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The Barrens

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The Barrens	comment	The Barrens is a 2012 horror film based on The Jersey Devil. It stars Stephen Moyer, Mia Kirshner, Erik Knudsen, Shawn Ashmore, Athena Karkanis, Allie Mcdonald, Peter Dacuhna, and J. Larose. It focuses on a Horrible Camping Trip story.Richard Vineyard and his wife Cynthia, as well as his daughter Sadie and young son Danny, are shown leaving suburban home to go on a camping trip, hoping to remove themselves from civilization and bond together in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey. They run into other campers who tell them the story of The Jersey Devil, and of course, strange things begin to occur; mutilated animals appear and Richard's sanity takes a toll for the worse.
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The Barrens / int_1c398324	type	Death from Above
The Barrens / int_1c398324	comment	Death from Above: Mutilated deer carcasses tend to drop from the sky.
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The Barrens / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
The Barrens / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: The bodies people and animals are found all over the forest, mostly disemboweled. In the case of one unfortunate deer, it wasn't immediately killed from this.
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The Barrens / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
The Barrens / int_2737c505	comment	Shoot the Dog: Richard reveals to his wife that he secretly killed the family dog after it bit him. As it turns out the dog was already dying of rabies and infected Richard.
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The Barrens / int_34c6ed8	type	Don't Go in the Woods
The Barrens / int_34c6ed8	comment	Don't Go in the Woods: As always, none of these horrible things would have happened if the characters stayed out of the woods. And of course, Richard insists the family push deeper into the woods to camp away from any other people.
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The Barrens / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
The Barrens / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: Richard is suffering from the paranoid belief that a legendary monster is stalking him and his family. He had a childhood encounter with the monster and is afraid that it's been following him ever since. Towards the end of the film, we find out the Jersey Devil is real, and has been following the family throughout their trip. Richard is shot and fatally wounded when the Jersey Devil is threatening his family and is unable to protect them. The Jersey Devil than charges in on the family as they huddle together. Mercifully, as The Stinger shows, Sadie and Danny survived.
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The Barrens / int_4755314a	type	Magical Native American
The Barrens / int_4755314a	comment	Magical Native American: The Native park ranger (implied to be of the Leni Lenape nation) is a downplayed example, seeming to know more about the Devil lore than most. When he sees it at the end of the movie, he calls it by its Leni Lenape name, "Seke Metantu", and in the alternate ending, he and Sadie team up to hunt it down.
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The Barrens / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
The Barrens / int_48081842	comment	The Stinger: Danny and Sadie survived the Jersey Devil's attack and Sadie is planning on joining the hunters to kill it.
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The Barrens / int_550754dc	type	Improbable Infant Survival
The Barrens / int_550754dc	comment	Improbable Infant Survival: At the end of the film, the Jersey Devil bears down on Sadie and Danny, but The Stinger shows that they survived. Not only that, but Sadie is planning on joining a group of hunters in hunting it down.
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The Barrens / int_5f611b7e	type	Good All Along
The Barrens / int_5f611b7e	comment	Good All Along: Wyatt Burns is a Crazy Survivalist hunter, and is set up as a Red Herring for the slaughtered animals. This is before he meets Sadie and Danny in the woods, and tries to rescue them from what he thinks is their deranged father.
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The Barrens / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
The Barrens / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: Richard on account of untreated rabies. Due to not getting them treated, he becomes more paranoid, hostile, and irrational over the course of the film. On top of that he starts hallucinating, which begs the question if he's actually seeing the Jersey Devil before it turns out to be real.
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The Barrens / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
The Barrens / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: Richard was bitten by a dog with rabies early on into the film, and was suffering from it throughout the film. It turns out he saw the Jersey Devil as a kid, and it's existence is confirmed in the last few minutes.
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The Barrens / int_8cb1a369	type	Took a Level in Jerkass
The Barrens / int_8cb1a369	comment	Took a Level in Jerkass: Over the course of the film, Richard's patience grows short and he becomes more aggressive and by the end of the film, his sanity is barely intact. Because he's suffering from rabies.
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The Barrens / int_9788e2b1	type	Black Dude Dies First
The Barrens / int_9788e2b1	comment	Black Dude Dies First: Averted. One of the two campers in the film's intro, Erica, is black but she and her white husband live. Another black character seen later in the film, Dave, does die but he isn't the first out of his group killed.
