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* BareMidriffsAreFeminine: Lola is far less {{Tomboy}}ish than Casey and wears several tank tops that stop well above her navel.
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* BareYourMidriff: Lola wears several tank tops that stop well above her navel.
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It was followed by Attack ''Attack of the Sabretooth Sabretooth'' in 2005.
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** The MadScientist who made the sabretooth gets between the hunter she hired to catch it when he makes it clear he'll kill it instead. She orders it to "Run!" [[WhatAnIdiot It eats her instead.]]
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** The MadScientist who made the sabretooth gets between the hunter she hired to catch it when he makes it clear he'll kill it instead. She orders it to "Run!" [[WhatAnIdiot It eats her instead.]]
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* HeroicSacrifice: One of the campers tries fighting the sabretooth with [[KnifeNut two big honking knives]] to give the last two a chance to run. They get away; he doesn't.
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* HeroicSacrifice: One of the campers tries fighting the sabretooth with [[KnifeNut two big honking knives]] knives to give the last two a chance to run. They get away; he doesn't.
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* LingerieScene: Lola asks Trent to play hide-and-go-seek. Before leaving, she strips down to her bra from the waist up to give him incentive to look for her.
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* GoodBadGirl: Lola is a provocatively dressed girl who admits that she used to hang out with a bad crowd and propositions Trent by stripping down to her bra and daring him to play hide-and-seek. However, she's pretty nice for the most part, and, after picking up on the tension between Trent and Casey, she makes sure they aren't still together before hitting on Trent.
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* BareYourMidriff: Lola wears several tank tops that stop well above her navel.
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* CreepyGasStationAttendant: The man transporting the tiger stops at a gas station run by two brothers covered in oil stains. One of the brothers never talks and looks up directly at the sun at one point. Ultimately though, the two are unrelated to any of the movie's horror and get subjected to a JumpScare by the real menace.
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* FunTShirt:
** Zoology grad student Kara wears a t-shirt that says, "extinction sucks."
** Lola often wears a fun tank top that has a stop sign and the words "Danger: Hottie."
** Zoology grad student Kara wears a t-shirt that says, "extinction sucks."
** Lola often wears a fun tank top that has a stop sign and the words "Danger: Hottie."
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* GotVolunteered: Jason and Lola were both ordered to become hiking guides for underprivileged kids by their respective mothers due to Jason's computer game addiction and Lola hanging with a bad crowd. Jason complains about it some, while Lola doesn't seem to mind until the tiger shows up.
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* MurderByInaction: Catherine callously kicks away a badly wounded survivor of the monster's attack on the cabin as the woman begs for help and then doesn't tell anyone else about seeing her, so they won't abandon the search to get the hurt woman medical attention.
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* WouldHitAGirl: Thatcher strikes Catherine for secretly unloading his rifle before he went to go face the sabretooth.
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* WouldHitAGirl: Thatcher rightfully strikes Catherine for secretly unloading his rifle before he went to go face the sabretooth.
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* BlatantLies: To get Thatcher to hunt the beast without any questions, Catherine and Bricklin tell him it's just an escaped African lion. To be fair, it certainly would sound more plausible to someone not in on the secret cloning experiments and holds up until he manages to see the cat at a distant and sees the teeth.
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* BlatantLies: To get Thatcher to hunt the beast without any questions, Catherine and Bricklin tell him it's just an escaped African lion. To be fair, it certainly would sound more plausible to someone not in on the secret cloning experiments and holds up until he manages to see the cat at a distant distance and sees the teeth.
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* ConspicuousCG: Several shots of the sabretooth and humans in the same shot together leave it looking ''very'' cartoony. Also really clashes with the admittedly pretty good puppet and animatronic.
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[[caption-width-right:350:"It could be right behind me and I wouldn't even know it!" [[note]](Speaker is immediately pounced and mauled.)[[/note]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"It could be right behind me and I wouldn't even know it!" [[note]](Speaker is immediately pounced and mauled.)[[/note]]]]
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In the film, using fossilized DNA, a scientist clones a prehistoric saber-toothed tiger. As the fearsome creature is being transported, it breaks free and begins stalking human prey. It first kills two vacationers, then begins to hunt a group of young hikers and campers in the nearby forest mountains. The scientist who created it and her colleague call in a big game hunter and tracker, to find the animal, tricking him into believing it is an African lion.
