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''Aftershock'' is a disaster horror film directed by Nicolas Lopez with a screenplay by him, Creator/EliRoth and Guillermo Amoedo. It consists of a group of tourists, who travel to Chile for partying and fun only to run in the midst of an earthquake resulting in complete chaos.

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''Aftershock'' is a 2012 disaster horror film directed by Nicolas Lopez with a screenplay by him, Creator/EliRoth and Guillermo Amoedo. It consists of a group of tourists, who travel to Chile for partying and fun only to run in the midst of an earthquake resulting in complete chaos.
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Not to be confused with the 2010 disaster drama film of the same name by Feng Xiaogang.
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Kill Em All was renamed Everybody Dies Ending due to misuse. Dewicking


* KillEmAll: [[spoiler: Possibly every character ends up being killed, including a BaitAndSwitch HopeSpot at the very end]].

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* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: The first 35 minutes at least!

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* FridgeHorror: When Kylie is injured and alone with the fireman, he is wearing a tank top that reveals several tattoos similar to the escaped criminals. The horror kicks in when you remember that earlier, he claimed not to have any tattoos, and for others to trust him for that reason. Now alone with Kylie, he drops the act and kills her, then goes after Monica.



* HeroicSacrifice: Gringo distracts one of the prisoners so Irina can escape, [[spoiler:and pays for it with his life. It turns out to be AllForNothing however as she's killed while fleeing.]]



* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Played straight to an {{Anvilicious}} extent.
* JerkAss: The Guide.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Kylie and Pollo.

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* %%* JerkAss: The Guide.
* %%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Kylie and Pollo.



* KillItWithFire: The prisoners do this twice. Once, one uses a Molotov cocktail to murder a police officer. Later, another kills [[spoiler:Gringo]] by lighting him on fire after he'd gotten doused with alcohol.



* RapeAsDrama: [[spoiler: Poor Irina gets raped twice. We only hear it happening the first time... Then we see her raped the second time.]]

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* RapeAsDrama: [[spoiler: Poor Irina gets raped twice. We only hear it happening the first time... Then we see her raped the second time.twice, by two different escaped prisoners.]]



* SiblingRivalry: Between Kylie and Monica.

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* %%* SiblingRivalry: Between Kylie and Monica.
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* RefugeInAudacity: The prison escapee who poses as a fireman and actually does many helpful things to gain the trust of the main characters, and get close to the women. He even claims "Look, I don't have tattoos! I'm not a criminal!" Of course, he DOES have tattoos, concealed by his clothing, and he is definitely a criminal.

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* RefugeInAudacity: The prison escapee who poses as a fireman and actually does many helpful things to gain the trust of the main characters, and get close to the women. He even claims "Look, I don't have tattoos! I'm not a criminal!" Of course, he DOES '''does''' have tattoos, concealed by his clothing, and he is definitely a criminal.
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''Aftershock'' is a disaster horror film directed by Nicolas Lopez with a screenplay by Lopez, Creator/EliRoth and Guillermo Amoedo. It consists of a group of tourists, who travel to Chile for partying and fun only to run in the midst of an earthquake resulting in complete chaos.

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''Aftershock'' is a disaster horror film directed by Nicolas Lopez with a screenplay by Lopez, him, Creator/EliRoth and Guillermo Amoedo. It consists of a group of tourists, who travel to Chile for partying and fun only to run in the midst of an earthquake resulting in complete chaos.
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''Aftershock'' is a disaster horror film directed by Nicolas Lopez with Screenplay by Lopez, Creator/EliRoth and Guillermo Amoedo. It consists of a group of tourists, who travel to Chile for partying and fun only to run in the midst of an earthquake resulting in complete chaos.

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''Aftershock'' is a disaster horror film directed by Nicolas Lopez with Screenplay a screenplay by Lopez, Creator/EliRoth and Guillermo Amoedo. It consists of a group of tourists, who travel to Chile for partying and fun only to run in the midst of an earthquake resulting in complete chaos.
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* FridgeHorror: When Kylie is injured and alone with the fireman, he is wearing a tank top that reveals several tattoos similar to the escaped criminals. The horror kicks in when you remember that earlier, he claimed not to have any tattoos, and for others to trust him for that reason. Now alone with Kylie, he drops the act and kills her, then goes after Monica.
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* RefugeInAudacity: The prison escapee who posed as a fireman and actually did many helpful things to gain the trust of the main characters, and get close to the women. He even claims "Look, I don't have tattoos! I'm not a criminal!" Of course, he DOES have tattoos, concealed by his clothing, and he is definitely a criminal.

