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* INever: The girls and the guys play this. It takes a sinister turn when it turns out [[spoiler:Alexis spiked the guys' drinks with a tranquilizer]].
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* HollywoodSatanism: An InUniverse example. [[spoiler:The girls aren't part of a real Satanic cult, but are in fact born-again Christians who deliberately made their HumanSacrifice "ritual" as stereotypical as possible for maximum media attention.]]
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* SatanicPanic: set during the Satanic Panic and discusses it in great detail, revolving around a fear that heavy metal musicians were sacrificing young women to Satan. But it is ultimately true to the "panic" part as it turns out to be a hoax perpetuated by a preacher and his daughter, who stage fake "Satanic" murders in order to scare people into converting to Christianity.
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* SatanicPanic: set Set during the Satanic Panic and discusses it in great detail, revolving around a fear that heavy metal musicians were sacrificing young women to Satan. But it is ultimately true to the "panic" part as it turns out to be a hoax perpetuated by a preacher and his daughter, who stage fake "Satanic" murders in order to scare people into converting to Christianity.
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* WhamLine: "Never have I ever drugged someone's drink." [[spoiler: Followed by all three girls drinking.]]
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Set in Indiana, [[TheEighties 1988]], Alexis (Daddario), Val (Hasson), and Bev (Forsyth) are three friends who head to a heavy metal concert during the satanic panic. They pick up three guys, Mark (Keean Johnson), Kovacs (Miller), and Ivan (Austin Swift), and bring them back to Alexis's father's house for a night of fun that soon takes a dark turn for everyone involved.
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Set in Indiana, [[TheEighties 1988]], Alexis (Daddario), Val (Hasson), and Bev (Forsyth) are three friends who head to a heavy metal concert during the satanic panic.Satanic Panic. They pick up three guys, Mark (Keean Johnson), Kovacs (Miller), and Ivan (Austin Swift), and bring them back to Alexis's father's house for a night of fun that soon takes a dark turn for everyone involved.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Mark and Bev escape with a big chunk of cash, and Alexis and Val are dead, but Pastor Butler is able to continue deceiving people into accepting {{Jesus}}.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Mark and Bev escape with a big chunk of cash, and Alexis and Val are dead, but Pastor Butler is able to continue deceiving people into accepting {{Jesus}}.{{Jesus}} by claiming that Alexis was responsible for everything without his knowledge.]]
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* ChainsawGood: [[spoiler:Bev]] wields an outboard motor through much of the film.
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* ChainsawGood: [[spoiler:Bev]] wields an outboard motor through much the third act of the film.
* CorruptChurch: [[spoiler:Pastor Butler, who is pocketing his parishioners' donations to spend on his luxurious lifestyle, including multiple mansions.]]
* FalseFlagOperation: [[spoiler:Butler's congregation make their murders look like the work of a made-up Satanic cult.]]
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* FrameUp: [[spoiler:Butler's congregation make their murders look like the work of a made-up satanic cult.]]
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* FrameUp: [[spoiler:Butler's congregation make their murders look like [[spoiler:Butler does this to Alexis at the work of a made-up satanic cult.end in order, claiming that she was responsible for everything in order to deflect blame from himself.]]
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* HalfwayPlotSwitch: The film starts out with a group of regular female metalheads picking up some strange guys at a concert during a serial killing spree. The second half is about [[spoiler:the girls trapping the guys in a mansion and trying to kill them as part of the "satanic" killing spree]].
* HollywoodSatanism: An InUniverse example - [[spoiler:the girls aren't part of a real Satanic cult, and deliberately made their HumanSacrifice "ritual" as stereotypical as possible]].
* {{Hypocrite}}: In spite of being Christian fanatics, [[spoiler:Alexis and Val]] drink, smoke and shout "God damn it!"
* HollywoodSatanism: An InUniverse example - [[spoiler:the girls aren't part of a real Satanic cult, and deliberately made their HumanSacrifice "ritual" as stereotypical as possible]].
* {{Hypocrite}}: In spite of being Christian fanatics, [[spoiler:Alexis and Val]] drink, smoke and shout "God damn it!"
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* HalfwayPlotSwitch: The film starts out with a group of regular female metalheads picking up some strange guys at a concert during a serial killing spree. The second half is about [[spoiler:the girls trapping the guys in a mansion and trying to kill them as part of the "satanic" "Satanic" killing spree]].