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In the film, using fossilized DNA, a scientist clones a prehistoric saber-toothed tiger.cat. As the fearsome creature is being transported, it breaks free and begins stalking human prey. It first kills two vacationers, then begins to hunt a group of young hikers and campers in the nearby forest mountains. The scientist who created it and her colleague call in a big game hunter and tracker, to find the animal, tricking him into believing it is an African lion.
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* BlatantLies: To get Thatcher to hunt the beast without any questions, Catherine and Bricklin tell him it's just an escaped African lion. To be fair, it certainly would sound more plausible to someone not in on the secret cloning experiments and holds up until he manages to see the cat at a distant and sees the teeth.
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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: How the sabretooth gets killed. With a homemade spear, no less.
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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: How the sabretooth gets killed. With a homemade spear, no less. Conversely it kills one camper by biting her in the head and stabbing its massive teeth in through one side of her skull and out the other.
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Never to be confused with [[ComicBook/{{Sabretooth}} the comic book character]] of the same name.
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* ConspicuousCG: Several shots of the sabretooth and humans in the same shot together leave it looking''very'' cartoony. Also really clashes with the admittedly pretty good puppet and animatronic.
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* ConspicuousCGI: ConspicuousCG: Several shots of the sabretooth and humans in the same shot together leave it looking''very'' cartoony. Also really clashes with the admittedly pretty good puppet and animatronic.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Catherine to her team. Thatcher is the heroic hunter out to kill the beast. Kara is a well-meaning and idealistic zoologist. Bricklin is corrupt, but he at least acknowledges how wrong this situation gets. Catherine, though, actively downplays the deaths her creation has caused, ignores a dying victim pleading for help, and sabotages Thatcher's best opportunity to kill the sabretooth.
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* TokenEvilTeammate: Catherine to her team. Thatcher is the heroic hunter out to kill the beast. Kara is a well-meaning and idealistic zoologist. Bricklin is corrupt, but he at least acknowledges how wrong this situation gets. Catherine, though, actively downplays the deaths her creation has caused, ignores a dying victim pleading for help, and sabotages Thatcher's best opportunity to kill the sabretooth.
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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Averted. The one black character is one of the last to die. He even goes down in a HeroicSacrifice instead of being casually picked off.
* BlatantLies: To get Thatcher to hunt the beast without any questions, Catherine and Bricklin tell him it's just an escaped African lion.
* BlatantLies: To get Thatcher to hunt the beast without any questions, Catherine and Bricklin tell him it's just an escaped African lion.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Anthony Bricklin is primarily motivated by the financial and political benefits of Catherine's project, as well as the legal fallout if the killings are traced back to him.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Most victims die in prolonged agony.
* CutLexLuthorACheck: Averted. The point of this was to perfect cloning technology, as that would be financially and professionally beneficial.
* DirtyCoward: Bricklin spends much of the hunt fearing for himself and demanding the others protect him.
* DisposableVagrant: A poor janitor has the misfortune of encountering the sabretooth at the lab. This was covered up, and Catherine later justifies it by saying the guy was a loner with no ties to anyone.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Most victims die in prolonged agony.
* CutLexLuthorACheck: Averted. The point of this was to perfect cloning technology, as that would be financially and professionally beneficial.
* DirtyCoward: Bricklin spends much of the hunt fearing for himself and demanding the others protect him.
* DisposableVagrant: A poor janitor has the misfortune of encountering the sabretooth at the lab. This was covered up, and Catherine later justifies it by saying the guy was a loner with no ties to anyone.
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* PragmaticVillainy: Bricklin wants the sabretooth recaptured before more people die--not for moral reasons, but because of the legal fallout if any of this gets back to him.
