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2 | ->''"In Hell, everybody loves popcorn."'' |
3 | -->-- '''Doom-Head''' |
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5 | ''31'' is a 2016 horror film directed by Music/RobZombie and starring Sherri Moon Zombie, Creator/RichardBrake, Creator/MegFoster, Jeff Daniel Philips, and Creator/MalcolmMcDowell. |
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7 | On Halloween, five carnies are kidnapped and brought to a place called Murder World. There they are forced to stay alive for twelve hours while playing a deadly game called ''31''. Their opponents are a group of murderous clowns known as 'The Heads' with each one nastier than the last. |
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9 | The film was partially crowdfunded by fans. |
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12 | !!''31'' contain examples of the following tropes: |
13 | * AbandonedWarehouse: Where the game of "31" takes place... |
14 | * AndIMustScream: This is heavily implied to be the case with with Georgina Victor; Doom-Head tells her husband that two clowns took a liking to her and that she will be sticking around for a while. We see her a year later as a "human sex doll". |
15 | * BigBadTriumvirate: Murder World is run by Sister Dragon, Sister Serpent and Father Murder. |
16 | * BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler:The two black guys in the group of five are not the first characters in the film to die, but are the first two of the main group to die.]] |
17 | * BolivianArmyEnding: [[spoiler:Charly escapes the warehouse, but she is alone as Roscoe, Panda, Venus, and Levon are all dead and she's left bloody, limping, and trapped in the middle of nowhere. Doom-head later catches up to her in a van, gets out, draws twin knives and smiles. Charly can barely stand, but still balls up her fist in anger and faces him, implying that at the very least, [[DoNotGoGentle she won't go quietly]].]] Roll credits. |
18 | * BookEnds: The film opens with Doom-Head threatening to kill a man and closes with him [[spoiler:threatening to kill a woman.]] |
19 | * CastingGag: Ginger Lynn is seeing 'entertaining' another clown after [[Film/TheDevilsRejects Captain Spaulding]]. |
20 | * DeadlyGame: ''31'' is a game in which you have to kill your opponents to win. |
21 | * DirtyOldMan: Leo, the elderly gas station owner that Charly playfully flirts with. |
22 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Death-Head and Sex-Head [[spoiler:both beg for the other to be spared when the tables are turned on them.]] |
23 | * ExtremelyShortTimespan: The film takes place during Halloween 1976. |
24 | * FanserviceExtra: The owners of Murder-World have beautiful, naked women in masks serving them. |
25 | * TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: Doom-Head's opening monologue is delivered directly into the camera before it cuts to show that he's [[FourthWallPsych actually talking to a guy strapped to a chair.]] |
26 | * TheGhost: The implication is that there are many other 'Heads' available for "31" that we don't see; the names that are dropped include "Rage-Head" and "Bash-Head". |
27 | * {{Gorn}}: Now, who's directing this movie again? |
28 | * GroinAttack: Georgina Victor [[spoiler:gets chainsawed through her private parts.]] |
29 | * GrossUpCloseUp: Hey, uh, Doom-Head, would you mind ''backing up'' from the camera a bit? |
30 | * HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Roscoe makes Charly escape without him and tries to distract Doom-Head long enough to give them a head start.]] |
31 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Schizo-Head and Psycho-Head are both killed by their own chainsaws.]] |
32 | ** Also, [[spoiler:Doom-head fails to secure the final kill because he stops to monologue with Charly like he did with his other victims.]] |
33 | ** [[spoiler:Sick-Head]] is stabbed to death with his own sword. |
34 | * HugeGuyTinyGirl: The pairing of Death-Head and Sex-Head is this -- the actors are 6'9" and 5'1" respectively. |
35 | * IAteWhat: [[spoiler:The meal for the carnies left by the game hosts turns out to be made out of their fallen friend, Levon.]] |
36 | * KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:The owners of Murder World face no consequences.]] |
37 | ** [[spoiler:Depending on the end of the movie, Doom-Head could be this also.]] |
38 | * LargeHam: Father Murder and the Sisters speak broadly and chew scenery. |
39 | * TheOner: The opening scene of the movie consists of Doom-Head giving a long, psychopathic monologue [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou directly into the camera]]. It lasts for nearly three minutes before we cut to a shot of the guy he's talking to. |
40 | * PrisonersLastMeal: Father Murder presents the banquet as something that will likely be the players' "last supper." [[spoiler:And lets them discover for themselves that the much-needed protein is really coming from one of their own friends.]] |
41 | * RealityHasNoSubtitles: Sick-Head frequently speaks in Spanish, and during his fight with Charly, she speaks Spanish back. Sex-Head and Death-Head later sing in German. None of it is subtitled. |
42 | * TheSecretOfLongPorkPies: The remaining carnies find a dinner waiting for them. After eating some of it, it turns out to be the remains of a slain friend. |
43 | * SenselessSacrifice: [[spoiler:Roscoe decides to go down fighting Doom-Head so that Charly has more time to escape, only to die immediately and barely slowing Doom-Head down.]] |
44 | * ShoutOut: When [[spoiler:Levon's]] body is revealed as the carnies' supper, he's under a coffin-shaped glass tabletop just like Eddie in Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow. |
45 | * TalkingIsAFreeAction: [[spoiler:Averted. Doom-Head's tendency to monologue is exactly what lets Charly win.]] |
46 | * VomitIndiscretionShot: From Roscoe [[spoiler:after he realizes he ate Levon.]] |
47 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: Roscoe and Levon's girlfriends are killed before the game even starts, with little characterization beyond not being very bright. |
48 | * WorfHadTheFlu: Roscoe, the largest and most powerfully-built of all of the carnies, gets injured early on by Psycho and Schizo-Head, making it necessary for the others to take care of him and see that he doesn't bleed out. |
49 | * WorthyOpponent: Doom-Head views the final survivors as this. |
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