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* AloneWithThePsycho: After the killer murders Tara, Samantha is left alone with [[spoiler: Patti]], who reveals she killed the other girls to get the role of Audra.
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* WomanScorned: Samantha, [[spoiler:who is abandoned by Stryker in an asylum]], only to escape.
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* RedHerring: The audience is led to believe that Samantha is the killer, having returned to take revenge on Stryker for [[spoiler: having abandoned her in an asylum.]]
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* BedlamHouse: The asylum where Samantha is committed by Stryker, and where [[spoiler: Patti]] is committed following the murders.
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* HopeSpot: Tara is chased into the props warehouse by the killer, where they play cat-and-mouse. After incapacitating the killer three times, Tara appears to be in the clear and it seems like she will fulfill the role of the [[FinalGirl]], but is soon hacked to death with an axe.
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* DeathBySex: Averted, then played straight. While Tara is shown having sex with Matthew in the jacuzzi early in the film, she is the actress who survives the longest. However, Brooke and Stryker are quickly dispatched by a gun-toting [[spoiler: Samantha]] after having sex.
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* AssholeVictim: Brooke, who is an arrogant veteran actress, who sleeps with Stryker to get the coveted role, and Stryker, who already has pinpointed who he wants to play Audra, but invites the other women to his mansion to sleep with them, under the ruse of having them audition for the role. He also [[spoiler: abandons Samantha, his longtime partner and friend, in an insane asylum under the guise of her researching for the role of Audra.]]
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* AnyoneCanDie: The young actresses are murdered in no particular order or fashion, heightening the stakes of who will survive, or if any of them will survive whatsoever.
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* CarFu: Amanda is murdered in her nightmare by being hit with her own car.
* CoolMask: The grotesque hag mask worn by the killer; it's especially unsettling when they confront Christie during her ice skating practice on the frozen pond.
* CoolMask: The grotesque hag mask worn by the killer; it's especially unsettling when they confront Christie during her ice skating practice on the frozen pond.
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* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler: Innocent and mousy ice skater Christie is decapitated by the killer.]]
* MenAreTheExpendableGender: The majority of the women in this film are shown struggling with the killer and given graphic kill scenes, while [[spoiler: Stryker is easily offed by being shot and knocked out of an upstairs window, and Matthew is murdered off-screen by Patti, having a knife driven into his back.]]
* MenAreTheExpendableGender: The majority of the women in this film are shown struggling with the killer and given graphic kill scenes, while [[spoiler: Stryker is easily offed by being shot and knocked out of an upstairs window, and Matthew is murdered off-screen by Patti, having a knife driven into his back.]]
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* TooDumbToLive: Instead of running for the road after discovering numerous dead bodies, Tara decides to take refuge in Stryker's expansive props warehouse, where she is forced to play a game of cat-and-mouse with the killer.
* WeaponOfChoice: The killer prefers to pick their victims off using a sickle.
* WeaponOfChoice: The killer prefers to pick their victims off using a sickle.
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* AnAxeToGrind: The killer ditches their sickle and chooses to wield one of these during Tara's chase scene in the prop shed.
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* FinalGirl: Subverted, then averted. Patti is a [[PluckyGirl]] and theorizes with Tara that something suspicious is going on, before sexually active Tara appears as though she is going to fulfill this trope, discovering the bodies of her fellow actresses and fighting off the killer more than once, before [[spoiler: Patti brutally murders her with an axe.]] The climax of the film suggests [[spoiler: Samantha is the killer and Patti will survive, only to pull a [[BaitandSwitch]], revealing Patti murdered the other hopefuls, before killing Samantha with a kitchen knife.]]
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* FinalGirl: Subverted, then averted. Patti Tara, who is a [[PluckyGirl]] and theorizes with Tara that something suspicious is going on, before sexually active Tara active, appears as though she is going to fulfill this trope, role, discovering the bodies of her fellow actresses and fighting off the killer more than once, before [[spoiler: Patti brutally murders her with an axe.]] The climax of the film suggests [[spoiler: Samantha is the killer and Patti will survive, only to pull a [[BaitandSwitch]], revealing reveal Patti murdered the other hopefuls, before killing Samantha with a kitchen knife.]]
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* DecoyProtagonist: The film begins by introducing Samantha as the main character, before switching over to Amanda, an inexperienced actress and one of the hopefuls for the role of Audra.
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* FinalGirl: Subverted, then averted. Patti is a [[PluckyGirl]] and theorizes with Tara that something suspicious is going on, before sexually active Tara appears as though she is going to fulfill this trope, discovering the bodies of her fellow actresses and fighting off the killer more than once, before [[spoiler: Patti brutally murders her with an axe.]] The climax of the film suggests [[spoiler: Samantha is the killer and Patti will survive, only to pull a [[BaitandSwitch]], revealing Patti murdered the other hopefuls, before killing Samantha with a kitchen knife.]]
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* FinalGirl: Subverted, then averted. Tara appears as though she is going to fulfill this trope, discovering the bodies of her fellow actresses and fighting off the killer more than once, before [[spoiler: Patti brutally murders her with an axe.]]
