History Main / LumberMillMayhem

* The ''Series/MacGyver'' episode "Log Jam" climaxes in a fight between Mac and the bad guys in a sawmill, with the chief villain trying to kill Mac with a chainsaw.

* The "Sawmill Thrill" level of ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryTropicalFreeze'' is a MinecartMadness taking place in various lumber mills.

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* A large part of ''DudleyDoRightsRipsawFalls'' at [[Ride/UniversalStudios Universal's Islands of Adventure]] is set in a sawmill filled with numerous spinning sawblades.

* ''Dudley Do-Right's Ripsaw Falls'' at [[Ride/UniversalStudios Universal's Islands of Adventure]] is set entirely at a lumber mill, where Dudley is once again trying to rescue Nell.

* In ''WesternAnimation/FernGullyTheLastRainforest'', young Zack has been shrunk to 3 inches high, and is stuck in a spider's web. As the fairy Krysta struggles to free him, the Leveler begins devouring the tree they're on. The Leveler is a robotic lumber mill that moves on caterpillar treads, felling trees with chainsaw pincers, debarking the trunks, and cutting the wood into 2-by-4s and plywood sheets. Batty Koda plucks Zack and Krysta from the trunk before it reaches the whirring steel teeth.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'' episode "That's Snow Ghost", the ghost ties Velma up in a saw mill and tries to cut her in half.

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* Lampshaded in ''Along Came Jones'' by The Coasters (among others).

* In ''WesternAnimation/FerngullyTheLastRainforest'', young Zack has been shrunk to 3 inches high, and is stuck in a spider's web. As the fairy Krysta struggles to free him, the Leveler begins devouring the tree they're on. The Leveler is a robotic lumber mill that moves on caterpillar treads, felling trees with chainsaw pincers, debarking the trunks, and cutting the wood into 2-by-4s and plywood sheets. Batty Koda plucks Zack and Krysta from the trunk before it reaches the whirring steel teeth.

* In ''Paddle-to-the-sea'' by Hollin C. Holling, the eponymous toy canoe gets trapped in the bark of a log that is being slowly fed into a saw in a sawmill. The canoe is spotted by a mill worker who rescues it a releases it back into the lake. Theis scene also appears in the 1966 film version.

* WatchDogs has a gang takedown located at a lumber mill outside the city. The local hotspot found just outside even pokes fun at this trope in its description.

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* In "''Series/TheAdventuresOfSuperman'' episode "[[Recap/TheAdventuresOfSupermanS6E12ThePerilsOfSuperman The Perils of Superman]]", the VillainOfTheWeek ties Perry to a log in a sawmill.

* The climax of the 2004 version of ''Film/WalkingTall'' takes place in and outside the town's defunct lumber mill, as the bad guy tries to kill the hero with an axe he took out of the workshop.

* ''VideoGame/SuperMeatBoy'': The first level takes place in a forest that has some sort of lumber-cutting operation going on. Naturally, our hero must dodge saw blades to survive.

* Played with in a ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' sketch which starts with someone running into the room yelling, "There's trouble at the mill!" and the sketch goes completely OffTheRails when TheSpanishInquisition invades.

Lumber mills are dangerous places, especially to the people who aren't supposed to be there. It doesn't matter if you're taking part in a massive firefight, running from the local slasher or just trying to navigate the place with your limbs intact. Nobody goes into a lumber yard expecting a safe haven if there is a better alternative available to them.

Unfortunately, most times there isn't and with all those [[NailEm deadly]] [[ThisIsADrill power]] [[ChainsawGood tools]] scattered about, [[NoOSHACompliance lumber stacks waiting to collapse on someone]], and enough saws to shred a small town you can expect a high mortality rate whenever one of these places show up.

To count as an example a lumber mill or at least a lumber yard motif must be used. Characters don't have to die or suffer serious injury, but must be menaced or endangered by the lumber mill in some way. Sometimes involves a nasty looking saw and some poor schmuck tied to a ConveyorBeltOfDoom or power tools being used as [[ImprovisedWeapon Improvised Weapons]] during a fight [[ColdBloodedTorture or interrogation.]]

