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* [[spoiler: KarmaHoudini: ''Possibly'' with Charlie. Who spends most, if not ''all'' the film simply [[BystanderSyndrome refusing to get involved with Zach or Josh over the incident and pretends nothing happened]]. However considering we don't see Zach nor Josh in the end of the film, there's a possibility also is also investigated]].
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* ChekhovsGun: Allison writes her new number on Zach's cast. [[spoiler:The sight of him helps him discover that Josh called Allison and is on his way to visit her.]]
* DesecratingTheDead: [[spoiler:Zach returns to Daryl's body and notices that some of his fingers are missing, making him realize that Josh returned to mutilate his body.]]
* OhCrap: [[spoiler:Zach, after slowly realizing what Josh's plan is after discovering he took the katana back and called Allison.]]
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* VomitIndiscretionShot: Zach is openly shown to vomit after the death of Daryl.
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* VomitIndiscretionShot: Zach is openly shown to vomit after the death of Daryl.[[spoiler:Daryl.]]
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Daryl is arguably that. He's shown to be extremely irritating and selfish and so universally disliked that nobody cares when he goes missing.]]
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Daryl is arguably that.[[spoiler:Daryl. He's shown to be extremely irritating and selfish and so universally disliked that nobody cares when he goes missing.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Josh is arrested and multiple children are dead, but at least Allison is shown to be recovering.]]
* ClusterFBomb: Daryl can't help but drop it every other word.
* CrazyJealousGuy: [[spoiler:Josh apparently doesn't take it very well when he realizes Allison likes Zach and not him.]]
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* DullSurprise: A little girl is barely reacting when [[spoiler: Josh tries to murder Zach]]
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* DullSurprise: A little girl is barely reacting when [[spoiler: Josh tries to murder Zach]]Zach.]]
* EveryoneLovesBlondes: When Josh tells Zach he's not into blondes, Zach is downright shocked.
* FaceHeelTurn: Josh starts the film as a somewhat weird, nerdy, but normal and well-meaning kid [[spoiler:but quickly descends into instability after Daryl's death.]]
* FatBastard: Daryl is loud, obnoxious, crude and short-tempered.
* EveryoneLovesBlondes: When Josh tells Zach he's not into blondes, Zach is downright shocked.
* FaceHeelTurn: Josh starts the film as a somewhat weird, nerdy, but normal and well-meaning kid [[spoiler:but quickly descends into instability after Daryl's death.]]
* FatBastard: Daryl is loud, obnoxious, crude and short-tempered.
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: [[spoiler:Zach tries to appeal to Josh this way as Josh attempts to murder him in the end. It doesn't work.]]
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* NeverOneMurder: [[spoiler:John appears to have been murdered by Josh too, this time intentionally.]]
* VideoGame/{{Minesweeper}}: Charlie is seen playing this game,
* NoGuyWantsToBeChased: Josh definitely does not.
* VideoGame/{{Minesweeper}}: Charlie is seen playing this game,
* NoGuyWantsToBeChased: Josh definitely does not.
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* NeverOneMurder: [[spoiler:John appears to have been murdered by Josh too, this time intentionally. He also murders Meghan and attempts to kill both Allison and Zach, but fails.]]
* VideoGame/{{Minesweeper}}: Charlie is seen playing thisgame,
game as Zach calls him.
* NoGuyWantsToBeChased: Meghan is attracted to Joshdefinitely does not.and isn't afraid to show it, but he's never interested.
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* NoGuyWantsToBeChased: Meghan is attracted to Josh
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* PoliceAreUseless: Reinforced to the extreme.
* PrecisionFStrike: Averted as boys swear very often.
* PrecisionFStrike: Averted as boys swear very often.
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* PsychologicalThriller: In the third act the movie tries to be this.
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* PsychologicalThriller: In The film starts as a dark slice-of-life and slips into this in the third act the movie tries to be this.[[spoiler:when Zach realizes Josh has become a villain.]]
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* SpecsOfAwesome: Josh. [[spoiler: He sports them also while wielding katana.]]
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* SpecsOfAwesome: Josh. [[spoiler: He sports them also while Josh's rather nerdy glasses become these when wielding katana.the katana. [[spoiler:And then turns into FourEyesZeroSoul when attempting to murder Zach in the end.]]
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* VomitIndiscretionShot: Zach is openly shown to vomit after the death of Daryl.Daryl.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: [[spoiler:Zach breaks down as Josh tries to kill him, wondering how he could be doing this when they were best friends.]]
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: [[spoiler:Josh chases after Zach with the intent to kill him, but when Zach falls and is completely defenseless, Josh chooses to just maim and torture him instead.]]
* WeUsedToBeFriends: [[spoiler:Zach breaks down as Josh tries to kill him, wondering how he could be doing this when they were best friends.]]
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: [[spoiler:Josh chases after Zach with the intent to kill him, but when Zach falls and is completely defenseless, Josh chooses to just maim and torture him instead.]]
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One day as Zach and Josh spend time with another schoolmate Daryl and his companion from the 8th grade Charlie grade, Charlie, an unfortunate accident changes everything.
* AccidentalMurder: The plot kicks off when Josh accidentally stabs Daryl with a katana during a fight, killing him.
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Daryl is arguably that.]]
* BigBrotherBully: Allison's brother seems to be this.
* BigBrotherBully: Allison's brother seems to be this.
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Daryl is arguably that. He's shown to be extremely irritating and selfish and so universally disliked that nobody cares when he goes missing.]]
* BigBrotherBully: Allison's brother seems to bethis.a downplayed and realistic version of this, bullying her when she's trying to use the phone. [[spoiler:Until the end, when he's distraught to see her carried out of Meghan's house in a stretcher.]]
* BigBrotherBully: Allison's brother seems to be
* FelonyMisdemeanor: [[spoiler:Josh apparently murders John partly because he was present laughing at Josh when he was getting bullied... Even though he wasn't the guy ''actually bullying Josh.'']]
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* GrayRainOfDepression: It rains when [[spoiler: Josh is arrested and sits in the car. The drops are sliding down the window of the car.]]
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* GrayRainOfDepression: It [[EmpathicEnvironment starts to thunder when Zach runs to confront Josh]] and rains when [[spoiler: Josh is arrested and sits in the car. The drops are sliding down the window of the car.]]
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* KarmaHoudini: Probably for Zach and Charlie who do not report [[spoiler: that Josh unintentionally kills Daryl.]]
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* NeverOneMurder: [[spoiler: The second dead kid appears to have been murdered by Josh too, this time intentionally.]]
* VideoGame/{{Minesweeper}}: Charlie plays this game [[spoiler: which should probably lampshade his low intellectual qualitues.]]
* VideoGame/{{Minesweeper}}: Charlie plays this game [[spoiler: which should probably lampshade his low intellectual qualitues.]]
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* LoveTriangle: Both Zach and Josh like Allison, but she only has eyes for Zach.
* NeverOneMurder:[[spoiler: The second dead kid [[spoiler:John appears to have been murdered by Josh too, this time intentionally.]]
* VideoGame/{{Minesweeper}}: Charlieplays is seen playing this game [[spoiler: which should probably lampshade his low intellectual qualitues.]]game,
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* SanitySlippage: Josh starts to lose it very quickly following Daryl's death, [[spoiler:returning to mutilate Daryl's body, murdering other students and attempting to kill Allison.]]
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* CountryMatters: A major signifier of [[spoiler: Josh's descent into the resentful psychopath that he becomes and of his misogyny]] is when he is sent to the principal's office for calling his teacher a cunt.
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* CountryMatters: A major signifier of [[spoiler: Josh's descent into the resentful psychopath that he becomes and of his misogyny]] villainy]] is when he is sent to the principal's office for calling his teacher a cunt.
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* CountryMatters: A major signifier of [[Josh's [[spoiler: Josh's descent into the resentful psychopath that he becomes and of his misogyny]] is when he is sent to the principal's office for calling his teacher a cunt.
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* BigBrotherBully: Allison's brother seems to be this.
* BystanderSyndrome: [[spoiler: Charlie]] seems to have this in spades.
* BystanderSyndrome: [[spoiler: Charlie]] seems to have this in spades.
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* CutApart: Zach knocks at the door. Cut to the girls opening the door. [[spoiler: For Josh]]
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* CountryMatters: A major signifier of [[Josh's descent into the resentful psychopath that he becomes and of his misogyny]] is when he is sent to the principal's office for calling his teacher a cunt.
* CutApart: Zach knocks at the door. Cut to the girls opening the door. [[spoiler: ForJosh]]Josh.]]
* TheDanza: Sawyer '''Barth''' plays Charlie '''Barth'''.
* DisappearedDad: Zach's mother seems to be a single parent.
* CutApart: Zach knocks at the door. Cut to the girls opening the door. [[spoiler: For
* TheDanza: Sawyer '''Barth''' plays Charlie '''Barth'''.
* DisappearedDad: Zach's mother seems to be a single parent.
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* {{Foreshadowing}} Josh jumps on the rails of the bridge. [[spoiler: Later it is implied that he kills another guy throwing him off the ]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}} {{Foreshadowing}}: Josh jumps on the rails of the bridge. [[spoiler: Later it is implied that he kills another guy John Whitcomb throwing him off the ]]same bridge.]]
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Daryl is practically the poster boy for this trope, and John Whitcomb is implied to be this, as people seem to only tolerate Whitcomb because he supplies them with weed.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Daryl is practically the poster boy for this trope, and John Whitcomb is implied to be this, as people seem to only tolerate Whitcomb because he supplies them with weed.
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* InvisibleParents: Subverted with Zach's mother (he does not seem to have a father), barely subverted with Josh's mother who shows only once.
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* InvulnerableKnuckles: Averted with Zach. He breals his arm hitting the wall of the tunnel
* KarmaHoudini: Probably for Zach and Charlie who do not report [[spoiler: that Josh unitentionally kills Daryl.]]
* KarmaHoudini: Probably for Zach and Charlie who do not report [[spoiler: that Josh unitentionally kills Daryl.]]
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* InvulnerableKnuckles: Averted with Zach. He breals breaks his arm hitting the wall of the tunnel
tunnel [[spoiler: after Daryl's death.]]
* KarmaHoudini: Probably for Zach and Charlie who do not report [[spoiler: that Joshunitentionally unintentionally kills Daryl.]]
* KarmaHoudini: Probably for Zach and Charlie who do not report [[spoiler: that Josh
* MonsterMisogyny: Daryl is full of this (part of what makes him so universally disliked by the local teens) and [[spoiler: Josh]] begins to show signs of this as the film goes on.
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* OnlyAFleshWound: Used [[spoiler: when Josh appears to butcher Zach with katana. Athough the latter is cut severa; times and reacts to the wounds agonising in slo-mo he is later not even taken away on an ambulance. He stays on his feet and is attended by the nurse.]]
* OnlyAFleshWound: Used [[spoiler: when Josh appears to butcher Zach with katana. Athough the latter is cut severa; times and reacts to the wounds agonising in slo-mo he is later not even taken away on an ambulance. He stays on his feet and is attended by the nurse.]]
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* NoGuyWantsToBeChased: Josh definitely does not. Allison is the initiatoк шт their relationship which remains stagnant.
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* OnlyAFleshWound: Used [[spoiler: when Josh appears to butcher Zach with katana. Athough the latter is cutsevera; several times and reacts to the wounds agonising in slo-mo slow-mo he is later not even taken away on an ambulance. He stays on his feet and is attended by the nurse.]]
* OnlyAFleshWound: Used [[spoiler: when Josh appears to butcher Zach with katana. Athough the latter is cut
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* SpiritualSuccessor: As noted in the trailer, to ''Film/DonnieDarko'' and ''Film/MeanCreek''.
* TheStoner: John Whitcomb, and implied with Josh's and Allison's brothers.
* TheStoner: John Whitcomb, and implied with Josh's and Allison's brothers.
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* TeensAreMonsters: And '''''how'''''.
* TraumaCongaLine: The film ends up being this for [[spoiler: Zach, Josh, and Charlie (particularly Zach and Josh) after Daryl's death]]; its primary focus is the way in which the aforementioned boys deal with the trauma of the situation.
* TraumaCongaLine: The film ends up being this for [[spoiler: Zach, Josh, and Charlie (particularly Zach and Josh) after Daryl's death]]; its primary focus is the way in which the aforementioned boys deal with the trauma of the situation.
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* InvisibleParents: Subverted with Zach's mother (he does not seem to have a father), barely subverted with Josh's mother who sows only once.
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!! Tropes
Super dark tropes
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* DullSurprise: A little girl is barely reacting when [[spoiler: when tries to murder Zach]]
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* DullSurprise: A little girl is barely reacting when [[spoiler: when Josh tries to murder Zach]]
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* PsychologicalThriller: In the latter part the movie tries rto to be this
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* {{Minesweeper}}: Charlie plays this game [[spoiler: which should probably lampshade his low intellectual qualitues.]]
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* RiddleForTheAges: What does the opening scene have in common with the rest of the movie? [[It is about a deer who somehow finds his way in the classroom and dies there.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}} Josh jumps on the rails on the Bridge. [[spoiler: Later it is implied that he kills another guy throwing him off the ]]
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* RiddleForTheAges: What does the opening scen have in common with the rest of the movie? [[It is about a deer who somehow finds his way in the classroom and dies there.]]
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* RiddleForTheAges: What does the opening scen scene have in common with the rest of the movie? [[It is about a deer who somehow finds his way in the classroom and dies there.]]
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* VomitIndiscretionShot: Zach is openly shown to vomit
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* InvulnerableKnuckles: Averted with Zach.
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* InvulnerableKnuckles: Averted with Zach.
Zach. He breals his arm hitting the wall of the tunnel
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* NeverOneMurder: [[spoiler: The second dead kid appears to have been murdered by Zach Josh too, this time intentionally.]]
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* NeverOneMurder: [[spoiler: The second dead kid appears to have been murdered by Zach too, this time intentionally.]]
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* Suburbia: {{Suburbia}}: NewEngland version.
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Daryl is arguably that.]]
* CallBack: Boys shout"panis" "penis" in front of the Allison's house. Later she says to Zach that she was weighing whether to shout "penis" in front of his house.house when she passed by.
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* SpecsOfAwesome: Josh. [[spoiler: He sports them also while wielding katana.]]
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Super Dark Times is a 2017 film by Kevin Phillips. It is set in 90's pre-internet New England. The main characters are two high-school classmates, Zach and Josh who spend time together.
One day as Zach and Josh spend time with another schoolmate Daryl and his companion from the 8th grade Charlie an unfortunate accident changes everything.
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Super Dark Times is a 2017 film by Kevin Phillips. It is set in 90's pre-internet New England. The main characters are two high-school classmates, Zach and Josh who spend time together. One day an unfortunate accident changes everything.
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* TheNineties: Lampshaded by the speech of Bill Clinton.
* AdultsAreUseless: Hinted at. Zach's mother is very clever and caring but she doesn't understand what happens to her boy.
* DullSurprise: A little girl is barely reacting [[spoiler: when Josh tries to murder Zach]]
* OnlyAFleshWound: Used [[when Josh appears to butcher Zach with katana. Athough the latter is cut severa; times and reacts to the wounds in slo-mo he is later not even taken away on an ambulance.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}} Josh jumps on the rails on the Bridge. [[spoiler: Later it is implied that he kills another guy throwing him off the ]]
* KatanasAreJustBetter: [[spoiler: And exactly as dangerous.]]
* PoliceAreUseless: Reinforced to the extreme.
* SpecsOfAwesome: Josh. [[spoiler: He sports them also while wielding katana.]]
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!! Tropes
* TheNineties: Lampshaded by the speech of Bill Clinton.
* AdultsAreUseless: Hinted at. Zach's mother is very clever and caring but she doesn't understand what happens to her boy.
* DullSurprise: A little girl is barely reacting [[spoiler: when Josh tries to murder Zach]]
* OnlyAFleshWound: Used [[when Josh appears to butcher Zach with katana. Athough the latter is cut severa; times and reacts to the wounds in slo-mo he is later not even taken away on an ambulance.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}} Josh jumps on the rails on the Bridge. [[spoiler: Later it is implied that he kills another guy throwing him off the ]]
* KatanasAreJustBetter: [[spoiler: And exactly as dangerous.]]
* PoliceAreUseless: Reinforced to the extreme.
* SpecsOfAwesome: Josh. [[spoiler: He sports them also while wielding katana.]]
