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Blood Punch
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Take two writers from children's television along with a cast of former Power Rangers actors from New Zealand, and the logical conclusion would be to produce a low-budget independent horror film.Blood Punch tells the tale of a brilliant college-aged chemist named Milton (played by Milo Cawthorne) who ends up in rehab. While in rehab, he meets the beautiful and brash femme fatale Skyler (played by Olivia Tennet), who seduces him into a scheme in which he would cook crystal meth and make lots of money along the way. After breaking him out with the help of her crooked cop (ex-)boyfriend Russell (played by Ari Boyland), they then head to a cabin in the woods to begin their work. Along the way, Milton finds himself in an incredibly bizarre and dangerous love triangle gone horribly wrong. When blood gets spilled, triggering an ancient Native American curse, the trio find themselves stuck replaying the same day over and over again.The film came about after writer Eddie Guzelian joined the crew of Power Rangers RPM as its Executive Producer. Seeing the talent from the cast, he decided to write a movie with them in mind. Production took place in late 2011 high up in the Southwestern California mountains outside of Los Angeles, but the film did not see the light of day until the 20th annual Austin Film Festival in October 2013, where it took home the Dark Matters Audience Award. Over the next year, Blood Punch enjoyed a successful film festival run, winning an impressive number of audience and jury awards before landing a worldwide distribution deal.On September 1, 2015, after a limited U.S. theatrical run, Blood Punch was released commercially through out the U.S. and North America, debuting as the #1 horror movie on the iTunes charts. Despite its low-budget horror pedigree and Power Ranger roots, Blood Punch was met with overwhelming critical praise from both traditional media (The Hollywood Reporter, Village Voice, LA Weekly, Indiewire) as well as genre-specific online sites (Aint It Cool News, Dread Central, Bloody-Disgusting) and currently holds a 78% fresh rating on the Rotten Tomatoes website. | |
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Genre Shift | |
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Genre Shift: The film starts out as neo-noir and then shifts into a supernatural horror film when the curse gets triggered. | |
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The Rival | |
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The Rival: Implied with Nabiki as a rival of sorts to Skyler. Crosses with The Resenter as she feels as if Archer prefers Skyler to her. | |
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Framing Device | |
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Framing Device: Milton records a video into a police car surveillance camera that he disassembled from Russell's cruiser. It is this same video that he wakes up to at the very beginning of the film. | |
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Fingore | |
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Fingore: In the opening sequence, Milton's message to himself involves getting him to really pay attention by slicing his fingers off, despite the Milton watching the video still having his fingers. | |
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Deal with the Devil | |
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Deal with the Devil: Milton invokes this when he asks Skyler if her boyfriend Russell had made a deal with the Devil after hearing how she described him. Her reply? Russell didn't make a deal with the devil; Russell is the devil. | |
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Brutal Honesty | |
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Brutal Honesty: Skyler is prone to this. | |
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Only Sane Man | |
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Only Sane Man: Milton is the only somewhat sane person in a world filled with murderous crooked cops, femme fatales, and sleazy drug buyers. However, he begins suffering from Sanity Slippage as the film goes on. | |
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Revolvers Are Just Better | |
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Revolvers Are Just Better: Implied with Russell as he's particularly fond of his revolver. | |
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Pre-Order Bonus | |
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Pre-Order Bonus: Preorders on iTunes allow access to bonus behind-the-scenes footage from Power Rangers RPM. | |
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Ax-Crazy: Russell. Dear God, Russell. We're introduced to him shooting up a rehab clinic for absolutely no reason, and gleefully sticks a gun in Milton's face - if it hadn't been for Skyler, Milton would have been dead in seconds. | |
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Stop, or I Will Shoot! | |
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Stop, or I Will Shoot!: Russell stops Milton at gun point, intending to kill him anyway until Skyler reveals he's their cook. | |
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Cluster F-Bomb | |
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Cluster F-Bomb: While most of the characters employ this trope, Russell is particularly fond of this. He even sings the word repetitively in the shower. | |
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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping | |
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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Surprisingly, even with the large Kiwi cast, this doesn't happen very often. | |
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Russian Roulette | |
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Russian Roulette: Invoked a few times throughout the film notably during the final act where Russell opts to let fate decide who gets to walk out alive. It ends up becoming his undoing. | |
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Murder the Hypotenuse | |
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Murder the Hypotenuse: Russell plans to kill Milton after he cooks the meth for his client. But after Milton falls in love with Skyler, the two end up killing Russell instead. When the curse kicks in, they kill him in various and absurd ways, even torturing him at one point. | |
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William Telling | |
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William Telling: Russell, wanting to make sure that Milton hasn't developed any feelings for Skyler, has him aim a crossbow at an apple atop her head, all the while playing Russian Roulette with him as he holds his revolver (with only a single bullet inside it) up to his head. Milton refuses on the grounds that if Russell kills him he'd lose his crystal meth cook | |
