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7[[caption-width-right:300: [- Hypothetical: What if [[Film/Maniac1980 Frank Zito]] hated bowling instead of women? -] ]]
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9-> ''Heads will bowl.''
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11''Gutterballs'' is a 2008 [[ExploitationFilm Exploitation]]/SlasherMovie created by Ryan Nicholson.
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13It's late night at the Xcalibur bowling center and tensions are running high between two rival teams; one led by the nasty Steve, and the other featuring a girl named Lisa and her friends.
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15Following a brawl, the teams are kicked out with the janitor telling everyone they can resume their game tomorrow. Lisa goes back into the bowling alley alone to retrieve her purse and is the victim of a vicious gang rape at the hands of Steve and his cronies.
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17The next night, a masked killer starts to dispatch all parties at the bowling alley, with his kills being counted on the scoreboard as strikes under the name "BBK".
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19A sequel, classily titled ''Film/Gutterballs2BallsDeep'', is in development. It will relocate things to a water park, and have the survivor(s) of this film be hunted down by a returned BBK.
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21Has no relation with the DisneyAcidSequence of the same name featured in ''Film/TheBigLebowski'', aside from the bowling theme.
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24!! This film provides examples of the following tropes:
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26%%* EightiesHair
27* AbandonedArea: The ball polisher area is undergoing refurbishment and is closed to the public.
28* AgonyOfTheFeet: Lisa breaks up the fight by throwing a bowling ball onto Steve's foot.
29%%* AlmightyJanitor: Egerton.
30* AmbiguouslyBi: Hannah has threesomes with Steve and the canonically bi Julia, but it's not clear what these threesomes entail.
31* AnachronismStew: Cell phones are brought up, and one of the games in the arcade being from TheNineties.
32* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Patrick, to Lisa.
33* AnkleDrag: Happens to Sam, as BBK drags her under the toilet stall door.
34* AndStarring: And Dan Ellis as BBK.
35* ApologeticAttacker: Patrick, when forced to violate Lisa with a bowling pin.
36* ArchEnemy: Sarah has Steve, a rival bowling team leader who lead his team in gang-raping her. [[spoiler:By extension, Steve is also the nemesis of the Bowling Ball Killer, who is her vengeful father.]]
37%%* AssholeVictim
38* AssShove: Steve is sodomized with a sharpened bowling pin.
39* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:Patrick is trying to make up for his part in Lisa's gang rape]].
40%%* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:Egerton]].
41%%* TheBartender: Egerton.
42* BathroomStallGraffiti: The bowling alley bathroom is completely covered in graffiti.
43%%* BlackComedy
44* BlackIsBiggerInBed:
45--> '''Ben:''' (while looking over the condom machine) "How about Black Knight? 'For the Big One?' That's for big black cock, that's gonna fall off me for sure."
46%%* BloodFromTheMouth
47* BloodierAndGorier: The Pin-Etration Edition.
48* BoomHeadshot: Egerton's death.
49%%* BowlingForRatings
50%%* CallingYourOrgasms: Joey.
51* CampingACrapper: Julia, Dave, Sam, and Ben are all killed in the bowling alley bathroom.
52%%* CampStraight: Dave.
53* CameraAbuse: [[spoiler:When Patrick's throat is slit.]]
54%%* CanadaEh
55* CellPhonesAreUseless:
56--> '''Sarah:''' "Batteries are dead, Jamie, don't you think that's the first thing I would have done?"
57--> '''Jamie:''' "[[LampshadeHanging Fuck! How convenient...]]"
58* CastAsAMask: Brandon Dix and Ryan Nicholson both subbed for BBK.
59%%* CatFight: Lisa and Sarah.
60%%* ChaseScene
61%%* ChekhovsGun: Sam's switchblade, and Egerton's shotgun.
62* ClosedCircle: The killer chains and locks all the doors at the bowling alley shut.
63* ClothingCombat: BBK garottes Cindy with a pair of bowling shoes with the laces tied together.
64* ClusterFBomb: Much of the dialogue, to the point of being the unofficial second place record holder for most of amount of "fucks" in a film, directly behind ''Mutilation Mile'' and barely ahead of ''Film/AugustUnderground's Mordum''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2tRgkf1dvY Observe]].
65%%* CollaredByFashion
66* CoolMask: It's a bowling bag that looks like it has a weird face on it.
