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3 | ''The Final Terror'' is a SlasherMovie from 1983 directed by Creator/AndrewDavis and starring Creator/AdrianZmed, Creator/DarylHannah, and Creator/JoePantoliano. |
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5 | A group of forest rangers and young women decide to spend their vacation by camping and [[DontGoInTheWoods venture into the woods]] miles away from civilization. There they become targets of a killer who may or may not be the odd Eggar, who drove them there. |
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8 | !!Tropes in this film: |
9 | * {{BoobyTrap}}: The characters set up a spike-logged trap at the end of the film. |
10 | * BlackDudeDiesFirst: Completely averted, with both black characters surviving. |
11 | * BladeBelowTheShoulder: Killer uses a billhook blade strapped to a wrist. |
12 | * CreepySouvenir: When searching the killer's cabin for the second time, the cast finds a severed hand in a jar inside a closet. |
13 | * DangerousWindows: When the cast takes refuge in Eggar's bus, the killer tries to strike Vanessa with a pickax through a window. |
14 | * EvilUncle: Young girl's uncle in the campfire story. |
15 | * GhostStory: Potential killer's backstory is told around the campfire. |
16 | %%* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice |
17 | * MessyHair: The killer's hair. |
18 | * OffWithHisHead: Mike's severed head turns up in an outhouse. |
19 | * OutWithABang: The killer offs Mike when he is having sex with Melanie. |
20 | %%* OutdoorBathPeeping |
21 | * PeekabooCorpse: Jim's corpse in the opening. |
22 | * RapeAsBackstory: The girl in the campfire story was raped by her uncle, went insane, and [[ChildByRape gave birth to a son]]. |
23 | * RedHerringMole: [[spoiler:It turns out that it really was Eggar's mom stalking the cast.]] |
24 | * SlashedThroat: Melanie's corpse turns up with her throat slashed. |
25 | ** The killer also tries this to Windy, but messes up and Margaret manages to save her by stitching the wound. |
26 | * TheStoner: Few characters, most notably Zorich who spends the last remaining minutes in the film high on mushrooms. |
27 | * TokenMinorityCouple: Averted. Token black characters Nathaniel and Vanessa never hook up, or even attempt it. |
28 | * UnexplainedAccent: Both Rachel Ward and Akosua Busia use their normal accents, leaving it up in the air why two teenagers from Northern California have conspicuous Australian and British accents. |
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