History Film / Savaged

* ShoutOut: Several to Film/TheCrow, like the basic premise. There's also the scene where Zoe wraps her forearms and midsection in duct tape in an attempt to fix her wounds. Chief Red Sleeves's war paint also certainly counts.

* RightBehindMe: Jed is sitting the bar describing everything he did to Zoe (in the form of a hypothetical situation) when Zoe walks in behind him. He keeps talking for some time before Colby's horrified expression clues him in that something is wrong.

** Zoe has Trey, leader of the gang of rednecks who raped and murdered her.

* BeatStillMyHeart: During the showdown at the mine, Zoe kills [[spoiler:Wes]], and then emerges from behind cover and extends his still beating heart towards [[spoiler:Trey]].
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted. [[spoiler:By the end of the movie, Zoe is a rotting, maggot-infested mess barely held together by duct tape and the pissed-off ghost of an Apache chieftain.]]

* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:Zoe unwraps the crude bandages around her wrists and sees maggots crawling in her rotting flesh. Her horrified screams make it even worse.]]

* CarFu: Trey and his gang use their pickup to run down a couple of Indians: a crime which Zoe witnesses. Later, they run over Zoe after she thrown from the back of the truck.

* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Zoe starts off badass enough to pull her hands out of barb-wire binds. Then she gets possessed by the ghost of an Apache chief, and becomes strong enough to [[GrievousBottleyHarm disembowel a man with a broken bottle]].

* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler:Following the final battle, Zoe has been cut in half at the waist by Trey's [[ChainsawGood chainsaw]], but--being a RevenantZombie--still cannot die.]]

* HistoricalCharactersFictionalRelative: Trey is a descendant of Brigadier General Joseph R. West, the US officer who infamously murdered Apache leader Mangas Coloradas under a flag of truce, and allowed the decapitation and desecration of his body. Trey keeps Mangas' skull in a cupboard and is attempting to follow in his ancestor's footsteps as a killer of Indians.

* MalignedMixedMarriage: The rednecks are ''very'' disapproving of Zoe, who's white, being with Dane, her black fiancee. After they meet him, some cruelly joke that she must be colorblind.
* MercyKill: [[spoiler:At the end of the movie, Dane finds Zoe, now HalfTheWomanSheUsedToBe but still unable to die, feebly trying to bury herself. To release her tortured soul, he [[KillItWithFire incinerates her remains]].]]
* MonsterFromBeyondTheVeil: A MagicalNativeAmerican attempts to bring Zoe back from the dead. He succeeds, but she returns with a passenger: the angry Ghost of the Apache chief Mangas Coloradas. The ghost sends her on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against both the men who raped and killed her, and the descendants of the general who murdered him under a flag of truce.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: These are spirits who resemble their living forms surrounded by green gas, and interact with the world by possessing dead bodies.

* PragmaticVillainy: Trey wants to keep Zoe as a SexSlave, but he kills her because her disappearance will bring extreme heat on him, due to MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome.

* SenseFreak: When deaf girl Zoe is resurrected and possessed by the spirit of an Apache warrior, she discovers that she can now hear. She becomes fascinated by sound, and is especially entranced by an opera singer on the radio.

* ShoutOut: Several to Film/TheCrow, like the basic premise. There's also the scene where Zoe wraps her forearms and midsection in duct tape in an attempt to fix her wounds. Chief Red Sleeves' war paint also certainly counts.
* SlasherFilm: One of the rare slasher films with a sympathetic protagonist, due to the horrible crime committed against her by her victims.

* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:Zoe is burnt to death in a MercyKill.]]

* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:The only way Dane can find to release Zoe from her RevenantZombie state is to burn her to ashes.]]

* PragmaticVillainy: Trey wants to keep Zoe as a SexSlave, but kills her because her disappearance will bring extreme heat on him, due to MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome.

* RacistGrandpa: Colby's father is a Korean War veteran who tells Dane (a black man) that his fiancee probably developed a new appreciation for the white man by being raped by Wes and his redneck cronies.

* WhoNeedsTheirWholeBody: Following the final battle, [[spoiler:Zoe is still functioning despite [[HalfTheManHeUsedTobe having been cut in half]] with a [[ChainsawGood chainsaw]]. She drags herself into an open grave and starts trying to pull the soil down on top of herself. Her fiancé Dane finally preforms a MercyKill by [[KillItWithFire setting fire to her]].]]

* AnAxeToGrind: Mangas Coloradas provides Zoe with a tomahawk that she wields to great effect in the final battle with the rednecks at the mine.

* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:The only way Dane can find to release Zoe from her ReveantZombie state is to burn her to ashes.]]

* CorruptHick: The villains are a bunch of racist rednecks who run Native American people over for fun.

* OneWordTitle

* TwoShotsFromBehindTheBar: When Zoe attacks Jed in the bar, the bartender grabs a shotgun from behind the bar and starts desperately fumbling to load it. It dies him no good.

* MercyKill: [[spoiler:At the end of the movie, Dane finds Zoe, now HalfTheWomanSheUsedTobe but still unable to die, feebly trying to bury herself. To release her tortured soul, he [[KillItWithFire incinerates her remains]].]]

* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler:Following the final battle, Zoe has been cut in half at the waist by Trey's [[ChainsawGood chainsaw]], but--being a RevenantZobie--still cannot die.]]

* HistoricalCharactersFictionalRelative: Trey is a descendant of Brigadier General Joseph R. West, the US officer who infamously murdered Apache leader Mangas Coloradas under a flag of truce, and allowed the decapitation and desecration of his body. Trey keeps Mangas' skull in a cupboard and is attempting to follow in his ancestor's footsteps as killer of Indians.

* MonsterFromBeyondTheVeil: MagicalNativeAmerican attempts to bring Zoe back from the dead. He succeeds, but she returns with a passenger: the angry Ghost of the Apache chief Mangas Coloradas. The ghost sends her on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against both the men who raped and killed her, and the descendants of the general who murdered him under a flag of truce.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The rednecks are very racist, calling Native Americans "savages" and "gut-eaters" and assuming Zoe is colorblind because she's dating a black man.

* ShoutOut: several to Film/TheCrow, like the basic premise. There's also the scene where Zoe wraps her forearms and midsection in duct tape in an attempt to fix her wounds. Chief Red Sleeves' war paint also certainly counts.

A deaf girl is murdered by rednecks. An Apache spirit possesses her body and hunts them down one by one.

* HistoricalCharactersFictionalRelative: Trey is a descendant of Brigadier General Joseph R. West; the Indian who infamously murdered Apache leader Mangas Coloradas under a flag of truce, and allowed the decapitation and desecration of his body. Trey keeps Mangas' skull in a cupboard and is attempting to follow in his ancestor's footsteps as killer of Indians.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The rednecks are very racist, calling Native Americans "savages" and "gut-eaters" and assuming Zoe is colourblind because she's dating a black man.