]
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Stacia, near the end.
* DeathBySex: [[spoiler:A rocker and his girlfriend unknowingly pick up Walker from the road. The girlfriend flashes her panties to Walker, pissing off the boyfriend. Walker kills them both, but the girl specifically for being skanky (and he tortures her to death whereas the boyfriend got a quick death); he actually abhors sex.]]
* DiabolusExMachina: Just after causing a road accident and getting rid of Walker and Wheeler, [[spoiler: Stacia is picked up by two paramedics who turn out to also be serial killers themselves]].
* EvilVersusEvil: A serial killer versus another serial killer, perfectly fitting each other's [=MOs=]. This is exploited by the heroine at the end when she goads them to kill each other instead of her. [[spoiler: Taken even further at the end, when they're both killed by a pair of killer ambulance drivers.]]
* EvilerThanThou: Wheeler looks down on Walker for being what he terms a "poacher", a killer who roams around in another's territory surreptitiously. He also dislikes him for going after easy prey, when in fact [[{{Hypocrite}} he does much the same thing]].
* TheFarmerAndTheViper: Near the end Wheeler relays Stacia and Walker the story in the form of a snake and a blonde woman. Walker already knows the punchline because he's heard the "scorpion and the frog" version. The point Wheeler makes is that he knows full well that he picked up another serial killer and expects him to show his true nature. The subversion is only that he's also a serial killer, so it'd be a scorpion helping another scorpion.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Both Walker and Wheeler leave [[spoiler:Marie]] alive, chained to a tree with barbed wire so she will die of prolongued exposure instead.
* FlayingAlive: Walker ties one of his victims up in a motel room and cuts off large parts of her skin until she dies.
* {{Gorn}}: "You sure are more confortable without all those clothes... and all that skin..."
* HostileHitchhiker: Wheeler is a truck driver who kills hitchers that he picks up, Walker is a hitchhiker who kills people that pick him up.
* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: If any victim asks Wheeler too many questions or questions his credibility, he just shows them a sherrif deputy's ID to convince them that he's actually an off-duty officer.
* ImprovisedWeapon:
** Walker strangles a person with a dead snake.
** Wheeler decapitates another with the door of the bus' suitcase compartment.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Walker and Wheeler become the victims of two other serial killers]].
* KillSteal: The conflict between the two serial killers revolves around this, with both fighting over the prey they both have set their sights on.
* MadDoctor: [[spoiler:The ambulance crew are an unrelated pair of serial killers who drive around looking for wounded people whom they can take as prey.]]
* MeaningfulName:
** Walker walks the road looking prey to pick him up.
** Wheeler drives around a truck looking for prey to pick up.
* OffingTheAnnoyance: Wheeler decapitates one of his victims because the guy was basically annoying him with his frenzied panic after he sees the leftovers of two of Walker's victims.
* OffWithHisHead: Wheeler knocks one of the bus passengers out with the but of his gun and then decapitates the guy with a bus bagage compartment door. Walker, who was watching this on from a distance, is quite impressed with this creativity.
* ProperlyParanoid: Marie's first thought about Walker and Wheeler is that they are serial killers. She's right. Ironically, both of them decide ''not'' to kill her... [[spoiler:but leave her tied to a tree with barbed wire in the middle of nowhere instead]].
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Walker seems to have a thing for snakes as predators. He wears snake leather boots, [[ImprovisedWeapon strangles someone to death with a dead snake]] and skins one of his victims to "shed her skin".
* SerialKiller: The drifter and the truck driver. [[spoiler:And the ambulance crew.]]
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: Walker and Wheeler both look fairly inconspicuous as a young drifter and a middle-aged trucker, respectively. Walker discusses the trope proper:
-->'''Walker:''' Your genuinely dangerous individuals -- they almost never ''look'' crazy. They don't have any weird tattoos, they don't have any weird stitches on their face, funny-shaped heads. They are NOT predictable.
* ThisIsThePartWhere: Walker is a pop-cultured serial killer. When he chases down one of his victims through the woods, he notes that she must know how this scenario ends if she's seen ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre'' -- both versions.
* VillainCred: [[EvilVersusEvil Two rival serial killers]] called Walker and Wheeler pick off the passengers of a bus crew that they come across in the northwest. They both despise each other for their respective {{kill steal}}s and treading on the other's "territory", but are also quite impressed by the other's ingenuity and brutality. Walker in particular prizes Wheeler on decapitating one of his victims [[ImprovisedWeapon with a baggage compartment door]].
