Line #18 Film/InvitationToHell


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4	''Invitation To Hell'' is a 1984 American horror movie [[MadeForTVMovie for television]] by Creator/WesCraven.
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6	Tech engineer Matt Winslow (Creator/RobertUrich) has moved to a new town due to a lucrative job offer along with his family: wife Patricia 'Pat' Winslow (Creator/JoannaCassidy) and his children Chrissy (Creator/SoleilMoonFrye) and Robbie (Creator/BarretOliver). After settling in, various people in his social circle start pressuring him to join the Steaming Springs Country Club, which is run by one Jessica Jones (Creator/SusanLucci), who is not quite what she seems...
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9	!!This film has examples of:
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11	* AgitatedItemStomping: After failing to beat Robbie's high score on his handheld game console, Billy, who has recently become a member of the country club, throws the device on the ground and angrily stomps on it, breaking the thing.
12	* AlliterativeName: '''J'''essica '''J'''ones, the owner of the sinister country club.
13	* BigBad: Jessica Jones, a demoness who lures people to make a DealWithTheDevil by playing with their desires.
14	* CreepyChild: After becoming members of the club, Matt's children become more threatening and violent.
15	* DarkWorld: Venturing deeper into the bowels of Hell, Matt discovers that the people who have been replaced by Jessica are being held as prisoners in a dark version of the suburbia he has just moved into.
16	* DistractedByTheSexy: A limo driver accidentally runs over Jessica because he was momentarily distracted by two bikini babes walking by. She then reveals her supernatural side by not only showing that survived the accident unscathed but also cooking the driver by simply pointing at him.
17	* EvilDetectingDog: After Patricia and the kids become members of the club, the family dog Albert is quick to notice that there not themselves anymore. Patricia then tries to get rid of Albert by taking him to the vet, so he'll be put down under the pretense that he has a brain tumour and has been attacking the family because of it. [[spoiler:The vet realizes that it's a lie, and Albert survives]].
18	* EvilDoppelganger: The people that become members of Jessica's club are [[KillAndReplace replaced by evil versions of themselves]].
19	* FireAndBrimstoneHell: Hell is portrayed as being impossibly hot, and Matt can only survive the trip thanks to the spacesuit he's wearing.
20	* HalloweenEpisode: Matt manages to sneak into the country club, thermal spacesuit and all, thanks to the Halloween costume party that's being held there.
21	* HeadsUpDisplay: The helmet that's part of the spacesuit that Matt is developing for Micro-Digitech features a display that can tell if an encountered being is human or not, and whether it is a threat. Its POV shows that Jessica and the members of her club are labeled as "Non-Human".
22	* {{Hellgate}}: The strange doorway in the country club's basement that Jessica takes the new members through turns out to be a gateway to a FireAndBrimstoneHell.
23	* HotAsHell: Evil demoness Jessica Jones is an attractive seductress.
24	* KillAndReplace: Jessica Jones abducts the people who join her club and imprisons them in hell, then replaces them with EvilDoppelganger to lure more people into her "club".
25	* PivotalWakeup: The film opens with Jessica accidentally getting run over by a limo, and then getting up in a power pose seemingly with her heels alone.
26	* PostModernMagik: To find out what has happened to his family and others, Matt decides to investigate the unnaturally hot room (that's actually a gate to Hell) in the country club's basement by wearing the experimental thermal spacesuit that he has been working on. He also uses the laser in its arsenal to blast Jessica and a minion of hers.
27	* ScienceHero: Matt is a scientist and uses his technical and scientific prowess to rescue his family from hell itself.
28	* ScienceIsGood: Matt manages to go ToHellAndBack using his spacesuit and scientific knowledge.
29	* SexySurfacingShot: When Matt and his wife visit the club, they find Jessica Jones just as she's emerging from the swimming pool in a revealing swimsuit with a NavelDeepNeckline.
30	* SwissArmyGun: The thermal spacesuit that Matt is developing for Micro-Digitech has a retractable gun in [[NothingUpMySleeve its sleeve]] that [[EnergyWeapon shoots laser beams]] and can also act as a [[FireBreathingWeapon flamethrower]].
31	* TalkingInBed: Matt has a conversation in bed with his wife about how the townspeople's insistence in them joining the club is weirding him out.
32	* ToHellAndBack: Matt travels into the very depths of hell to [[RescuedFromTheUnderworld rescue his family]].
33	* TownWithADarkSecret: The inhabitants of Steaming Springs' constant attempts in trying to convince Matt to join the local country club comes off as unsettling, even InUniverse, and indeed it turns out the town holds a {{Hellgate}} and is controlled by a demoness.

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