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The Barrens / int_97fa0a10	type	Mass "Oh, Crap!"
The Barrens / int_97fa0a10	comment	Mass "Oh, Crap!": When the Jersey Devil is revealed to be real. Multiple people see it as it advances towards the family. Everyone either panics and runs, is frozen in mortified terror, or in Richard's case, critically wounded.
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The Barrens / int_997ce6ad	type	Boyfriend-Blocking Dad
The Barrens / int_997ce6ad	comment	Boyfriend-Blocking Dad: Richard isn't too keen on Sadie hanging out with a boy named Ryan, and is generally annoyed at the boy. When he finds out that she's been texting him from the woods, he tries to throw her phone away and intimidates Ryan with his own version of the Jersey Devil origin story.
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The Barrens / int_a8369e22	type	The Un-Twist
The Barrens / int_a8369e22	comment	The Un-Twist: The Jersey Devil turning out to be real is not only predictable on its own but the attempts to throw us off fall kind of flat when you have things liked mutilated deer falling from the trees.
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The Barrens / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
The Barrens / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Richard was bitten by a rabid dog and didn't mention it to anyone or seek any medical assistance beyond what look like over-the-counter painkillers for several weeks. It doesn't seem to even occur to him that he might have gotten it too until Cynthia suggests the possibility.
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The Barrens / int_ba2f9dfe	type	The Paranoiac
The Barrens / int_ba2f9dfe	comment	The Paranoiac: Richard is paranoid about Cynthia cheating on him, and has apparently made her break off contact with all her male friends when they got together.
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The Barrens / int_c14ff35c	type	The Jersey Devil
The Barrens / int_c14ff35c	comment	The Jersey Devil: The mythical creature said to inhabit the New Jersey Pine Barrens, in real life and in the film.
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The Barrens / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Barrens / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Danny's first name may be a reference to The Shining, which had a similar setup of a father suffering Sanity Slippage to a Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane danger while traveling to a remote location with his family.
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The Barrens / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
The Barrens / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: With the revelation that Richard is suffering from untreated rabies, we are thrown into question as to whether or not the Jersey Devil is actually on the loose. One of the symptoms of rabies is hallucinations, which Richard begins suffering from around the time he starts seeing the Jersey Devil. On top of that, there are discussions of black bears also being sighted in the Pine Barrens, as well as a supposed crazy hunter living in the wilderness, and there's also a Mountain Lion on the loose. For most of the movie, it's unclear if the Jersey Devil is actually real or if there's some rational explanation behind these events, up until... Real After All: The films last few minutes make it clear that the Jersey Devil is, in fact, real, and is very much behind the killings.
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The Barrens / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
The Barrens / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: Richard ends up being this of a sympathetic variety. Sure, he becomes irrational, aggressive and puts his family in peril over the course of the film. At the end of it, he's just a man trying to reconnect with his family, and slowly going insane from rabies, and is trying to protect his family from a monster he believes is stalking him. On top of that we find out his paranoia is justified due to the Jersey Devil actually being real.
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The Barrens / int_df410b77	type	Decoy Protagonist
The Barrens / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: Richard, who gradually becomes the villain over the film. The actual protagonists turn out to be Cynthia and Sadie.
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The Barrens / int_e13156e1	type	Mama Bear
The Barrens / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: For the most part, Cynthia is only concerned, understanding, and mildly cautious with Richard upon finding out he has rabies and is behaving abnormally. It isn't until she thinks he put Danny in danger and nearly drowned does she become angry and aggressive towards Richard, having him physically restrained.
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The Barrens / int_ea35fda5	type	Bastard Bastard
The Barrens / int_ea35fda5	comment	Bastard Bastard: In the rendition of the Jersey Devil legend, told by the campers, the Jersey Devil is the bastard offspring of Satan.
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The Barrens / int_f1d7b320	type	Crazy Survivalist
The Barrens / int_f1d7b320	comment	Crazy Survivalist: Wyatt Burns is a lonely hunter who set up in the Pine Barrens, and is described as such by the rangers and the cops.
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The Barrens / int_fb724048	type	Real After All
The Barrens / int_fb724048	comment	Real After All: The films last few minutes make it clear that the Jersey Devil is, in fact, real, and is very much behind the killings.
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