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Super Dark Times
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Super Dark Times is a 2017 film by Kevin Phillips. It is set in 90's pre-internet upstate New York. The main characters are two high-school classmates, Zach Taylor (played by Owen Campbell) and Josh Templeton (played by Charlie Tahan), who are best friends.One day as Zach and Josh spend time with another schoolmate Daryl and his companion from the 8th grade, Charlie, an unfortunate accident changes everything. | |
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Katanas Are Just Better | |
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Katanas Are Just Better: And exactly as dangerous. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: Allison writes her new number on Zach's cast. The sight of him helps him discover that Josh called Allison and is on his way to visit her. | |
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Psychological Thriller | |
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Psychological Thriller: The film starts as a dark slice-of-life and slips into this in the third act when Zach realizes Josh has become a villain. | |
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Disappeared Dad | |
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Disappeared Dad: Zach's mother seems to be a single parent. | |
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Cluster F-Bomb | |
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Cluster F-Bomb: Daryl can't help but drop it every other word. | |
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Anguished Declaration of Love | |
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Anguished Declaration of Love: Zach makes one to Josh while trying to talk him down after Josh killed Meghan and attacked Allison. | |
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Teens Are Monsters | |
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Teens Are Monsters: And how. | |
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Specs of Awesome | |
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Specs of Awesome: Josh's rather nerdy glasses become these when wielding the katana. And then turns into Four Eyes, Zero Soul when attempting to murder Zach in the end. | |
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"I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight | |
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"I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: Zach tries to appeal to Josh this way as Josh attempts to murder him in the end. It doesn't work. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: Josh is arrested, multiple children are dead, and it's unknown what happens to Zach or even Charlie but at least Allison is shown to be recovering. | |
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Big Brother Bully | |
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Big Brother Bully: Allison's brother seems to be a downplayed and realistic version of this, bullying her when she's trying to use the phone. Until the end, when he's distraught to see her carried out of Meghan's house in a stretcher. | |
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No Guy Wants to Be Chased: Meghan is attracted to Josh and isn't afraid to show it, but he's never interested. | |
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Crazy Jealous Guy | |
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Crazy Jealous Guy: Josh apparently doesn't take it very well when he realizes Allison likes Zach and not him. | |
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Fat Bastard | |
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Fat Bastard: Daryl is loud, obnoxious, crude and short-tempered. The group's Eric Cartman, basically. | |
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We Used to Be Friends | |
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We Used to Be Friends: Zach breaks down as Josh tries to kill him, wondering how he could be doing this when they were best friends. | |
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Invisible Parents | |
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Invisible Parents: Subverted with Zach's mother (he does not seem to have a father), barely subverted with Josh's mother who shows up only once. Reinforced with other characters whose parents are not shown at all. | |
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Country Matters | |
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Country Matters: A major signifier of Josh's descent into villainy is when he is sent to the principal's office for calling his teacher a cunt. | |
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Suburbia | |
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Suburbia: Upstate New York version. | |
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Sanity Slippage | |
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Sanity Slippage: Josh starts to lose it very quickly following Daryl's death, returning to mutilate Daryl's body, murdering other students and attempting to kill Allison. | |
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The Stoner | |
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The Stoner: John Whitcomb, and implied with Josh's and Allison's brothers. | |
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Everyone Loves Blondes | |
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Everyone Loves Blondes: When Josh tells Zach he's not into blondes, Zach is downright shocked. | |
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Invulnerable Knuckles | |
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Invulnerable Knuckles: Averted with Zach. He breaks his arm hitting the wall of the tunnel after Daryl's death. | |
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Trauma Conga Line | |
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Trauma Conga Line: The film ends up being this for Zach, Josh, and Charlie (particularly Zach and Josh) after Daryl's death; its primary focus is the way in which the aforementioned boys deal with the trauma of the situation. | |
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Asshole Victim | |
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Asshole Victim: Daryl. He's shown to be extremely irritating and selfish and so universally disliked that almost nobody cares when he goes missing. A few genuinely-concerned whispers can be heard from a few students, but that's about it. | |
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Vomit Indiscretion Shot | |
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Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Zach is openly shown to vomit after the death of Daryl. | |
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Riddle for the Ages | |
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Riddle for the Ages: What does the opening scene have in common with the rest of the movie? It is about a deer who somehow finds his way in the classroom and dies there. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: Josh jumps on the rails of the bridge. Later it is implied that he kills John Whitcomb throwing him off the same bridge. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: Possibly with Charlie. Who spends most, if not all the film simply refusing to get involved with Zach or Josh over the incident and pretends nothing happened. However considering we don't see Zach nor Josh in the end of the film, there's a possibility he is also investigated. | |
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The Friend Nobody Likes | |
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The Friend Nobody Likes: Daryl is practically the poster boy for this trope, and John Whitcomb is implied to be this, as people seem to only tolerate Whitcomb because he supplies them with weed. | |
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Gray Rain of Depression | |
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Gray Rain of Depression: It starts to thunder when Zach runs to confront Josh and rains when Josh is arrested and sits in the car. | |
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Adults Are Useless | |
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Adults Are Useless: Virtually all adults in the movie are not aware of what the kids have been up to, and are either not in the movie at all, or are completely negligent or uncaring of the kids emotional plight. Zach's mother is a downplayed aversion; she’s a very clever and caring but she doesn't understand what happens to her boy. She also doesn't participate much in the plot. A group of boys who lack supervision from practically all adults in the film both manage to get their hands on a weapon and kill one of their friends by accident, with their parents either not shown or being none the wiser. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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Oh, Crap!: Zach, after slowly realizing what Josh's plan is after discovering he took the katana back and called Allison. | |
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Face–Heel Turn | |
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Face–Heel Turn: Josh starts the film as a somewhat weird, nerdy, but normal and well-meaning kid but quickly descends into instability after Daryl's death. | |
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Never One Murder | |
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Never One Murder: John appears to have been murdered by Josh too, this time intentionally. He also murders Meghan and attempts to kill both Allison and Zach, but fails. | |
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Small Towns | |
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Small Towns: The setting is a small town in upstate New York. | |
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Love Triangle | |
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Love Triangle: Both Zach and Josh like Allison, but she only has eyes for Zach. | |
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Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? | |
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Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Josh chases after Zach with the intent to kill him, but when Zach falls and is completely defenseless, Josh chooses to just maim and torture him instead. | |
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Desecrating the Dead | |
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Desecrating the Dead: Zach returns to Daryl's body and notices that some of his fingers are missing, making him realize that Josh returned to mutilate his body. | |
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Dull Surprise | |
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Dull Surprise: A little girl is barely reacting when Josh tries to murder Zach. | |
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Felony Misdemeanor | |
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Felony Misdemeanor: Josh apparently murders John partly because he was present laughing at Josh when he was getting bullied... Even though he wasn't the guy actually bullying Josh. | |
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Bystander Syndrome | |
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Bystander Syndrome: Charlie seems to have this in spades. | |
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Punch a Wall | |
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Punch a Wall: Zach punches the wall of a concrete tunnel after Daryl's death. He ends up breaking his hand because of it. | |
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Only a Flesh Wound | |
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Only a Flesh Wound: Used when Josh appears to butcher Zach with katana. Athough the latter is cut several times and reacts to the wounds agonising in slow-mo he is later not even taken away on an ambulance. He stays on his feet and is attended by the nurse. | |
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Accidental Murder | |
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Accidental Murder: The plot kicks off when Josh accidentally stabs Daryl with a katana during a fight, killing him. | |
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Cut Apart | |
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Cut Apart: Zach knocks at the door. Cut to the girls opening the door. For Josh. | |
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