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8 | [[caption-width-right:338:[[Film/PulpFiction Bring out the gimp.]]]] |
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10 | -> ''When you wish evil on someone... evil might be listening.'' |
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12 | ''Cornered!'' is a 2009 SlasherMovie starring Creator/SteveGuttenberg. |
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14 | In the fall of 2008, the city of UsefulNotes/LosAngeles finds itself gripped with terror as a SerialKiller runs amok during the night, his MO being to break into mini marts, liquor stores or gas stations after hours and viciously torture-murder any employees still inside, taking the security tapes afterward to help him relive his crimes over and over again. In a desperate bid to catch this ruthless maniac, the mayor's office puts out a reward of half a million dollars on his head; and that's where our story begins, in a small corner store where the deliveryman, Morty, sparks a discussion among the friends inside about what they'd do if they caught the Convenience Store Killer (hereby known as CSK for simplicity's sake). Disembowelment, stabbing, [[EyeScream eye gouging]], and [[OffWithHisHead beheading]] are all suggested by the main players, who are listed below: |
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16 | * Steve, the gruff store owner. |
17 | * Jimmy, Steve's nephew, new employee, and drug addict currently going through withdrawal. |
18 | * Donny, Steve's other bumbling and overweight employee. |
19 | * Jess, a prostitute just trying to make a living, and Donny's crush. |
20 | * Mona, a phone sex girl, and Jess's friend. |
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22 | After the discussion, a suspicious man goes running out of the store, but the group thinks nothing of that, believing he was just a simple shoplifter. After Morty leaves, the place is closed down, and everyone heads up to Steve's apartment for poker night, Jess having been convinced to stay by Donny; Jimmy is also forced to participate by his uncle, who wants to keep an eye on him, essentially [[NailedToTheWagon nailing him to the wagon]]. As the night drags on, it becomes apparent that Steve's place is CSK's latest target. After [[DisposableVagrant disposing of Jacko, a vagrant]] who lives in the alleyway behind the store, the gimp-masked maniac somehow gets inside, and begins whittling down the five main characters, in exactly the same way they said they'd off him. |
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24 | In essence, it's essentially a sleazier, smaller scale version of ''Film/{{Intruder}}''. |
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26 | !! If you're heading out to the corner store, remember to pick up the following: |
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28 | * ABloodyMess: Since it was a ketchup bottle CSK got Jimmy with it. |
29 | %%* TheAlcoholic: Jacko and Steve. |
30 | * AnArmAndALeg: One of the intro victims is missing his legs. |
31 | * AxeBeforeEntering: When the basement door is deadbolted, CSK starts sawing through it. |
32 | * BadassLongcoat: The CSK wears a black evil-looking trenchcoat. |
33 | %%* TheBadGuyWins] |
34 | * BatterUp: A baseball bat is kept around for security. |
35 | * BigCreepyCrawlies: When crazy old Jimmy spots the gimp mask-clad CSK on a monitor, he claims he's "a king cockroach". |
36 | * BigDamnHeroes: Morty shows up and scares Teddy off when he pulls a knife on Jess and Donny. |
37 | %%* BigEater: Mona and Donny. |
38 | * BilingualBonus: There's a lot of untranslated Spanish. |
39 | * BlackDudeDiesFirst: Jacko and Mona, unless you count the victims briefly seen on security footage in the intro. |
40 | * BlackHumor: [[spoiler:The protagonists are doomed by ''a donut''.]] |
41 | * BookcasePassage: A hidden room behind a shelf turns out to be where Steve keeps all his [=VCRs=] and security tapes. |
42 | * BrokenHeel: Donny slips on a donut, knocking himself out. |
43 | * BugWar: Jimmy becomes convinced the roaches are out to get them all, being rallied by "king cockroach". |
