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PC Rachel Heggie (Creator/PollyannaMcIntosh) is a police officer who has recently been transferred to a small town. After arresting a drunk driver for hitting a man with his car, she brings the man, known only as "Six" (Creator/LiamCunningham), back to the police station for questioning. The small staff consists of the aggressive Sgt. Jim [=MacReady=] (Douglas Russell) and lovers PC Jack Warnock (Bryan Larkin) and PC Jennifer Mundie (Hana Standbridge), as well as a couple of prisoners, one of whom is the aforementioned drunk driver. As it turns out, Six has the supernatural ability to sense people’s [[DarkSecret Dark Secrets]] and influence them. It’s going to be one hell of a night...

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PC Rachel Heggie (Creator/PollyannaMcIntosh) is a police officer who has recently been transferred to a small town. After arresting a drunk driver for hitting a man with his car, she brings the man, known only as "Six" (Creator/LiamCunningham), back to the police station for questioning. The small staff consists of the aggressive Sgt. Jim [=MacReady=] (Douglas Russell) (Creator/DouglasRussell) and lovers PC Jack Warnock (Bryan Larkin) and PC Jennifer Mundie (Hana Standbridge), as well as a couple of prisoners, one of whom is the aforementioned drunk driver. As it turns out, Six has the supernatural ability to sense people’s [[DarkSecret Dark Secrets]] and influence them. It’s going to be one hell of a night...

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* FauxAffablyEvil: Dr. Hume, Beswick, and [[spoiler:[=MacCready=]]].

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* FauxAffablyEvil: Dr. Hume, Beswick, and [[spoiler:[=MacCready=]]].[[spoiler:[=MacCready=]]] all act friendly and polite at first, but quickly prove to be utterly monstrous.

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* FinalBoss: [[spoiler:Sgt. [=MacCready=].]]

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* FinalBoss: [[spoiler:Sgt. [=MacCready=].]][=MacCready=]]] serves as the final threat the survivors face after he goes off the deep end.


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* MaskOfSanity: [[spoiler:[=MacReady=] is a jerk from the get-go, but he seems like a fairly stable and religious man. It's eventually revealed he's secretly a serial killer motivated by fundamentalism and sexual sadism. When Six starts playing mind-games with everyone, [=MacReady=] gradually drops the mask and reveals himself to be a raving lunatic.]]
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PC Rachel Heggie (Pollyanna [=McIntosh=]) is a police officer who has recently been transferred to a small town. After arresting a drunk driver for hitting a man with his car, she brings the man, known only as "Six" (Creator/LiamCunningham), back to the police station for questioning. The small staff consists of the aggressive Sgt. Jim [=MacReady=] (Douglas Russell) and lovers PC Jack Warnock (Bryan Larkin) and PC Jennifer Mundie (Hana Standbridge), as well as a couple of prisoners, one of whom is the aforementioned drunk driver. As it turns out, Six has the supernatural ability to sense people’s [[DarkSecret Dark Secrets]] and influence them. It’s going to be one hell of a night...

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PC Rachel Heggie (Pollyanna [=McIntosh=]) (Creator/PollyannaMcIntosh) is a police officer who has recently been transferred to a small town. After arresting a drunk driver for hitting a man with his car, she brings the man, known only as "Six" (Creator/LiamCunningham), back to the police station for questioning. The small staff consists of the aggressive Sgt. Jim [=MacReady=] (Douglas Russell) and lovers PC Jack Warnock (Bryan Larkin) and PC Jennifer Mundie (Hana Standbridge), as well as a couple of prisoners, one of whom is the aforementioned drunk driver. As it turns out, Six has the supernatural ability to sense people’s [[DarkSecret Dark Secrets]] and influence them. It’s going to be one hell of a night...
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* SanitySlippage: Sgt. [=MacCready=] starts to lose it after Six reveals he knows that [[spoiler:he’s a SerialKiller]], and it only gets worse as the film goes on. [[spoiler:At the end, he’s snapped completely and goes on a rampage through the station, determined to kill everyone to “get back in touch with [his] Christian roots.”]]