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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler:The black bus driver is the first person to be murdered by one of the killers.]]
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Stacia, near the end.
* DeathBySex: [[spoiler:A rocker and his girlfriend unknowingly pick up Walker from the road. The girlfriend flashes her panties to Walker, pissing off the boyfriend. Walker kills them both, but the girl specifically for being skanky (and he tortures her to death whereas the boyfriend got a quick death); he actually abhors sex.]]
* DiabolusExMachina: Just after causing a road accident and getting rid of Walker and Wheeler, [[spoiler: Stacia is picked up by two paramedics who turn out to also be serial killers themselves]].
* EvilVersusEvil: A serial killer versus another serial killer, perfectly fitting each other's [=MOs=]. This is exploited by the heroine at the end when she goads them to kill each other instead of her. [[spoiler: Taken even further at the end, when they're both killed by a pair of killer ambulance drivers.]]
* EvilerThanThou: Wheeler looks down on Walker for being what he terms a "poacher", a killer who roams around in another's territory surreptitiously. He also dislikes him for going after easy prey, when in fact [[{{Hypocrite}} he does much the same thing]].
* TheFarmerAndTheViper: Near the end Wheeler relays Stacia and Walker the story in the form of a snake and a blonde woman. Walker already knows the punchline because he's heard the "scorpion and the frog" version. The point Wheeler makes is that he knows full well that he picked up another serial killer and expects him to show his true nature. The subversion is only that he's also a serial killer, so it'd be a scorpion helping another scorpion.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Both Walker and Wheeler leave [[spoiler:Marie]] alive, chained to a tree with barbed wire so she will die of prolongued exposure instead.
* FlayingAlive: Walker ties one of his victims up in a motel room and cuts off large parts of her skin until she dies.
* {{Gorn}}: "You sure are more confortable without all those clothes... and all that skin..."
* HostileHitchhiker: Wheeler is a truck driver who kills hitchers that he picks up, Walker is a hitchhiker who kills people that pick him up.
* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: If any victim asks Wheeler too many questions or questions his credibility, he just shows them a sherrif deputy's ID to convince them that he's actually an off-duty officer.
* ImprovisedWeapon:
** Walker strangles a person with a dead snake.
** Wheeler decapitates another with the door of the bus' suitcase compartment.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Walker and Wheeler become the victims of two other serial killers]].
* KillSteal: The conflict between the two serial killers revolves around this, with both fighting over the prey they both have set their sights on.
* MadDoctor: [[spoiler:The ambulance crew are an unrelated pair of serial killers who drive around looking for wounded people whom they can take as prey.]]
* MeaningfulName:
** Walker walks the road looking prey to pick him up.
** Wheeler drives around a truck looking for prey to pick up.
* OffingTheAnnoyance: Wheeler decapitates one of his victims because the guy was basically annoying him with his frenzied panic after he sees the leftovers of two of Walker's victims.
* OffWithHisHead: Wheeler knocks one of the bus passengers out with the but of his gun and then decapitates the guy with a bus bagage compartment door. Walker, who was watching this on from a distance, is quite impressed with this creativity.
* ProperlyParanoid: Marie's first thought about Walker and Wheeler is that they are serial killers. She's right. Ironically, both of them decide ''not'' to kill her... [[spoiler:but leave her tied to a tree with barbed wire in the middle of nowhere instead]].
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Walker seems to have a thing for snakes as predators. He wears snake leather boots, [[ImprovisedWeapon strangles someone to death with a dead snake]] and skins one of his victims to "shed her skin".
* SerialKiller: The drifter and the truck driver. [[spoiler:And the ambulance crew.]]
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: Walker and Wheeler both look fairly inconspicuous as a young drifter and a middle-aged trucker, respectively. Walker discusses the trope proper:
-->'''Walker:''' Your genuinely dangerous individuals -- they almost never ''look'' crazy. They don't have any weird tattoos, they don't have any weird stitches on their face, funny-shaped heads. They are NOT predictable.
* ThisIsThePartWhere: Walker is a pop-cultured serial killer. When he chases down one of his victims through the woods, he notes that she must know how this scenario ends if she's seen ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre'' -- both versions.
* VillainCred: [[EvilVersusEvil Two rival serial killers]] called Walker and Wheeler pick off the passengers of a bus crew that they come across in the northwest. They both despise each other for their respective {{kill steal}}s and treading on the other's "territory", but are also quite impressed by the other's ingenuity and brutality. Walker in particular prizes Wheeler on decapitating one of his victims [[ImprovisedWeapon with a baggage compartment door]].
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