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11	->"Las Vegas Bloodbath ''is a simple tale about a simple man and his [[RuleOfThree simple]] wish to appease his wife's decapitated head by killing everything with a vagina."''
12	-->-- [[http://www.somethingawful.com/d/movie-reviews/las-vegas-blood.php Review]] by '''Website/SomethingAwful'''
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14	''Las Vegas Bloodbath'' is a 1989 SlasherMovie featuring a killing spree in, you guessed it, UsefulNotes/LasVegas.
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16	After successfully scoring a big deal while away on business in Sacramento, a man named Sam Butler decides to surprise his wife Ruth by returning to their Las Vegas home early, in a shiny new red car. Upon arriving at the homestead, Sam discovers Ruth in bed with another man, a sheriff's deputy, and snaps, shooting them both to death with the deputy's carelessly discarded gun. After cutting off Ruth's head, Sam (who keeps having conversations with it) stores it in his car and begins wandering the city in a misogynistic psychosis that leads him to murder a daytime hooker named Tina, whose jaw he mutilates with a knife before tying her up and ripping her leg off with the car, dumping the severed appendage in a dumpster a little later.
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18	After randomly blowing a bartender's brains out, Sam happens to spot a car advertising the Beautiful Lady Oil Wrestlers and follows it to an apartment, where the lady wrestlers have gathered for a baby shower being held for their friend Barbara. Skulking around the apartment (and killing a gardener who asks what he is doing) Sam observes the women as they [[{{Padding}} watch themselves on TV, play cards and Truth or Dare, try on bikinis, and eat pizza]] for a while, before barging in and tying them all up at gunpoint, ready to enact the titular bloodbath with everything from blades to firearms to tools to his bare hands.
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20	Noted for being the movie Creator/BradJones (of WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob fame) hated the most before ''Film/{{Nukie}}'' came along.
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22	!! We try to do our best here at (inexplicable voice change) Tropey's:
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24	%%* EightiesHair
25	%%* AmbiguouslyJewish: Sam, according to Website/SomethingAwful.
26	* AnArmAndALeg: Tina gets one of her legs ripped off with a length of rope attached to the back of a car, and later Sam somehow rips one of Cherry's arms off with his bare hands.
27	%%* AxCrazy: After his wife cheats on him, Sam goes completely, utterly and violently insane.
28	%%* BatterUp: Sam (really just [[SpecialEffectsFailure a barely offscreen mat]]) gets walloped with one.
29	%%* BitchInSheepsClothing: Barbara's friends.
30	* BloodBath: The film ends with Sam being found in a gore-drenched washroom, lying in a bathtub filled with blood and a random assortment of body parts.
31	%%* BoomHeadshot: The bartender and Tiffany's deaths.
32	%%* BottomlessMagazines
33	%%* BoundAndGagged: Happens a lot. Like, ''a lot''.
34	* BreakingTheFourthWall: Just before the credits, Sam glares at the camera.
35	%%* CarpetOfVirility: Sam.
36	%%* TheCavalryArrivesLate: The police officer who enters the house in the end.
37	%%* CoverDrop: Sam glaring at the camera.
38	%%* CreatorCameo: Several behind-the-scenes personnel had bit parts.
39	%%* {{Dedication}}: To special effects artist Craig Sadler.
40	%%* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: Oddly featured in the middle of the film, instead of the beginning.
41	%%* DirectToVideo
42	%%* DisposableSexWorker: Tina.
43	* DrivenToVillainy: Sam was quite a decent guy before finding out his wife's affair. This causes him to go insane and becoming a misogynist murderer.
44	%%* DullSurprise
45	%%* TheEighties
46	%%* EvilIsHammy: When Sam went off the deep end, he fell ''hard''.
47	%%* EyeOpen: Sam is only briefly downed by Man With Bat.
48	* FanService: The oil wrestling sequence is possibly one of the most gratuitous instances of this in film history.
49	* FemmeFatalons: Barbara's nails, which her friends jokingly suggest could kill someone.
50	* {{Fingore}}: Sam shoots a man's middle finger off mid-gesture.
51	--> "Let's see you pick your nose with that now."
52	%%* FlippingTheBird: Sam gets it from two passing motorists. As noted above, he shoots it off the second one.
53	* FromNobodyToNightmare: Sam starts as a regular business man before turning into an homicidal mysoginist murderer.
54	* FunWithAcronyms: '''B'''eautiful '''L'''ady '''O'''il '''W'''restlers.
55	* GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: Cherry grabs a stuffed bunny for comfort, only for Sam to yank it from her grasp and start bashing it against the wall.
56	%%* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Sam uncovering his wife's affair.
