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Misuse- they're not survivalists


* CrazySurvivalist: None of the starving prisoners know how to fish or hunt, so they turn on each other.

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* BlackAndGreyMorality: The convicts and the guards.

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* HellHolePrison: Sarah Island penal colony.

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* LandDownUnder: The setting of the movie.

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* TheSavageSouth: The Tasmanian wilderness.

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* DwindlingParty: This starts when the group kills one of their members to stay alive. While two of the group wisely desert the rest, the members begin to kill each other to survive. The only survivor is [[spoiler:Pearce.]]



* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: Stranded in the middle of nowhere, Pearce realises that the strong must eat the weak.

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* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: Stranded in the middle of nowhere, Pearce realises realizes that the strong must eat the weak.
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''Van Diemen's Land'' is a 2009 Australian horror film about the escaped convict and serial killer Alexander Pearce (Oscar Redding). When he and a group of fellow prisoners (Arthur Angel, Paul Ashcroft and Mark Leonard) escaped into the bush in 1822, Pearce killed and ate his friends to survive.

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''Van Diemen's Land'' is a 2009 Australian horror historical film about the escaped convict and serial killer Alexander Pearce (Oscar Redding). When he and a group of fellow prisoners (Arthur Angel, Paul Ashcroft and Mark Leonard) escaped into the bush in 1822, Pearce killed and ate his friends to survive.
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'''Van Diemen's Land''' is a 2009 Australian horror film about the escaped convict and serial killer Alexander Pearce (Oscar Redding). When he and a group of fellow prisoners (Arthur Angel, Paul Ashcroft and Mark Leonard) escaped into the bush in 1822, Pearce killed and ate his friends to survive.

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'''Van ''Van Diemen's Land''' Land'' is a 2009 Australian horror film about the escaped convict and serial killer Alexander Pearce (Oscar Redding). When he and a group of fellow prisoners (Arthur Angel, Paul Ashcroft and Mark Leonard) escaped into the bush in 1822, Pearce killed and ate his friends to survive.
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!!''Van Diemen's Land'' has the following tropes:



* TheSavageSouth: The Tasmanian wilderness.

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* TheSavageSouth: The Tasmanian wilderness.wilderness.

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Removed incorrect elements, added a diss to Tasmania such as is required of all good Australian\'s, removed elements not in the actual film (I don\'t think Kangaroo Court applies when he actually is a criminal+the hanging was due to another incident of cannibalism)


'''Van Diemen's Land''' is a 2009 Australian horror film about the escaped convict and serial killer Michael Pierce (Oscar Redding). When he and a group of fellow prisoners (Arthur Angel, Paul Ashcroft and Mark Leonard) escaped into the bush in 1822, Pierce killed and ate his friends to survive. An unofficial sequel called ''Film/DyingBreed'' was made in the same year, focusing on Pierce's modern day {{Cannibal Clan}} descendents.

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'''Van Diemen's Land''' is a 2009 Australian horror film about the escaped convict and serial killer Michael Pierce Alexander Pearce (Oscar Redding). When he and a group of fellow prisoners (Arthur Angel, Paul Ashcroft and Mark Leonard) escaped into the bush in 1822, Pierce Pearce killed and ate his friends to survive. An unofficial sequel called ''Film/DyingBreed'' was made in survive.

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the same year, Pearce story is the 2008 film ''Film/DyingBreed'', a horror film focusing on Pierce's Pearce's modern day {{Cannibal Clan}} descendents.
descendents (who are just one of the many reasons not to go to Tasmania for a holiday).



* KangarooCourt: When recaptured Pearce is given a show trial and sentenced to hang.



* TheSavageSouth: The Tasmanian wilderness.
* TheSavageIndian: The local Blacks are hostile to the escaped convicts, and try to kill them.


IMDB Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1361843/

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* TheSavageSouth: The Tasmanian wilderness. \n* TheSavageIndian: The local Blacks are hostile to the escaped convicts, and try to kill them.\n\n\nIMDB Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1361843/
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'''Van Diemen's Land''' is a 2009 Australian horror film about the escaped convict and serial killer Michael Pierce (Oscar Redding). When he and a group of fellow prisoners (Arthur Angel, Paul Ashcroft and Mark Leonard) escaped into the bush in 1822, Pierce killed and ate his friends to survive. An unofficial sequel called ''Dying Breed'' was made in the same year, focusing on Pierce's modern day {{Cannibal Clan}} descendents.

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'''Van Diemen's Land''' is a 2009 Australian horror film about the escaped convict and serial killer Michael Pierce (Oscar Redding). When he and a group of fellow prisoners (Arthur Angel, Paul Ashcroft and Mark Leonard) escaped into the bush in 1822, Pierce killed and ate his friends to survive. An unofficial sequel called ''Dying Breed'' ''Film/DyingBreed'' was made in the same year, focusing on Pierce's modern day {{Cannibal Clan}} descendents.
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'''Van Diemen's Land''' is a 2009 Australian horror film about the escaped convict and serial killer Michael Pierce (Oscar Redding). When he and a group of fellow prisoners (Arthur Angel, Paul Ashcroft and Mark Leonard) escaped into the bush in 1822, Pierce killed and ate his friends to survive. An unofficial sequel called ''Dying Breed'' was made in the same year, focusing on Pierce's modern day {{Cannibal Clan}} descendents.

* BlackAndGreyMorality: The convicts and the guards.
* CrazySurvivalist: None of the starving prisoners know how to fish or hunt, so they turn on each other.
* DisposingOfABody: Pearce eats the evidence.
* HadToComeToPrisonToBeACrook: Before their arrest, the convicts were petty thieves, tax dodgers and conmen. After their escape they become murderers.
* HellHolePrison: Sarah Island penal colony.
* IAmAHumanitarian: Pearce eventually grows to like the taste of human flesh.
* KangarooCourt: When recaptured Pearce is given a show trial and sentenced to hang.
* LandDownUnder: The setting of the movie.
* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: Stranded in the middle of nowhere, Pearce realises that the strong must eat the weak.
* PenalColony: The convicts were transported from Britain to Australia.
* TheSavageSouth: The Tasmanian wilderness.
* TheSavageIndian: The local Blacks are hostile to the escaped convicts, and try to kill them.


IMDB Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1361843/

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