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Bobby Spooner (Marshall Caswell), Alison [=McKenzie=] (Erin Hammond), Kyle Tripper (Nick Sommer), and Danny Evans (Max Williamson) are four friends who've known each other since their Little League days in the Wisconsin Blue Birds team. The four of them have met up again in 1994 to catch up and pay tribute to a tragedy that happened to their team in 1981.

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Bobby Spooner (Marshall Caswell), Alison [=McKenzie=] (Erin Hammond), Kyle Tripper (Nick Sommer), and Danny Evans (Max Williamson) are four friends who've known each other since their Little League days in the Wisconsin Blue Birds team. The four of them have met up again in 1994 to catch up and pay tribute to a tragedy that happened to their team in 1981.



* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler:When Alison thinks Billy is outside the door of the cabin, she pulls out a gun and fires it as soon as the door opens. The one on the other side of the door... is [[RedHerring the cop everyone was lead to believe was Billy]].]]

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* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler:When Alison thinks Billy is outside the door of the cabin, she pulls out a gun and fires it as soon as the door opens. The one on the other side of the door... is [[RedHerring the cop everyone was lead led to believe was Billy]].]]



* RoomFullOfCrazy: In one {{Flashback}}, we see Billy etched a bunch of pictures and words into the wall of his cell at the mental hospital. [[spoiler:Kyle sees he did the same to the underside of his bed at the cabin.]]

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* RoomFullOfCrazy: In one {{Flashback}}, we see Billy etched etch a bunch of pictures and words into the wall of his cell at the mental hospital. [[spoiler:Kyle sees he did the same to the underside of his bed at the cabin.]]

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* InTheBack: Billy injures a pizza delivery guy (who was on the team with him back in 1981) by stabbing him through the stomach from behind with the knife blade in his bat.

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* InTheBack: Billy injures kills a pizza delivery guy (who was on the team with him back in 1981) by stabbing him through the stomach from behind with the knife blade in his bat.



* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Alison finds Bobby dressed in the umpire uniform Billy was wearing. We later learn that Bobby Spooner was a pizza delivery guy that Billy killed and stole the identity of.]]

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* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Alison finds Bobby dressed in the umpire uniform Billy was wearing. We later learn It turns out that Bobby Spooner was a pizza delivery the guy that Billy killed and stole in the identity of.opening scene was the real Bobby Spooner.]]



* ShovelStrike: Alison knocks Billy out with a shovel to the head.

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* ShovelStrike: Alison Billy knocks Billy out a police officer with a shovel to the head.head.
* SympatheticMurderer: Billy [[spoiler:snapped after being constantly yelled at by his coach, tormented by his teammates, and nearly killed in a punishment gone wrong. The experience traumatized him and after murdering the coach and two of the bullies, he was locked up in a mental hospital for fourteen years. What started this chain of events was: He sucked at batting and cost his team... ''a little league baseball game.'']]
-->'''Billy:''' No. You [Alison] killed me.
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* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler:When Alison thinks Billy is outside the door of the cabin, she pulls out a gun and fires it as soon as the door opens. [[spoiler:The one on the other side of the door... is [[RedHerring the cop everyone was lead to believe was Billy]].]]

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* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler:When Alison thinks Billy is outside the door of the cabin, she pulls out a gun and fires it as soon as the door opens. [[spoiler:The The one on the other side of the door... is [[RedHerring the cop everyone was lead to believe was Billy]].]]
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* FlyoverCountry: At the start of the movie is a note stating that the movie takes place in Wisconsin.

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* FlyoverCountry: At the start of the movie is a note stating that the movie it takes place in Wisconsin.
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* BatterUp: Billy's WeaponOfChoice is a baseball bat. One with a bunch of nails sticking out of one side, and a retractable knife blade slotted into the head.

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* BatterUp: Billy's WeaponOfChoice weapon is a baseball bat. One with a bunch of nails sticking out of one side, and a retractable knife blade slotted into the head.

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* EyeScream: When a baseball smacks [[spoiler:Billy]] in the face, we see one of [[spoiler:his]] eyes is shut.



* PrankGoneWrong: [[spoiler:The kids dunking Billy turns into this when Billy starts drowning, and they discover the door to the dunking booth is stuck.]]


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* TheToothHurts: We see one of [[spoiler:Billy]]'s teeth hanging out of [[spoiler:his]] mouth when some baseballs have struck [[spoiler:him]] in the face.
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* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler:When Alison thinks Billy is outside the door of the cabin, she pulls out a gun and fires it as soon as the door opens. [[spoiler:The one on the other side of the door... is [[RedHerring the cop everyone was lead to believe was Billy]].]]


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* BeneathTheEarth: Alison finds an underground bunker by the lake near the cabin. In it, she finds [[spoiler:etchings of Billy's bat, and Coach Fredericks' skeleton.]]


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* PrankGoneWrong: [[spoiler:The kids dunking Billy turns into this when Billy starts drowning, and they discover the door to the dunking booth is stuck.]]


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* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Alison finds Bobby dressed in the umpire uniform Billy was wearing. We later learn that Bobby Spooner was a pizza delivery guy that Billy killed and stole the identity of.]]


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* ShovelStrike: Alison knocks Billy out with a shovel to the head.


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* WhamShot: When Alison pulls off Billy's mask, she sees [[spoiler:Bobby's face]].
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* ChokeHolds: Billy puts Bobby in one at one point in the movie, rendering him unconscious. [[spoiler:We later found out Billy actually did this to himself out in the woods.]]


