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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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