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* SanitySlippage: Sgt. [=MacCready=] starts to lose it after Six reveals he knows that [[spoiler:he’s [[spoiler:he's a SerialKiller]], and it only gets worse as the film goes on. [[spoiler:At the end, he’s he's snapped completely and goes on a rampage through the station, determined to kill everyone to “get "get back in touch with [his] Christian roots.”]]"]]
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PC Rachel Heggie (Pollyanna [=McIntosh=]) is a police officer who has recently been transferred to a small town. After arresting a drunk driver for hitting a man with his car, she brings the man, known only as "Six" (Creator/LiamCunningham) back to the police station for questioning. The small staff consists of the aggressive Sgt. Jim [=MacReady=] (Douglas Russell) and lovers PC Jack Warnock (Bryan Larkin) and PC Jennifer Mundie (Hana Standbridge), as well as a couple of prisoners, one of whom is the aforementioned drunk driver. As it turns out, Six has the supernatural ability to sense people’s [[DarkSecret Dark Secrets]] and influence them. It’s going to be one hell of a night...

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PC Rachel Heggie (Pollyanna [=McIntosh=]) is a police officer who has recently been transferred to a small town. After arresting a drunk driver for hitting a man with his car, she brings the man, known only as "Six" (Creator/LiamCunningham) (Creator/LiamCunningham), back to the police station for questioning. The small staff consists of the aggressive Sgt. Jim [=MacReady=] (Douglas Russell) and lovers PC Jack Warnock (Bryan Larkin) and PC Jennifer Mundie (Hana Standbridge), as well as a couple of prisoners, one of whom is the aforementioned drunk driver. As it turns out, Six has the supernatural ability to sense people’s [[DarkSecret Dark Secrets]] and influence them. It’s going to be one hell of a night...
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PC Rachel Heggie (Pollyanna [=McIntosh=]) is a police officer who has recently been transferred to a small town. After arresting a drunk driver for hitting a man with his car, she brings the man, known only as “Six” (Creator/LiamCunningham) back to the police station for questioning. The small staff consists of the aggressive Sgt. Jim [=MacReady=] (Douglas Russell) and lovers PC Jack Warnock (Bryan Larkin) and PC Jennifer Mundie (Hana Standbridge), as well as a couple of prisoners, one of whom is the aforementioned drunk driver. As it turns out, Six has the supernatural ability to sense people’s [[DarkSecret Dark Secrets]] and influence them. It’s going to be one hell of a night...

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PC Rachel Heggie (Pollyanna [=McIntosh=]) is a police officer who has recently been transferred to a small town. After arresting a drunk driver for hitting a man with his car, she brings the man, known only as “Six” "Six" (Creator/LiamCunningham) back to the police station for questioning. The small staff consists of the aggressive Sgt. Jim [=MacReady=] (Douglas Russell) and lovers PC Jack Warnock (Bryan Larkin) and PC Jennifer Mundie (Hana Standbridge), as well as a couple of prisoners, one of whom is the aforementioned drunk driver. As it turns out, Six has the supernatural ability to sense people’s [[DarkSecret Dark Secrets]] and influence them. It’s going to be one hell of a night...
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* DaChief: Sgt. [=MacCready=].

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* DaChief: Sgt. [=MacCready=].[=MacCready=] is a particularly unpleasant variant, who eventually turns out to [[spoiler:to be a SerialKiller.]]


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* GodIsGood: [[spoiler:Six’s speeches imply his falling out with God came from God’s disagreement with and horrified reaction to how Six deals with sinners.]]
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* {{Fingore}}: Caeser breaks off one of his own fingernails while scratching his name into the cell floor while under the influence of [[spoiler:Six]].