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* SnowMeansDeath: In the film's most celebrated scene, Christie notices a small hand protruding out of the snow while ice skating at the edge of a pond, and uncovers a porcelain doll. She is then attacked and decapitated by someone (later revealed to be [[spoiler:Patti]]) in a grotesque hag mask.
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* SnowMeansDeath: In the film's most celebrated scene, Christie notices a small hand protruding out of the snow while ice skating at the edge of a pond, and uncovers a porcelain doll. She is then attacked and decapitated by someone (later revealed to be [[spoiler:Patti]]) in a grotesque hag mask.mask.
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''Curtains'' is a 1983 Canadian horror film directed by Richard Ciupka ([[AlanSmithee credited as]] "Jonathan Stryker") and starring Samantha Eggar, John Vernon, Creator/JohnVernon, and Creator/LindaThorson.
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* NiceCharacterMeanActor: Stryker, behind his respectable exterior, is a shameless sleazebag. Likewise, [[spoiler:Patti]] is all smiles and giggles on the surface, but in reality [[spoiler:is a cold-blooded killer]].
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* DownerEding: [[spoiler:All of the actresses except [[BigBad Patti]] are dead, and Patti herself effectively [[BecomingTheMask becomes Audra]].]]
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''Curtains'' is a 1983 Canadian horror film directed by Richard Ciupka (credited as "Jonathan Stryker") and starring Samantha Eggar, John Vernon, and Linda Thorson.
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* DestinationDefenestration: After being shot repeatedly by [[spoiler:Patti]], Stryker falls to his death from the fourth-floor window.
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* TheDanza: Samantha Eggar as Samantha Sherwood.
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->"Have you ever wanted something so badly that you'd do ANYTHING for it?"
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* BigBad: [[spoiler:Patti]].CreepyDoll: One such doll appears during Amanda's nightmare, and later during the ice skating sequence. It even appears on the poster!
* TheDanza: Samantha Eggar as Samantha Sherwood.
* TheDanza: Samantha Eggar as Samantha Sherwood.
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* NightmareSequence: Just prior to her audition, Amanda has a dream that while driving to the audition, she is stopped by a large porcelain doll standing in the middle of the road. When she leaves her car to move it, [[CarFu she is run over.]]
* NightmareSequence: Just prior to her audition, Amanda has a dream that while driving to the audition, she is stopped by a large porcelain doll standing in the middle of the road. When she leaves her car to move it, [[CarFu she is run over.]]
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* SexualExtortion: Samantha knows that Stryker is only using the other actresses for their bodies, and that the whole audition is just a ploy for him to have sex with them. Stryker ultimately sleeps with Christie, which leaves her visibly shaken and causes her to [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere quit the shoot in disgust.]]disgust]] - but not before being murdered by [[spoiler:Patti]].
* SnowMeansDeath: In the film's most celebrated scene, Christie notices a small hand protruding out of the snow while ice skating at the edge of a pond, and uncovers a porcelain doll. She is then attacked and decapitated by someone (later revealed to be [[spoiler:Patti]]) in a grotesque hag mask.
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* DecapitationPresentation: After killing Christie, [[spoiler:Patti]] places her severed head in Brooke's toilet to scare her.
* DecapitationPresentation: After killing Christie, [[spoiler:Patti]] places her severed head in Brooke's toilet to scare her.
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''Curtains'' is a 1983 Canadian horror film directed by Richard Ciupka (credited as "Jonathan Stryker") and starring Samantha Eggar, John Vernon, and Linda Thorson.
A slasher film centered on theater and filmmaking, its plot focuses on a group of actresses targeted by a masked killer at a prestigious director's remote mansion where they are auditioning for a role in a movie.
The film suffered from a very messy production, the result of CreativeDifferences between Ciupka and producer Peter Simpson. This eventually led to the director quitting production and [[AlanSmithee taking his name off the finished product]], leaving Simpson having to finish the shoot. Over the next year or so, numerous rewrites and re-shoots were made, resulting in a choppy, disjointed film.
Despite this, the film has since developed a small cult following.
!!This film contains examples of:
* DwindlingParty: The actresses become this as the murders progress.
* SexualBribery:
''Curtains'' is a 1983 Canadian horror film directed by Richard Ciupka (credited as "Jonathan Stryker") and starring Samantha Eggar, John Vernon, and Linda Thorson.
A slasher film centered on theater and filmmaking, its plot focuses on a group of actresses targeted by a masked killer at a prestigious director's remote mansion where they are auditioning for a role in a movie.
The film suffered from a very messy production, the result of CreativeDifferences between Ciupka and producer Peter Simpson. This eventually led to the director quitting production and [[AlanSmithee taking his name off the finished product]], leaving Simpson having to finish the shoot. Over the next year or so, numerous rewrites and re-shoots were made, resulting in a choppy, disjointed film.
Despite this, the film has since developed a small cult following.
!!This film contains examples of:
* DwindlingParty: The actresses become this as the murders progress.
* SexualBribery:
