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** The Sheriff: Was he truly blaming Salazar for the massacre or [[spoiler: was he simply trying to pin blame on him for something far, far more sinister that was happening behind the scenes]].

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** The Sheriff: Was he truly blaming Salazar for the massacre or [[spoiler: was he simply trying to pin blame on him for something far, far more sinister that was happening behind the scenes]].scenes]]?



* CultClassic: The film became this among the found footage audience. While it didn't garner much attention in it's release date, the parallels to real life events, the subversion of jump scares, and the impressive take on [[spoiler: zombie lore]] made it respectful despite it not given a huge theatrical release. Being praised by no other than [[Blog/{{Slimyswampghost}} Trevor Henderson]] also helped in the long run.

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* CultClassic: The film became this among the found footage audience. While it didn't garner much attention in it's its release date, the parallels to real life events, the subversion of jump scares, and the impressive take on [[spoiler: zombie lore]] made it respectful despite it not given a huge theatrical release. Being praised by no other than [[Blog/{{Slimyswampghost}} Trevor Henderson]] also helped in the long run.



* NightmareFuel: Oh god yes, because ''[[NightmareFuel/{{Savageland}} it so deserves it..]]'' Enough to get its own page, even.

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* NightmareFuel: Oh god yes, because ''[[NightmareFuel/{{Savageland}} it so deserves it..it.]]'' Enough to get its own page, even.



* TearJerker: Now has its own page.

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* TearJerker: Now has [[Tearjerker/{{Savageland}} its own page.]]



* TheWoobie: Salzar, poor guy kept suffering and suffering, even [[spoiler: after dying when he becomes a zombie]].

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Salzar, poor guy kept suffering and suffering, even [[spoiler: after dying when he becomes a zombie]].
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** Is Olivares the only one [[spoiler:who knows that there is a government coverup about the existence of whatever it is that massacred the town, or is he just paranoid and making mountains out of molehills? None of the things he says is corroborated by anyone else, after all]].
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* RealismInducedHorror: Enigmatically framed ZombieApocalypse aside, most of the film is about a loner who had just survived a life-or-death situation, only to be raked through the coals by a biased media and racist police who would rather condemn an innocent man than admit to arresting the wrong guy. Even with overwhelming evidence of his innocence, the court of public opinion had already found him guilty for being an asocial illegal immigrant that likes photography and that's enough to keep him on death-row.

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* RealismInducedHorror: Enigmatically framed ZombieApocalypse aside, most of the film is about a loner who had just survived a life-or-death situation, only to be raked through the coals by a biased media and racist police who would rather condemn an innocent man than admit to arresting the wrong guy. Even with overwhelming evidence of his innocence, the court of public opinion had already found him guilty for being an asocial illegal immigrant that likes photography with a camera and that's enough to keep him on death-row.
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* RealismInducedHorror: Enigmatically framed ZombieApocalypse aside, most of the film is about a loner who had just survived a life-or-death situation, only to be raked through the coals by a biased media and racist police who would rather condemn an innocent man than admit to arresting the wrong guy. Even with overwhelming evidence of his innocence, the court of public opinion had already found him guilty for being an asocial illegal immigrant that likes photography and that's enough to keep him on death-row.

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* NightmareFuel: Oh god yes, because ''[[NightmareFuel/{{Savageland}} it so deserves it..]]''
* TearJerker:
** Sazalar, who spent the entire film being a ShellShockedVeteran breaks down when he discusses the [[spoiler: [[KillTheCutie death of Grace Putnam]], with the only thing he could do was hold her hand and comfort her before she was killed]].
---> ''"I just held her hand..."''
** The simple fact that many people who had loved ones in Sangre de Christo never got to see them again, leaving them both confused and devastated.
** Add to it: ''children'' were killed in the massacre makes it just more tragic.
** Just the tone of the movie: Instead of focusing on the tragedy and the glaring signs that what murdered the townsfolk was ''something else'', everyone sans Salazar and those with common sense immediately use it for their own agenda. Even Ross, who's supposedly the "good guy" in the journalism world, turns the tragedy into a soapbox on how it was motivated by racism.
** Salazar's sister in the end of it all, [[spoiler: refuses to believe her brother killed the townsfolk]]. Makes it worse that [[spoiler: she never sees him again..]].
** [[spoiler: Salazar's fate: Condemned to death and afterwards people tried to destroy his grave site]]. And then afterwards [[spoiler: he joins the undead...]]

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* NightmareFuel: Oh god yes, because ''[[NightmareFuel/{{Savageland}} it so deserves it..]]''
* TearJerker:
** Sazalar, who spent the entire film being a ShellShockedVeteran breaks down when he discusses the [[spoiler: [[KillTheCutie death of Grace Putnam]], with the only thing he could do was hold her hand and comfort her before she was killed]].
---> ''"I just held her hand..."''
** The simple fact that many people who had loved ones in Sangre de Christo never got
]]'' Enough to see them again, leaving them both confused and devastated.
** Add to it: ''children'' were killed in the massacre makes it just more tragic.
** Just the tone of the movie: Instead of focusing on the tragedy and the glaring signs that what murdered the townsfolk was ''something else'', everyone sans Salazar and those with common sense immediately use it for their
get its own agenda. Even Ross, who's supposedly the "good guy" in the journalism world, turns the tragedy into a soapbox on how it was motivated by racism.
** Salazar's sister in the end of it all, [[spoiler: refuses to believe her brother killed the townsfolk]]. Makes it worse that [[spoiler: she never sees him again..]].
** [[spoiler: Salazar's fate: Condemned to death and afterwards people tried to destroy his grave site]]. And then afterwards [[spoiler: he joins the undead...]]
page, even.
* TearJerker: Now has its own page.
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** Did the government of Arizona really [[spoiler: decide to sentence Salazar to death because they truly believed he murdered the townspeople]] or [[spoiler: were they just looking for a scrape goat to hide the truly horrors that happened]]?