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The Smart Guy | |
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The Smart Guy: Milton which gets discussed within the film. | |
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Smart People Wear Glasses | |
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Smart People Wear Glasses: Milton. Justified in that he's a brilliant chemistry student and even built his own meth lab on campus before being busted by the police. | |
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Cold-Blooded Torture | |
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Cold-Blooded Torture: At one point Milton invokes this on Russell who boasts the former doesn't have guts. Milton reveals he didn't but over course of the time loop things have changed. | |
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The Snack Is More Interesting | |
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The Snack Is More Interesting: Skyler uses a warning shot to break up a heated argument between Russell and Milton then proceeds to eat the apple on her head which was being used for target practice. | |
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Pre-Mortem One-Liner | |
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Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Skyler gets the last line of the film as she stares down the barrel of Archer's gun. | |
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Crazy Jealous Guy | |
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Crazy Jealous Guy: Russell. He is incredibly possessive of Skyler, though he sees no problem with her sleeping with Milton so that he could go along with their scheme. But he does have a problem with the idea of Milton possibly falling in love with her. | |
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Parrot Exposition | |
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Parrot Exposition: A really creepy version of this trope takes place when Skyler, in a deadpan and Creepy Monotone voice, repeats Russell's statements during his initial conversation with Milton. | |
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Threat Backfire | |
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Threat Backfire: When Milton interrogates Russell | |
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Domestic Abuse | |
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Domestic Abuse: Russell towards Skyler. | |
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Smoking Is Cool | |
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Smoking Is Cool: Skyler can be seen frequently smoking throughout the film's first act. | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus: During the death montage, a shot of the chalkboard lists the various ways that Russell was killed and among them is Erotic Asphyxiation. When Skyler insisted they Try Everything she really meant it. | |
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Heroic Sacrifice | |
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Heroic Sacrifice: Milton kills himself right after Russell accidentally shoots himself as a way to finally break the curse they've been under. | |
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If I Can't Have You… | |
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If I Can't Have You…: A variation. Having realized that Skyler might have feelings for Milton after saving him from certain death, Russell decides to kill them both, deviating from his original plan to only take out Milton. | |
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Meaningful Echo | |
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Meaningful Echo: Russell boasts to Milton that he loves bullets because a bullet "always tells the truth". The next day, right before shooting Milton, he finds out that his revolver is out of bullets. Cue Skyler walking in, dropping the bullets on the floor. | |
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Driven to Suicide | |
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Driven to Suicide: Milton. Having had enough of Skyler's scheming and backstabbing, and despite admitting that he loves her through all that and to get Skyler to break the cycle, he decides to take his own life. | |
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Here We Go Again! | |
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Here We Go Again!: At the film's end, right before Archer shoots Skyler, he decides to stay in the cabin for the night, along with Nabiki. Skyler sees absolutely no problem with this. | |
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Arc Words | |
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Arc Words: "Breakfast time boys and girls. The most important meal of the day..." | |
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Removing the Rival | |
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Removing the Rival: Nabiki, tired of being second best in Archer's eyes, decides to take out Skyler as she negotiates an agreement regarding the meth Milton cooked earlier. She then grabs a shotgun from behind the fridge and fires a shot at her rival's direction. | |
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Bolivian Army Ending | |
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Bolivian Army Ending: The final shot is of Nabiki about to put a bullet in Skyler, who's accepted her fate, knowing that they'll all just end up in the same "Groundhog Day" Loop as before. | |
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Violence is the Only Option | |
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Violence is the Only Option: Milton finds out that the only way to break the curse is to kill everyone else. Skyler invokes this to Milton when she tells him that Russell can't be reasoned with. The only solution is to keep killing him before he kills Milton. | |
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Chronic Backstabbing Disorder | |
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Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Towards the end of the film, Skyler ends up shooting Milton, who then realizes that her feelings for him might not be truthful. He then decides to kill her before she kills him first, especially since they both know that the only way to break the curse they're under is to be the last person standing. | |
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Blofeld Ploy | |
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Blofeld Ploy: Milton becomes angry with Skyler upon learning she assisted Russell in killing him during the time loop. Rather than take his revenge, he merely slaps her and proceeds to kill Russell as per usual at this point. | |
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An Offer You Can't Refuse | |
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An Offer You Can't Refuse: Skyler's offer to Milton. It works as he feels he has burned all his bridges by being expelled from college and put in rehab because he got caught making meth on campus. | |
