Dead Hooker in a Trunk is a 2009 Canadian Black Comedy crime film, directed by Jen and Sylvia Soska.
We follow four friends, a badass, a junkie, a geek and a goody two-shoes. While on an errand, they find a dead hooker tossed into the trunk of their car. On a quest to not be wrongfully arrested for the crime, the friends go on a quest to hide the corpse, all while the police and various unsavoury characters pursue them. Meanwhile, the hooker's killer is lurking in the shadows...
This film contains examples of:
- Accidental Murder: When our protagonists are burying the hooker, she suddenly wakes up and Badass bashes her head in with a shovel in a panic.
- Activist-Fundamentalist Antics: Goody Two-Shoes and his church are mentioned as planning an anti-pornography bake sale. No explanation is given as to the connection between the event and its goal.
- Ambiguously Bi: Badass and Junkie are both seen having sex with men, but can't dismiss hiring a female prostitute in a drunken bender.
- An Arm and a Leg: Junkie gets her arm ripped off by a random truck driving by.
- Big Bad: The unnamed Serial Killer who put the hooker in the trunk.
- Black Cloak: The killer wears one when he goes after his victims.
- Disposable Sex Worker: The film's MacGuffin is a prostitute's corpse.
- Cluster F-Bomb: Approximately 43% of the dialogue.
- Eye Scream: The Cowboy Pimp gouges out Geek's eye. Later, the killer tries to skullfuck Geek in the socket.
- Gory Deadly Overkill Title of Fatal Death
- Hollywood Healing: Spoofed. Junkie has her arm chainsawed, torn off by a passing truck and sewn back on by her friends, Geek gets an eye knocked out and patched up with gaffa tape, and Badass...Geek: Dude, you were dead!
Badass: Pfff. Like dying could kill me. - I Love the Dead: Geek gets a hotel room at a discount by letting the desk clerk have sex with the hooker's corpse. The clerk thinks she's still alive, but unconscious.
- Karma Houdini: Nothing happens to the main characters, despite the many crimes they commit over the course of the film.
- MacGuffin Title
- Mistaken Identity: The gang recognize a random passer-by as the killer and torture him to death. Turns out he was the actual killer's brother, who'd just borrowed his brother's baseball bat.
- Ms. Fanservice: Badass is introduced in a Lingerie Scene, and wears skimpy and tight clothing throughout.
- No Name Given: No character gets a name in this movie, the names used here are descriptors given in the credits.
- Non-Action Guy: Goody Two-Shoes is the token guy of the group.
- Sanity Slippage: Goody Two-Shoes slowly comes unglued in all the chaos of trying to hide a body, and all the bodies piling up.
- Sinister Minister: Goody Two-Shoes' pastor is the serial killer terrorizing the city.
- Villain Protagonist: Badass is a violent hedonist who can't conclusively rule out murdering a prostitute on a drunken bender, and is perfectly willing to do anything to hide the body. The other protagonists are more neutral, with Badass being the only one who actually kills anybody.
- Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Goody Two-Shoes puking over the gory chaos becomes a Running Gag in the film.
- Who's Laughing Now?: The killer is motivated by the fact that hookers laugh at his penis, which was mutilated in his infancy via botched circumcision.
