History Film / TheButchers

* CarFu: Auntie May uses JB's car to ram the Zodiac Killer at high speed after he has been turned into a ManOnFire.

* TheFaceless: The Zodiac Killer's face is never revealed as it is always concealed by a hood. Presumably, this is a tip of the hat to the Zodiac Killer's identity being unknown in RealLife.

* HistoricalDomainCrossover: A TomeOfEldritchLore brings Ed Gein, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, Albert Fish, the Zodiac Killer, and UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper (or, more aptly, ''Jill'' the Ripper) back to life.

* CameBackWrong: Artistic liberties were taken with how a few of the real-life killers were portrayed, most notably Ed Gein, who is depicted as being a hulking and gleefully homicidal maniac who wants to make a shirt out of a man seemingly just for the fun of it, when in actuality he was a diminutive and meek man who killed and made clothing out of only women due to suffering from a particularly deranged form of gender dysphoria. This is implied to be the result of some kind of side-effect or flaw in the resurrection ritual, as Daisy, after examining JB's occult paraphernalia, mutters, "If they really are back from the dead, then they're not the serial killers that we knew of."

* TheFaceless: The Zodiac Killer's face is never revealed as it always concealed by a hood. Presumably this is a tip of the hat to the Zodiac Killer's identity being unknown in RealLife.
* GenuineHumanHide: When JB and The Collector are examining the Ed Gein exhibit in the museum, they discuss Gein's habit of making objects out of human skin. Later, after Gein and the other killers are brought to life, Gein fights Dahmer for possession of Brian: Gein stating that he wants skin Brian to make a shirt.

* HiddenDepths: Daisy--who, up to this point, has appeared to be nothing more than a dutiful housewife--surprises Simon by revealing that she has a master's in psychology, and wrote her thesis on religious mania.

* IBrokeANail: When the resurrection spell is cast, there is an earthquake that shakes the entire GhostTown. As it ends, Nicole lets out an ear piercing shriek, that makes everyone think she has suffered some terrible injury. It turns that she broke a nail when she fell to the floor. Only her friend Candi gives her any sympathy.

* LeanAndMean: Albert Fish is the smallest and skinniest of the serial killers, but he possesses a wiry strength and is able to put up a good fight, and he is certainly just as evil as the rest of them, being a child murdering cannibal.

* SackheadSlasher: The Zodiac Killer wears an executioner's hood made out of a black bag with eye holes cut out (in keeping with the one eyewitness account of the real world Zodiac Killer).

* HistorysCrimeWave: A TomeOfEldritchLore brings Ed Gein, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, Albert Fish, the Zodiac Killer, and UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper (or, more aptly, ''Jill'' the Ripper) back to life.

* SinisterScythe: The Zodiac Killer uses a sickle as his WeaponOfChoice.

* CellPhonesAreUseless: The bus breaks down in a valley where the mountains block cell phone signals. Bill briefly manages to get half a bar, and no one else can get anything.

* BigGuyRodeo: Daisy tries this twice when Ed Gein is attacking Simon. She doesn't really accomplish much, but points for ''trying'', not just playing NeutralFemale.

* BigGuyRodeo: Daisy tries this twice when Ed Gein is attacking Simon. She doesn't really acomplish much, but points for ''trying'', not just playing NeutralFemale.

* HiddenDepths: Daisy--who, up to this point, has appeared to be nothing more than a dutiful housewife--surprises Simon by revealing that she has a masters in psychology, and wrote her thesis on religious mania.

* ManBitesMan: When Jeffery Dahmer and Kip are fighting, Dahmer keeps biting chunks out Kip. He later bites a chunk out of Brian's leg after capturing him.

* PummelingTheCorpse: In the prologue, young Simon whacks his abusive father over the head with [[GolfClubbing a golf club]]. He then keeps waling on the body way past the point where he must be dead.

* SerialKiller: A TomeOfEldritchLore is used to raise six of history's most infamous serial killers from the dead: Ed Gein, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, Albert Fish, the Zodiac Killer, and UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper. JB implies that he is serial killer more prolific than any of them.

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* LouisCypher: The ending of the film implies that the bus driver is actually [[spoiler:Satan]].

* CameBackWrong: Artistic liberties were taken with how a few of the real-life killers were portrayed, most notably Ed Gein, who is depicted as being a hulking and gleefully homicidal maniac who wants to make a shirt out of a man seemingly just for the fun of it, when in actuality he was a diminutive and meek man who killed and made clothing out of only women due to suffering from a particularly deranged form of gender dysphoria. This is implied to be the result of some kind of side-effect or flaw in the resurrection ritual, as Daisy, after examining J.B.'s occult paraphernalia, mutters, "If they really are back from the dead, then they're not the serial killers that we knew of."

* CameBackWrong: Artistic liberties were taken with how a few of the real-life killers were portrayed, most notably Ed Gein, who is depicted as being a hulking and gleefully homicidal maniac who wants to make a shirt out of a man seemingly just for the fun of it, when in actuality he was a diminutive and meek man who killed and made clothing out of women only due to suffering from a particularly deranged form of gender dysphoria. This is implied to be the result of some kind of side-effect or flaw in the resurrection ritual, as Daisy, after examining J.B.'s occult paraphernalia, mutters, "If they really are back from the dead, then they're not the serial killers that we knew of."