Line #6 Film/FreshMeat


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3	->"From the people who didn't bring you ''Film/WhaleRider'' or ''Film/OnceWereWarriors'' . . . "
4	-->--[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0l9cWY2V0 Trailer narrator]]
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6	''Fresh Meat'' is a 2012 action/comedy/horror film, directed by Danny Mulheron. A gang that has just broken their leader from prison takes a family of cannibals hostage. Bloody hilarity ensues. Creator/TemueraMorrison headlines as the family patriarch.
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9	!!Has the examples of:
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11	* AndShowItToYou: Hemi slices Glenn's chest open and rips out his beating heart, taking a bite out of it, believing that feasting on the heart, flesh and blood of his own offspring will render him immortal.
12	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Ritchie Tan's crimes are listed as "Murder, Kidnapping, and Selling Fruit Without a License."
13	* BizarreBeverageUse: When Gigi is fighting with Officer Lance Nisbet, Rina repeatedly tosses the contents of a bottle of milk in her face, before explaining it is an antidote for the pepper spray she had been hit with.
14	* BoardingSchool: Hemi believes that he needs to drink the blood of his virgin daughter in order to gain immortality. This is why he sent her to an [[OneGenderSchool all-girls]] boarding school. Too bad he hadn't factored on lesbians.
15	* BoundAndGagged: After their initial difficulties with the Crane family, the gang ties them up in the living room. When Hemi and Glenn start praying, Johnny gags the whole family with duct tape to shut them up.
16	* CannibalClan: The Crane family. The father Hemi is a professor of religion who is obsessed with resurrecting a Māori cult dedicated to cannibalism.
17	* CannibalLarder: Paulie finds a trapdoor in the kitchen and opens it, and is instantly killed by a BoobyTrap inside, after which his friends discover it leads to an underground butchery where Rina's parents and brother have been ritually killing, slicing up and preparing for consumption the bodies of other human beings.
18	* CreepyCrossdresser: Ritchie takes Rina to her room to exploit her sexually. He dresses in her bra and panties and while she pretends to be interested in him, [[GroinAttack bites his crotch until it bleeds]], forcing the other criminals and family back into the same area. According to Rina, he didn't get hard untill he put on her bra and panties.
19	* CreepyGymCoach: Glenn kidnaps his cricket coach Mr. Upjohn and brings him back to his CannibalClan as their next meal; explaining that the Updike is pedophile who has been preying on young boys for years. It is mentioned that as well as coaching cricket, he is also a swim coach and a scoutmaster.
20	* {{Cult}}: Heri Crane is attempting to resurrect an old Māori cult called Solomonism that believes that [[IAmAHumanitarian cannibalism]] is the path to [[ImmortalityImmorality immortality]].
21	* DramaticAmmoDepletion: Gigi levels her shotgun at Officer Lance Nisbet's head and pulls the trigger, only for it to run dry at that moment. Nesbit responds by spraying pepper spray in her face.
22	* DressingAsTheEnemy: Gigi dresses in the uniform (including helmet and face mask) [[MuggedForDisguise she strips off a dead SWAT officer]] to grab Rina and pull her out of the house during the climax.
23	* TheEndOrIsIt: At the end of the film, Gigi and Rina kiss, and as they observe the ruins of the house, a charred hand reaches up and grabs Gigi's arm.
24	* EvilVersusEvil: A dysfunctional gang of criminals takes a middle class Māori family hostage and discovers too late that they are a CannibalClan.
25	* ExplosiveStupidity: So-called 'explosives expert' Johnny drops the dynamite he is planning on using to blow open the doors of Ritchie's prison van. He picks it up with the same hand he is holding his cigarette in and accidentally lights the fuse. He then drops it again and winds up kicking it under the van in an attempt to get rid of it.
26	* FoodSlap: When Gigi is fighting with Officer Lance Nisbet, Rina repeatedly tosses the contents of a bottle of milk in her face, before explaining it is an antidote for the pepper spray she had been hit with.
27	* FryingPanOfDoom: Heri kills Johnny by beating his skull in with a [[BrickJoke crock pot]].