67* CoolShades: Lisa wears them after the gang rape.
68%%* CountryMatters
69* CreepyBasement: Jamie and Sarah find that BBK has moved all of the bodies into the basement, and hung bowling shoes from the ceiling.
70* CruelAndUnusualDeath: AJ has his face dunked in the malfunctioning Wax-O-Matic, leaving nothing but a bloody crater. And let's not even get started on Julia and Dave's death by 69ing.
71* CrustyCaretaker: Egerton, the janitor (and seemingly sole employee of Xcalibur), who spends all of his time being snarky at the customers; all of whom treat him like dirt.
72* CueTheSun: The sun is coming up as Jamie and Sarah exit the bowling alley after all of the carnage.
73%%* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon
74* CutPhoneLines: The phone lines to bowling are cut while Egerton is on the phone.
75%%* DeathByMocking
76* DefiantToTheEnd: Steve.
77--> "... I still fucked her... I still... I still... I stilll... I... I still... fucked her."
78* DepravedBisexual:
79** In the middle of his gang rape of Lisa, Steve threatens to rape Patrick with a bowling pin unless he does so to her, and makes preparations to do so before Pat complies.
80** BBK has sex with Cindy before killing her, and skullfucks Ben after killing him.
81%%* DevelopingDoomedCharacters
82* DisproportionateRetribution:
83** Steve and his buddies gang rape Lisa because she used him to hook up with Jamie on prom night.
84** [[spoiler:Egerton engages in this, as well, killing Lisa's friends for letting her go back into the bowling alley alone, despite having no idea that Steve and his friends were in there planning to gang up on her.]]
85* TheDitz: Julia and Hannah, and [[InformedAttribute apparently]] Lisa.
86* DramaticUnmask: [[spoiler:Patrick is also BBK]].
87* DrunkenMaster: "Yep, you do bowl better drunk."
88%%* DumbBlonde: Julia and Hannah.
89%%* DwindlingParty
90%%* TheEighties
91* EvenEvilHasStandards: Joey and AJ are a bit weirded out by Steve's idea of raping Lisa with a bowling pin, and even moreso when he threatens to do the same to the uncooperative Patrick.
92* EvilCripple: Steve, after his foot is mangled.
93%%* EvilIsHammy: [[spoiler:Egerton]].
94* EyeScream: Ben gets a sharpened bowling pin in the eyes.
95* FacialHorror: AJ loses his face to the Wax-O-Matic, and Steve has his beat in with a bowling pin.
96%%* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:Patrick]].
97* {{Fanservice}}: It's almost pornographic.
98* FanDisservice: But then they die horribly before things get too explicit.
99%%* FightScene
100%%* FinalGirl: Sarah.
101* {{Flashback}}: A rather gratuitous one to the gang rape, and then one to [[spoiler:Patrick faking his death]].
102%%* FlippingTheBird
103%%* FluffyFashionFeathers: Sam.
104%%* GangOfBullies: Steve, AJ, Joey, and Patrick.
105* GenreThrowback: Though you'd be hard pressed to find an eighties slasher as vulgar and gory as it... well, maybe ''Film/ViolentShit''.
106* GirlOnGirlIsHot:
107--> '''Joey:''' (on the absent Julia and Hannah) "They're probably licking each other clean!"
108--> '''AJ:''' (near SpitTake)
109* GenderBlenderName: Of course the transgender character would be named Sam.
110* GoingCommando: Lisa wears a miniskirt without panties. Nothing is left to the imagination.
111%%* {{Gorn}}
112* GrievousBottleyHarm: During the brawl, Steve smashes Jamie with a beer bottle.
113* GroinAttack: Lisa gets violated with the bowling pin, and BBK gives Sam a "mangina" by cutting her penis in half.
114%%* GrossUpCloseUp
115* GuiltByAssociationGag: The killer went after Steve, Joey, and Patrick and murdered them to get back at them for raping Lisa but he went after Sarah, Jamie, Ben, Julia, Sam, Cindy, and Hannah because they failed to help Lisa and protect her from the rape even though most of them were not present at the bowling alley in that moment and Julia and Hannah did not attend the tournament that night.
116* GuttedLikeAFish: Lisa sustaining a shotgun blast to the stomach results in this.
