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Dead Night is a [[{{Main/Horror}} horror]] film released in 2017. It follows mother Casey Pollock (Brea Grant), who is traveling with her husband James (AJ Bowen), son Jason (Joshua Hoffman), daughter Jessica (Sophie Dalah), and her daughter's friend Becky (Elise Luthman) to a getaway in the woods to help treat James's cancer. In the woods, the family encounter a strange woman named Leslie who proceeds to turn the one of them into a reanimated corpse monster, jump-starting a horrifying series of events.

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Dead Night is a [[{{Main/Horror}} horror]] film released in 2017. It follows mother Casey Pollock (Brea Grant), (Creator/BreaGrant), who is traveling with her husband James (AJ Bowen), (Creator/AJBowen), son Jason (Joshua Hoffman), (Creator/JoshuaHoffman), daughter Jessica (Sophie Dalah), (Creator/SophieDalah), and her daughter's friend Becky (Elise Luthman) (Creator/EliseLuthman) to a getaway in the woods to help treat James's cancer. In the woods, the family encounter a strange woman named Leslie who proceeds to turn the one of them into a reanimated corpse monster, jump-starting a horrifying series of events.
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Dead Night is a [[{{Main/Horror}} horror]] film released in 2017. It follows mother Casey Pollock (played by Brea Grant), who is traveling with her husband James, son Jason, daughter Jessica and her daughter's friend Becky to a getaway in the woods to help treat James's cancer. In the woods, the family encounter a strange woman named Leslie who proceeds to turn the one of them into a reanimated corpse monster, jump-starting a horrifying series of events.

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Dead Night is a [[{{Main/Horror}} horror]] film released in 2017. It follows mother Casey Pollock (played by Brea (Brea Grant), who is traveling with her husband James, James (AJ Bowen), son Jason, Jason (Joshua Hoffman), daughter Jessica (Sophie Dalah), and her daughter's friend Becky (Elise Luthman) to a getaway in the woods to help treat James's cancer. In the woods, the family encounter a strange woman named Leslie who proceeds to turn the one of them into a reanimated corpse monster, jump-starting a horrifying series of events.
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Dead Night is a [[{{Main/Horror}} horror]] film released in 2017. It follows mother Casey Pollock who is traveling with her husband James, son Jason, daughter Jessica and her daughter's friend Becky to a getaway in the woods to help treat James's cancer. In the woods, the family encounter a strange woman named Leslie who proceeds to turn the one of them into a reanimated corpse monster, jump-starting a horrifying series of events.

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Dead Night is a [[{{Main/Horror}} horror]] film released in 2017. It follows mother Casey Pollock (played by Brea Grant), who is traveling with her husband James, son Jason, daughter Jessica and her daughter's friend Becky to a getaway in the woods to help treat James's cancer. In the woods, the family encounter a strange woman named Leslie who proceeds to turn the one of them into a reanimated corpse monster, jump-starting a horrifying series of events.

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Dead Night is a [[{{Main/Horror}} horror]] film released in 2017. It follows mother Casey Pollock who is traveling with her husband James, son Jason, daughter Jessica and her daughter's friend Becky to a remote getaway in the woods to help treat James's cancer. In the woods, the family encounter a strange woman named Leslie who proceeds to turn the first of them into a zombified monster.
The film has shares things in common with the Franchise/EvilDead franchise, those being a sharp weapon wielding hero forced to dismember those that they hold dear who have been reanimated as killers to the classic backdrop of a cabin in the woods. It also has its own spin on things — with a sinister group utilizing the visitors for their own machinations.

Has nothing to do with the similarly titled work Film/DeadOfNight.

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Dead Night is a [[{{Main/Horror}} horror]] film released in 2017. It follows mother Casey Pollock who is traveling with her husband James, son Jason, daughter Jessica and her daughter's friend Becky to a remote getaway in the woods to help treat James's cancer. In the woods, the family encounter a strange woman named Leslie who proceeds to turn the first one of them into a zombified monster.
reanimated corpse monster, jump-starting a horrifying series of events.

The film has shares things in common with the Franchise/EvilDead franchise, those being a sharp weapon wielding hero forced to dismember those that they hold dear who have been reanimated as killers to the classic backdrop of a cabin in the woods. It also has its own spin on things — with a sinister group utilizing the visitors for their own machinations.

Has nothing Not to do be confused with the similarly titled work Film/DeadOfNight.


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* AnimateDead: A shard of magic stone to the back of the head will get you animated into a homicidal witch servant just fine.
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* FaceFullOfAlienWingWong: It's unclear how the girl in the opening was impregnated, but [[{{HumanoidAbomination}}considering what her offspring]] is, the process was undoubtedly unpleasant.

