History Film / RunHideFight

** Zoe talks to visions of her dead mother.

''Run Hide Fight'' is a 2020 action thriller written and directed by Kyle Rankin and starring Isabel May, Creator/ThomasJane, Creator/RadhaMitchell, Creator/TreatWilliams, and Creator/BarbaraCrampton, whose plot can essentially be pitched as "''Film/DieHard'' [[DieHardOnAnX in a]] [[AxesAtSchool high school shooting]]".

* Foreshadowing:

* BringMyBrownPants: Kip wet himself several years ago, something he's been bullied for ever since.
** The school resource officer wets himself after being threatened by Tristan.

* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Lewis tries to ask Zoe to the prom, causing her to flee the cafeteria into the restroom. This saves her life.

* AdultFear: A school shooting is one of the biggest ones there is.

* PapaWolf: Todd grabs his sniper rifle and bails out his daughter on one occasion.
* PoliceAreUseless: The school's resource officer proves completely ineffectual, and the cops outside are no better.

->''In an [[SpreeKiller active shooter]] situation, you have [[TitleDrop three]] [[DieOrFly options]].''

* ChekhovsGun: Multiple minor details in the beginning come into play as the movie goes on.

* MercyKill: Zoe does this to a deer she shoots while hunting with her father.

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Kip is gunned down when he tries to stop Tristan and Chris]]

Zoe Hull is our everyman, a 17-year-old {{high school}} student raised by her ex-military outdoorsman father Todd, her mother Jennifer having recently [[MissingMom passed away from cancer]]. On a seemingly ordinary day at Vernon Central High School, her life and those of everybody around her are turned upside down when a van crashes into the cafeteria and four of her classmates -- the charismatic sociopath leader Tristan, the long-suffering bullying victim Kip, the mentally unstable Chris, and the moody goth girl Anna -- start murdering people before taking the entire school hostage. Zoe, who was in the bathroom when the shooting started, has a chance to escape, but instead, driven by instinct, she runs right back in to take the fight to the killers and save the school.

-->''In an [[SpreeKiller active shooter]] situation, you have [[TitleDrop three]] [[DieOrFly options]].''

'''''Run Hide Fight''''' is a 2020 action thriller written and directed by Kyle Rankin and starring Isabel May, Creator/ThomasJane, Creator/RadhaMitchell, Creator/TreatWilliams, and Creator/BarbaraCrampton in a DieHardOnAnX plot -- specifically, what many people dream of doing if they get caught in a [[AxesAtSchool school shooting]].

Zoe Hull is a 17-year-old HighSchool student raised by her ex-military outdoorsman father Todd, her mother Jennifer having recently [[MissingMom passed away from cancer]]. On a seemingly ordinary day at Vernon Central High School, her life and those of everybody around her are turned upside down when a van crashes into the cafeteria and four of her classmates -- the charismatic sociopath leader Tristan, the long-suffering bullying victim Kip, the mentally unstable Chris, and the moody goth girl Anna -- start murdering people before taking the entire school hostage. Zoe, who was in the bathroom when the shooting started, has a chance to escape, but instead, driven by instinct, she runs right back in to take the fight to the killers and save the school.

Originally produced by Cinestate, it was picked up by Creator/BenShapiro's news website ''The Daily Wire'' for distribution after Cinestate collapsed in a sexual assault scandal, making it their first foray into film. It premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September 2020, and on ''The Daily Wire''[='=]s website on January 14, 2021.

* CrazyPrepared: [[spoiler:Tristan's escape plan was to pick a victim close enough to be mistaken for him and blow them up, rendering them unrecognizable, while taking their outfit and escaping with the other survivors. Unfortunately for him, Zoe spots him attempting to get away and guns him down before he can escape]].

** Zoe lays down on the floor and poses as one of the killers' many victims when one of them walks by.

* WhyDontYaJustShootHim: At one point, Tristan gets Zoe to surrender herself to him by threatening to murder hostages if she doesn't come to the cafeteria unarmed. Despite her representing a significant threat, he decides not to immediately kill her because he thinks it would be "bad for ratings."

* BiTheWay: Tristan and Anna are lovers, while Anna's brother Chris is also in love with him. Whether Tristan has genuine feelings for Chris or is just manipulating his fragile state of mind is never clarified in the film.

** Tristan switches clothes with a student and then blows him up so the body won't be identified immediately.

* HeroicSacrifice: The cafeteria lady stands up to get caught by one of the shooters so Zoe won't be.

* NewMediaAreEvil: Tristan believes that, in the age of social media, everybody has proclaimed themselves judge and jury, so he's gonna be the executioner. He orders Lewis to livestream the massacre, and when he finds out that he has become the number one trending topic, he says "about time."

* TooDumbToLive: The cafeteria lady who goes to confront one of the killers feels the need to scold him.
-->"You should be ashamed-" ''[[KilledMidSentence <BLAM>]]''

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* AttentionWhore: A not-insignificant part of Tristan's plan is to become famous by killing people.

* FakingTheDead: Zoe lays down on the floor and poses as one of the killers' many victims when one of them walks by.

* MissingMom: Jennifer Hull.

* TooDumbToLive: The cafeteria lady who goes to confront one of the killers.

* NewMediaAreEvil: Tristan believes that, in the age of social media, everybody has proclaimed themselves judge and jury, so he's gonna be the executioner. When he finds out that he and his massacre have become the number one trending topic, he says "about time."