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''Apaches'' is a 1977 public information film from the United Kingdom. Intended to remind children of the dangers of playing around with farm equipment, this 26-minute-long film was distributed to and screened at schools all over Britain. The film was directed by John Mackenzie, written by Neville Smith, and produced by John Arnold and Leon Clore.

It was shot on a farm in the Home Counties in February 1977, with the child cast recruited from a junior school in Maidenhead, Berkshire, and was produced by Graphic Films for the Central Office of Information for the Health and Safety Executive. It was not only shown in schools, but it was also broadcast on television by {{Creator/ITV}} companies, particularly Southern, Westward, Anglia and ATV, whose regions covered large agricultural areas. It was also shown in schools in rural areas in other countries of the Anglosphere, including Australia, Canada and the United States.

It focuses on six children who pretend to be Apaches (the Native American tribe) in their make-believe. They play their games on a farm where, one by one, they fall victim to fatal accidents. After that, they continue as if nothing happened, until only one is left.

Oddly, while most of the crew receive credits, none of the children who starred in the film were credited.

You can watch [[WebVideo/GuruLarryAndWez Guru Larry's]] review [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3JjyoEhCuo here]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_J6_O4bn0s Or if you prefer, you can watch the entire film here]].
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!!Tropes featured in the film:
* {{Bookends}}: [[spoiler:Kim and Danny are respectively the first and last child to die, and both deaths result from the misuse of a tractor.]]
* ChildrenAreInnocent: The kids don't have a very firm grasp on the concept of death, so when [[spoiler:Kim gets mowed down by a tractor]], they're all left in stunned silence.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: You better believe it. Modern horror films have nothing on some of the stuff here, with Sharon's death from drinking poisonous chemicals taking the top spot and Tom drowning in a slurry pit a close second. It really says a lot about the film that having a massive metal gate fall and crush them, likely breaking their neck instantly, is probably the least horrible fate to befall one of the kids.
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:The dinner party is revealed to be for Danny's wake.]]
* DeathOfAChild: If it wasn't in broad daylight already.
* DeerInTheHeadlights: Danny's expression every time one of his friends is killed, or about to be. ''Strongly'' subverted in the case of [[spoiler:his own death, where he goes down screaming]].
* DownerEnding: Everyone except Michael dies horribly.
* DullSurprise: Danny's reaction to his friends dying.
* DwindlingParty: The six friends (Danny, Kim, Sharon, Michael, Tom, Robert) all start dying one by one. [[spoiler:In more detail, Kim is run over by a tractor, Tom drowns in a slurry pit, Sharon drinks pesticide chemicals, Robert is crushed by a fence, and finally, Danny is killed by crashing a tractor down a hill. Only Michael lives to tell the tale.]]
* FreeRangeChildren: This short is a pretty good example of what made this type of parenting fall out of fashion: [[spoiler:All but one of the children end up dying in freak accidents that could very well have been avoided or mitigated if they were just being properly supervised.]]
* ForgottenFallenFriend: When one of the kids dies, the rest of them are acting in the next scene as if nothing happened.
* GoryDiscretionShot: [[spoiler:Kim's death. We see the tractor bounce as it runs her over, and then it cuts to a blood splatter on the ground.]]
* IDrankWhat: Sharon [[spoiler:meets her unseen-yet-brutal demise upon accidentally drinking a chemical]]. Given the tone as a whole, it's PlayedForHorror rather than laughs.
* {{Irony}}: Despite being considered the "daft one" of the group, [[spoiler:Michael ends up being the sole survivor of them all]].
* IWantMyMommy: [[spoiler:Sharon's death. In her agony, she can plainly be heard screaming for her mother.]]
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: Four out of the six kids get proper introductions. The last two? "Tom, Robert."
* NothingIsScarier: [[spoiler:Sharon's death is made all the more frightening due to the fact that, though we hear all of her agonized screams of pain, nothing is shown of her dying from ingesting pesticide.]]
* OnlySaneMan: Michael, the "daft" one in the bunch, survives everything. He refuses to drink from the bottle found in the tool shed (which [[spoiler:contains a deadly pesticide]])[[note]]and in fact, none of the children drink from the questionable substance except Sharon, whose idea it was to "mime" drinking it "like in the school play", only to forget and take a swig for real -- which ends up sealing her doom[[/note]], and always seems to be lagging slightly behind all the others. It turns out that he [[spoiler:has a reason to be concerned]].
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Most of the parents outlive their children as a result of failing to keep them from playing on the farm in the first place.
* ParentalNeglect: The kids' parents are happy to let them run around the farm unsupervised, even after they start dying in brutal accidents involving the farm equipment.
* PosthumousNarration: [[spoiler:Danny's spirit narrates the short as he looks over a "party" (which unbeknownst to him is actually his own wake).]]
* RedHerringShirt: [[spoiler:The lack of a proper introduction for Tom and Robert doubles as this.]]
* ScareEmStraight: This short was intended to show rural kids the dangers of fooling around on farms. [[GoneHorriblyRight It may have worked too well.]]
* ScreamDiscretionShot: [[spoiler:Sharon's death from ingesting pesticide]] is not shown on-camera. Instead, the view lingers on her house at night as [[spoiler:she wakes up screaming in agony from her organs corroding]].
* SoleSurvivor: Of the six children, only [[spoiler:Michael walks out alive.]]
* TimeDelayedDeath: [[spoiler:Sharon unintentionally drinks a chemical]] and just decides to walk it off. It doesn't kick in until a few hours later, when [[spoiler:she wakes up [[ScreamDiscretionShot screaming in agony]] in the middle of the night. She even spit most of it out. Not like it could have saved her, though, given the likely ingredients]].
* TooDumbToLive: Just about all the children. They do stupid things that get them killed, and then keep on doing them. The parents and the farmers count as well, since they keep letting the kids run around the farm without supervision. Sadly, this is very much a case of TruthInTelevision, as many children do indeed die in farm accidents such as those seen in the film each year.
* UndignifiedDeath: [[spoiler:Tom drowns in a pit of slurry, which is essentially [[NauseaFuel liquefied cow dung]].]][[invoked]]
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