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* RefugeInAudacity: The prison escapee who posed poses as a fireman and actually did does many helpful things to gain the trust of the main characters, and get close to the women. He even claims "Look, I don't have tattoos! I'm not a criminal!" Of course, he DOES have tattoos, concealed by his clothing, and he is definitely a criminal.
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* KickTheDog: The tour guide girl seems cool, friendly and of course attractive at first. But when we see her out at the nightclub, all dolled up and full of arrogant vanity, she rudely and aggressively shoves an older, fragile janitor lady out of her way as she leaves the restroom.

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* KickTheDog: The tour guide girl seems cool, friendly and of course attractive at first. But when we see her out at the nightclub, all dolled up and full of arrogant vanity, in diva mode, she rudely and aggressively shoves an older, fragile janitor lady out of her way as she leaves the restroom.
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* GunsDoNotWorkThatWay: Mrs. Martínez shoots Pollo once in the chest with her Glock-looking pistol, and the slide stays cocked back as it would if the clip had been emptied. The slide is then shown returned to the forward position in the next frame. The most rudimentary gun knowledge on-set could have caught this easily during filming.

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* GunsDoNotWorkThatWay: Mrs. Martínez shoots Pollo once in the chest with her Glock-looking pistol, and the slide stays cocked back as it would if the clip had been emptied. The slide is then shown returned to the forward position in the next frame. The most Someone with even rudimentary gun knowledge on-set could have caught and corrected this easily during filming.
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* AndIMustScream: The firefighter driving the fire truck. It crashes, and the characters find the passenger begging for help, and the driver's neck or throat skewered with a large piece of lumber - barely alive, but near death and unable to speak. The characters seem distrustful of the passenger, and the driver looks like he may have something to say, but he can't talk and soon dies anyway.

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* AndIMustScream: The firefighter driving the fire truck. It The truck crashes, and the characters find the passenger begging for help, and the driver's neck or throat skewered with a large piece of lumber - barely alive, but near death and unable to speak. The characters seem distrustful of the passenger, and the driver looks like he may have something to say, but he can't talk and soon dies anyway.
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* AndIMustScream: The firefighter driving the fire truck. It crashes, and the characters find the passenger begging for help, and the driver's neck or throat skewered with a large piece of lumber - barely alive but near death and unable to speak. The characters seem distrustful of the passenger, and the driver looks like he may have something to say, but he can't talk and soon dies anyway.

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* AndIMustScream: The firefighter driving the fire truck. It crashes, and the characters find the passenger begging for help, and the driver's neck or throat skewered with a large piece of lumber - barely alive alive, but near death and unable to speak. The characters seem distrustful of the passenger, and the driver looks like he may have something to say, but he can't talk and soon dies anyway.
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* AndIMustScream: The firefighter driving the fire truck. It crashes, and the characters find the passenger begging for help, and the driver's neck or throat skewered with a large piece of lumber - alive but unable to speak. The characters seem distrustful of the passenger, and the driver LOOKS like he may have something to say, but he can't talk and soon dies anyway.

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* AndIMustScream: The firefighter driving the fire truck. It crashes, and the characters find the passenger begging for help, and the driver's neck or throat skewered with a large piece of lumber - barely alive but near death and unable to speak. The characters seem distrustful of the passenger, and the driver LOOKS looks like he may have something to say, but he can't talk and soon dies anyway.
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* AndIMustScream: The firefighter driving the fire truck. It crashes, and the characters find the passenger begging for help, and the driver's neck or throat skewered with a large piece of lumber, alive but unable to speak. The characters seem distrustful of the passenger, and the driver LOOKS like he may have something to say, but he can't talk and soon dies anyway.

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* AndIMustScream: The firefighter driving the fire truck. It crashes, and the characters find the passenger begging for help, and the driver's neck or throat skewered with a large piece of lumber, lumber - alive but unable to speak. The characters seem distrustful of the passenger, and the driver LOOKS like he may have something to say, but he can't talk and soon dies anyway.
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* AndIMustScream: The firefighter driving the fire truck. It crashes, and the characters find the passenger begging for help, and the driver's neck or throat skewered with a large piece of lumber, alive but unable to speak. The characters seem distrustful of the passenger, and the driver LOOKS like he may have something to say, but he can't talk and soon dies anyway.
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* UpperClassTwit: Monica may be one, or may have had a past as one. Kylie roasts her for living an unproductive, hedonistic life financed by her father's money, and doing things like leaving the family and traveling to India to "find herself." It is further revealed she got knocked up and had an abortion, also financed by Dad.
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* AbortionFalloutDrama: At first, seemingly not a huge part of the plot, but during an argument between Kylie and Monica, it's revealed Monica had one in the past. It becomes more unsettling alongside the subplot of the legend about babies and orphans killed and dumped unceremoniously underground by corrupt nuns and priests.
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* SiblingRivalry: Between Kylie and Monica.
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* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: The first 35 minutes atleast!

