Just in case the message wasn't already clear, farms are not playgrounds.
Apaches was made as a Scare 'Em Straight piece regarding the dangers of farm equipment and chemicals, and manages to be quite effective in its job.
- All of the death scenes qualify as nightmarish, but at the very least, the majority of them were quick and relatively painless. The same can not be said for Sharon, who dies screaming in terror and agony as she wakes up in the middle of the night in excruciating pain, after unintentionally drinking herbicide. All the viewers see is a shot of the outside of her house at night, window light on.
- Depending on exactly what type of pesticide Sharon drank and how much, it could have also eaten a hole through her esophagus, burned the living hell out of her stomach and intestines, caused her pancreas to become inflamed and cause pancreatitis, caused her liver and kidneys to start shutting down, made her lungs start swelling with fluid, and eventually made her body start going into shock from multiple organ failure, which is probably what did her in. That can not be a good way to go, especially not for a 9 year old girl.
- Tom's death in the slurry pit is a very close second to Sharon in terms of horrid deaths. When he falls in, he immediately starts sinking in not unlike quicksand and spends a few seconds calling out for Danny to help him, desperately thrashing in an attempt to stay afloat, before his cries are silenced by his head going under. His little arms flail about for a few more seconds before he is submerged entirely, and then we get a closeup of his last bubbles of air on the surface of the manure before they finally stop... Drowning is already a horrific way to go. Panic causes one to instinctively open their mouth in a desperate attempt for air, causing water to rush in and fill your lungs, causing an intense burning sensation as you lose all air. Now imagine that, but in a hole full of slimy, disgusting, stinking cow shit...
- During the ending credits, a list of the first names and ages of real kids who died on farms the year prior to the making of the film is shown (the ways they each died are also listed). Also counts as a Tear Jerker when you see that the real life kids listed range in age from 2 to 15 years old.
