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* MenAreExpendableGender: [[spoiler:All of the confirmed victims are male: Ricky, Jeremy, and Garrett. Ashley appears to die but was only faking it.]]

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* MenAreExpendableGender: MenAreTheExpendableGender: [[spoiler:All of the confirmed victims are male: Ricky, Jeremy, and Garrett. Ashley appears to die but was only faking it.]]
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* BolivianArmyEnding: From the perspective of both characters:
** Luke: [[spoiler:has killed multiple people and apparently coordinated a plan to get away with it. But Ashley isn't dead and is being taken to the hospital, where Luke can ''try'' to kill her, but she'll be surrounded by adults.]]
** Ashley: [[spoiler:has been badly injured by Luke, but is still alive. But she's still in the hospital and Luke is coming to "visit" her, so will she be able to defend herself?]]


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* ATapOnTheHead: Ashley gets hit hard on the head twice and knocked out both times, apparently for a while: once by falling down the stairs, then by smacking her head trying to escape. She suffers no ill effects from this and is still able to defend herself.

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* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: [[spoiler:The moment that Ashley realizes how bad Luke really is comes after she finds out that he killed Garrett's hamster deliberately and lied about it being an accident.]]



* InsaneTrollLogic: Luke came to the conclusion that since dopamine is secreted during both moments of sexual arousal and of fear, the best way for him to seduce Ashley would be to scare her.
* ItWorksBetterWithBullets: [[spoiler:The handgun Luke wields is unloaded, as Ashely finds out to her horror.]]

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* InsaneTrollLogic: Luke came to the conclusion that since dopamine is secreted during both moments of sexual arousal and of fear, the best way for him to seduce Ashley would be to scare her.
* ItWorksBetterWithBullets: [[spoiler:The handgun Luke wields is unloaded, as Ashely Ashley finds out to her horror.]]


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* MenAreExpendableGender: [[spoiler:All of the confirmed victims are male: Ricky, Jeremy, and Garrett. Ashley appears to die but was only faking it.]]
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* ChaosOfTheBells: The carollers sing "Carol Of The Bells" as Ashley runs away and gets knocked out.
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* NeverSentAnyLetters: Luke claims Ashley texted Ricky. She didn't. [[spoiler:This tips Garrett off that Luke always intended to hurt Ashley.]]
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* ConvenientlyPlacedSharpThing: After Ashley throws herself to the ground and shatters glass, she picks up a shard of the glass and, after being pulled up, she cuts the tape off her wrists.
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* BoundAndGagged: [[spoiler:Ashley is taped to a chair and gagged after Luke punches her and she falls down the stairs.]]


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* PrecociousCrush: Twelve-year-old Luke has a crush on the older teenage Ashley. [[spoiler:It turns out to be far less precocious and more of a LoveMakesYouCrazy situation.]]


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* StaircaseTumble: [[spoiler:Ashley is knocked out after she gets punched by Luke and falls down the stairs.]]

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* UnhandThemVillain: Ashley tells the killer to put down [[spoiler:a paint can]]. He obliges by [[spoiler:pushing it off the bannister it was resting on]], killing his target.



-->'''[[spoiler:Luke]]:''' I told you not to touch her, you asshole!



** [[spoiler:"Wait...that's ''your'' mask."]]

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** [[spoiler:"Wait...[[spoiler:"Wait… that's ''your'' mask."]]
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* MouthTapedShut: [[spoiler: Ashley is being held hostage by Luke, a boy who she's looking after him on Christmas Eve. She's all tied up with her mouth taped shut. Ashley later uses the same tape from her mouth as an ImprovisedBandage to stop her neck from bleeding.]]
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Ashley is moving away, but has one more night to babysit Luke, who is hoping to arouse her and get in her pants. However, his plans come to a grinding halt when an intruder breaks into the house, killing Luke’s friend Garrett and terrorizing Luke and Ashley. But is this situation really what it looks like?

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Ashley is moving away, but has one more night to babysit Luke, who is hoping to arouse her and get in her pants. However, his plans come to a grinding halt when an intruder breaks into the house, killing Luke’s friend Garrett house and terrorizing terrorizes Luke and Ashley. But is this situation really what it looks like?
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Not to be confused with ''Film/ChristmasEvil,'' also known as ''You Better Watch Out.'' Or ''Film/SilentNightDeadlyNightIIIBetterWatchOut'' [[RuleOfThree Or]] ''WebOriginal/YouBetterWatchOut.''

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Not to be confused with ''Film/ChristmasEvil,'' also known as ''You Better Watch Out.'' Or ''Film/SilentNightDeadlyNightIIIBetterWatchOut'' [[RuleOfThree Or]] ''WebOriginal/YouBetterWatchOut.''''Film/SilentNightDeadlyNightIIIBetterWatchOut''.
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* {{Deconstruction}}: Of HomeAloneAntics. One of the film's most memorable traps is replicated as an explicit ShoutOut and given a more "realistic" (read: [[PlayedForHorror bloody and fatal]]) result, and [[spoiler:the "Kevin" stand-in is every bit as psychotic as [[StockParodyJokes the fandom jokes]] tend to paint [=McCallister=] as.]]

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* {{Deconstruction}}: Of HomeAloneAntics. One of the film's most memorable traps is replicated as an explicit ShoutOut and given a more "realistic" (read: [[PlayedForHorror bloody and fatal]]) result, and [[spoiler:the "Kevin" stand-in is every bit as psychotic as [[StockParodyJokes the fandom jokes]] jokes tend to paint [=McCallister=] as.]]
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* WalkingSpoiler: Virtually every spoiler on this page concerns one particular character turning out to not be who they cocktail.

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* WalkingSpoiler: Virtually every spoiler on this page concerns one particular character turning out to not be who they cocktail.seem.

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* DecoyProtagonist: The film opens up with Luke and he’s initially presented as the main protagonist of the film, but then focus shifts to his babysitter [[FinalGirl Ashley]] once the invasion kicks off.



* DecoyProtagonist: The film opens up with Luke and he’s initially presented as the main protagonist of the film, but then focus shifts to his babysitter [[FinalGirl Ashley]] once the invasion kicks off.



* TheSociopath: [[spoiler: Luke, big time. He uses superficial charm to hide his sociopathy from everyone else and is shown to be manipulative, getting his best friend to help him stage a home invasion. He shows absolutely no remorse or empathy for those he harms, killing three people, including his friend. He also shows something of an inability to plan ahead; none of his original plans go right, and he is forced to improvise. At one point, he molests Ashley over a game of Truth or Dare; precocious sexuality [[TruthinTelevision is actually one of the early behavior problems typical of a sociopath.]]]]

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* TheSociopath: [[spoiler: Luke, [[spoiler:Luke, big time. He uses superficial charm to hide his sociopathy from everyone else and is shown to be manipulative, getting his best friend to help him stage a home invasion. He shows absolutely no remorse or empathy for those he harms, killing three people, including his friend. He also shows something of an inability to plan ahead; none of his original plans go right, and he is forced to improvise. At one point, he molests Ashley over a game of Truth or Dare; precocious sexuality [[TruthinTelevision is actually one of the early behavior problems typical of a sociopath.]]]]
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* ShooOutTheClowns: Garrett is the film's biggest source of comic relief [[spoiler: and is killed about 3/4ths of the way in]].
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* HypocriticalHumor: A dark example. When Luke and Ashley watch a horror movie on TV, Ashley makes a comment about how stupid it is to go into the attic. Three guesses as to where she goes during the home invasion.

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