History Film / BloodRage

* InfantImmortality: [[spoiler: Played straight. The baby in the movie survives although the baby's mom is dead. Hopefully, Karen will take care of him/her as implied by how protective she is of the baby.]]

%%* EnfantTerrible: Young Terry.

%%* OffscreenTeleportation: Done several times by Terry.

%%* TheShrink: Doctor Berman.

%%* SlashedThroat: Gregg's death.

%%* EightiesHair
%%* AMinorKidroduction

%%* AxCrazy: Terry.

%%* BigEater: Maddy.

%%* CainAndAbel: Terry and Todd.
%%* CassandraTruth: Todd.

%%* DeathBySex: The first victim, Bill and Julie, and Andrea and Gregg.
%%* DeathByMocking: Also Andrea and Gregg.
%%* DevelopingDoomedCharacters

%%* DriveInTheater
%%* DrivenToSuicide: Maddy, after realizing she killed Terry, the son she really wanted. [[WildMassGuessing Maybe]].
%%* TheEighties

%%* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas
%%* EvilTwin: Terry.

%%* FanServiceExtra: The first victim's girlfriend.

%%* ForkFencing

%%* GigglingVillain: Terry.
%%* GoldDigger: Possibly Julie.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Maddy, after being told it was Terry she shot to death.

%%* [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe Half The Woman She Used To Be]]: Doctor Berman's death.

%%* HystericalWoman: Maddy.

%%* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Jackie's death.

%%* LadyDrunk: Maddy.

%%* LickingTheBlade: Done by Terry once or twice.

%%* {{Manchild}}: Todd.

%%* OffWithHisHead: Bill's death.
%%* OnlyInFlorida

%%* PoolScene

%%* TheSeventies: The opening.

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

%%* ThanksgivingDayStory
%%* ThemeTwinNaming: Todd and Terry.

* TooDumbToLive: Julie. After finding her boyfriend's severed head, she, instead of immediately running away with her baby, decides to grab a big coat and struggle to put it on. Also, no one bothers to call the police or hold up somewhere, even though they know there's a potentially dangerous killer lurking about.

%%* WeaponOfChoice: A machete.
%%* WordSaladTitle

* FlowerInHerHair: Maddy is never seen without at least one. Yeah, it's weird.

%%* FinalGirl: Karen.

%%* {{Gorn}}: ''Oh, Hell yeah!''

''Blood Rage'' is a 1983 SlasherMovie, which is also known as both ''Nightmare at Shadow Woods'' and ''Complex''.

* EightiesHair
* AMinorKidroduction

* AxCrazy: Terry.

* BigEater: Maddy.

* CainAndAbel: Terry and Todd.
* CassandraTruth: Todd.

* DeathBySex: The first victim, Bill and Julie, and Andrea and Gregg.
* DeathByMocking: Also Andrea and Gregg.
* DevelopingDoomedCharacters

* DriveInTheater
* DrivenToSuicide: Maddy, after realizing she killed Terry, the son she really wanted. [[WildMassGuessing Maybe]].
* TheEighties
* EnfantTerrible: Young Terry.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas
* EvilTwin: Terry.

* FanServiceExtra: The first victim's girlfriend.

* FinalGirl: Karen.

* ForkFencing

* GigglingVillain: Terry.
* GoldDigger: Possibly Julie.

* {{Gorn}}: ''Oh, Hell yeah!''

* [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe Half The Woman She Used To Be]]: Doctor Berman's death.

* HystericalWoman: Maddy.

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Jackie's death.
* ImpromptuTracheotomy: See directly below.

* LadyDrunk: Maddy.

* LickingTheBlade: Done by Terry once or twice.
* MacheteMayhem: Terry's main weapon.
* MadeOfPlasticine

* {{Manchild}}: Todd.
* [[MrExposition Ms. Exposition]]: Doctor Berman.

* OffscreenTeleportation: Done several times by Terry.
* OffWithHisHead: Bill's death.
* OnlyInFlorida

* PoolScene
* ReactionShot

* TheSeventies: The opening.

* TheShrink: Doctor Berman.
* SlashedThroat: Gregg's death.
* SoundOnlyDeath: Andrea's death.

* ThanksgivingDayStory
* ThemeTwinNaming: Todd and Terry.

* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Artie, to Karen.
* WeaponOfChoice: A machete.
* WordSaladTitle

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

* ActingForTwo: As adults, Todd and Terry are both played by Mark Soper.

* SimilarlyNamedWorks: There's a 1979 film by [[Film/TheProwler Joseph Zito]] titled ''Bloodrage''. The Website/{{IMDB}} page for this film actually uses the poster for that one.

The film has a bit of a convulted history. While made in 1983, it was shelved until 1987, when a severely cut version of the film (dubbed ''Nightmare at Shadow Woods'') showed up in a few theaters, while that same year the original uncut version of the film was released on VHS by Prism Entertainment. Some seventeen years later, ''Nightmare at Shadow Woods'' got its own home release, a DVD by Legacy Entertainment.

* MommyIssues: Along with Todd escaping the asylum, Maddy announcing she is going to marry Brad also seemingly causes Terry to snap.

-> ''Identical twins with brutally different personalities!''

'''''Blood Rage''''' is a 1983 SlasherMovie, which is also known as both '''''Nightmare at Shadow Woods''''' and '''''Complex'''''.

In 1974, while at a {{drive-in theater}} 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.

* AutoErotica: It's a horror film that features a {{drive-in theater}}, it's to be expected.

* {{Drive-In Theater}}

* SimilarlyNamedWorks: There's a 1979 film by [[Film/TheProwler Joseph Zito]] titled ''Bloodrage''. The {{IMDB}} page for this film actually uses the poster for that one.

* HotMom: Julie.

[[caption-width-right:317:This cover more or less encapsulates the SlasherFilm genre perfectly.]]

--> ''Identical twins with brutally different personalities!''

'''''Blood Rage''''' is a 1983 SlasherFilm, which is also known as both '''''Nightmare at Shadow Woods''''' and '''''Complex'''''.

* FoeYay: Expected when your boyfriend turns out to be a psycho, right [[Film/{{Scream}} Sidney]]?

* SimilarlyNamedWorks: There's a 1979 film by [[TheProwler Joseph Zito]] titled ''Bloodrage''. The {{IMDB}} page for this film actually uses the poster for that one.

* TakeThat: One of the film's taglines is "Not all the evil is on [[ANightmareOnElmStreet Elm Street]]..."

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Terry is killed, but Maddie chooses to kill herself rather than accept that his "beloved son" was the true murderer.]]

* DropWhatYouAreDoing: Terry, when his mother walks into the pool house after he corners Todd and Karen there.

* {{Thanksgiving}}

* TwentyMinutesWithJerks

* DeletedScene: Instead of the (rather important) scene where Maddy visits Todd in the asylum, ''Nightmare at Shadow Woods'' has a sequence where everyone is hanging out at the pool, which is missing from ''Blood Rage''.