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* FacialHorror: Billy kills [[spoiler:Kyle[]] by beating [[spoiler:his]] face in with the spiked end of his baseball bat. The first strike leaves [[spoiler:his]] face covered in scratch marks, and every subsequent strike leaves more and more.


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* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Everyone is first lead to believe that a bearded man occasionally seen is Billy. However, when he's shot and wounded, he reveals he's a cop investigating Billy's murders.]]

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* ImplacableMan: Billy takes a pickaxe to the side of his chest, and it doesn't slow him down.



* MadeOfIron: Billy takes a pickaxe to the side of his chest, and it doesn't slow him down.

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* MadeOfIron: Billy takes a pickaxe to the side of his chest, and it doesn't slow him down.



* SleeperHold: We see Billy put Bobby in one[[spoiler:, which we later found out was Billy doing this to himself in the woods]].
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* PoliceBrutality: The police who arrest Bobby for driving drunk savagely manhandle and beat Bobby's cellmate in front of him when he grabs hold of Bobby and starts shouting things. When Bobby comes back the next day, Alison sees he has bruises on his sides and back, which he attributes to the police.


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* SleeperHold: We see Billy put Bobby in one[[spoiler:, which we later found out was Billy doing this to himself in the woods]].
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* FadeToBlack: The camera does this while [[spoiler:Billy walks off, carrying Danny's decapitated head]].
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* KidsAreCruel: We learn via flashbacks that, after the game in 1981, the whole team tied Billy up and put him in a dunking booth while they all took turns trying to dunk him. [[spoiler:Alison threw the ball that knocked him into the water, and since he was tied up, he couldn't swim to the surface. He actually drowned in it because the door to the booth got stuck shut, and he had to be revived by a third party who chased the other kids away.]]
* MushroomSamba: Danny has one out in the woods when all the chocolate-covered mushrooms he ate back at the cabin kick in.
* OffWithHisHead: Billy decapitates [[spoiler:Danny as he passes by on the buggy]] with the retractable blade in his bat.


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* PunnyName: While out in the graveyard where Coach Fredericks' grave is, Kyle comes across the headstone of Anita Mint.


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* WatchOutForThatTree: While driving away from Billy, Danny gets clotheslined by a low, thick tree branch that knocks him off the buggy that he was driving.
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* CorporalPunishment: When they're at a gas station, Danny sees an old man yelling at a kid for breaking a rule, and slapping him. It makes Danny think back to that fateful game in 1981.
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* OneOfTheGuys: Alison. She was on the Little League team in 1981.

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* OneOfTheGuys: OneOfTheBoys: Alison. She was on the Little League team in 1981.
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* BloodFromTheMouth: Blood comes from the mouths of plenty of Billy's victims.


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* InTheBack: Billy injures a pizza delivery guy (who was on the team with him back in 1981) by stabbing him through the stomach from behind with the knife blade in his bat.
* OneOfTheGuys: Alison. She was on the Little League team in 1981.
* RoomFullOfCrazy: In one {{Flashback}}, we see Billy etched a bunch of pictures and words into the wall of his cell at the mental hospital. [[spoiler:Kyle sees he did the same to the underside of his bed at the cabin.]]
* SavageSpikedWeapons: In the prologue, we see a baseball bat get several nails driven through it, and the blade of a knife inserted into a slot near the top.
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Of course, what they weren't counting on is someone (Mark Metcalf) dressed up like a baseball umpire with a [[SavageSpikedWeapon spiked]] [[BatterUp baseball bat]] going around killing all the other surviving members of the team.

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Of course, what they weren't counting on is someone (Mark Metcalf) dressed up like a baseball umpire with a [[SavageSpikedWeapon [[SavageSpikedWeapons spiked]] [[BatterUp baseball bat]] going around killing all the other surviving members of the team.
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''Billy Club'' is a HorrorComedy SlasherMovie by Drew Rosas and Nick Sommer.

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''Billy Club'' is a HorrorComedy SlasherMovie by Drew Rosas and Nick Sommer.Sommer.

Bobby Spooner (Marshall Caswell), Alison [=McKenzie=] (Erin Hammond), Kyle Tripper (Nick Sommer), and Danny Evans (Max Williamson) are four friends who've known each other since their Little League days in the Wisconsin Blue Birds team. The four of them have met up again in 1994 to catch up and pay tribute to a tragedy that happened to their team in 1981.

At a game in that year, it was the bottom of the ninth, and Billy Haskins was up to bat. He swung... and struck out, costing his team the victory. The others tormented him for costing them the game, which caused the young boy to snap and murder three members of the team, including Coach Fredricks (Michael Stasny). The four decide to head up into the woods to the coach's old cabin to pay their respects to Billy's victims.

Of course, what they weren't counting on is someone (Mark Metcalf) dressed up like a baseball umpire with a [[SavageSpikedWeapon spiked]] [[BatterUp baseball bat]] going around killing all the other surviving members of the team.

The movie was funded on Website/{{Kickstarter}} on September 2nd, 2011. It was released on October the 1st, 2013.

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!!''Billy Club'' contains examples of:
* TheNineties: The movie is set in 1994.
* BatterUp: Billy's WeaponOfChoice is a baseball bat. One with a bunch of nails sticking out of one side, and a retractable knife blade slotted into the head.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Some of the movie's early {{Flashback}}s are rendered in a white tint. Of course, it seems to drop this as the movie goes on.
* {{Flashback}}: Plenty to the game and its aftermath, as well as to when Billy was in the mental hospital after murdering his teammates in 1981.
* FlyoverCountry: At the start of the movie is a note stating that the movie takes place in Wisconsin.
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''Billy Club'' is a HorrorComedy SlasherMovie by Drew Rosas and Nick Sommer.

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