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* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: The first 35 minutes atleast!at least!



* RealAfterAll: The tunnels where priests and nuns supposedly dumped illegitimate babies. Ariel discusses the legend when they're in the graveyard and looking at the cathedral. While trying to escape the chaos of the earthquake, Monica stumbles upon the actual corpses underground in the tunnel system.

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* RealAfterAll: The tunnels where priests and nuns supposedly dumped illegitimate babies. Ariel discusses the legend when they're in the graveyard and looking at the cathedral. While Later on while trying to escape the chaos of the earthquake, Monica stumbles upon the actual corpses underground in the tunnel system.
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* RefugeInAudacity: The prison escapee who posed as a fireman and actually did many helpful things to gain the trust of the main characters, and get close to the women. He even claims "Look, I don't have tattoos! I'm not a criminal!" Of course, he DOES have tattoos, concealed by his clothing, and he is definitely a criminal.
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* TheCameo: Selena Gomez appears briefly as a stuck-up partygoer who gets hit on, quite ineffectively, by Gringo.
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* KickTheDog: The tour guide girl seems cool, friendly and of course attractive at first. But when we see her out at the nightclub, all dolled up and full of arrogant vanity, she rudely and aggressively shoves an older, fragile janitor lady out her way as she leaves the restroom.

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* KickTheDog: The tour guide girl seems cool, friendly and of course attractive at first. But when we see her out at the nightclub, all dolled up and full of arrogant vanity, she rudely and aggressively shoves an older, fragile janitor lady out of her way as she leaves the restroom.

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* KickTheDog: The tour guide girl seems cool, friendly and of course attractive at first. But when we see her out at the nightclub, all dolled up and full of arrogant vanity, she rudely and aggressively shoves an older, fragile janitor lady out her way as she leaves the restroom.



* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:The Guide gets a karmic death for be a jerkass to the cleaning lady and push her friend during the earthquake.]]

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* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:The Guide Guide, who is gradually revealed to be an undercover self-serving cunt, gets a karmic death for be being a jerkass JerkAss to the cleaning lady and push pushing her friend during the earthquake.]]
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* MaybeMagic,MaybeMundane: There are a couple of things that could be construed as an implication of supernatural causes behind the earthquake. The legend of the orphans and babies conceived by corrupt church officials and dumped in the tunnels seems totally forgotten once the earthquake drama starts, but is revisited when Monica (having had an abortion herself) discovers the discarded baby corpses underground. This, together with a symbolic shot of a large crucifix coming down off a wall and being smashed and desecrated, can almost make it look like this is some sort of epicentre of evil, where horrible things happened and Nature is striking back with deadly force, wrecking symbols of religious faith in the process.

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* MaybeMagic,MaybeMundane: MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: There are a couple of things that could be construed as an implication of supernatural causes behind the earthquake. The legend of the orphans and babies conceived by corrupt church officials and dumped in the tunnels seems totally forgotten once the earthquake drama starts, but is revisited when Monica (having had an abortion herself) discovers the discarded baby corpses underground. This, together with a symbolic shot of a large crucifix coming down off a wall and being smashed and desecrated, can almost make it look like this is some sort of epicentre of evil, where horrible things happened and Nature is striking back with deadly force, wrecking symbols of religious faith in the process.
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* MaybeMagic,MaybeMundane: There are a couple of things that could be construed as an implication of supernatural causes behind the earthquake. The legend of the orphans and babies conceived by corrupt church officials and dumped in the tunnels seems totally forgotten once the earthquake drama starts, but is revisited when Monica (having had an abortion herself) discovers the discarded baby corpses underground. This, together with a symbolic shot of a large crucifix coming down off a wall and being smashed and desecrated, can almost make it look like this is some sort of epicentre of evil, where horrible things happened and Nature is striking back with deadly force, wrecking symbols of religious faith in the process.


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* RealAfterAll: The tunnels where priests and nuns supposedly dumped illegitimate babies. Ariel discusses the legend when they're in the graveyard and looking at the cathedral. While trying to escape the chaos of the earthquake, Monica stumbles upon the actual corpses underground in the tunnel system.

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