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* NiceHat: Several characters. Coffey especially has a nice bowler hat, highlighting his status as an Irish immigrant and a newcomer to the West.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[RealityEnsues Coffey is not an action hero gunslinger]], and this point is hammered home when his reckless (and badly aimed) shot at a Cree Indian draws the wrath of the entire tribe and leads to [[spoiler:Clay's death.]]
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[RealityEnsues Coffey is not an action hero gunslinger]], gunslinger, and this point is hammered home when his reckless (and badly aimed) shot at a Cree Indian draws the wrath of the entire tribe and leads to [[spoiler:Clay's death.]]
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* CavalryOfficer: Perhaps the most brutally sadistic and completely oblivious cavalry officer since Custer himself.
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* AssholeVictim: Parcher. [[spoiler: After being poisoned by the creatures, he tries to conceal his condition from Coffey and Callaghan.]] Furthermore, as the only member of the posse conversant in Plains Indians dialects, he deliberately omits warnings [[spoiler:that he is already as good as dead and that he will only draw the creatures to him,]] insisting that the other two members stay and protect him as he grows weaker.
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* AssholeVictim: Parcher. [[spoiler: After being poisoned by the creatures, he tries to conceal his condition from Coffey and Callaghan.]] Furthermore, as the only member of the posse conversant in Plains Indians dialects, he deliberately omits warnings [[spoiler:that he is already as good as dead and that he will only draw the creatures to him,]] insisting him]]. Instead, he insists that the other two members stay and protect him as he grows weaker.weaker, even as he proves to be more of a hindrance than helpful.
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* KarmicDeath: The method devised by the Ute to kill the Burrowers. This involves [[spoiler:feeding the Burrowers' victims with poison, then stabbing the creatures with spears as they lie incapacitated.]]
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* KarmicDeath: The method devised by the Ute to kill the Burrowers. This involves [[spoiler:feeding the Burrowers' victims with poison, then stabbing the creatures with spears as they lie incapacitated.incapacitated after consuming their victims' flesh.]]
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* ForeShadowing: The hymm sung near the beginning; ''Alas! and did my Savior bleed, And did my Sovereign die? Would He devote that sacred head, For such a [[WormSign worm]] as I?''
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* ForeShadowing: The hymm hymn sung near the beginning; ''Alas! and did my Savior bleed, And did my Sovereign die? Would He devote that sacred head, For such a [[WormSign worm]] as I?''
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* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: While the way the creatures feed is monstrous, they do so out of basic needs, in contrast to human malice.
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* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: While Manifest Destiny is not only the way cause of the creatures feed attacks, but is monstrous, they do so out of basic needs, in contrast also ultimately responsible for letting them go unchecked, as westward expansion across the plains kills off Burrowers' food source as well as those who know how to human malice. deal with them.
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* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: While the way the creatures feed is monstrous, the film makes a point of exploring racial animosity and the consequences of Manifest Destiny.
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* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: While the way the creatures feed is monstrous, the film makes a point they do so out of exploring racial animosity and the consequences of Manifest Destiny.basic needs, in contrast to human malice.
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* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: While the way the creatures feed is monstrous, the film makes a point of showing how the West was really won, exploring racial animosity and the consequences of Manifest Destiny.
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* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: While the way the creatures feed is monstrous, the film makes a point of showing how the West was really won, exploring racial animosity and the consequences of Manifest Destiny.Destiny.
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* AnArmAndALeg: Happens to [[spoiler:Parcher while he's being eaten alive.]]
* AndIMustScream: A variation. [[spoiler: The victims are not trapped forever, but they are almost completely paralyzed. They are apparently conscious the entire time, but cannot sleep, move, or speak. They just lay there in the soil, feeling their bodies rot, until the Burrowers return for them.]]
* AnyoneCanDie: In order of death, [[spoiler: Mary-Anne Stewart, John Clay, Dobie Spacks, Will Parcher, Callaghan, Faith.]]
* AndIMustScream: A variation. [[spoiler: The victims are not trapped forever, but they are almost completely paralyzed. They are apparently conscious the entire time, but cannot sleep, move, or speak. They just lay there in the soil, feeling their bodies rot, until the Burrowers return for them.]]
