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8	--> ''Turn On. Log In. Watch Out.''
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10	''Death on Demand'' is a supernatural SlasherMovie, made in 2008.
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12	In 1988, famous mountaineer Sean [=McIntyre=] suffered a psychotic break while scaling the Himalayas, and murdered a Sherpa after hallucinating he was a Yeti (yes, really). After this incident, Sean was extradited back to America, and was never quite the same, believing he was cursed and something "evil" was out to get him. While presumably awaiting trial, Sean had another mental breakdown on Thanksgiving and murdered his wife, mother-in-law and two daughters before hanging himself with one of his daughter's dolls in hand.
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14	Twenty years later, entrepreneur Richard [=DeNola=] and his partner Peter decide to hold a Halloween webcast, dubbed ''Death on Demand'', in the abandoned [=McIntyre=] house, having five college students (Darla Hansen, her boyfriend Biff Balstead, Bradley Manly, his girlfriend Tammy, and a girl named Haydn) as contestants, along with sultry porn star Velvet Luv. The group's goal is to find the key to an exit using clues left around house while hundreds watch them online, mostly hoping for some steamy action. Unfortunately for the cast and crew of Death on Demand, a séance they hold (using the doll Sean died with as a focusing point) before the game begins is actually successful, and summons Sean's insane ghost, which proceeds to make ''Death on Demand'' live up to its name with an assortment of mountain climbing gear.
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16	All in all, a pretty shameless rip-off of ''Film/HalloweenResurrection''. Has been dubbed either SoOkayItsAverage or SoBadItsGood by most reviewers.
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18	Also, the director totally used to work on stuff like ''Series/SesameStreet'' and ''Series/TheNakedBrothersBand''.
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20	!! This film provides examples of the following tropes:
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22	* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Sean cuts his mother-in-law's head off with one swing of a carving knife.
23	%%* AlphaBitch: Tammy.
24	* AmbiguouslyGay: The webcast viewer dressed like a viking.
25	--> '''Sam:''' "I wanna see more of Brad Manly's penis!"
26	* AnArmAndALeg: Sean cuts off Haydn's hands and one of Biff's arms.
27	%%* AssholeVictim: Brad.
28	* AxeBeforeEntering: To get to Biff and Darla, who have barricaded themselves in the attic, Sean briefly tries hacking through the roof.
29	* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:Sean successfully kills everyone, and is left in the world of the living, with no one left alive knowing how to stop him.]]
30	* BadLiar: Brad. Everyone falls for his prank, regardless.
31	* BetweenMyLegs: Done when Velvet walks in on Brad looking for clues in the washroom.
32	* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: Sean killed a Sherpa, thinking he was the latter.
33	* BigBreastPride: In one instance Velvet briefly brags about her breast implants.
34	%%* BlackBraAndPanties.
35	* ChainedToABed: Velvet decides to have some kinky fun with Haydn by handcuffing her to a bed, but ends up leaving to get her dropped lube and forgets about her, allowing Sean to nonchalantly walk in and butcher her.
36	* ChekhovsGun: [[RedHerring Averted.]] The [[ThisIsADrill power drill]] Peter is shown with once or twice never actually gets used by or against Sean.
37	* {{Claustrophobia}}: Darla though she manages to overcome it by the end, enough to hide from Sean in a trunk.
38	* ClosedCircle: The house exits are all sealed.
39	%%* ClusterFBomb: Often.
40	%%* CollaredByFashion: Haydn.
41	%%* CreepyBasement
42	* CueTheSun: The end, but [[SubvertedTrope unfortunately]] leads to...
43	* CuriosityKilledTheCast: Brad is killed while searching for Tammy, and Richard dies looking for everyone.
44	%%* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The opening, when Sean kills his family.
45	%%* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: Bordering on a SlowPacedBeginning.
46	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Porn star Velvet is killed when Sean shoves a mountaineering doohickey down her throat.
47	* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Sean kills Eve in the house and continues to haunt it.]]
48	* DrivenToSuicide: After killing his family, Sean hung himself.
49	%%* [[DroppedABridgeOnHim Dropped a Bridge on Them]]: Biff and Darla.
50	%%* DullSurprise: Weirdly, only the male actors seemed to suffer from it.
51	%%* TheEighties: The opening.
52	%%* EyeAwaken: Sean, after he hangs himself.
53	%%* FairCop: Velvet's costume.
54	* {{Fanservice}}: Lots of shirtlessness and sex scenes, both straight and lesbian.
55	* {{Fetish}}: Haydn seems to have one for panties.
56	* FightScene: A brief one between Biff and Brad; Darla breaks it up.
57	* FinalGirl: Darla, but she does end up getting killed in the end.
58	* FingerTwitchingRevival: Darla probably should've done a better job of destroying Sean's SoulJar.
59	%%* FlippingTheBird: Brad enjoys doing it.
60	* ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself: Brad's outfit is a baseball cap and a shirt with "Costume" printed on it.
61	%%* FreakOut: Why Sean killed the Sherpa and his family.
62	%%* FrenchMaid: Tammy's costume.
63	* FullMoonSilhouette: Done when Sean starts trying to break into the attic through the roof.
64	%%* {{Gasshole}}: Brad.
65	%%* GenderBlenderName: Haydn.
66	* GhostlyChill: Sean's presence is signified by a sudden drop in temperature.
67	* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Richard offered Velvet a bonus if she got it on with someone, male or female.
68	%%* [[GhostPirate Ghost Viking]]: A viewer is dressed as one.
69	* GoneHorriblyRight: The seance was just a gimmicky part of the game, but unfortunately for everyone involved, it actually works.
70	%%* {{Gorn}}
71	%%* {{Goth}}: Haydn.