* In ''ComicStrip/FootrotFlats: The Dog's Tale'', the Dog gets chased through the Murphy's sawmill by the Murphy's dog, narrowly avoiding the whirring buzzsaws.

* The final showdown of ''Film/TuckerAndDaleVsEvil'' takes place in an abandoned lumber mill, and it features both a ConveyorBeltOfDoom and [[ImprovisedWeapon Improvised Weapons]] (the hero gears up with all kinds of protective clothing and arms himself with a chainsaw, while the BigBad resorts to using a metal bar).

* Young Zack has been shrunk to three inches high, and is stuck in a spider's web in ''WesternAnimation/FerngullyTheLastRainforest''. As the fairy Krysta struggles to free Zack, the Leveler begin devouring the tree they're on. The Leveler is a robotic lumber mill that moves on caterpillar treads, felling trees with chainsaw pincers, debarking the trunks, and cutting the wood into 2 by 4's and plywood sheets. Batty Koda plucks Zack and Krysta from the trunk before it reaches the whirring steel teeth.

* The fourth book of ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'', aptly titled The Miserable Mill, sees the Baudelaire orphans shuttled to a lumber mill owned by their current guardian. The book involves hypnotism and cruel deaths by buzzsaws.

* Played with in a ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' sketch which starts with someone running into the room yelling "There's trouble at the mill." only for the sketch to go completely OffTheRails when TheSpanishInquisition invades.

* ''VideoGame/SuperMeatBoy''. The first level takes place in a forest level that has some sort of lumber cutting operation going on. Naturally, our hero must dodge saw blades to survive.
* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV''. Michael, Trevor and Franklin pay a visit to one of these during a late game mission when [[spoiler:Lamar gets kidnapped by the Ballas.]] The level doesn't feature too many environmental hazards but still counts as the mill is the site of a massive firefight that leaves several people dead.
* ''VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition''. York traverses a lumber mill populated by shadows during an early level of the game. Unfortunately, the local ax murderer seems to use it as a base of operations.
* ''VideoGame/ATVOffroadFury'' An abandoned lumber mill can be seen in one level, though it can't be fully explored. The player can still wipe out on it if not careful.
* Subverted (?) in ''VideoGame/CallOfJuarezGunslinger'', which has a level set in a lumber mill but the only thing unusual about it is that your sight is always blocked by all the lumber stacks.

* The whole seventh segment of ''VideoGame/Sly2BandOfThieves'' is set on a lumber camp owned by Jean Bison, one of the villains. During the missions the player isn't only dodging saws and drills, but also laser beams, which are apparently also used to cut lumber. However, this trope turns into an advantage for the heroes in the BossFight at the end of the episode, where the player is to defeat Jean Bison by utilizing sawmill machinery.
* ''VideoGame/AlanWake'' has the Biltmore Logging Camps and The Sawmill from The Signal where Alan has to navigate various hazards and fend off Taken.
* ''VideoGame/JustCause2'' has Seabreeze Sawmill, a large lumber facility that the Ular Boys task Rico with destroying due to it endangering their sacred burial site. Not only do the workers carry heavy weapons during the mission but they even have snipers working with them. After finally causing enough chaos the player then has to kill the foreman... who has an attack vehicle with a mounted turret on it!

* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife''. In the carnival episode Rocko and Heffer go on a ride version of this trope.
* The ''[[RogerRabbitShorts Roger Rabbit]]'' short "Trail Mix-up" has a scene taking place in a lumber mill with a ConveyorBeltOfDoom.
* In the Terrytoons short The Saw Mill Mystery (1937), Oil Can Harry, the original DastardlyWhiplash, kidnaps a girl and imperils her in a sawmill.
* In the LooneyTunes cartoon "Lumber Jerks", the Goofy Gophers' treehouse is cut down and sent to a lumber mill, and the two try to get it back.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo'' episode, "That's Snow Ghost", the ghost ties Velma up in a saw mill and tries to cut her in half.

* ''VideoGame/AlanWake'' has the Biltmore Logging Camps and The Sawmill from The Signal.