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* WouldHitAGirl: Michael beats Leah unconscious when kidnapping her and, after [[spoiler: killing setting the gas station attendant]], punches Casey in the face to knock her out.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: Averted - the producers originally intended to play the trope straight by filming it in Canada, but they managed to get a tax deduction. Thus the entire movie is both set and shot in Los Angeles.
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* SlashersPreferBlondes: Both Leah and Casey are blondes.
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* SlashersPreferBlondes: Both Michael targets Leah and Casey Casey, who are blondes.both blondes. It's revealed that this has to do with his fixation [[spoiler:on his dead sister, who had blonde hair and who lost it due to chemotherapy.]]
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* BadassBystander: Juan the gas station attendant, who upon realizing that Michael is a kidnapper, briefly attempts to stop him while armed with just a box cutter. Earlier, the soccer mom who, upon recognizing Leah waving out of the whole in the trunk, calls 911 and spends a while following and describing the car for them before losing them at a turn.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: it's mentioned that the attack on [[spoiler: the gas station attendant]]. was classified as an assault, and not a homicide, when Jordan is being informed of it, although given his wounds, he may have died.
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* BatmanGambit: In order to save Leah, Jordan orders her to drop her flip-flops down her room's window and hide under the bed, thus making it look like she escaped the house and discarded them to run faster barefoot. It actually works and gets the killer to leave... until Jordan unfortunately calls Leah again, attracting him with the noise.
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* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler: Michael will likely die the same way his cancer stricken sister whom he obsessed over did, by rotting away in a stationary position, unable to do anything.]]
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* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler: Michael [[spoiler:Michael will likely die the same way his cancer stricken sister whom he obsessed over did, by rotting away in a stationary position, unable to do anything.]]
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* FakeoutEscape: Attempted by Leah thanks to Jordan's instructions--she hides under the bed in room while leaving the French doors open, making her would-be attacker think that she's managed to flee. Unfortunately, when Jordan calls her back, he hears the phone and realizes she's still in the house.
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* FakeoutEscape: Attempted by Leah thanks to Jordan's instructions--she hides under the bed in her room while leaving the French doors open, making her would-be attacker think that she's managed to flee. Unfortunately, when Jordan calls her back, he hears the phone and realizes she's still in the house.
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* ShoutOut: Casey's favorite movie is [[spoiler:Film/{{Bridesmaids}}]]. Jordan says that she loves it and that she thinks she saw it about 100 times.
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* ShoutOut: Casey's favorite movie is [[spoiler:Film/{{Bridesmaids}}]]. Jordan says that she loves it and that she thinks she saw it about 100 times.
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* HateSink: The movie goes to great lengths to prove what a psychotic, disgusting, and perverted animal Michael Foster is, making it very hard to sympathize with him after [[spoiler: Jordan and Casey leave him tied up in his basement with no means of escape or rescue.]]
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* ManOnFire: A particularly disturbing example where [[spoiler: Michael soaks the gas station attendant who tries to rescue Casey in gasoline, before lighting him on fire and leaving him to burn.]]
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* WouldHitAGirl: Michael beats Leah unconscious when kidnapping her and, after [[spoiler: killing the gas station attendant]], punches Casey in the face to knock her out.
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* PunkInTheTrunk: Casey spends the majority of the film locked up in Michael's car trunk.
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* AdultFear: Leah' s abduction is probably the nightmare of every parent who's gone out and left their kid home alone.
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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted. Casey winds up with a puffy cheek and the beginnings of a black eye, and [[spoiler: a long and bloody incision on her forehead after Michael tries to scalp her]].
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* DistantPrologue: Takes place 6 months before the bulk of the movie.
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* FakeoutEscape: Attempted by Leah thanks to Jordan's instructions--she hides under the bed in room while leaving the French doors open, making her would-be attacker think that she's managed to flee. Unfortunately, when Jordan calls her back, he hears the phone and realizes she's still in the house.
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* HeroicBSOD: Jordan, after making an error that leads to Leah's abduction and murder. Afterwards, she limits herself to training new recruits rather than handling phone calls.
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* [[spoiler: AbhorrentAdmirer: Michael loved his sister ...[[{{Squick}} a bit too much]].]]
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* [[spoiler: BrotherSisterIncest]]: Heavily implied. If not a physical relationship, the feelings are definitely there.