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** Did the government of Arizona really [[spoiler: decide to sentence Salazar to death because they truly believed he murdered the townspeople]] or [[spoiler: were they just looking for a scrape goat scapegoat to hide the truly horrors that happened]]?
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* CultClassic: The film became this among the found footage audience. While it didn't garner much attention in it's release date, the parallels to real life events, the subversion of jump scares, and the impressive take on [[spoiler: zombie lore]] made it respectful despite it not given a huge theatrical release.

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* CultClassic: The film became this among the found footage audience. While it didn't garner much attention in it's release date, the parallels to real life events, the subversion of jump scares, and the impressive take on [[spoiler: zombie lore]] made it respectful despite it not given a huge theatrical release. Being praised by no other than [[Blog/{{Slimyswampghost}} Trevor Henderson]] also helped in the long run.
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** The simple fact that many people who had loved ones in Sangre de Christo lost so many loved ones, leaving them both confused and devastated.
** Add to the fact ''children'' were killed in the massacre makes it just more tragic.

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** The simple fact that many people who had loved ones in Sangre de Christo lost so many loved ones, never got to see them again, leaving them both confused and devastated.
** Add to the fact it: ''children'' were killed in the massacre makes it just more tragic.



** [[spoiler: Salazar's fate: Condemned to death and afterwards people tried to destroy his grave site]].

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** [[spoiler: Salazar's fate: Condemned to death and afterwards people tried to destroy his grave site]]. And then afterwards [[spoiler: he joins the undead...]]



* TheWoobie: Salzar, poor guy kept suffering and suffering, even [[spoiler: after dying]].

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* TheWoobie: Salzar, poor guy kept suffering and suffering, even [[spoiler: after dying]].dying when he becomes a zombie]].
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
** The Sheriff: Was he truly blaming Salazar for the massacre or [[spoiler: was he simply trying to pin blame on him for something far, far more sinister that was happening behind the scenes]].
** Did the government of Arizona really [[spoiler: decide to sentence Salazar to death because they truly believed he murdered the townspeople]] or [[spoiler: were they just looking for a scrape goat to hide the truly horrors that happened]]?
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The score, no doubt a given considering the makers of it are Music/ZovietFrance.
* CultClassic: The film became this among the found footage audience. While it didn't garner much attention in it's release date, the parallels to real life events, the subversion of jump scares, and the impressive take on [[spoiler: zombie lore]] made it respectful despite it not given a huge theatrical release.
* EpilepticTrees: Whatever attacked Sangre de Cristo is up for debate among viewers: While there's no doubt that [[spoiler: they are zombies]], ''what'' they can truly be is its own can of worms.
** Whether or not the Sheriff and Arizona truly know what attacked the town is also an argument among the audience.
* NightmareFuel: Oh god yes, because ''[[NightmareFuel/{{Savageland}} it so deserves it..]]''
* TearJerker:
** Sazalar, who spent the entire film being a ShellShockedVeteran breaks down when he discusses the [[spoiler: [[KillTheCutie death of Grace Putnam]], with the only thing he could do was hold her hand and comfort her before she was killed]].
---> ''"I just held her hand..."''
** The simple fact that many people who had loved ones in Sangre de Christo lost so many loved ones, leaving them both confused and devastated.
** Add to the fact ''children'' were killed in the massacre makes it just more tragic.
** Just the tone of the movie: Instead of focusing on the tragedy and the glaring signs that what murdered the townsfolk was ''something else'', everyone sans Salazar and those with common sense immediately use it for their own agenda. Even Ross, who's supposedly the "good guy" in the journalism world, turns the tragedy into a soapbox on how it was motivated by racism.
** Salazar's sister in the end of it all, [[spoiler: refuses to believe her brother killed the townsfolk]]. Makes it worse that [[spoiler: she never sees him again..]].
** [[spoiler: Salazar's fate: Condemned to death and afterwards people tried to destroy his grave site]].
* TooBleakStoppedCaring: While the film is still very much liked, some arguments towards it is with the exception of Salazar and a few others, ''everyone else are deplorable shitheads''. Gus Greer and the Sheriff (his character interpretation aside) constantly invoke InsaneTrollLogic that Salazar committed the massacre despite ''it being impossible for him to do so'' with the townspeople outside of Sangre de Cristo just being walking stereotypes of racist caricatures. Ross, the indie reporter, while being someone who argues that Salazar couldn't be the murderer, immediately turns the situation into a racial motivated attack.
* TheWoobie: Salzar, poor guy kept suffering and suffering, even [[spoiler: after dying]].
** Grace Putnam, [[spoiler: considering her final moments were being killed by "zombies"]].

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