44 | * CallingTheOldManOut: Jimmy attacks Steve, calling him out on his bullying behavior in the process. |
45 | * CassandraTruth: Nobody believes Jimmy when he spots CSK on a monitor since he's tripping and all. |
46 | * CellPhonesAreUseless: Steve hasn't paid the phone bills, Mona is out of credits, Jess left her cell phone in a john's car, Donny fell on his, and Jimmy's was thrown out by the enclosed dumpster by Steve. Contrived, but it works. |
47 | %%* ChekhovsGun: Teddy the john's knife. |
48 | * ChainsawGood: CSK disassembles the meat slicer, and goes to work on Steve with it. |
49 | * ColdBloodedTorture: CSK's usual MO. |
50 | * CoversAlwaysLie: CSK never actually wields a knife. |
51 | %%* ClosedCircle |
52 | %%* ClusterFBomb |
53 | * CoitusUninterruptus: Mona is on call, so a few times she graphically dirty talks in front of everyone. |
54 | * CreatorCameo: A few crew members had bit parts. |
55 | * CreditsGag: "No animals were injured in the making of this movie. The cockroaches, Joey and Freddy, were adopted by producer Alan Noel Vega and are living a life of luxury." |
56 | * CreepyBasement: Moreso than usual, since the store used to be a butcher shop. |
57 | %%* CreepyCockroach |
58 | * CrowbarCombatant: One of the intro victims is killed with what looks like one. |
59 | %%* CruelAndUnusualDeath |
60 | * CurbstompBattle: Jimmy snapping and beating Steve. |
61 | %%* CuriosityKilledTheCast |
62 | * DeadMansChest: Mona gets stuffed in a freezer. |
63 | * DeathByIrony: The cast are killed in the same ways they said they'd off CSK. [[spoiler:Since Donny never gave a method of death, Morty goes the extra mile of stuffing him full of donuts, his favorite food.]] |
64 | * DestinationDefenestration: While fighting Jacko over a bottle of alcohol he is trying to steal, Donny accidentally knocks him through the glass door. |
65 | * DisappearedDad: Jimmy's father is never mentioned, though his mother is still around, avoiding {{Nephewism}}. |
66 | %%* DisposableVagrant: Jacko. |
67 | %%* DwindlingParty |
68 | * DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Morty kills Jess and Donny and moves on to another store.]] |
69 | * EroticEating: Mona and her popsicle. |
70 | * EverybodyKnewAlready: Jimmy's drug addiction. |
71 | * EyeScream: Mona gets stabbed in the eyes with cornettos. |
72 | * FoodPorn: When Mona is digging through a freezer full of frozen goodies. |
73 | * ForceFeeding: [[spoiler:Donny's death.]] |
74 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:Everytime somebody tells Donny that those donuts will be the death of him.]] |
75 | * GetAholdOfYourselfMan: Jess smacks Donny when he starts letting out the below MadnessMantra. |
76 | %%* {{Gorn}} |
77 | %%* GratuitousSpanish |
78 | * GrievousBottleyHarm: Jimmy gets stabbed to death with a broken ketchup bottle. |
79 | * GroinAttack: CSK disembowels Steve with a saw, starting from the crotch. |
80 | %%* GrossUpCloseUp |
81 | * HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Jacko is somehow sliced in half. |
82 | * {{Hallucinations}}: Since Jimmy is going cold turkey and all. |
83 | * HereWeGoAgain: [[spoiler:The final scene is of Morty showing up to another store where another group of people are about to discuss what they’d do to CSK]]. Judging by the [[JumpScare cut to CSK wielding the meat slicer]], [[ForegoneConclusion they’re as good as dead.]]]] |
84 | %%* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Jess. |
85 | * HooksAndCrooks: Steve is hung upside down from some old meat hooks in the basement. |
86 | * HopeSpot: [[spoiler:Jess answering Mona's incoming call only phone, Morty showing up for the morning delivery, and Donny knocking himself and Morty out in a scuffle.]] |
87 | * ImNotAfraidOfYou: Screamed by Jimmy, when he's surrounded by imaginary roaches. |
88 | * ImprovisedWeapon: Along with Mona getting ice cream cones in the eyes, a newspaper mentions a previous victim was apparently killed with a can opener. |
89 | * InfoDump: The film opens with radio newscasts discussing CSK, along with security cam footage of the latest victims being shown. |