* HollywoodSatanism: An InUniverseexample - [[spoiler:the example. [[spoiler:The girls aren't part of a real Satanic cult, and but are in fact born-again Christians who deliberately made their HumanSacrifice "ritual" as stereotypical as possible]].
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* {{Hypocrite}}: In spite of being Christian fanatics, [[spoiler:Alexis and Val]] drink,smoke smoke, and shout "God damn it!"
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* {{Hypocrite}}: In spite of being Christian fanatics, [[spoiler:Alexis and Val]] drink,
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* KilledOffScreen: Strangely, both villains who die do so off-screen ([[spoiler:Val runs away and burns to death and Alexis is only implied to be run over by the Jeep]]) while all of their victims are killed on screen in graphic detail.
* KnightTemplar: [[spoiler:Pastor Butler, Alexis, and Val. Butler has Alexis and Val kill unsuspecting people so new outlets will blame the murders on satanic cults so people will turn to Butler's congregation for salvation. Butler even states "I'm the wrath of God" after he shoots an injured Kovacs.]]
* KnightTemplar: [[spoiler:Pastor Butler, Alexis, and Val. Butler has Alexis and Val kill unsuspecting people so new outlets will blame the murders on satanic cults so people will turn to Butler's congregation for salvation. Butler even states "I'm the wrath of God" after he shoots an injured Kovacs.]]
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* KilledOffScreen: Strangely, both villains who die do so off-screen ([[spoiler:Val runs away and burns to death and Alexis is only implied to be run over by the Jeep]]) Jeep]]), while all of their victims are killed on screen in graphic detail.
* KnightTemplar: [[spoiler:Pastor Butler, Alexis, and Val. Butler has Alexis and Val kill unsuspecting people so new outlets will blame the murders onsatanic Satanic cults so and people will turn to Butler's congregation for salvation. Butler even states "I'm the wrath of God" after he shoots an injured Kovacs.]]
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* TokenGoodTeammate: [[spoiler:Bev]] is the least evil of the villains and the only one to show hesitation over killing.
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* TokenGoodTeammate: [[spoiler:Bev]] is the least evil of the villains and the only one to show hesitation over killing. [[spoiler:She eventually pulls a HeelFaceTurn upon realizing that Pastor Butler is [[CorruptChurch fleecing his flock]].]]
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* BondVillainStupidity: All three girls explain their evil plan to their victims, then leave their two remaining victims alone for a while to have a conversation, trusting that their victims won't be able to escape their bonds while unsupervised. They do.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: A few points foreshadow the revelation that [[spoiler:the girls are only pretending to be metalheads and are actually Christian fanatics of Pastor Butler]]:
** The gas station clerk, in spite of being a fan of Pastor Butler and his anti-metalhead rhetoric, says that the trio of metalheads "seem like nice girls."
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** Val and Alexis discuss the idea that make-up is modern "war paint."
** The gas station clerk, in spite of being a fan of Pastor Butler and hisanti-metalhead anti-metal rhetoric, says that the trio of metalheads "seem like nice girls."
** Val and Alexis discuss the idea that make-up is modern "war paint."
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* SweetTooth: In spite of all being very slender, the villains are obsessed with sweets. [[spoiler:Alexis and Val are constantly eating Twinkies and Ding Dongs, and Val is chastised for drinking so much soda. Pastor Butler also snacks on a cookie as soon as he gets home]].
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Alexis and Val are dead, but Pastor Butler is able to continue deceiving people into accepting {{Jesus}}.]]
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* NotQuiteDead: After falling out of a window, [[spoiler:Alexis is still alive, though she does little but stumble into the road and get run over afterward]].
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** After getting shot, [[spoiler:Kovacs]] drags himself inside to provide one final warning.
** After falling out of a window, [[spoiler:Alexis is still alive, though she does little but stumble into the road and get run over afterward]].
** After getting shot, [[spoiler:Kovacs]] drags himself inside to provide one final warning.
** After falling out of a window, [[spoiler:Alexis is still alive, though she does little but stumble into the road and get run over afterward]].
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* GrievousBottleyHarm: Mark shatters two wine bottles and puts duct tape around the necks to use as stabbing weapons. He stabs [[spoiler:Bev]], but it doesn't do much damage, luckily for him.