117* HackedByAPirate: A skull and crossbones show up on the scoreboard after every one of BBK's kills.
118* HandInTheHole: Jamie, right before Joey's head shoots out of the ball return.
119* HateSink: Steve is a rival bowling team leader who leads his men in committing a hate crime on a transgender member of the team after they kick his ass. After the protagonists kick his ass, he leads his team in raping their team leader, threatening the one member who tries to resist. Aside from his evil deeds, he also verbally abuses everybody else throughout the whole film.
120* HeadHat: BBK does this with Ben's scalp.
121* HeKnowsTooMuch: "Jamie, Jamie, Jamie. Now, c'mon, be a good boy and move aside, you know the drill, son. She seen me, she got to go."
122%%* HighCollarOfDoom: Steve.
123* HighPressureBlood: Patrick's throat slitting.
124* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Egerton and Lisa are killed with Egerton's own shotgun]].
125* HoldMyGlasses: "Hold my fucking glasses!"
126* HollywoodHealing: It's unlikely Lisa would be up and about a day after what happened to her.
127* HotterAndSexier: The Pin-Etration Edition, which has several ''Film/ThrillerACruelPicture''-esque hardcore inserts.
128* TheHyena: AJ, who is even described as such.
129* ILoveTheDead: Ben is found with two used condoms in his eye sockets. It's probably best to not think about what went on there.
130%%* ImpairmentShot
131* ImprobableWeaponUser: BBK's main weapons are sharpened and regular bowling pins, the former kept in holsters.
132* ImprovisedWeapon: Hannah is killed with bowling balls.
133* InformedAttribute: Lisa is apparently a complete ditz, though outside an early scene with bowling balls this is not apparent at all.
134* {{Jerkass}}: It would be easiest just to say everybody in the whole movie, but special mention goes to Steve for had the idea for Lisa's rape in the first place.
135%%* JerkJock: AJ.
136%%* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown
137* KnightTemplarParent: [[spoiler:Egerton decides his daughter's rapists don't just deserve to die, but her teammates as well, since they "let" the gang rape happen]].
138* ALadyOnEachArm: Steve, when he shows up with Hannah and Julia.
139* LargeHam: Steve can't let a single scene go by without raising his voice.
140* LeaveTheCameraRunning: The gang rape goes on for eight minutes.
141* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: Balls-Out Uncut Edition and Pin-Etration Edition.
142* LockAndLoadMontage: BBK is shown gearing up during the opening credits: selecting equipment from the bowling alley store and converting pins into weapons.
143* TheLongList: The special thanks crawl in the credits is over a minute in length.
144* MaleFrontalNudity: Dicks. Dicks everywhere.
145* MalevolentMaskedMan: [[spoiler:"Men", actually. There are three killers, all of who wear a bowling bag over their heads.]]
146%%* MonochromePast
147%%* MotiveRant
148* NerdGlasses: Patrick, who is constantly adjusting them.
149* ObliviousJanitorCut: Egerton is unable to hear Lisa being gang raped due to his headphones and floor polisher.
150* OffWithHisHead: Joey and Egerton's deaths.
151* OhCrap: Egerton, right before he gets his head shot off.
152* OneWordTitle: ''Gutterballs''
153%%* OpposingSportsTeam
154* OutWithABang: BBK pushes Julia and Dave's heads into each other's crotches while they are 69ing, causing them to eventually asphyxiate.
155* OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank: [[spoiler:Patrick's throat slitting.]]
156%%* PaintTheTownRed: The finale.
157* PeekABooCorpse: Joey's severed head is shot out of the ball return.
158%%* ThePeepingTom: AJ.
159* PleaseIWillDoAnything: While Sam is being attacked by BBK.
160%%* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Team Steve.
161* PokeThePoodle: After an argument with Egerton, Joey snaps one of his pencils in half.
162%%* QuickNip: Steve.
163* RapeAndRevenge: [[spoiler:Lisa, Egerton (her father) and Patrick and extracting vengeance for Lisa's rape. However, the AxeCrazy Egerton goes far beyond the original plan and starts killing everyone.]]
164* RapeAndSwitch: Cruelly implied by Steve about Lisa.
165%%* RapeAsDrama
166* RealMenWearPink: Despite their machismo, Joey and AJ rock bright pink shirts. This is commented on by the Wax-O-Matic ("Anybody who wears a shirt like that has got to be a fag").