28	* GroinAttack: When Ritchie straddles Rina and attempts to force himself on her, she [[ManBitesMan bites him in the crotch]].
29	* IAteWhat: On being told that the pork and rosemary pies her mother sent her at boarding school actually contained human flesh, she [[VomitIndiscretionShot vomits over herself]].
30	* ImmortalityImmorality: Heri believes he can achieve immortality through ritual cannibalism, including eating the still beating heart of his son and drinking the blood of his daughter.
31	* ImmortalitySeeker: Heri Crane is attempting to resurrect an old Māori {{Cult}} called Solomonism that believes that [[IAmAHumanitarian cannibalism]] is the path to [[ImmortalityImmorality immortality]].
32	* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Where Paulie Tan learned how to shoot. And actually an accurate representation of what happens when you attempt to fire a submachinegun one-handed.
33	* IncompatibleOrientation: Shaun has a long held crush on Rina, not realising that she is into girls.
34	* LodgedBladeRecycling: Hemi pulls out the steak knives Margaret and Gigi stabbed him with, and uses one of them them to kill a SWAT cop and the other one to kill Margaret.
35	* ManBitesMan: When Ritchie straddles Rina and attempts to force himself on her, she [[GroinAttack bites him in the crotch]].
36	* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: At the end of the film, Gigi and Rina kiss, and as they observe the ruins of the house, a charred hand reaches up and grabs Gigi's arm, leaving it unknown whether Hemi merely survived or is truly immortal.
37	* MuggedForDisguise: Not exactly mugged, but Gigi strips the uniform off a SWAT officer who had been killed earlier in the siege to [[DressingAsTheEnemy disguise herself as a police officer]].
38	* OffWithHisHead: A blast from Gigi's shotgun takes off Ritchie's head and it lands in Rina's lap, looking up at her.
39	* OneGenderSchool: Hemi believes that he needs to [[ImmortalityImmorality drink the blood of his virgin daughter in order to gain immortality]]. This is why he sent her to an all-girls BoardingSchool. Too bad he hadn't factored on lesbians.
40	* PityTheKidnapper: After springing Ritchie, the gang decides to hideout at the Crane family's house. Unfortunately, once it's revealed that Cranes' are a CannibalClan, it isn't long before Ritchie's gang are the ones that are in trouble.
41	* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: Shaun Armstrong is a white, middle-class suburban kid who keeps talking about having 'a Māori heart', peppers his speech with Māori phrases, and keeps telling his Māori neighbours the Cranes about the various Māori rituals he has participated in.
42	* PunkInTheTrunk: Johnny finds Glenn's cricket coach Mr. Updike BoundAndGagged in the boot of Glenn's car. After he is disposed of, Gigi ties Johnny up and stores him in the boot.
43	* ReligionOfEvil: Heri Crane is attempting to resurrect an old Māori cult called Solomonism that believes that [[IAmAHumanitarian cannibalism]] is the path to [[ImmortalityImmorality immortality]].
44	* RollingPinOfDoom: Margaret attacks Heri with a rolling pin after he attempts to stab Rina. Heri grabs her and uses her rolling pin and another one to fend off Rina and Gigi's knife attacks.
45	* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Gigi's weapon of choice. She's also the most competent member of the gang.
46	* TheSecretOfLongPorkPies: Celebrity chef Margaret Crane's famous meat pies, which are available for purchase from her website.
47	* ShowerOfLove: Rina Crane is a teenage student experimenting sexually with her fellow female students in the shower before being picked up from school by her father Hemi.
48	* SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror: More comedy than horror, but the film still bounces all over the spectrum.
49	* VirginSacrifice: Hemi believes that he needs to drink the blood of his virgin daughter in order to gain immortality. This is why he sent her to an [[OneGenderSchool all-girls]] BoardingSchool. Too bad he hadn't factored on lesbians.
50	* VomitIndiscretionShot: [[IAteWhat On being told that the pork and rosemary pies]] her mother sent her at boarding school actually [[TheSecretOfLongPorkPies contained human flesh]], Rina vomits over herself.
51	* VulnerableConvoy: Paulie, Gigi and Johnny hits the prison van transporting Ritchie when the drivers stop at service station to buy pies.

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