90 | * {{Irony}}: When Steve tells Donny to go look for Mona, who is currently having her head bashed in with a freezer lid, he tells him, "And if she's got her head in that freezer again, tell her I'm gonna kill her." |
91 | ** Instead of deterring trouble, the security system attracts it. |
92 | %%* {{Jerkass}}: Teddy, Jess's latest john. |
93 | * KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:The CSK, Morty]] |
94 | * TheKetchupTest: Justified, considering all the cans and bottles knocked onto the floor during Jimmy's struggle with CSK. |
95 | * LittleNo: When Jimmy starts going crazy and sees a cockroach coming towards him. |
96 | %%* MadeOfPlasticine |
97 | * MadnessMantra: "We are going to fucking die!" |
98 | %%* MaleGaze |
99 | * MalevolentMaskedMen: A gimp mask, and it actually works. |
100 | * MirrorScare: How Steve finds who he thinks is Jimmy. |
101 | * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: [[spoiler:''Mort''y.]] |
102 | %%* NailedToTheWagon: Jimmy. |
103 | %%* NerdyInhaler: Donny. |
104 | %%* NiceGuy: Donny. |
105 | %%* TheNicknamer: Steve. |
106 | * NothingIsScarier: What CSK did to his latest victims, which is briefly shown via blurry cam footage. |
107 | * NotUsingTheZWord: While it's obvious what Jess is doing, she's never actually called a hooker or prostitute. |
108 | * NotWhatItLooksLike: Jess mistakes the bulge caused by Donny's inhaler for a RagingStiffie. |
109 | * OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:Jess's death]]. |
110 | * OhCrap: [[spoiler:Via security cam footage, Donny discovers the RedHerring was just a shoplifter, and that Morty is CSK.]] |
111 | * OnceIsNotEnough: Probably should have stabbed and bludgeoned him a few more times, Donny and Jess. |
112 | * OtherStockPhrases: |
113 | --> '''CSK/[[spoiler:Morty]]''': "[[PreMortemOneLiner Clean up in aisle three.]]" |
114 | * PainMistakenForSex: Donny mistakes Mona's moans of pain for her just really getting into her most recent call. |
115 | * ParentalSubstitute: Steve, to Jimmy. |
116 | * PeekABooCorpse: Donny bumps into a shelf, causing Jimmy's saran-wrapped body to fall off the top of it. Later, Mona's frosted-over body is found in the freezer due to her ringing cell phone. |
117 | * PoeticSerialKiller: The CSK offs the residents of the store in a manner similar to what they said they'd do to him. |
118 | * PornStash: There are some naughty mags in Steve's hidden room. |
119 | * PunBasedTitle: [[DontExplainTheJoke They're trapped in a corner store]]. |
120 | * RedHerring: [[spoiler:The customer who overhears the deaths conversation.]] |
121 | %%* RedShirt: Jacko. |
122 | * TheReveal: [[spoiler:Morty is CSK.]] |
123 | %%* SerialKiller |
124 | * SirSwearsALot: Steve. |
125 | * SnuffFilm: The security tapes CSK takes from each crime scene. |
126 | * SoundtrackDissonance: Funky Latin jazz plays over the credits. |
127 | * StartsWithTheirFuneral: The film begins with covered bodies being wheeled out of the store. |
128 | * StealingFromTheTill: One of Mona's routines has her as a SexySecretary who is caught doing this by a caller. |
129 | * StripPoker: Suggested by Steve. |
130 | * SuspectIsHatless: Mona's description of an apparent shoplifter? "He was wearing a hat". |
131 | * TemptingFate: Like the tagline says. |
132 | * TimePassesMontage: While the group is waiting for Mona to get back. |
133 | * TitleDrop: A line in a newspaper reads, "We won't quit until we have this sicko cornered!" |
134 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: There's a reason he's nicknamed "Donny Donut". |
135 | %%* TurnOfTheMillennium: 2008. |
136 | %%* DevelopingDoomedCharacters |
137 | * UnwillingSuspension: Steve getting hung from some meat hooks. |
138 | * VerbedTitle: "Cornered" is a past tense verb and is the whole title. |
139 | * VillainOpeningScene: CSK watching some of his tapes. |
140 | * WaitHere: Jess tells Donny to keep hiding while she goes to get Morty. |
141 | * YoureInsane: Though CSK claims that he's just doing to the victims the twisted things that they said they'd do to him. |
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