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* [[spoiler:PayEvilUntoEvil: Casey PayEvilUntoEvil: [[spoiler:Casey and Jordan's decision to lock up Michael, chained up and incapacitated, in his own basement until his eventual death instead of letting the authorities take him can be seen as this.]]
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* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The trailer basically gave the entire plot of the movie: Jordan messes up and so a girl dies because of her actions, another girl is kidnapped, they figure out it's the same kidnapper, a dude gets set on fire trying to help the victim, and then Jordan gets involved besides running the phone.
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The trailer basically gave the entire plot of the movie: Jordan messes up and so a girl dies because of her actions, another girl is kidnapped, they figure out it's the same kidnapper, a dude gets set on fire trying to help the victim, and then Jordan gets involved besides running the phone.
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* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The trailer basically gave the entire plot of the movie: Jordan messes up and so a girl dies because of her actions, another girl is kidnapped, they figure out it's the same kidnapper, a dude gets set on fire trying to help the victim, and then Jordan gets involved besides running the
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* ThatOneCase: Technically her failure to save Leah Templeton (the first girl) is this for Jordan, as it drove her to quit taking 9-1-1 calls [[spoiler: and ultimately leads her to track down Michael by herself in the final act]].
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9-1-1 operator Jordan Turner (Berry) takes a call from a terrified teenage girl in a house with an intruder; despite her best efforts to save her, the girl is kidnapped and later found dead, and Jordan is unable to continue in the job.
Six months later, Jordan is now an instructor to new recruits; when a neophyte operator receives a distress call from Casey (Breslin) who's been abducted while leaving a mall, Jordan replaces the flustered newbie. It soon becomes a race against the clock to track down and save Casey, especially when she realises that it's the same man who killed the first girl...
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Six months later, Jordan is now an instructor to new recruits; when a neophyte operator receives a distress call from Casey (Breslin) who's been abducted while leaving a mall, Jordan replaces the flustered newbie. It soon becomes a race against the clock to track down and save Casey, especially when she realises that it's the same man who killed the first girl...
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* ApatheticCitizens: Averted. Everyone who notices something amiss tries to do something to save Casey,even though it gets two of them killed for their trouble.
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* ApatheticCitizens: Averted. Everyone who notices something amiss tries to do something to save Casey,even Casey, even though it gets two one of them killed and another seriously injured for their trouble.
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* [[BottleEpisode Bottle Movie]]: Aside from a 10-15 minute prologue, the majority of the movie takes place over one day.
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* [[BottleEpisode Bottle Movie]]: Aside from a 10-15 minute prologue, the majority of the movie takes place over one day.day (and six months after said prologue).
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** [[spoiler: Also Casey who went from a girl teased by her friend for not using profanity, to a "fighter" who comes up with the idea to lock Michael in his underground lair forever.]]
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** [[spoiler: Also Casey Casey, who went from a girl teased by her friend for not using profanity, to a "fighter" who comes up with the idea to lock Michael in his underground lair forever.]]
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* FreezeFrameBonus: As Casey and Autumn walk through the mall, they pass a man who appears to be eyeing eying a window display. [[spoiler: The emphasis is on the word "appeared", because on closer inspection, the viewer realizes that it's Michael.]]
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* SoundtrackDissonance: "Puttin on the Ritz" playing on the car radio as Casey wakes up in the trunk. Plus Michael bopping along to it like a normal guy rather than a psycho. Much of the nice songs playing on the car radio throughout the movie, in fact "Karma Chameleon" by Culture Club is also featured while [[spoiler:[[Casey is getting prepped in Michael's lair where he scalps the victims]]. The upbeat harmonica in contrast with the fear in Casey's eyes as well as the setting is extremely jarring.
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* SoundtrackDissonance: "Puttin on the Ritz" playing on the car radio as Casey wakes up in the trunk. Plus Michael bopping along to it like a normal guy rather than a psycho. Much of the nice songs playing on the car radio throughout the movie, in fact "Karma Chameleon" by Culture Club is also featured while [[spoiler:[[Casey [[spoiler: Casey is getting prepped in Michael's lair where he scalps the victims]]. The upbeat harmonica in contrast with the fear in Casey's eyes as well as the setting is extremely jarring.
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* [[spoiler: TheDanza: Michael Foster is played by Michael Eklund.]]
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