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Wall of Weapons | |
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Wall of Weapons: The cabin has a stockpile of axes, knives, and other bladed weapons upon the wall. They're all used up before the end. | |
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How We Got Here | |
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How We Got Here: The film begins with Milton heading to the bathroom and puking in a toilet. He then sees a viewer with a message reading "Play Me". Upon playing it, he sees himself in the recording and learning about how he ended up in the cabin and the pair who led him up there. | |
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It Amused Me | |
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It Amused Me: Skyler's reasoning for her drug habits. | |
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Large Ham | |
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Large Ham: Archer (played by Cohen Holloway), Russell's client, tracksuit and all. | |
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Memory Gambit | |
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Memory Gambit: Milton invokes this during the final act of the film in order to find out if Skyler's feelings for him are genuine. His plan involves secretly leaving himself the video recorded message (as well as making sure Russell was left alive) so that should Skyler kill him, the time loop will still be in effect and he can learn the truth through his recorded message. His plan worked perfectly. | |
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Trigger-Happy | |
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Trigger-Happy: Russell very much. The sound of gunfire alerts Skyler of his presence at the facility and she rushes off to "make sure he doesn't kill anyone". | |
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Only in It for the Money | |
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Only in It for the Money: Subverted. | |
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Femme Fatale | |
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Femme Fatale: Skyler, obviously. She ends up killing pretty much everyone (though, per the curse, they all come back to life the next day), even using a grenade at one point. Nabiki, to a much lesser extent. | |
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Karmic Death | |
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Karmic Death: Russell. His final death involves him accidentally shooting himself with his own revolver that had only one bullet inside it. Especially ironic given that he played Russian Roulette with Milton as a test to make sure that he didn't have any feelings for Skyler much earlier in the film. | |
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness | |
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Russell is Genre Savvy enough to suspect this. As is Milton. | |
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Defiant to the End | |
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Defiant to the End: the dying but still breathing Russell taunts Milton as the latter buries him. | |
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YouNeverAsked | |
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You Never Asked: Skyler's excuse when Milton discovers his own corpses. | |
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Took a Level in Badass | |
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Took a Level in Badass: Milton. Becomes a full-fledged Badass Bookworm by the latter half of the film and even takes on Skyler by setting a trap by which to try to kill her. Even she's impressed. | |
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Blast Out | |
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Blast Out: Nabiki, possibly feeling jealous that Archer prefers Skyler over her, decides to shoot her. She seemingly misses though Skyler ends up fatally injured before being healed when she wakes up as they're all still in the time loop, but it starts a shootout in the dark inside of Archer's warehouse. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: Russell's retelling of "the great battle" foreshadow the entire plot of the movie. The shadow animatics even depict a two people fighting evenly until a third person appears and stabs one in the back as well as a bunch of bodies being thrown into a trench. This foreshadows how Skyler will betray both Russell and Milton and how both sets of their corpses left behind during the timeloop were disposed of. | |
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This Is Gonna Suck | |
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This Is Gonna Suck: Milton is quick to realize he's in trouble after he meets Russell. | |
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Leitmotif | |
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Leitmotif: The score provides one for scenes between Milton and Skyler. There's also one whenever anyone drives in Russell's police cruiser. | |
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Sarcasm Mode | |
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Sarcasm Mode: When Milton suggests Skyler should escape Russell's clutches. | |
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Last Chance to Quit | |
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Last Chance to Quit: Skyler offers Milton one but only after the time loop has kicked in | |
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Twisted Echo Cut | |
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Twisted Echo Cut: After the first loop where Russell is killed Milton insists on trying to reason with Russell, stating he can't go through what happened again, cut to the exact same scenario nearly repeating itself with Milton at gunpoint. | |
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Love at First Sight | |
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Love at First Sight: Both Milton and Russel in regards to Skyler. | |
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Sole Survivor | |
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Sole Survivor: Skyler is the only one of the trio to live, thus breaking the curse. That is, until Archer and Nabiki show up the next day to get the drugs Milton made. | |
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I Choose to Stay | |
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I Choose to Stay: Skyler's proposes this idea to Milton after he reveals the only known way to break the time loop curse. | |
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I Warned You | |
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I Warned You: Skyler tells this Milton after he first meets Russell. And again to an injured Milton after having killed Russell only the second time. She did warn him earlier the night before the first time loop began about being involved with their scheme. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: Skyler, for the most part, though Milton has his moments. | |
