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3 | -->''"Take your best shot."'' |
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5 | ''Grabbers'' is a 2012 {{Irish|Media}} SciFiHorror comedy film starring Richard Coyle, Ruth Bradley, Creator/RussellTovey, Bronagh Gallagher, Lalor Roddy, and Ned Dennehy. |
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7 | A small Irish town has run into a problem. You see, they're Ground Zero for an AlienInvasion. The aliens here are aquatic creatures with many tentacles that love to drink blood. However, they have one weakness: Alcohol! Luckily, this town may not have many things, but it has a well-stocked pub! As an unusually high tide comes in, the residents of the town begin the pub crawl of their lives... |
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9 | !!This film contains examples of: |
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11 | * AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Naturally, considering the monsters are allergic to alcohol in the blood they drink, so the characters decide to get absolutely plastered in response. The biggest example would be [[spoiler:Smith, trashed on Paddy’s home brew, going to get a photo of the giant male. The creature seems to sense his blood is toxic, so instead it smacks him clear across town.]] |
12 | * TheAlcoholic: |
13 | ** O'Shea gets completely plastered every night. In fact, he's such an alcoholic that [[spoiler:the film treats him not drinking for one night as major character development.]] |
14 | ** Paddy is such a drunk that the other characters are convinced that getting as drunk as he regularly is will kill them. |
15 | * AlienBlood: The grabbers have blue blood. |
16 | * AnkleDrag: The male grabber is fond of doing this. |
17 | * AntagonistTitle: The titular "grabbers" are alien blood-sucking animals that have laid siege to the town. |
18 | * BigBad: The male grabber acts as head of the colony. |
19 | * CantHoldHisLiquor: Fatally so for the grabbers, for whom alcohol is literally toxic. |
20 | * DeathByLookingUp: One of the fishermen at the start falls victim to this. |
21 | * TheEndOrIsIt: [[spoiler:The grabbers are destroyed in an explosion, except for a few eggs that were ignored. The last shot of the film is one of them hatching.]] |
22 | * FaceHugger: The grabbers attack people by clamping onto their faces. |
23 | * HostileWeather: The grabbers can only attack anybody on land if it's raining. Naturally, a gigantic rainstorm hits the village at the same time the creatures show up. |
24 | * KickTheDog: When the male grabber realizes he can't eat Smith due to all the alcohol in his system, he just swats him into the air, killing him. Just because he can. |
25 | * KnightOfCerebus: The male grabber is genuinely threatening. |
26 | * ManOfKryptonite: Anybody with a very high degree of alcohol in their blood is this to the grabbers. |
27 | * MultipurposeTongue: The grabbers use their tongues both to capture their prey and drink its blood. |
28 | * OctopoidAliens: The grabbers are explicitly compared to vampire squids, due to being aquatic, tentacled creatures with blood-sucking tongues. |
29 | * OneWordTitle |
30 | * OnlySaneMan: O’Shea winds up the only ''sober'' man when he volunteers to remain sober during the plan to get everyone blind drunk. |
31 | * OurVampiresAreDifferent: These are aquatic, tentacled aliens who can't consume blood with a high alcohol content. |
32 | * ThePublicDomainChannel: ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968'' is shown playing on TV in one scene. |
33 | * RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler:The male grabber gets pinned under a tractor, gets a bottle of moonshine poured down its gullet, and finally caught in an explosion after Nolan shoots a flare into some oil drums.]] |
34 | * RightBehindMe: Paddy suggests feeding the town priest to the beast as a distraction, to the irritation of the priest entering the room behind him. |
35 | * ARoundOfDrinksForTheHouse: Our heroes get everybody good, plastered and grabber-proof by offering free drinks at the local pub for the entire night. |
36 | * RunningGag: Smith is adamant that the name ‘grabber’ is atrocious, and gets steadily more exasperated the more it catches on. |
37 | * ShoutOut: |
38 | ** O'Shea watches a lot of ''Series/{{Columbo}}''. |
39 | ** [[spoiler:When Smith gets tossed away by the male Grabber,]] ragdoll physics aside, the fact that [[spoiler:his cadaver is highlighted by the moon as it passes in front of it]] resembles an iconic scene from ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial''. |
40 | ** When rescuing O'Shea from the male grabber, Nolan paraphrases the famous line from ''Film/{{Aliens}}'', with an added helping of CountryMatters. |
41 | * VillainOpeningScene: The grabbers attacking a fishing boat. |
42 | * WeaksauceWeakness: High alcohol content in the blood, because of its desiccant properties. |
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