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* DepravedHomosexual: [[spoiler:[=MacCready=] is, [[HidingBehindReligion underneath his morally uptight Christian façade]], a perverted serial killer with a taste for young men. Six implies that he hates what he is, since it conflicts with his beliefs]].



* {{Satan}}: [[spoiler:Six.]]


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* SatanIsGood: [[spoiler:Six is much more in line with Satan's role as a prosecutor, only ever punishing and claiming the souls of the wicked. However, [[GoodIsNotSoft he is]] ''[[GoodIsNotSoft not]]'' [[GoodIsNotSoft soft at all]] in his punishments]].
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Everyone who dies in the film were horrible people through and through and had crossed the [[invoked]] MoralEventHorizon.]]

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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Everyone who dies in the film were horrible people through and through and had crossed the [[invoked]] MoralEventHorizon.]]
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* LargeHam: [[spoiler:[=MacCready=], after he completely loses his mind, loses his earlier calm demeanor and goes into full, hammy ranting and screaming quotes from the Bible at the top of his lungs.]]

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* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: [[spoiler:Heggie joins Six as an agent of vengeance.]]



* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:A crazed [=MacCready=] covers himself in barbed wire when he goes in a rampage in the station.]]



* FireAndBrimstoneHell: [[spoiler:Six alludes to this after a crazed [=MacCready=] sets the station ablaze, saying he finds his surroundings comfortable.]]



* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Dr. Hume]] has his ''face'' impaled on a table leg by [[spoiler:Warnock.]]

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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Dr. Hume]] has his ''face'' impaled on a table leg leg by [[spoiler:Warnock.]]



* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Heggie is cold, but she’s a good person and cop who proves to be benevolent and heroic to a fault.



* SerialKiller: [[spoiler:[=MacCready=] is revealed to be one, targeting and murdering gay men to fulfill his perverted desires.]]

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* SerialKiller: [[spoiler:[=MacCready=] is revealed to be one, targeting and murdering gay men to fulfill his perverted desires.]]
* YourSoulIsMine: [[spoiler:Six claims the souls of everyone at the station except for Heggie at the end.
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* DaChief: Sgt. [=MacCready=].



* DomesticAbuse: Beswick beats his loving wife repeatedly, which he claims to be his way of “maintaining the natural order”. Six calls him out on his bullshit, and upon sensing his regret, tries to get him to redeem himself and admit to his real reasons for abusing her, but after he starts blaming his students for it instead, [[spoiler:Six [[PsychicAssistedSuicide makes him kill himself.]]

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* DeadlyDoctor: Dr. Hume, who murdered his family both ForTheEvulz and so that he could capture the human soul. It’s pretty clear he’s lost it.
* DomesticAbuse: Beswick beats his loving wife repeatedly, which he claims to be his way of “maintaining the natural order”. Six calls him out on his bullshit, and upon sensing his regret, tries to get him to redeem himself and admit to his real reasons for abusing her, but after he starts blaming his students for it instead, [[spoiler:Six [[PsychicAssistedSuicide makes him kill himself.]]]]]]



* FinalBoss: [[spoiler:Sgt. [=MacCready=].]]
* GlasgowGrin: [[spoiler:Caesar]] after having his face shoved into a belt sander by [[spoiler:[=MacReady=].]]



* {{Jerkass}}: While not coming off as this initially, due to Six revealing he knows of their crimes, Mundie and [=MacCready=] turn into these and start harassing and bullying Heggie for no real reason.

