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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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