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* TokenEvilTeammate: Catherine to her team. Thatcher is the heroic hunter out to kill the beast. Kara is a well-meaning and idealistic zoologist. Bricklin is corrupt, but he at least acknowledges how wrong this situation gets. Catherine, though, actively downplays the deaths her creation has caused, ignores a dying victim pleading for help, and sabotages Thatcher's best opportunity to kill the sabretooth.
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* WouldHitAGirl: Thatcher strikes Catherine for secretly unloading his rifle before he went to go face the sabretooth.
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* TemptingFate: TemptingFate:
** One victim is out looking for her pet while the sabretooth is stalking around, saying "Here kitty-kitty-kitty!" right before it pounces.
** The MadScientist who made the sabretooth gets between the hunter she hired to catch it when he makes it clear he'll kill it instead. She orders it to "Run!" [[WhatAnIdiot It eats her instead.]]
** One victim is out looking for her pet while the sabretooth is stalking around, saying "Here kitty-kitty-kitty!" right before it pounces.
** The MadScientist who made the sabretooth gets between the hunter she hired to catch it when he makes it clear he'll kill it instead. She orders it to "Run!" [[WhatAnIdiot It eats her instead.]]
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* ClicheStorm: The CorruptCorporateExecutive who paid for it, the MadScientist who protects her 'baby' [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters until it kills her]], dumb horny generic teen campers who get killed one by one, [[TooDumbToLive only the heroes have a working survival instinct]]... Not a lot of originality in this film.
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* TurnedAgainstTheirCreator: The MadScientist who made the sabretooth tries to save her murderous creation from being shot. [[ForegoneConclusion It promptly drags her off and eats her.]] [[SarcasmMode Bet you didn't see that one coming.]]
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* TurnedAgainstTheirCreator: TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: The MadScientist who made the sabretooth tries to save her murderous creation from being shot. [[ForegoneConclusion It promptly drags her off and eats her.]] [[SarcasmMode Bet you didn't see that one coming.]]
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* TurnedAgainstTheirCreator: The MadScientist who made the sabretooth tries to save her murderous creation from being shot. [[ForegoneConclusion It promptly drags her off and eats her.]] [[SarcasmMode Bet you didn't see that one coming.]]
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Sabretooth is a Syfy Channel Original movie from 2002. It features Josh Holloway in one of his earliest film roles.
In the film, using fossilized DNA, a scientist clones a prehistoric saber-toothed tiger. As the fearsome creature is being transported, it breaks free and begins stalking human prey. It first kills two vacationers, then begins to hunt a group of young hikers and campers in the nearby forest mountains. The scientist who created it and her colleague call in a big game hunter and tracker, to find the animal, tricking him into believing it is an African lion.
It was followed by Attack of the Sabretooth in 2005.
! The film features the following tropes:
* ClicheStorm
* ConspicuousCG
* {{Gorn}} The deaths are quite gory at times.
* GoryDiscretionShot
* HeroicSacrifice
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice
* PrecisionFStrike
* SpecialEffectsFailure: While the effects are not as bad as they could be for a Syfy movie, the CGI model and the animatronic model look nothing like one another.
* TemptingFate
* TooDumbToLive: There are several examples throughout the film.
In the film, using fossilized DNA, a scientist clones a prehistoric saber-toothed tiger. As the fearsome creature is being transported, it breaks free and begins stalking human prey. It first kills two vacationers, then begins to hunt a group of young hikers and campers in the nearby forest mountains. The scientist who created it and her colleague call in a big game hunter and tracker, to find the animal, tricking him into believing it is an African lion.
It was followed by Attack of the Sabretooth in 2005.
! The film features the following tropes:
* ClicheStorm
* ConspicuousCG
* {{Gorn}} The deaths are quite gory at times.
* GoryDiscretionShot
* HeroicSacrifice
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice
* PrecisionFStrike
* SpecialEffectsFailure: While the effects are not as bad as they could be for a Syfy movie, the CGI model and the animatronic model look nothing like one another.
* TemptingFate
* TooDumbToLive: There are several examples throughout the film.