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* JustAFleshWound: [[spoiler:Mark]] gets shot and doesn't think he can even make it to the car by the time the whole ordeal is over. But a few hours later, [[spoiler:he's still in the car with Bev and seemingly doing OK in spite of receiving no medical attention]].
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** [[spoiler:Bev]] gets stabbed in the back with a shattered wine bottle, but never seems to actually be injured when she stands up, presumably because the leather jacket absorbed most of it.
** [[spoiler:Mark]] gets shot and doesn't think he can even make it to the car by the time the whole ordeal is over. But a few hours later, [[spoiler:he's still in the car with Bev and seemingly doing OK in spite of receiving no medical attention]].
** [[spoiler:Bev]] gets stabbed in the back with a shattered wine bottle, but never seems to actually be injured when she stands up, presumably because the leather jacket absorbed most of it.
** [[spoiler:Mark]] gets shot and doesn't think he can even make it to the car by the time the whole ordeal is over. But a few hours later, [[spoiler:he's still in the car with Bev and seemingly doing OK in spite of receiving no medical attention]].
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* HellBentForLeather: Alexis and Mark both wear studded leather jackets to the concert. Mark eventually lets Bev wear his jacket, which becomes a plot point when [[spoiler:he stabs her in the back with a shattered wine bottle. It doesn't penetrate deep, presumably because the jacket took the brunt of it]].
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Pastor Butler decides to strangle Alexis to death after she bungles the murders]].
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* EightiesHair: Given a very light touch given the subject matter.
** Alexis sports a hint of crimping, and Val dowses a lock of hair in hair spray, but all three girls' hairstyles look pretty modern. Compare the vast clouds of hair worn by actual metal concert-goers in the 1980s.
** Of the guys, Mark and Ivan have short and very tame mullets that are hard to even notice. Kovacs just looks timelessly shaggy.
** Alexis sports a hint of crimping, and Val dowses a lock of hair in hair spray, but all three girls' hairstyles look pretty modern. Compare the vast clouds of hair worn by actual metal concert-goers in the 1980s.
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** The gas station clerk, in spite of being a fan of Pastor Butler and his anti-metalhead rhetoric, says that the trio of metalheads "seem like nice girls." It turns out that [[spoiler:they're not metalheads, but disciples of Pastor Butler]].
** When the girls are in the car, they spend most of the trip not listening to music but do briefly listen to a news report on the satanic cult. It turns out that [[spoiler:They're not really metalheads. They're part of the cult]].
** When the guys first meet the girls, they ask them about the first concert they went to. [[spoiler:The fact that Alexis clearly has no answer and needs Bev to provide one is an early sign that she's not who she appears to be.]]
** The gas station clerk, in spite of being a fan of Pastor Butler and his anti-metalhead rhetoric, says that the trio of metalheads "seem like nice girls." It turns out that [[spoiler:they're not metalheads, but disciples of Pastor Butler]].
** When the girls are in the car, they spend most of the trip not listening to music but do briefly listen to a news report on the satanic cult. It turns out that [[spoiler:They're not really metalheads. They're part of the cult]].
** When the guys first meet the girls, they ask them about the first concert they went to. [[spoiler:The fact that Alexis clearly has no answer and needs Bev to provide one is an early sign that she's not who she appears to be.]]
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** The gas station clerk, in spite of being a fan of Pastor Butler and his anti-metalhead rhetoric, says that the trio of metalheads "seem like nice girls." It turns out that [[spoiler:they're not metalheads, but disciples of Pastor Butler]].
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** When discussing recent events in metal music around the firepit, Alexis's statements must be corrected by others.
** The gas station clerk, in spite of being a fan of Pastor Butler and his anti-metalhead rhetoric, says that the trio of metalheads "seem like nice girls.
** When the girls are in the car, they spend most of the trip not listening to music but do briefly listen to a news report on the satanic cult.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment:
** Alexis drives, dictates what gets played on the stereo, and orders the others around during their trip to the concert, establishing her as the leader.
** Val makes crass jokes, smokes, and says she hasn't washed in two days, establishing her as the wild one.
** Bev is reluctant to share a drink with the other girls, showing that she has more scruples than the others.
** Alexis drives, dictates what gets played on the stereo, and orders the others around during their trip to the concert, establishing her as the leader.
** Val makes crass jokes, smokes, and says she hasn't washed in two days, establishing her as the wild one.
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* RunningGag: Val constantly has to urinate. After first stating her need to pee on the way to the concert, her friends tell her to stop drinking so much soda. When they depart from the gas station, she's drinking from an enormous cup of soda. There's never really a final joke to the gag, but it does affect the plot when [[spoiler:Val joins Alexis and Bev in the bathroom so she can pee, allowing the surviving men to escape while they're alone]].
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* PresentDayPast: The $100 bill on the front of the stack that Bev picks up is the large-portrait design introduced in 1996. Strangely, the bill on top of the stack she leaves in the tray is period-appropriate to 1988.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Alexis is dead, but Pastor Butler is able to continue deceiving people into accepting {{Jesus}}.]]
* ChainsawGood: [[spoiler:Bev wields a garden saw against Alexis and Val.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Alexis is and Val are dead, but Pastor Butler is able to continue deceiving people into accepting {{Jesus}}.]]
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* EvilIsHammy: [[spoiler:Creator/AlexandraDaddario and Maddie Hasson clearly had a ball playing Alexis and Val]].
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** The gas station clerk, in spite of being a fan of Pastor Butler and his anti-metalhead rhetoric, says that the trio of metalheads "seem like nice girls." It turns out that [[spoiler:they're not metalheads, but disciples of Pastor Butler]].
** When the girls are in the car, they spend most of the trip not listening to music but briefly listen to a news report on the satanic cult. It turns out that [[spoiler:They're not really metalheads. They're part of the cult]].
** When the guys first meet the girls, they ask them about the first concert they went to. [[spoiler:The fact that Alexis clearly has no answer and needs Bev to provide one is an early sign that she's not who she appears to be.]]
* EvilIsHammy: [[spoiler:Creator/AlexandraDaddario and MaddieHasson Hasson]] clearly had a ball playing Alexis and Val]].chew quite a lot of scenery as the villains.
** The gas station clerk, in spite of being a fan of Pastor Butler and his anti-metalhead rhetoric, says that the trio of metalheads "seem like nice girls." It turns out that [[spoiler:they're not metalheads, but disciples of Pastor Butler]].
** When the girls are in the car, they spend most of the trip not listening to music but briefly listen to a news report on the satanic cult. It turns out that [[spoiler:They're not really metalheads. They're part of the cult]].
** When the guys first meet the girls, they ask them about the first concert they went to. [[spoiler:The fact that Alexis clearly has no answer and needs Bev to provide one is an early sign that she's not who she appears to be.]]
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* GoryDiscretionShot: The scene cuts to black and a scream plays when [[spoiler:Alexis is run over]].
* HalfwayPlotSwitch: The film starts out with a group of regular female metalheads picking up some strange guys at a concert during a serial killing spree. The second half is about [[spoiler:the girls trapping the guys in a mansion and trying to kill them as part of the "satanic" killing spree]].
* HalfwayPlotSwitch: The film starts out with a group of regular female metalheads picking up some strange guys at a concert during a serial killing spree. The second half is about [[spoiler:the girls trapping the guys in a mansion and trying to kill them as part of the "satanic" killing spree]].
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* TheSnackIsMoreInteresting: [[spoiler:Pastor Butler]] snacks on a beer and cookie while people are fighting for their lives in his house.
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** The movie starts out making it look like the girls are being set up as the target for the Satanic cult, who might very well be three metalheads. [[spoiler:Then it turns out there is no Satanic cult, but the girls are instead baiting the guys they met at the show and setting up their murder to look like it was part of a Satanic ritual.]]
** ''Another one'' comes at the end when [[spoiler:Pastor Butler shows up at the house, revealing himself to be Alexis' father.]]
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** The movie starts out making it look like the girls are being set up as the target for the Satanic cult, who might very well be three metalheads. [[spoiler:Then it turns out there is no Satanic cult, but the girls are instead baiting the guys they met at the show and setting up their murder to look like it was part of a Satanic ritual.]]
** ''Another one'' comes at the end when [[spoiler:Pastor Butler shows up at the house, revealing himself to be Alexis' father.]]
** The movie starts out making it look like the girls are being set up as the target for the Satanic cult, who might very well be three metalheads. [[spoiler:Then it turns out there is no Satanic cult, but the girls are instead baiting the guys they met at the show and setting up their murder to look like it was part of a Satanic ritual.]]
** ''Another one'' comes at the end when [[spoiler:Pastor Butler shows up at the house, revealing himself to be Alexis' father.]]
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* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler:Mark hits Alexis and then Val with a tray while fleeing from the girls. Of course, he does have to.]]
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I wouldn't call that a full-blown victory for him, just that he got away with his crimes.
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:In the end, Pastor Butler remains in a position to continue his "holy" work after Alexis is killed trying to stop Bev and Mark from escaping.]]
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* HollywoodSatanism: An InUniverse example - [[spoiler:the girls aren't part of a real Satanic cult, and deliberately made their HumanSacrifice "ritual" as stereotypical as possible]].
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* ItBeganWithATwistOfFate: One of the guy throws a milkshake out a window in the highway that happens to hit the windshield of the girls' car. This leads to [[spoiler:Alexis choosing them as victims for the fake ritual killing and all the events that follow from that.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: When the guys first meet the girls, they ask them about the first concert they went to. [[spoiler:The fact that Alexis clearly has no answer and needs Bev to provide one is an early sign that she's not who she appears to be.]]
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* FrameUp: [[spoiler:Butler's congregation make their murders look like the work of a made-up satanic cult.]]
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* UngratefulBitch: [[spoiler:After Bev saves her life when her father is trying to choke her, Alexis repays her by immediately trying to kill her.]]
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''We Summon the Darkness'' is a 2019 horror/thriller film directed by Marc Myers, written by Alan Trezza, and starring Creator/AlexandraDaddario, Keean Johnson, Maddie Hasson, Amy Forsyth, Logan Miller, Austin Swift, and Creator/JohnnyKnoxville. It premiered at Fantastic Fest on September 21, 2019 before being released on demand by Saban Films on April 10, 2020.
Set in Indiana, [[TheEighties 1988]], Alexis (Daddario), Val (Hasson), and Bev (Forsyth) are three friends who head to a heavy metal concert during the satanic panic. They pick up three guys, Mark (Keean Johnson), Kovacs (Miller), and Ivan (Austin Swift), and bring them back to Alexis's father's house for a night of fun that soon takes a dark turn for everyone involved.
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!!This film contains the following tropes:
* AbusiveDad: [[spoiler:Pastor Butler to Alexis, whom he brainwashed. He later tries to strangle her to death for messing up his plan.]]
* AsTheGoodBookSays: [[spoiler:Alexis]] quotes [[Literature/TheBible Isaiah 66:16]] as she prepares to [[spoiler:use a makeshift flamethrower against Mark and Kovacs]].
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:Alexis and Val turn out to be quite unhinged.]]
* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:In the end, Pastor Butler remains in a position to continue his "holy" work after Alexis is killed trying to stop Bev and Mark from escaping.]]
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Pastor John Henry Butler is the one who brainwashed Alexis, who in turn likely brainwashed Val and tried to do the same to Bev.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Bev knocks Pastor Butler back when he's trying to choke Alexis.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Alexis is dead, but Pastor Butler is able to continue deceiving people into accepting {{Jesus}}.]]
* ChainsawGood: [[spoiler:Bev wields a garden saw against Alexis and Val.]]
%%* ClosedCircle
* DaddysLittleVillain: [[spoiler:Alexis turns out to be the daughter of Pastor John Henry Butler and a proud follower of his scheme to deceive people into embracing UsefulNotes/{{Christianity}}.]]
* DestinationDefenestration: [[spoiler:Bev throws Alexis out a bedroom window during their climactic fight.]]
* EvilIsHammy: [[spoiler:Creator/AlexandraDaddario and Maddie Hasson clearly had a ball playing Alexis and Val]].
* FrameUp: [[spoiler:Butler's congregation make their murders look like the work of a satanic cult.]]
* KnightTemplar: [[spoiler:Pastor Butler, Alexis, and Val. Butler has Alexis and Val kill unsuspecting people so new outlets will blame the murders on satanic cults so people will turn to Butler's congregation for salvation. Butler even states "I'm the wrath of God" after he shoots an injured Kovacs.]]
* MadeOfIron: [[spoiler:Alexis survives a fall from a second-story window. However, she clearly doesn't survive a head-on collision with a truck.]]
* MaleGaze: A fair amount of this is present.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoiler:Bev gives one to Alexis and Val about what they're doing.]]
* SinisterMinister: [[spoiler:Pastor Butler is the mastermind behind the murders, plus he's pocketing money from his parishioners to build more houses for himself. He also shoots a grievously-wounded Kovacs, declaring "I'm the wrath of God" after he does so, and shoots Mark when he's strangling Alexis.]]
* TitleDrop: [[spoiler:The supposed satanic cult's name? It's the film's title.]]
* TokenGoodTeammate: [[spoiler:Bev is the least evil of the girls and the only one to show hesitation over killing the guys. In the end, she stands up to Alexis and Val, defeats them, and escapes with Mark.]]
* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler:Mark hits Alexis and then Val with a tray while fleeing from the girls.]]
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Set in Indiana, [[TheEighties 1988]], Alexis (Daddario), Val (Hasson), and Bev (Forsyth) are three friends who head to a heavy metal concert during the satanic panic. They pick up three guys, Mark (Keean Johnson), Kovacs (Miller), and Ivan (Austin Swift), and bring them back to Alexis's father's house for a night of fun that soon takes a dark turn for everyone involved.
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!!This film contains the following tropes:
* AbusiveDad: [[spoiler:Pastor Butler to Alexis, whom he brainwashed. He later tries to strangle her to death for messing up his plan.]]
* AsTheGoodBookSays: [[spoiler:Alexis]] quotes [[Literature/TheBible Isaiah 66:16]] as she prepares to [[spoiler:use a makeshift flamethrower against Mark and Kovacs]].
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:Alexis and Val turn out to be quite unhinged.]]
* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:In the end, Pastor Butler remains in a position to continue his "holy" work after Alexis is killed trying to stop Bev and Mark from escaping.]]
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Pastor John Henry Butler is the one who brainwashed Alexis, who in turn likely brainwashed Val and tried to do the same to Bev.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Bev knocks Pastor Butler back when he's trying to choke Alexis.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Alexis is dead, but Pastor Butler is able to continue deceiving people into accepting {{Jesus}}.]]
* ChainsawGood: [[spoiler:Bev wields a garden saw against Alexis and Val.]]
%%* ClosedCircle
* DaddysLittleVillain: [[spoiler:Alexis turns out to be the daughter of Pastor John Henry Butler and a proud follower of his scheme to deceive people into embracing UsefulNotes/{{Christianity}}.]]
* DestinationDefenestration: [[spoiler:Bev throws Alexis out a bedroom window during their climactic fight.]]
* EvilIsHammy: [[spoiler:Creator/AlexandraDaddario and Maddie Hasson clearly had a ball playing Alexis and Val]].
* FrameUp: [[spoiler:Butler's congregation make their murders look like the work of a satanic cult.]]
* KnightTemplar: [[spoiler:Pastor Butler, Alexis, and Val. Butler has Alexis and Val kill unsuspecting people so new outlets will blame the murders on satanic cults so people will turn to Butler's congregation for salvation. Butler even states "I'm the wrath of God" after he shoots an injured Kovacs.]]
* MadeOfIron: [[spoiler:Alexis survives a fall from a second-story window. However, she clearly doesn't survive a head-on collision with a truck.]]
* MaleGaze: A fair amount of this is present.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoiler:Bev gives one to Alexis and Val about what they're doing.]]
* SinisterMinister: [[spoiler:Pastor Butler is the mastermind behind the murders, plus he's pocketing money from his parishioners to build more houses for himself. He also shoots a grievously-wounded Kovacs, declaring "I'm the wrath of God" after he does so, and shoots Mark when he's strangling Alexis.]]
* TitleDrop: [[spoiler:The supposed satanic cult's name? It's the film's title.]]
* TokenGoodTeammate: [[spoiler:Bev is the least evil of the girls and the only one to show hesitation over killing the guys. In the end, she stands up to Alexis and Val, defeats them, and escapes with Mark.]]
* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler:Mark hits Alexis and then Val with a tray while fleeing from the girls.]]
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