History Film / BloodRage

* WordSaladTitle: This film has no fewer than four different titles. It was originally called ''Complex'' (like an apartment, not [[OedipusComplex Oedipal]], although with the way this film's killer acts you'd be forgiven for thinking so). The director renamed it to the much more generic and direct ''Slasher'', which was then changed to the film's most well-known title, ''Blood Rage''. Unsatisfied with just three titles, the film snuck one more in when it was renamed yet again to ''Nightmare in Shadow Woods'' for its VHS release.

In 1974, while at a DriveInTheater with his mother Maddy, and his twin brother Todd, a young boy named Terry Simmons brutally murdered a fellow moviegoer, and framed Todd for it. Traumatized by witnessing what his brother had done, Todd fell into a catatonic state, and was placed in a mental institution, while Terry went on to live a normal life with their mother, even getting a girlfriend named Karen. Unfortunately for Terry, a decade after the murder, Todd starts to come out of his shell, and regains the memories of what really happened all those years ago; he subsequently manages to escape the asylum on Thanksgiving. This, coupled with Maddy's intention to marry her boyfriend Brad (who owns the sprawling apartment complex where they live) causes Terry to snap and go on a killing spree.

* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler:Todd]] is the Abel, [[spoiler:Terry]] is the Cain. [[spoiler:Though in the end Todd can't bring himself to kill Terry and Terry fails in his attempt to drown Todd]].

* DriveInTheater: The setting for the first ten minutes of the movie. After that there's a 10-year time skip to the present day.

* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Though in [[spoiler:Terry]]'s case it's a distinctly Norman Bates kind of love.

* GoryDiscretionShot: Maddy shooting herself in the head; her blood is shown splattering on the floor as the handgun falls from her grasp.

* OffWithHisHead: Bill gets his head lopped off and hung up with extension cord to scare Julie.
* OnlyInFlorida: Though sadly there are no "Florida Man" headlines since this movie predates the Florida Man meme.

* PsychopathicManchild: Interestingly, ''all'' the main characters can be said to be this. Maddy is overgrown little girl in denial, [[spoiler:Terry]] is a bigger Chucky who just wants to "play" with his victims in the most violent ways possible, [[spoiler:Todd]] is stunted to the point where he tries to push one of the killer's victims back together, and Karen is a hysterical ninny.

* StraightEdgeEvil: Terry does not drink alcohol. Even during the thanksgiving dinner, he does a toast with a glass of milk.

* DeathBySex: Lots of it, also in proud slasher tradition. The first victim, Bill, is killed while having sex with his girlfriend Julie (who escapes by running away buck naked). Later Andrea and Gregg also fall victim to [[spoiler:Terry]]'s Jason-esque prudishness.

* SuperOCD: Maddy has shades of this, what with her obsessive cleaning and all.

* AnAxeToGrind: The prologue has a young Terry hack up a moviegoer with an old axe he finds lying around.

* WeaponOfChoice: Furthering the Jason paralleles, [[spoiler:Terry's]] favorite killing implement is a machete.

* ImprobableInfantSurvival: While he kills her and her boyfriend, Terry leaves Julie's baby alone.