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* WorstWeddingEver: What is supposed to be the happiest day of Michael and Monika's lives quickly turns into a nightmare when the organ traffickers show up and kidnap the former.
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* TheBigRottenApple: The climax takes place in New York City, where [[spoiler:Dr. Jackson's]] vehicle is chased through a particularly dilapidated-looking part of town before finally being [[spoiler:run off a bridge]].

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You can view the original film [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y30Ywabwm8c here]][[note]]Video is in German, English subtitles not included[[/note]].
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* TheBigRottenApple: The climax takes place in New York City, where Dr. Jackson's [[spoiler:Dr. Jackson's]] vehicle is chased through a particularly dilapidated-looking part of town before finally being [[spoiler:run off a bridge]].
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* TheBigRottenApple: The climax takes place in New York City, where Dr. Jackson's vehicle is chased through the city's dilapidated-looking streets before finally being [[spoiler:run off a bridge]].

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%% DeathByAmbulance* DeathByAmbulance: The organleggers use an old Dodge ambulance to kidnap their victims and steal their organs.
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%% RoadTripPlot* RoadTripPlot: Much of the film has Bill and Monika travelling across the highways of the American southwest in order to rescue the latter's kidnapped husband.



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* NotableOriginalMusic: Ronnie Lee Williams sings the film's theme song, "How Much Is Anyone Worth?"
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* BookEnds: The remake ends with a scene of the same woman who set the tourists up for the kidnapping and OrganTheft selling another cheap vacation to another pair of tourists.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Here, the BigBad is Dr. Geyer (one letter away from ''Geier'', the German word for "[[AnimalMotifs Vulture]]"), with Dr. Jackson being ForcedIntoEvil instead.
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* {{Novelization}}: There exists a novelized form of the film, written by the director himself.
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* SettingUpdate: Whereas the original film took place in America, the remake takes place in South Africa.

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* SettingUpdate: Whereas the plot of the original film took place in America, the plot of the remake takes place in South Africa.

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* EveryCarIsAPinto: Averted; when Dr. Jackson's vehicle [[spoiler:falls off a bridge]] in the finale, it doesn't go up like a tinderbox but simply smashes onto the street below.

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* EveryCarIsAPinto: Averted; when Dr. Jackson's [[spoiler:Dr. Jackson's]] vehicle [[spoiler:falls falls off a bridge]] bridge in the finale, it doesn't go up like a tinderbox but simply smashes onto the street below.
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''Fleisch'', also known as ''Spare Parts'', is a 1979 West German made-for-television medical thriller/road movie directed by Rainer Erler and starring Jutta Speidel, Herbert Herrmann, and Wolf Roth.

A newly married couple, Michael and Monika (Herrmann and Speidel), are spending their honeymoon in the southwestern United States. Suddenly, the unbelievable happens: Michael is kidnapped and assaulted by paramedics in an ambulance. Monika escapes at the last minute, and is picked up by truck driver Bill (Roth). Together they embark on the search for the kidnapped husband, and encounter a dangerous and perfectly organized syndicate that supplies the world's wealthy customers with [[OrganTheft organs stolen from young, healthy people]].

Remade in 2007, with Sebastian Ströbel and Theresa Scholze in the leading roles.

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!!The original film provides examples of:

%% AuctionOfEvil
* BigBad: Dr. Jackson, head of the organ smuggling ring.
%% TheBigRottenApple: Where the climax takes place.
* DeadlyEuphemism: "We bring meat for Dr. Jackson."
* DoubleMeaningTitle: The German title can translate as either "meat" or "flesh."
* EveryCarIsAPinto: Averted; when Dr. Jackson's vehicle [[spoiler:falls off a bridge]] in the finale, it doesn't go up like a tinderbox but simply smashes onto the street below.
* {{Fanservice}}: During the lovemaking scene in the hotel, we are treated to some very nice shots of Michael and Monika's nude bodies ([[MaleGaze but mostly Monika's]]).
* FanDisservice:
** It's kind of hard to appreciate seeing a beautiful twenty-something woman[[note]]Speidel was 25 at the time of filming[[/note]] clad in only her underwear when she's running for her life from armed organ traffickers.
** Later in the film, we see a rather unattractive man stripped down to ''his'' underwear by the truckers.
* HellHotel: The organ traffickers use the local fleabag hotel to capture their victims.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: After the truckers manage to corner the organleggers' van, one of the truckers strips the van's driver down to his underwear and places him in a refrigerated meat trailer in order to get him to reveal the smuggling ring's base of operations.
* NotableOriginalMusic: Ronnie Lee Williams sings the film's theme song, "How Much Is Anyone Worth?"
* OrganTheft: The main plot revolves around people being kidnapped, drugged, and having their organs sold to the highest bidder.
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* SettingUpdate: Whereas the plot of the original film took place in America, the plot of the remake takes place in South Africa.

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