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Die Laughing | |
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Die Laughing: Skyler at the very end of the film. Crosses with Laughing Mad. | |
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Honesty Is the Best Policy | |
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Honesty Is the Best Policy: During the film's opening scenes at the rehab facility, Skyler outlines her plan up front to the ones attending a Narcotics Anonymous meeting. | |
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"Groundhog Day" Loop | |
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"Groundhog Day" Loop: Triggered after Russell dies for the first time. The trio relive the same day over and over again until only one of them comes out alive. | |
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Trauma-Induced Amnesia | |
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Trauma-Induced Amnesia: This apparently happens to Milton, necessitating the How We Got Here opening video. Russell apparently has the same issue - he repeats the day much, much more often and often doesn't have any memory of previous loops. | |
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Love Triangle | |
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Love Triangle: Russell, Skyler, and Milton. | |
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Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? | |
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Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Averted with Russell. He will shoot without reason. | |
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Badass Bookworm | |
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Badass Bookworm: Milton becomes this over the course of the movie. | |
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Boom, Headshot! | |
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Boom, Headshot!: Archer manages to stop the shootout and orders everyone to not shoot until he turns on the lights. Right after doing so, he sees Skyler in front of him flashing a grin before holding up her pistol and pulling the trigger, putting a bullet through his head. | |
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We Can Rule Together | |
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We Can Rule Together: Milton is Genre Savvy enough to know Skyler will invoke this on him so he saves her the trouble. | |
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CorruptCop | |
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Corrupt Cop: Russell, who joined the force to get his kicks (literally), and cooked up the meth scheme with Skyler... despite being on active duty. | |
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Cassandra Truth | |
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Cassandra Truth: When Milton tries to reason with Russell and explain the time loop their stuck in, Russell refuses to believe him. Milton convinces him to just sit down and talk things over but... | |
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Broken Bird | |
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Broken Bird: Implied with Skyler. The film provides hints of her being dragged into an abusive relationship with Russell at twelve years old. Russell's client Archer helped out in the process. | |
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Death Montage | |
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Death Montage: One gets shown of Milton and Skyler repeatedly killing Russell as they relive the same day over and over again. | |
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To the Tune of... | |
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To the Tune of...: "Lover's Merry Go Round" the vinyl record song played when Milton inspects the hunting lodge is set the to the tune of "Fig Leaf Rag" by Scott Joplin. The other vinyl record song "Where the Love birds sing" played during the William Tell scene is set to the tune of "Merry Go" by Kevin Macleod. Both songs foreshadow the time loop and curse and the love triangle themes that fuel the plot of the movie. | |
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You Are Worth Hell | |
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You Are Worth Hell: Milton in regards to Skyler. Though later he comes to regret she reveals a grisly secret to him after the time loop kicks in. | |
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Drugs Are Bad | |
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Drugs Are Bad: The film's opening scenes take place in a Narcotics Anonymous rehab facility, with some of the meeting's attendees recalling how their own drug addiction spiraled out of control. And, of course, the plot kicks off when the group hide away in a secluded valley to cook meth... | |
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Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex | |
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Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex: How Milton and Skyler celebrate narrowly surviving their encounter with Archer. | |
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Determinator | |
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Determinator : Just when Milton thinks "he's probably dead already" the injured Russell gives chase firing his gun. | |
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Cloning Blues | |
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Cloning Blues: The time-loop leaves corpses of whoever was killed. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: When Skyler shows up to rehab, she deliberately insults, mocks, and incites the addicts there. | |
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The Glasses Gotta Go | |
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The Glasses Gotta Go: Right after Russell shoots up the rehab facility, Milton, who had been wearing glasses during his stay, picks up his glasses, only to find that one of the lenses had been broken after falling to the ground. They are never seen again. | |
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Easily Forgiven | |
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Easily Forgiven: Played with. | |
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Insult Backfire | |
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Insult Backfire: When Claire attempts to smugly call out Skyler's behavior, Skyler makes sure her retort presses the Berserk Button. | |
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Mushroom Samba | |
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Mushroom Samba: A mild case. While having a frank conversation outside with Milton, Skyler begins feeling warm. She then realizes that Russell spiked the heroin with peyote and interrupts him in the shower right when he begins feeling the effects. Hilarity Ensues. | |
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