72	* GroinAttack: While fighting Brad, Biff punches him in the sack. Sean later rips it off with his bare hands. He even took a headbutt there during a football game. You'd think there was a bulls-eye on it.
73	* GrossUpCloseUp: Several, most notably with Haydn's ripped-out guts.
74	* HauntedHouse: The [=McIntyre=] place presumably becomes one after the events of the film.
75	* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:Darla is impaled through the stomach by Sean.]]
76	* HooksAndCrooks: Sean makes occasional use of a grappling hook as a weapon.
77	* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: The main events are on Halloween, while the prologue occurs on UsefulNotes/ThanksgivingDay.
78	* HystericalWoman: Darla constantly shifts between this and normal.
79	* ICallHimMisterHappy: Brad's dick is "the general".
80	%%* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Most of the deaths.
81	* ImprovisedWeapon: Sean's mountain gear, plus Darla breaking up Biff and Brad's fight by whacking the latter on the head with a flashlight.
82	* InsanityDefense: Sean presumably intended on using it for the murder of the Sherpa.
83	* ItsAllMyFault: Velvet blames herself for Haydn's death since she left her handcuffed to the bed.
84	%%* {{Jerkass}}es: Brad's two unnamed buddies.
85	%%* JerkJock: Brad.
86	* LivingMemory: Sean shows signs of being this:
87	--> '''Sean:''' "Are you with the expedition?! Where is your base camp?!"
88	* TheLoinsSleepTonight: Brad has had trouble getting it up ever since he was headbutted in the groin during a football game.
89	* LoopholeAbuse: Darla suggests to Biff having either Tammy or Brad's body stand in for the third person they need to use the spell that can banish Sean.
90	--> '''Darla:''' "I never heard a rule that says they have to be alive!"
91	%%* MadScientist: Haydn's costume.
92	* MaleGaze: As Tammy goes up the basement steps, the camera focuses on her ass. In-universe, we have Biff and Brad's reaction to Velvet's first appearance.
93	%%* MarshmallowHell: Done to Haydn by Velvet.
94	* MirrorScare: Done by Sean to Darla, after he locks her in the washroom. He subsequently causes the mirror to frost over.
95	%%* MrExposition: The newscasters at the beginning.
96	%%* MsFanservice: Velvet.
97	%%* NaughtyNurseOutfit: A viewer's costume.
98	%%* NeckLift: Done by Sean to Brad.
99	* NeverRecycleABuilding: The [=McIntyre=] house has been empty ever since Sean's mass murder-suicide.
100	* NoNameGiven: The only webcast viewer who actually gets a name is Sam, the one dressed like an undead Viking.
101	* NotDistractedByTheSexy: Brad is so self-centered (and dumb) that he fails to know a good thing when he sees it.
102	* NothingIsScarier: We don't see how Sean killed his daughters, but what he killed them with (nearly ''all'' his gear) is mentioned.
103	* OffscreenTeleportation: Done by Sean. Justified by him being a ghost...-ish entity.
104	* OffWithHisHead: How Sean killed the Sherpa and his mother-in-law.
105	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Velvet Luv is presumably just a {{Porn Name\|s}}.
106	* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Sean seems pretty fleshy, and as the film progresses he grows increasingly zombie-like, meaning he may be devolving from ghost to {{revenant\|zombie}}.
107	%%* PaterFamilicide: Sean's origin.
108	* PeekABooCorpse: Sean leaves bodies littered throughout the house; Haydn's is actually impaled to the ceiling.
109	%%* PimpDuds: Biff's costume.
110	* PowerfulPick: Sean's main weapon is an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_axe ice axe]].
111	%%* PsychicPowers: Darla ''might'' have them.
112	* RagingStiffie: Brad gets stuck with one after swallowing a pill Velvet offers him.
113	%%* ReactionShot
114	* SexSignalsDeath: Haydn is killed while waiting for Velvet to come back for some fun.
115	%%* ScreamDiscretionShot: The deaths of Sean's daughters.
116	%%* ShadowDiscretionShot: Richard's death.
117	%%* SoundOnlyDeath: Tammy's death.
118	%%* SoundtrackDissonance: Over the credits.
119	* SoulJar: Sean's soul became trapped in one of his daughter's dolls, which he was clutching when he hanged himself. Damaging the doll causes Sean pain, and destroying it would presumably re-kill him.
120	%%* SpookySeance
121	%%* {{Stripperific}}: In my Halloween-centric horror film?
122	* TheStoner: The viewer dressed as a mariachi.
123	* ThanksgivingDayStory: Sean offed his family and himself on it.
124	* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Sean disembowels Haydn, then hacks the fuck out of her, and cuts her hands off.
125	%%* ThoseTwoGuys: The two ([[NoNameGiven unnamed]]) main viewers.
126	%%* ThousandYardStare: Sean.
127	* TitleDrop: "Don't miss your chance to be apart of this historic webcast! Sign up today at deathondemand.com!"
128	* ToiletHumor: Most of it is delivered by the flatulent, impotent and idiotic Brad.
129	* TooMuchInformation: Velvet describes how she got control of her gag reflex to Darla and Biff.
130	%%* TurnOfTheMillennium
131	%%* VillainOpeningScene
132	* VomitIndiscretionShot: Brad's reaction to finding Tammy's corpse. He apparently [[{{Squick}} ate some corn]].
133	* WellDoneSonGuy: Richard has a somewhat strained relationship with his father, or at least seems to think he does.
134	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Brad's buddies, the two guys dressed like skeletons, who were last seen hanging around the outside of the house.
135	* YouLookLikeYouveSeenAGhost: Said by Velvet after Darla gets locked in the washroom, and briefly sees Sean reflected in the mirror.
136	* YourHeadAsplode: Sean stomps Brad's head into mush AFTER castrating him.
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