* AnyoneCanDie: In order of death, [[spoiler: Mary-Anne Stewart, John Clay, Dobie Spacks, Will Parcher, Callaghan, Faith.]]
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* AnArmAndALeg: Happens to [[spoiler:Parcher while he's being eaten alive.]]
the [[spoiler:unnamed female victim of the Burrowers]] and [[spoiler:Parcher]] after Coffey tries to move his corpse, highlighting how the poison works. It also happens to [[spoiler:Callaghan]], who is given an entirely unnecessary amputation.
* AndIMustScream: A variation. [[spoiler: The victims are not trapped forever, but they are almost completelyparalyzed.paralyzed by poison which gradually softens their organs and flesh. They are apparently conscious the entire time, but cannot sleep, move, or speak. They just lay there in the soil, eyes wide open, feeling their own bodies rot, until the Burrowers return for them.]]
* AnyoneCanDie: In order of death,[[spoiler: Mary-Anne [[spoiler:Mary-Anne Stewart, John Clay, Dobie Spacks, Will Parcher, Callaghan, Faith.]]
* AndIMustScream: A variation. [[spoiler: The victims are not trapped forever, but they are almost completely
* AnyoneCanDie: In order of death,
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* AttemptedRape: [[spoiler:Dobie Spacks]] is about to put the moves on [[spoiler:a paralyzed and helpless Mary-Anne]] when the creatures cut the attempt short.
%%* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Parcher.]]
* BloodKnight: Henry Victor, who only wants to kill as many Indians as he possibly can.
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%%* CampCook: Callahan.
* CavalryOfficer: Perhaps the most brutally sadistic and completely oblivious Cavalry Officer since Custer himself.
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* TheDandy: Henry Victor is a psychotic breed of dandy, with his ridiculous moustache, moustache comb and tobacco pouch ''made from a Native American's scrotum.''
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The entire posse dies save Coffey, Mary-Anne was dead (or at least rotting alive) from the beginning, and the two Native Americans who know the creatures' weakness are ignorantly lynched by Henry Victor, who faces no consequences for dooming future victims and waltzes off with that smug smile on his face, none the wiser.]]
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* BloodKnight: Henry Victor, who only wants to kill as many Indians as he possibly can.
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%%* CampCook: Callahan.
* CavalryOfficer: Perhaps the most brutally sadistic and completely oblivious Cavalry Officer since Custer himself.
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* TheDandy: Henry Victor is a psychotic breed of dandy, with his ridiculous moustache, moustache comb and tobacco pouch ''made from a Native American's scrotum.''
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The entire posse dies save Coffey, Mary-Anne was dead (or at least rotting alive) from the beginning, and the two Native Americans who know the creatures' weakness are ignorantly lynched by Henry Victor, who faces no consequences for dooming future victims and waltzes off with that smug smile on his face, none the wiser.]]
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* AttemptedRape: [[spoiler:Dobie Spacks]] Downplayed. Dobie Spacks is about to put the moves on [[spoiler:a paralyzed and helpless Mary-Anne]] girl]] when the creatures cut the attempt short.
%%*he realizes that she's still fully conscious and aware of what's going on.
* AssholeVictim:[[spoiler:Parcher.Parcher. [[spoiler: After being poisoned by the creatures, he tries to conceal his condition from Coffey and Callaghan.]] Furthermore, as the only member of the posse conversant in Plains Indians dialects, he deliberately omits warnings [[spoiler:that he is already as good as dead and that he will only draw the creatures to him,]] insisting that the other two members stay and protect him as he grows weaker.
* BigCreepyCrawlies: The Burrowers act similarly to trapdoor spiders, albeit with qualities similar to rats and moles.
* BuriedAlive: [[spoiler:Part of the modus operandi of the creatures, likely to allow the poison time to work through their victims' bodies while keeping them from being taken by other predators.]]
*BloodKnight: Henry Victor, who only wants to kill as many Indians as he possibly can.
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Callaghan. In keeping with the stereotype, he is a colored servant (though he insists that he is employed by choice) whose cooking is detested.
* TheCavalry: Subverted. While the cavalry respond to Coffey's call for help, they end up [[spoiler:murdering two innocent people and "accidentally" killing a third]], all the while failing to address the Burrower problem.
* CavalryOfficer: Perhaps the most brutally sadistic and completely obliviousCavalry Officer cavalry officer since Custer himself.
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* {{Cowboy}}: Most of the main characters are this by profession.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Everything about the way the creatures kill, though we see this happen in full with [[spoiler:Parcher]]. While it is unclear as to whether or not the poison directly affects the mind, it is evident that within hours of being wounded, his skin is covered in lesions and his muscles have weakened to the point where he cannot stand or shoot a gun with any accuracy. [[spoiler:When Parcher is finally set upon by the creatures, they feast on his body while he is still alive.]]
* TheDandy: Henry Victor is a psychotic breed of dandy, with his ridiculous moustache, moustachecomb comb, and tobacco pouch ''made from a Native American's scrotum.''
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: In spades. Racism runs rampant among whites and Plains Indians alike. Dobie's mother is also rather eager to allow her only son to go off with a posse going into possibly-hostile Indian territory so that he comes back a man.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The entire posse dies save Coffey, Mary-Anne was dead(or at least rotting alive) from the beginning, and the two Native Americans Plains Indians who know the creatures' weakness weaknesses are ignorantly lynched by Henry Victor, who faces no consequences for dooming future victims and waltzes off with that a smug smile on his face, none the wiser.face.]]
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%%* FateWorseThanDeath: You bet.* DarknessEqualsDeath: The creatures only emerge at night to find prey and feed on their victims.
* DwindlingParty: By the end of the film, only [[spoiler:Coffey]] remains of the original posse.
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* BigCreepyCrawlies: The Burrowers act similarly to trapdoor spiders, albeit with qualities similar to rats and moles.
* BuriedAlive: [[spoiler:Part of the modus operandi of the creatures, likely to allow the poison time to work through their victims' bodies while keeping them from being taken by other predators.]]
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* TheCavalry: Subverted. While the cavalry respond to Coffey's call for help, they end up [[spoiler:murdering two innocent people and "accidentally" killing a third]], all the while failing to address the Burrower problem.
* CavalryOfficer: Perhaps the most brutally sadistic and completely oblivious
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Everything about the way the creatures kill, though we see this happen in full with [[spoiler:Parcher]]. While it is unclear as to whether or not the poison directly affects the mind, it is evident that within hours of being wounded, his skin is covered in lesions and his muscles have weakened to the point where he cannot stand or shoot a gun with any accuracy. [[spoiler:When Parcher is finally set upon by the creatures, they feast on his body while he is still alive.]]
* TheDandy: Henry Victor is a psychotic breed of dandy, with his ridiculous moustache, moustache
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: In spades. Racism runs rampant among whites and Plains Indians alike. Dobie's mother is also rather eager to allow her only son to go off with a posse going into possibly-hostile Indian territory so that he comes back a man.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The entire posse dies save Coffey, Mary-Anne was dead
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* DwindlingParty: By the end of the film, only [[spoiler:Coffey]] remains of the original posse.
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* GaiasVengeance: A very mild example. The creatures wouldn't normally interact with humans much, but their usual diet of buffalo has been all but wiped out by humanity. As a result, they've started snacking on the next most plentiful and widespread source of easy-to-kill meat.
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* GaiasVengeance: A very mild example. The creatures wouldn't normally interact with humans much, but their usual diet of buffalo has been all but wiped out by humanity. As a result, they've started snacking on the next most plentiful and widespread source of easy-to-kill meat.other food sources.
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* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: While the way the creatures feed is monstrous, the film makes a point of showing how the West was really won, exploring racial animosity and the consequences of Manifest Destiny.
* IndianMaiden: Averted. She is helpful, but not a romanticized character or a loveinterest.interest, and is actually a recent widow.
* IndianMaiden: Averted. She is helpful, but not a romanticized character or a love
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Henry Victor loves being in charge, and won't hesitate to remind others that he's the one with the authority.
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* NiceHat: Several characters. Coffey especially has a nice bowler hat.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Coffey is not an action hero gunslinger, and this point is hammered home when he fucks up in a big enough way to [[spoiler: get John Clay killed.]]
* NobleSavage: Averted. Even the Indians do some pretty terrible things.
* NonMaliciousMonster: Despite some of the taglines, the creatures aren't evil. They're just animals.
* NothingIsScarier: The Burrowers aren't seen in full until the climax.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The creatures are not vampires. However, they do share some vampiric traits such as [[spoiler: a weakness for sunlight]].
* PsychoPartyMember: At times, most obviously when [[spoiler: an Indian wants to leave an infected victim behind, and the victim flips out and threatens to kill everyone.]]
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* NiceHat: Several characters. Coffey especially has a nice bowler hat.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Coffey is not an action hero gunslinger, and this point is hammered home when he fucks up in a big enough way to [[spoiler: get John Clay killed.]]
* NobleSavage: Averted. Even the Indians do some pretty terrible things.
* NonMaliciousMonster: Despite some of the taglines, the creatures aren't evil. They're just animals.
* NothingIsScarier: The Burrowers aren't seen in full until the climax.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The creatures are not vampires. However, they do share some vampiric traits such as [[spoiler: a weakness for sunlight]].
* PsychoPartyMember: At times, most obviously when [[spoiler: an Indian wants to leave an infected victim behind, and the victim flips out and threatens to kill everyone.]]
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Henry Victor loves being in charge, and won't hesitate to remind others that he's the one with the authority.
%%*authority. Similarly with Parcher, who won't hesitate to put others in danger for his own ends.
* KarmicDeath: The method devised by the Ute to kill the Burrowers. This involves [[spoiler:feeding the Burrowers' victims with poison, then stabbing the creatures with spears as they lie incapacitated.]]
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Dobie are regarded as this by the rest of the posse, being the least experienced members. Dobey is eventually sent back to carry a victim of the Burrowers' attacks to safety [[spoiler:and ends up becoming another victim himself]]. By the end of the film however, Coffey TookALevelInBadass [[spoiler:as he single-handedly manages to fight off two of the creatures with little more than ImprovisedWeapons and finishes off those debilitated from consuming Parcher's corpse.]] In an inversion, Parcher becomes this later on in the film as he suffers from [[spoiler:the Burrowers' venom.]]
* MercyKill: Encouraged for those attacked by the creatures, as the poison will make them suffer a FateWorseThanDeath before they are consumed.
* [[MrExposition Mrs. Exposition]]: Faith, who does more than anyone else to explain what the creatures are, what they do, and why they are attacking humans.
* NiceHat: Several characters. Coffey especially has a nice bowlerhat.
hat, highlighting his status as an Irish immigrant and a newcomer to the West.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[RealityEnsues Coffey is not an action herogunslinger, gunslinger]], and this point is hammered home when he fucks up in his reckless (and badly aimed) shot at a big enough way Cree Indian draws the wrath of the entire tribe and leads to [[spoiler: get John Clay killed.[[spoiler:Clay's death.]]
* NobleSavage: Averted. Even the Indians do some pretty terriblethings.
things to survive, or simply out of sheer pettiness. The Army Scout accompanying Victor's cavalry is only too happy to hurt their Indian captive after he is mocked. Likewise, one of the Cree antagonized by the posse makes a point of running up to [[spoiler:a mortally-wounded Clay]] and gleefully caving in his skull. And as for the Utes' method of dealing with the creatures, they look for [[spoiler:their victims, feed ''them'' poison, and set them out as bait for the creatures]].
* NonMaliciousMonster: Despite some of the taglines, the creatures aren'tevil. They're just animals.
evil so much as they are predators.
* NothingIsScarier: The Burrowers aren't clearly seenin full until the climax.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The creatures are not vampires. However, they do share some vampiric traits such as[[spoiler: an aversion to sunlight, neck marks on victims, and leaving said victims in a weakness for sunlight]].semi-alive state.
* {{Posse}}: Subverted at first. Clay, Parcher, Coffey, and Dobie wait for the cavalry to arrive and accompany them to the suspected abductors. However, when it is clear that the cavalry have no interest in actually saving people, they strike out on their own.
* PsychoPartyMember:At times, most Most obviously when [[spoiler: an Indian wants to leave an infected victim behind, with [[spoiler:Parcher]]. Before he is [[spoiler:attacked and wounded by the victim flips Burrowers]], he was ruthlessly pragmatic at best, being fully willing to use his remaining team members as bait to draw out and threatens to kill everyone.]]
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* KarmicDeath: The method devised by the Ute to kill the Burrowers. This involves [[spoiler:feeding the Burrowers' victims with poison, then stabbing the creatures with spears as they lie incapacitated.]]
* TheLoad: Coffey and
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* MercyKill: Encouraged for those attacked by the creatures, as the poison will make them suffer a FateWorseThanDeath before they are consumed.
* [[MrExposition Mrs. Exposition]]: Faith, who does more than anyone else to explain what the creatures are, what they do, and why they are attacking humans.
* NiceHat: Several characters. Coffey especially has a nice bowler
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[RealityEnsues Coffey is not an action hero
* NobleSavage: Averted. Even the Indians do some pretty terrible
* NonMaliciousMonster: Despite some of the taglines, the creatures aren't
* NothingIsScarier: The Burrowers aren't clearly seen
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The creatures are not vampires. However, they do share some vampiric traits such as
* {{Posse}}: Subverted at first. Clay, Parcher, Coffey, and Dobie wait for the cavalry to arrive and accompany them to the suspected abductors. However, when it is clear that the cavalry have no interest in actually saving people, they strike out on their own.
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* ShootTheShaggyDog: [[spoiler:Coffey's love interest and the other missing women are discovered to have died, most likely at the beginning of the film thus rendering the entire heroic quest meaningless. Every named character dies except for Fergus Coffey and the utterly psychotic Henry Victor...who, by the way, is responsible for the deaths of two Indians (execution) and Callahan (by botching an attempt to amputate a leg that likely didn't need it). Worse, with the two Indians dead, their secret method for killing the Burrowers seems to have been lost forever. It's deeply implied that the Burrower's attacks will continue and nothing has really changed. ]]
* SuperPersistentPredator: The Burrowers are relentless in hounding humans, chasing them a great distance, long after it's clear their prey is fighting back. Probably justified that with the buffalo gone, they're starving.
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%%* {{Wormsign}}: As the title would suggest.
* SuperPersistentPredator: The Burrowers are relentless in hounding humans, chasing them a great distance, long after it's clear their prey is fighting back. Probably justified that with the buffalo gone, they're starving.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Fed up with his treatment as a CampCook, Callaghan abandons the Army and follows the posse on their mission to find the Stewarts.
* ShootTheShaggyDog:[[spoiler:Coffey's love interest and [[spoiler:By the other end of the film, it is more or less stated that the missing women are discovered to Stewarts have died, most likely at the beginning of the film thus rendering the entire heroic quest meaningless. been long dead. Every named character dies except for Fergus Coffey and the utterly psychotic Henry Victor...who, by the way, is responsible for the deaths of Victor, who lynches two Indians (execution) innocent Indians, and Callahan (by kills Callaghan by botching an attempt to amputate a leg that likely didn't need it). unnecessary amputation. Worse, with the two Indians dead, their secret method for killing knowledge of how to deal with the Burrowers seems to have been may well be lost forever. for good. It's deeply implied that the Burrower's Burrowers' attacks will continue and nothing has really changed. changed.]]
* SuperPersistentPredator: The Burrowers are relentless in hounding humans, chasing them a great distance, long after it's clear their prey is fighting back. Probably justified that with the buffalo gone,they're starving.
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* ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight: The Burrowers only emerge and attack at night, abducting their victims and hiding them away for later consumption.
* {{Wormsign}}:As Shifting clumps of grass are the title would suggest.only things that really give away nearby Burrowers.
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* AttemptedRape: [[spoiler:Dobie Spacks]] is about to put the moves on [[spoiler:a paralyzed and helpless Mary-Anne]] when the creatures cut the attempt short.
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Coffey's love interest and the other missing women are discovered to have died, most likely at the beginning of the film thus rendering the entire heroic quest meaningless. Every named character dies except for Fergus Coffey and the utterly psychotic Henry Victor...who, by the way, is responsible for the deaths of two Indians (execution) and Callahan (by botching an attempt to amputate a leg that likely didn't need it). Worse, with the two Indians dead, their secret method for killing the Burrowers seems to have been lost forever. It's deeply implied that the Burrower's attacks will continue and nothing has really changed. ]]
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* ShootTheShaggyDogShootTheShaggyDog: [[spoiler:Coffey's love interest and the other missing women are discovered to have died, most likely at the beginning of the film thus rendering the entire heroic quest meaningless. Every named character dies except for Fergus Coffey and the utterly psychotic Henry Victor...who, by the way, is responsible for the deaths of two Indians (execution) and Callahan (by botching an attempt to amputate a leg that likely didn't need it). Worse, with the two Indians dead, their secret method for killing the Burrowers seems to have been lost forever. It's deeply implied that the Burrower's attacks will continue and nothing has really changed. ]]
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* HeteroexualLifePartners: Parcher and Clay are long-time partners.
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* HeteroexualLifePartners: HeterosexualLifePartners: Parcher and Clay are long-time partners.
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* AnArmAndALeg: Happens to [[spoiler:Parcher while he's being eaten alive.]]
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Parcher.]]
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* TheDandy: Henry Victor is a psychotic breed of dandy, with his ridiculous moustache, moustache comb and tobacco pouch ''made from a Native American's scrotum.''
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* HeteroexualLifePartners: Parcher and Clay are long-time partners.
* HopeSpot: When the Ute seem to have a method of [[spoiler:killing the Burrowers]] and when [[spoiler:Coffey goes for help. Both times, the hope is quickly and brutally destroyed.]]
* HopeSpot: When the Ute seem to have a method of [[spoiler:killing the Burrowers]] and when [[spoiler:Coffey goes for help. Both times, the hope is quickly and brutally destroyed.]]
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* TheLoad: Coffey and Dobie.
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* NothingIsScarier: The Burrowers aren't seen in full until the climax.
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Not to be confused with TheBorrowers.
''Literature/TheBorrowers''.
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''"You'll be awake in your grave. You'll be alive when they feed."''
''"You'll be awake in your grave. You'll be alive when they feed."''
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* BloodKnight: Henry Victor, who only wants to kill as many Indians as he possibly can.
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* AnyoneCanDieAnyoneCanDie: In order of death, [[spoiler: Mary-Anne Stewart, John Clay, Dobie Spacks, Will Parcher, Callaghan, Faith.]]
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Coffey is not an action hero gunslinger, and this point is hammered home when he fucks up in a big enough way to [[spoiler: get John Clay killed.]]
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* GaiasVengenace: A very mild example. The creatures wouldn't normally interact with humans much, but their usual diet of buffalo has been all but wiped out by humanity. As a result, they've started snacking on the next most plentiful and widespread source of easy-to-kill meat.
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* GaiasVengenace: ForeShadowing: The hymm sung near the beginning; ''Alas! and did my Savior bleed, And did my Sovereign die? Would He devote that sacred head, For such a [[WormSign worm]] as I?''
* GaiasVengeance: A very mild example. The creatures wouldn't normally interact with humans much, but their usual diet of buffalo has been all but wiped out by humanity. As a result, they've started snacking on the next most plentiful and widespread source of easy-to-kill meat.
* GaiasVengeance: A very mild example. The creatures wouldn't normally interact with humans much, but their usual diet of buffalo has been all but wiped out by humanity. As a result, they've started snacking on the next most plentiful and widespread source of easy-to-kill meat.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Henry Victor loves being in charge, and won't hesitate to remind others that he's the one with the authority.
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* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Averted. The characters aren't overt with their racism, but they be casually so. Most characters refer to Indians as 'skins' and a prominent black character is saddled with the nickname 'walnut'. Only Coffey refers to him by his real name, due to the kinship he feels with him due to the prejudices faced by the Irish.
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* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Averted. The characters aren't overt with their racism, but they be use casually so.racist language. Most characters refer to Indians as 'skins' and a prominent black character is saddled with the nickname 'walnut'. Only Irish Fergus Coffey refers to him by his real name, and this is due to the kinship he feels with him due to the prejudices since they've both faced by the Irish.prejudice in America.
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* IronicNurseryTune: The song over the ending credits. Particularly unsettling is the lyric, 'go to sleep, you little baby...' considering what the creatures do to people.
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* NiceHat: Several characters. Coffey especially has a nice bowler hat.
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A 2009 independent [[TheWestern Western]] horror film which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival before being released on DVD. The plot concerns a family of Dakota Territory settlers who are viciously attacked and kidnapped from their home. When Irish immigrant Fergus Coffey returns to find his intended bride missing, he believes the family to have been taken by Indians and assembles a posse to rescue them. However, they soon discover that rapacious natives would be a kindness compared to the inhuman horror lurking beneath the ground.
Not to be confused with TheBorrowers.
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* AndIMustScream: A variation. [[spoiler: The victims are not trapped forever, but they are almost completely paralyzed. They are apparently conscious the entire time, but cannot sleep, move, or speak. They just lay there in the soil, feeling their bodies rot, until the Burrowers return for them.]]
* AnyoneCanDie
* ArmyScout: A Native American scout who cannot accurately translate another Indian's language. When the imprisoned Indian taunts him, he tortures the prisoner.
* BuriedAlive
* {{Cowboy}}: Most of the characters.
* CampCook: Callahan.
* CavalryOfficer: Perhaps the most brutally sadistic and completely oblivious Cavalry Officer since Custer himself.
* ClancyBrown
* {{Chupacabra}}: The creatures match the concept in many ways.
* DarknessEqualsDeath
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Coffey's love interest and the other missing women are discovered to have died, most likely at the beginning of the film thus rendering the entire heroic quest meaningless. Every named character dies except for Fergus Coffey and the utterly psychotic Henry Victor...who, by the way, is responsible for the deaths of two Indians (execution) and Callahan (by botching an attempt to amputate a leg that likely didn't need it). Worse, with the two Indians dead, their secret method for killing the Burrowers seems to have been lost forever. It's deeply implied that the Burrower's attacks will continue and nothing has really changed. ]]
* FateWorseThanDeath: You bet.
* IndianMaiden: Averted. She is helpful, but not a romanticized character or a love interest.
* MercyKill
* NightmareFuelUnleaded
* NobleSavage: Averted. Even the Indians do some pretty terrible things.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The creatures are not vampires. However, they do share some vampiric traits such as [[spoiler: a weakness for sunlight]].
* PsychoPartyMember: At times, most obviously when [[spoiler: an Indian wants to leave an infected victim behind, and the victim flips out and threatens to kill everyone.]]
* {{Posse}}
* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler: As Parcher descends further into paralysis, he becomes more and more unhinged.]]
* ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight
* {{Wormsign}}: As the title would suggest.
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!Tropes:
* AndIMustScream: A variation. [[spoiler: The victims are not trapped forever, but they are almost completely paralyzed. They are apparently conscious the entire time, but cannot sleep, move, or speak. They just lay there in the soil, feeling their bodies rot, until the Burrowers return for them.]]
* AnyoneCanDie
* ArmyScout: A Native American scout who cannot accurately translate another Indian's language. When the imprisoned Indian taunts him, he tortures the prisoner.
* BuriedAlive
* {{Cowboy}}: Most of the characters.
* CampCook: Callahan.
* CavalryOfficer: Perhaps the most brutally sadistic and completely oblivious Cavalry Officer since Custer himself.
* ClancyBrown
* {{Chupacabra}}: The creatures match the concept in many ways.
* DarknessEqualsDeath
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Coffey's love interest and the other missing women are discovered to have died, most likely at the beginning of the film thus rendering the entire heroic quest meaningless. Every named character dies except for Fergus Coffey and the utterly psychotic Henry Victor...who, by the way, is responsible for the deaths of two Indians (execution) and Callahan (by botching an attempt to amputate a leg that likely didn't need it). Worse, with the two Indians dead, their secret method for killing the Burrowers seems to have been lost forever. It's deeply implied that the Burrower's attacks will continue and nothing has really changed. ]]
* FateWorseThanDeath: You bet.
* IndianMaiden: Averted. She is helpful, but not a romanticized character or a love interest.
* MercyKill
* NightmareFuelUnleaded
* NobleSavage: Averted. Even the Indians do some pretty terrible things.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The creatures are not vampires. However, they do share some vampiric traits such as [[spoiler: a weakness for sunlight]].
* PsychoPartyMember: At times, most obviously when [[spoiler: an Indian wants to leave an infected victim behind, and the victim flips out and threatens to kill everyone.]]
* {{Posse}}
* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler: As Parcher descends further into paralysis, he becomes more and more unhinged.]]
* ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight
* {{Wormsign}}: As the title would suggest.
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