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Splinter
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Splinter is a 2008 horror film directed by Toby Wilkins.The film opens with a gas station attendant out in the woods being attacked by what appears to be a rabid animal. It then cuts to a couple; Seth Belzer (Paulo Costanzo) and Polly Watt (Jill Wagner); attempting to go on a camping trip, but upon failing to erect the tent, deciding to go to a motel instead. As they drive, they are pulled over by escaped convict Dennis Farell (Shea Whigham) and his junkie girlfriend Lacey Belisle (Rachel Kerbs), whom are eloping to flee to Mexico. The two hijack their car and take the couple hostage.As night falls and the four continue on, they hit an animal. Investigating the damage, Dennis gets a splinter in his finger. Seth and Lacey, meanwhile, discover that the animal they hit is covered in black spikes. When the carcass suddenly convulses, they flee. Stopping at the aforementioned gas station, Lacey goes to use the bathroom. There, she discovers the body of the attendant, covered in the same black spikes. The body suddenly comes alive, attacks and kills her.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Seth, Polly and Dennis take refuge inside the station. Observing an animate severed hand that manages to slip inside, Seth, a biology student, determines they are under attack by a parasitic organism. The organism, manifesting as the black spikes, takes over the bodies of the animals or people it kills and uses them for locomotion. It can also use severed limbs such as the hand for this purpose. Furthermore, one piece infected with it can connect itself via the spikes to another piece (for example, an infected severed pair of legs can connect itself to the severed torso of a different person).The three must find away to keep safe from the organism, as well as defeat it. But Dennis, due to the splinter he got earlier, has already been infected himself...Not to be confused with the 2006 film of the same title.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); }) | |
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The Virus | |
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The Virus: A haemovore fungal mould that takes you over, eats you from the inside out and infects via sticking creatures with thorns made via it's own biomass. | |
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Amputation Stops Spread | |
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Amputation Stops Spread: After Dennis' infection gets out of control and his arm takes on a life of its own, they cut it off to make sure it doesn't spread. And it works. | |
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Life-or-Limb Decision | |
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Life-or-Limb Decision: Later in the film, the parasitic fungus that Dennis contracted from pricking his finger has spread entirely up his forearm, taking full control of it. Before it can spread further, Dennis bravely decides to hack it off himself with a box-cutter but then blacks out from the sheer pain caused by his infected arm's violent independent movements. Fortunately, Seth and Polly take over and manage to finish the job for him. Due to the crudely improvised "surgical" tools involved, the experience for Dennis is understandably not comfortable. | |
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Abnormal Limb Rotation Range | |
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Abnormal Limb Rotation Range: One of the first things that the creature does is to break the bones of the infected parts so that it has full mobility in every direction. | |
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DiesWideShut | |
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Dies Wide Shut: Lacey is smashed against a wall by the infected character from the beginning and dies instantly. Having made contact with the mold, her body definitely is not dead... | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Dennis. He's undoubtedly an asshole who's willing to use violent methods to get his way, but he clearly cares about Lacey and wants to send money to the wife of the truck driver he left paralyzed. | |
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Use Your Head | |
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Use Your Head: The parasite loves to do this with full-sized hosts. | |
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Bizarre Alien Senses | |
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Bizarre Alien Senses: The mold detects its targets via heat. If it doesn't sense anything nearby, it will make its hosts go into an inert state until heat is detected. Seth uses this to his advantage by reducing his body heat to a near-fatal level - Enough to avoid detection while giving him time to move before he warms back up to a level the infection can detect - so he can sneak past and get a car started. | |
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Body Horror | |
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Body Horror: A film whose main antagonist has the ability to infect hosts and twist them into rotting, flailing monsters with spikes sticking out their flesh. | |
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Marionette Motion | |
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Marionette Motion: Those infected exhibit violent, jerky movements with no fluidity due to the fungus controlling them. | |
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Police Are Useless | |
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Police Are Useless/Too Dumb to Live: Sheriff Frankel. Seriously, when not only a couple that are being held hostage but the man holding them hostage are pleading for you to run back to your car and radio in for backup, you'd best go do as they say unless you wanna end up as a piece of a parasitic monster. | |
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Painful Transformation | |
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Painful Transformation: The attendant after being infected by an animal. We see his body contort and twist unnaturally while he screams in pain | |
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Heroic Sacrifice | |
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Heroic Sacrifice: Dennis orders Seth and Polly to flee as he fights the creature, getting infected in the process before blowing up both himself and the monster. | |
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Puppeteer Parasite | |
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Puppeteer Parasite: The organism consumes its host from the inside out and then basically drives their bodies. | |
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One-Handed Shotgun Pump | |
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One-Handed Shotgun Pump: Dennis performs several in the climax. | |
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Half the Man He Used to Be | |
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Half the Man He Used to Be: Sheriff Frankel is torn apart, and gruesomely put back together by the fungus. | |
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Botanical Abomination | |
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Botanical Abomination: The threat is a strange, parasitic mold that turns those infected by it into Parasite Zombies that can detect other victims through their body temperature. When it manifests, it grows spikes across the infected area as it breaks the bones of its host to increase its mobility. We never find out exactly where it came from and it is very likely that whatever it is, it is still out there, ready to cause a pandemic. | |
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Kill It with Fire | |
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Kill It with Fire: Dennis fires at one of the gas pumps, causing it to explode and igniting the monster on fire, and it burns to death. | |
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The End... Or Is It? | |
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The End... Or Is It?: Seth and Polly escape the gas stations ... but the final shot is of an animal infected with the parasite lurking behind a tree. | |
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And I Must Scream | |
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And I Must Scream: When Lacey discovers the body of the gas attendant, it turns out that despite his horrific condition, he's still alive, even begging her to kill him. | |
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People Puppets | |
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People Puppets: As stated, the organism essentially puppeteers the body around, whether they're dead or not. | |
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Zombie Infectee | |
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Zombie Infectee: Dennis accidentally gets a splinter in his finger earlier and leaves it up to the point that it starts violently moving around by itself. They cut it off luckily, but near the end of the movie, he gets infected again, and not in an area that can be cut off. This leads Dennis to blow up the gas station while he's in it to kill both himself and what's left of the infected. | |
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Playing Possum | |
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Playing Possum: To conserve energy, the infection will allow any body it's possessing to go limp as a corpse until it detects more food. | |
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Gas Station of Doom | |
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Gas Station of Doom: The movie revolves around a gas station being under the attack of a parasitic organism. | |
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Parasite Zombie | |
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Parasite Zombie: The creatures in this film are mostly corpses reanimated by a fungal parasite. | |
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Colliding Criminal Conspiracies | |
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Colliding Criminal Conspiracies: A hostage situation turns into a fight for survival agains a parasitic monster. | |
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Gorn | |
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Gorn: We've got a parasite that breaks the bones of its host and turns them into violent, mutilated zombies, then Dennis graphically hacks off his own arm to stop the infection from consuming him as well. | |
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Evil Hand | |
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Evil Hand: Dennis' arm starts trying to spread its infection the moment it overtakes his elbow. While cutting it off stopped the spread throughout his body, the hand proceeded to break and twist itself into a spider-like formation to continue the chase on its own. | |
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