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* GroinAttack: [[spoiler:After fatally wounding Warnock, [=MacCready=] shoots him in the balls, apparently out of spite.]]
* HeelFaceDoorSlam: Caesar. [[spoiler:Six offers him redemption by revealing the woman he hit with his car is still alive and he can still save her, but Caesar is to cowardly to do so until she’s dead, condemning him to death and an eternity in Hell.]]
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Dr. Hume]] has his ''face'' impaled on a table leg by [[spoiler:Warnock.]]
* ImpromptuTracheotomy: [[spoiler:An unhinged [=MacCready=] shoots Warnock in the throat.]]
* NobleDemon: Six. [[spoiler:[[{{Satan}} Literally]].]]
* {{Jerkass}}: While not coming off as this initially, due to Six revealing he knows of their crimes, Mundie and Sgt. [=MacCready=] turn into these and start harassing and bullying Heggie for no real reason.reason.
* {{Satan}}: [[spoiler:Six.]]
* SanitySlippage: Sgt. [=MacCready=] starts to lose it after Six reveals he knows that [[spoiler:he’s a SerialKiller]], and it only gets worse as the film goes on. [[spoiler:At the end, he’s snapped completely and goes on a rampage through the station, determined to kill everyone to “get back in touch with [his] Christian roots.”]]
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* AffablyEvil: Six is polite, friendly, and snarky, and though it is questionable as to what extent he can be considered ''evil'', he’s definitely amoral. Oh, and [[spoiler:he’s {{Satan}}.]]
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Everyone who dies in the film were horrible people through and through and had crossed the [[invoked]] MoralEventHorizon.]]
* AxCrazy: Dr. Hume and [[spoiler:Sgt. [=MacReady=]]], the latter of whom only gets worse as the film goes on.
* BeneathTheMask: Pretty much everyone has their masks peeled away by Six to reveal their true selves, and Heggie is the only one who comes out revealed as a good person. Lampshades by [[spoiler:[=MacCready=]]], who admits to having used his Christianity as a cover.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Dr. Hume and and the rest of the cops in the station aside from Heggie.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Heggie was kidnapped and abused as a young girl for months, until she finally escaped, which is one for the reasons she became a cop. [[spoiler:Six notes that, no matter how much she tries lying to herself, she became a cop to punish wicked people like her kidnapper.]]
* DirtyCop:
** [[spoiler:Sgt. [=MacCready=] is a SerialKiller who murders gay men to fulfill his own perverted desires.]]
** [[spoiler:Mundie and Warnock murdered a man for an unknown crime as vigilante justice. Later, Warnock murders Dr. Hume for his horrific crimes, and decide to initially frame Heggie for it and then decide to just kill her and everyone left in the station to cover it up.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Six.
* DomesticAbuse: Beswick beats his loving wife repeatedly, which he claims to be his way of “maintaining the natural order”. Six calls him out on his bullshit, and upon sensing his regret, tries to get him to redeem himself and admit to his real reasons for abusing her, but after he starts blaming his students for it instead, [[spoiler:Six [[PsychicAssistedSuicide makes him kill himself.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil: Dr. Hume, Beswick, and [[spoiler:[=MacCready=]]].
* {{Gorn}}: There’s plenty of gory, over the top deaths.
* {{Jerkass}}: While not coming off as this initially, due to Six revealing he knows of their crimes, Mundie and [=MacCready=] turn into these and start harassing and bullying Heggie for no real reason.
* SerialKiller: [[spoiler:[=MacCready=] is revealed to be one, targeting and murdering gay men to fulfill his perverted desires.]]
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''Let Us Prey'' is a 2013 British-Irish horror film directed by Brian O'Malley, and is one of the few horror films set in Scotland.

PC Rachel Heggie (Pollyanna [=McIntosh=]) is a police officer who has recently been transferred to a small town. After arresting a drunk driver for hitting a man with his car, she brings the man, known only as “Six” (Creator/LiamCunningham) back to the police station for questioning. The small staff consists of the aggressive Sgt. Jim [=MacReady=] (Douglas Russell) and lovers PC Jack Warnock (Bryan Larkin) and PC Jennifer Mundie (Hana Standbridge), as well as a couple of prisoners, one of whom is the aforementioned drunk driver. As it turns out, Six has the supernatural ability to sense people’s [[DarkSecret Dark Secrets]] and influence them. It’s going to be one hell of a night...

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