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''Red Mist'' (titled ''Freakdog'' in the US) is a 2008 horror film directed by Paddy Breathnach (who also directed ''{{Film/Shrooms}}'').

The film centres around a group of young medical students who, while out partying one night, spike the drink of a loner colleague, the severely disturbed Kenneth (cruelly nicknamed 'Freakdog' by most of the group). The cocktail of drugs and alcohol unfortunately turns out to be a very powerful sedative that, combined with a severe epileptic fit, puts Kenneth into a coma. The students, not wanting to be involved or else risk their futures for their crime, abandon his body on a road and drive off as fast as they can, hoping someone will come across his body and help him.

When they later learn that Kenneth's life support is to be turned off, one of the students, Catherine (who was very much against the whole thing in the first place), attempts to set things right and revive him using an experimental drug. The result has [[GoneHorriblyWrong horrible and unintended consequences]] which leads to Kenneth's brainwaves going berserk, leading to out-of-body experiences - enabling Kenneth to possess others in order to exact bloody revenge...

[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Not to be confused]] with the character from ''ComicBook/KickAss'', the trope PinkMist, or with the [[SimilarlyNamedWorks fanfic]] ''Fanfic/SquidwardsSuicide''.
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!!!This film contains examples of:

* AlphaBitch: Harriet has shades of this.
* ArcWords: "Freakdog".
* AssholeVictim: From the moment he appears on screen, you just know that Sean's going to meet a sticky end before the credits roll.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: '''Kenneth'''. True, he was a little creepy but ultimately pretty harmless prior to his coma.
* BodySurf: What Kenneth does to several characters. Afterwards, they have no memory of the possession and end up as the physical patsies for them, which is particularly distressing for the security guard and later, for [[spoiler: Catherine]], who end up imprisoned for murders they don't remember - and technically didn't commit.
* BreakTheCutie: Catherine, Catherine, Catherine.
* TheBully: Pretty much all of the main characters with the exception of Catherine, but Sean takes the cake.
* CassandraTruth: And how. Poor Catherine...
* CovertPervert: Kenneth.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: The deaths of [[spoiler:Sean]] (who suffers arguably the most horrific death in the entire film) and [[spoiler:Harriet]].
* DeadlyBath: [[spoiler: Harriet]] is discovered in a bathtub filled with blood or very bloody water and [=IVs=] sticking out of her arms, implying that she was exsanguinated.
* DisproportionateRetribution: The ways in which Kenneth offs his victims are rather... extreme, to say the least.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:After killing Kenneth and apparently stopping his murder spree, Catherine is arrested and charged with Kenneth's out-of-body crimes after becoming his BodySurf patsy, and ends up in an institution. If that wasn't bad enough, it turns out that Kenneth isn't quite dead after all, and lives on through her.]]
* EmbarrassingNickname: Freakdog.
* FacialHorror: Off-screen, but still deserves a mention: [[spoiler:After Sean's corpse is discovered, it is mentioned that half of his face had practically melted off. Unsurprising, given that he'd been force-fed ''industrial strength acid''.]]
* {{Flatline}}
* FreudianExcuse: The reason Kenneth is so messed up is explained in a flashback, revealing that, [[HarmfulToMinors as a child]], he witnessed his mother, who was a prostitute, being beaten to death by a client after she refused to have sex with him.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Kenneth starts out as a lonely student who is the brunt of the main group's pranks until one such prank goes too far and lands him in a coma. Catherine's attempt to revive him out of guilt gives him the ability to get his revenge on everyone responsible for his condition via GrandTheftMe. By the end [[spoiler:[[TheBadGuyWins they're all either dead or incarcerated for crimes they technically didn't commit and he's still walking the Earth in Catherine's body.]]]]
* {{Gorn}}
* GoryDiscretionShot: There isn't much gory detail during [[spoiler:Sean's]] death - all the viewer gets to see is [[spoiler:a sudden surge of blood gurgling up into the funnel]]. Of course, the viewer doesn't really need to see the detail, as the scene is still utterly horrifying. [[spoiler:Sean's]] terrified screams as he lies helpless just make it worse. It's later mentioned that half of his face was melted off.
** We don't exactly see how [[spoiler: Harriet]] dies either; just her lying dead in a bathtub filled with bloody water and it's implied that she was bled to death courtesy of the I-V needles embedded in her arms..
* HeelFaceDoorSlam: Yoshimi comes to Catherine, feeling just as guilty about what happened to Kenneth and wanting to go to the police. [[spoiler: Unfortunately for her, she's his first victim.]] And for bonus points, an actual door is involved --[[spoiler: it gets slammed repeatedly into her head]]--making this possibly the one literal application of this trope.
* HospitalHottie: All of the main characters, and Shelby.
* {{Jerkass}}: '''Sean'''. All of the other students (with the exception of Catherine) qualify, too, but not nearly to the same extent as Sean.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Sean]] who used a funnel and tube combination to force drugs and alcohol down Kenneth's throat; guess what's used to force ''industrial-strength acid'' down his.
** [[spoiler: Harriet]] has her blood drained and used to write the word "Freakdog" above her on the wall, the very same term she used to denigrate Kenneth.
* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler: Poor, poor Yoshimi...]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: As is often the case in movies like this, the main cast of characters are just ''asking'' for trouble when their bullying of the lone outcast ends up going too far...
** Said outcast himself may be on the receiving end of this--[[spoiler: yes, he gets his revenge on everyone responsible for his condition but the film ends with his last victim, aka his current vessel, institutionalized with no obvious hints that they'll attempt an escape]].
* MedicalHorror: To an extent.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Catherine unwittingly makes everything worse by giving Kenneth the experimental drugs in an attempt to help him.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: What Kenneth does with his new powers: he possesses others to inflict horrible deaths on those he blames for what happened to him.
* SacrificialLamb: [[spoiler: Yoshimi]]
* SexSignalsDeath: [[spoiler:Sean is killed after one of his regular meet-ups for sex with Shelby. Unfortunately for him, on this occasion, Shelby isn't quite herself...]]
* TheScapegoat: Those possessed by Kenneth end up as this for his murders.
* StalkerWithACrush: Kenneth towards Catherine.
* TitleDrop: If the film is being viewed under its ''Freakdog'' title.
* UnwittingPawn: Characters who are possessed by Kenneth and charged with his crimes end up as this.
* VasquezAlwaysDies: Harriet, the tough AlphaBitch and the least girly of the female characters, [[spoiler: dies about 3/4's into the film.]]
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