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* FaceFullOfAlienWingWong: It's unclear how the girl in the opening was impregnated, but [[{{HumanoidAbomination}}considering [[{{HumanoidAbomination}} considering what her offspring]] is, the process was undoubtedly unpleasant.
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* FaceFullOfAlienWingWong: It's unclear how the girl in the opening was impregnated, but [[{{HumanoidAbomination}}considering what her offspring]] is, it was undoubtedly unpleasant.

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* FaceFullOfAlienWingWong: It's unclear how the girl in the opening was impregnated, but [[{{HumanoidAbomination}}considering what her offspring]] is, it the process was undoubtedly unpleasant.
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Dead Night is a [[{{Main/Horror}} horror]] film released in 2017. It follows mother Casey Pollock who is traveling with her husband James, son Jason, daughter Jessica and her daughter's friend Becky to a remote getaway in the woods to help treat James's cancer. In the woods, the family encounter a strange woman named Leslie who proceeds to turn the first of them into a zombified monster.
The film has shares things in common with the Franchise/EvilDead franchise, those being a sharp weapon wielding hero forced to dismember those that they hold dear who have been reanimated as killers to the classic backdrop of a cabin in the woods. It also has its own spin on things — with a sinister group utilizing the visitors for their own machinations.

Has nothing to do with the similarly titled work Film/DeadOfNight.
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*BodyHorror: The fate which befell the girl in the film's opening. See ScreamingBirth below.
** [[spoiler:As well as Becky in the film's {{Stinger}}, although of a much [[{{PainfulTransformation}} different sort.]]]]
*DemonicHeadShake: The first of the family, [[{{AndThenJohnWasAZombie}} upon being turned into a monster.]]
*DontGoInTheWoods: The film takes place in a cabin in the middle of deep dark woods. Unusually, they do have neighbors not too far away albeit useless ones.
*DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Jessica, James and Jason are all dead, Casey has been locked away and made subject to a TrueCrime drama, and Leslie's coven has [[{{TheBadGuyWins}} succeeded in their plans.]]]]
*EvilOldFolks: [[spoiler: Becky's grandmother is revealed near the end to be a member of a coven of old women working with Leslie]] [[spoiler: and had purposely sent her granddaughter to the cabin for a ritual.]]
*FaceFullOfAlienWingWong: It's unclear how the girl in the opening was impregnated, but [[{{HumanoidAbomination}}considering what her offspring]] is, it was undoubtedly unpleasant.
*FetusTerrible: What the girl in the opening was giving birth to. Implied to be the film's antagonist.
*ForegoneConclusion: The film will at times segue into a TrueCrime {{Mockumentary}} format, detailing the aftermath of the night the film takes place in. The only thing left ambiguous is Becky's fate.
*HumanoidAbomination: Implied to be the daughter of the person from the opening, Leslie looks like a normal human woman yet can cast illusions, vanish at will and possesses great brute strength as well as having an inhumanly long tongue. [[spoiler: She seems to have some grander plan for the world as well, possibly making her the AntiChrist or a figure very similar.]]
*MysticalPregnancy: The girl in the opening is abducted by the Crones and is impregnated offscreen with a HumanoidAbomination.
*OrificeInvasion: Implied to be the fate of the woman from the young couple in the opening through Leslie's plans for Becky.
*[[spoiler: PainfulTransformation:]] [[spoiler:In the film's ending, Becky is transformed into a monstrosity, featuring such unpleasantries such as her hair and scalp being pulled out and split, long claws erupting from her hands and extra teeth appearing around her mouth.]]
*SackheadSlasher: The creatures roaming the woods all have sacks over their heads, simulating this trope.
*ScreamingBirth: The woman in the opening is made to give birth by the things lurking in the woods, screaming along the way as the FetusTerrible exaggeratedly moves in her uterus as it is being birthed.
*StakingTheLovedOne: Much like in the above mentioned Franchise/EvilDead, a person is forced to dismember their loved ones to free them from an evil force.
*SurprisinglySuddenDeath: About forty-four minutes into the film, [[spoiler: Jessica]] is killed and reanimated by Leslie without any real warning.
*TerrorAtMakeOutPoint: The film opens with a couple hanging out in the woods inside a car. The man is killed and the woman captured.
*TownWithADarkSecret: More like woods with a dark secret; the cabin is apparently [[spoiler: the epicenter of activity from a society of witches who are planning to get one of their own into office, murders and mutilations a means to an end.]]
*WoundedGazelleGambit: Leslie gets the family to bring her into the cabin by feigning injury, then jump-starts the ritual by killing one of the Pollocks.
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-> ''"I was born and raised in these woods."''
--> -- '''Leslie'''

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