57	%%* {{Gorn}}
58	%%* GoryDiscretionShot
59	* GroinAttack: Wendy briefly escapes by kicking Sam in the nads.
60	* {{Hallucinations}}: While trying to rape Barbara, Sam starts seeing her as his wife.
61	%%* HollywoodJehovahsWitness[=/=]KnockingOnHeathensDoor: He gets decapitated.
62	%%* HopeSpot: Wendy escaping, Tiffany getting to a phone, Cherry escaping, and Man With Bat stopping by.
63	%%* IdenticalStranger: Sam and Creator/NicolasCage.
64	* ILied: Actually said by Sam, when he reveals to an officer that no, those aren't his own hands that he's put up.
65	* KarmaHoudini: Sam makes it through the film without any comeuppance for his murders,
66	* KickTheDog: Sam screaming at a "damn brat" who asks for the time.
67	%%* KubrickStare: Given by Sam at the very end.
68	* LeaveTheCameraRunning: Sam spends a lot of time just... wandering around.
69	%%* MadeOfPlasticine
70	%%* MonsterMisogyny: Despite this, Sam kills a decent number of men.
71	%%* MudWrestling: Oil.
72	* MummiesAtTheDinnerTable: Sam carries around Ruth's severed head, and has conversations with it, usually blaming everything on it.
73	%%* NoEnding
74	%%* NoNameGiven: Several characters, most of them victims.
75	* OffscreenTeleportation: When Cherry tries to escape, Sam (who was last seen in the bathroom) is right there when she opens the front door.
76	%%* OffWithHisHead: Happens offscreen to Ruth, and done with a slamming door to a Jehovah's Witness.
77	* PeekABooCorpse: An investigating officer finds bodies and parts of them strewn throughout the house.
78	%%* PistolWhipping: Done to Bambi.
79	* PlotIncitingInfidelity: The film is kicked off by a man coming home to find his wife in bed with another man, causing him to snap and proceed to go on a mass-murdering rampage, targeting mainly women in particular.
80	%%* PornStache: Most of the male characters look like they just wandered off the set of a porno.
81	%%* PowerBornOfMadness: The only viable explanation for how Sam can rip people's limbs off with his bare hands.
82	%%* PrettyLittleHeadshots
83	* PublicDomainFeatureFilms: Ever since it was covered on ''WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob'', the movie fell into this and can be [[https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000ELJ7FO?ref_=imdbref_m_tt_wbr_amazon&tag=imdbtag_tt_m_wbr_amazon-20 found]] on several Public Domain box sets.
84	%%* ReactionShot
85	%%* ReallyGetsAround: Barbara.
86	%%* {{Recut}}: There's a few versions floating around.
87	%%* RecycledInSpace: Film/TruthOrDareACriticalMadness IN LAS VEGAS!
88	* ShovelStrike: Sam takes a gardener's shovel and beats him to death with it.
89	%%* ShirtlessScene: Did not want.
90	%%* SingleTear: Shed by one of the women, when tied up.
91	* SpreeKiller: A man loses his mind when he discovers his wife's infidelity, then proceeds to go on a murderous rampage across Las Vegas, killing people (particularly women) in bars, on the streets, and random sleep-overs over the span of about a single day.
92	%%* SoundOnlyDeath: Ruth, her lover and Wendy getting shot.
93	%%* StageNames: Honeydew Mellon, Tuff Tiff, Wild Cherry, and Wet & Wild Wendy.
94	%%* StrawMisogynist: Sam.
95	%%* {{Streetwalker}}: Tina.
96	* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: After pulverizing a gardener's skull with a shovel, Sam briefly pauses, laughs, then keeps smashing away until there's literally nothing left of the guy's head.
97	%%* ThisIsADrill: Suzanne's death.
98	%%* TitleIn:
99	%%** Sacremento, California, 5:00pm
100	%%** Las Vegas, Nevada, 10pm
101	%%** Later on Las Vegas Strip
102	%%* TraumaticCSection: Barbara's death.
103	%%* TwitchyEye: Sam, when Tina starts soliciting him.
104	%%* UnusualEuphemism: "Look at the size of those silver dollars."
105	* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The massacre was probably based on Richard Speck's mass murder of eight women, who he systematically killed in different rooms after breaking into their home and tying them up, just like Sam does.
106	%%* VillainProtagonist
107	%%* VillainSong: ''Las Vegas Blood Bath'', which plays over the credits.
108	%%* VivaLasVegas
109	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The pizza delivery man never comes back with the second pizza or the bill, leaving us to just assume Sam killed him offscreen.
110	%%* WouldHurtAChild: Both Ruth and Barbara were pregnant.
111	* YourHeadAsplode: The shovel victim's head bursts after just one hit.

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