167%%* RedShirt: Julia and Hannah.
168* {{Retraux}}: It's (convincingly) shot to resemble an eighties movie.
169* TheReveal: [[spoiler:There are several [=BBK=]s, but the main one is Egerton, who is Lisa's father. Lisa killed Steve, while he killed everyone else except Joey and AJ, who were killed by Patrick, who Egerton had recruited to help him after he told him about his involvement in the gang rape, intending on going to the police afterward. Lisa and Jamie (who was aware of what was going on, but did not participate in the murders) were oblivious to Patrick's involvement, and Egerton killing their teammates, who he also blamed for his daughter's gang rape, since they let her go back in the bowling alley alone]].
170* RunningGag: Steve never gets his beer.
171%%* SeriousBusiness: Bowling.
172* SeveredHeadSports: The cover of the [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/38/GutterBalls2008.jpg Balls-Out Uncut Edition]] shows a head being used a bowling ball. This doesn't occur in the actual film, which instead has the victim's head get shot out of a ball return.
173%%* ShirtlessScene: Joey.
174* ShoeSlap: Cindy is garroted with the laces of a pair of bowling shoes.
175* SinisterShades: Joey; during the gang rape, he takes them off, takes off his shirt, then puts them back on.
176%%* SirSwearsALot: Everyone.
177* SlashedThroat: Patrick's death.
178* SlasherSmile: [[spoiler:Egerton during TheReveal]].
179%%* SlobsVersusSnobs
180* TheSociopath: Steve, who's cool with ''raping a woman with a baseball bat'' because her friends fought back when he bullied one of their own.
181* SoundOnlyDeath: [[spoiler:With all the [=BBK=]s dead, Jamie and Sarah leave the alley. Once outside, Sarah turns the shotgun on Jamie, and we hear a shot just as the films cuts to black]].
182%%* SpikyHair: Steve and Cindy.
183* SpitefulSpit: Lisa, on the dying Patrick.
184%%* StarringSpecialEffects
185%%* StockingFiller
186%%* SunglassesAtNight: Joey and Lisa.
187%%* TakeMeOutAtTheBallGame
188* TakeThatKiss: [[spoiler:Egerton]], to Patrick.
189* ThingOMatic: The Wax-O-Matic ball polishing machine.
190* ThreewaySex: Julia mentions she sometimes joins in on Steve and Hannah.
191%%* TitleIn: The Next Night.
192%%* TokenGoodTeammate: Patrick.
193%%* TokenMinority: Jamie.
194%%* TokenWholesome: Sarah, kind of...
195%%* TooManyBelts: Sarah.
196* TooMuchInformation: "I wish I could go commando, but I have to wait until the operation."
197* TorturePorn: Some of the deaths (like Steve's) certainly cross into this.
198* TwoDunIt: [[spoiler:There's three [=BBK=]s]].
199%%* UnhandThemVillain
200* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: The talking Wax-O-Matic.
201* VengefulVendingMachine: The bowling ball polisher is a dick.
202-->[[AC:Anybody who wears a shirt like that has got to be a fag]]
203* VictoriasSecretCompartment: Sam and her switchblade.
204* VideoArcade: With the gang rape starting on [[Film/TheAccused the pinball machine]], of course.
205%%* WeUsedToBeFriends: Steve and Jamie.
206* WhenIWasYourAge:
207--> '''Egerton:''' "Hey, let me tell you something, boy. Now, back in my day, we-"
208--> '''AJ:''' "Ugh, fuck!"
209--> '''Egerton:''' Yeah, yeah, yeah, look, back in my day, we kept a scorecard. Now we had to write everything down methodically. Same with the pins. That pin setter? That used to be a person. Flesh and bone, not a machine. Automation long since took over everything, though."
210%%* WorldOfHam
211* XtremeKoolLetterz: Xcalibur Bowling Centre.
212%%* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Patrick]].
213* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Having used Patrick to commit some of the murders, Egerton kills him when he has no more need of him.]]
214* YourHeadASplode: Hannah has her head crushed between two bowling balls, while Egerton has his blown off with a shotgun.
215%%* YourMom
216* YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo: Patrick gives the "I thought we were just going to scare her!" variant during the gang rape.
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