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* DaylightHorror: Bobby stabs an elderly shop owner to death in the daytime.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: 1) It's unclear what specific diagnosis Bobby has, and 2) it's unknown why he and [[spoiler: Beth]] have a psychic connection.
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* DeathBySex: Tracy and Craig are having sex in a tipi when Bobby first attacks them. Tracy is killed outright, but Craig escapes...only to die later.
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* PsychoKnifeNut: Much like [[Franchise/{{Halloween}} Michael Myers]], Bobby kills people with knives. When he busts out of the psychiatric hospital, he robs a knife and uses it for his first killings. Then when he finds his switchblade in the sorority house, Bobby [[AccidentalPun switches]] to using that knife.
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* WeaponOfChoice: Much like [[Franchise/{{Halloween}} Michael Myers]], Bobby kills people with knives. When he busts out of the psychiatric hospital, he robs a knife and uses it for his first killings. Then when he finds his switchblade in the sorority house, Bobby [[AccidentalPun switches]] to using that knife.
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* HoistedByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Beth kills Bobby with his own knife.]]
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* PeekABooCorpse: Subverted with a variation. [[spoiler: Sara trips over Tracy's body, which is in sight of the audience but not to her or the others, when attempting to run away from Bobby, who then stabs her to death when she's on the ground.]]
* PlayingPossum: [[spoiler: Bobby briefly fakes his death, then stabs Linda in the back.]]
* PlayingPossum: [[spoiler: Bobby briefly fakes his death, then stabs Linda in the back.]]
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* WeaponOfChoice: Much like [[Franchise/{{Halloween}} Michael Myers]], Bobby kills people with knives. When he busts out of the psychiatric hospital, he robs a knife and uses it for his first killings. Then when he finds his switchblade in the sorority house, Bobby [[AccidentalPun switches]] to using that knife.
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Basically, it's ''Film/Halloween1978'' ''[[Film/Halloween1978 Halloween]]'' [[RecycledInSpace in a sorority house and on Memorial Day.]] Loosely connected to the ''[[Film/TheSlumberPartyMassacre Slumber Party Massacre franchise]]'' due to their connection with Roger Corman. Followed by two sequels: ''Sorority House Massacre II'' and ''Sorority House Massacre III: Hard to Die''.
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* ImpromptuTracheotomy: [[spoiler: Beth impales her brother through the neck in the finale.]]
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* CaptainObviousReveal: [[spoiler: The fact that the only two people in the film that have connection psychic dreams are siblings shouldn't be a surprise to the audience.]]
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* MenAreTheExpendableGender: Excluding the original killings, more men [[spoiler: (an orderly, the elderly shop owner, Andy, John, and Craig)]] are killed by Bobby than women [[spoiler: (Tracy, Sara, and Linda).]]
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* MonsterMisogyny: Slightly averted. Barring the original massacre, five men and four women are killed in Bobby's second murder spree. Also, while Bobby's main target is a woman, it's not motivated by misogyny but rather [[spoiler: his desire to kill his last remaining family member.]]
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* MonsterMisogyny: Slightly averted. Barring the original massacre, five men and four three women are killed in Bobby's second murder spree. Also, while Bobby's main target is a woman, it's not motivated by misogyny but rather [[spoiler: his desire to kill his last remaining family member.]]
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* DeathBySex: Tracy and Craig are having sex in a tipi when Bobby first attacks then. Tracy is killed outright, but Craig escapes...only to die later.
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* FollowTheLeader: Most obviously, it's a cash-in on ''Film/Halloween1978'' but also of ''Film/TheSlumberPartyMassacre''.
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* ShooOutTheClowns: Andy is an attempt at being the PluckyComicRelief in the film, [[spoiler: and is the first to encounter Bobby.]]
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* InsistentTerminology / MadnessMantra: Bobby keeps referring to [[spoiler: Beth]] by her real name "Laura".
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* InsistentTerminology / MadnessMantra: Bobby keeps referring to [[spoiler: Beth]] by her real name "Laura". [[spoiler: The sole instance in the film where he calls her "Beth" is in Beth's final dream in the movie.]]
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* JumpScare: [[spoiler: Bobby pulling back the curtains to Beth's hospital bed and saying her name in a final dream.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: Beth's initials LBH are on her suitcase and are also the initials of the sorority house. It hints at the fact that she lived in the house before it became a sorority house.]]
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* SlainInTheirSleep: Beth's love interest John is stabbed in the back before he can wake up and be alerted to Bobby.
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* YourWorstMemory: [[spoiler: Beth]] suffers from dreams that are really flashbacks to the night of her family's murders. It's only until she correctly guesses some things (like the location of Bobby's knife in the fireplace) and when Bobby breaks into the house that she realizes that the "dreams" are memories.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Beth survives but not only are all her friends dead, but it's likely she'll be haunted by the memory of Bobby for the rest of her life.]]
* DaylightHorror: Bobby stabs an elderly shop owner to death in the daytime.
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* GenericDoomsdayVillain: Aside from the fact that he killed his family and wants to [[spoiler: kill his sister]], the audience knows next-to-nothing about Bobby, except the fact that he has psychic dreams, which are unexplained.
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* GenericDoomsdayVillain: Aside from the fact that he killed his family and wants to [[spoiler: kill his sister]], the audience knows next-to-nothing about Bobby, except the fact that he has psychic dreams, which are unexplained.unexplained and more a PlotDevice than anything else.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: 1) It's unclear what specific diagnosis Bobby has, and 2) it's unknown why he and [[spoiler: Beth]] have a psychic connection.
* CoversAlwaysLie: The woman in the film poster? Yeah, she doesn't appear in this movie.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler: At the age of five, Beth's brother Bobby killed their parents and three sisters and attempted to kill her. She suppressed most of the memories for the next fifteen years before she developed an inexplicable psychic connection with her brother
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler: At the age of five, Beth's brother Bobby killed their parents and three sisters and attempted to kill her. She suppressed most of the memories for the next fifteen years before she developed an inexplicable psychic connection with her brotherbrother.]]
* DoNotCallMePaul: [[spoiler: Beth impales her brother through her neck with a knife as she says something like "My name's ''not'' Laura!"]]
* FanService: Tracy exposing her breasts and Craig getting nude.
* {{Hallucinations}}: Bobby hallucinates that [[spoiler: Sara]] is one of his deceased sisters, [[spoiler: then he stabs her to death.]]
* InsistentTerminology / MadnessMantra: Bobby keeps referring to [[spoiler: Beth]] by her real name "Laura".
* {{Jerkass}}: Andy taunts his girlfriend by mentioning a story about how a cat could feel when her kittens were being killed.
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* SoleSurvivor: Barring Bobby (who murdered most of the family), the only survivor of the Henkel family is [[spoiler: Beth]]. By the end of the film, [[spoiler: Beth]] is the sole survivor of both her family ''and'' the people in the sorority house.
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* SoleSurvivor: Barring Bobby (who murdered most of the family), the only survivor of the Henkel family is [[spoiler: Beth]]. By the end of the film, [[spoiler: Beth]] is the sole survivor of both her entire immediate family ''and'' the people in the sorority house.
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* AxCrazy: Bobby Henkel.
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* GenericDoomsdayVillain: Aside from the fact that he killed his family and wants to [[spoiler: kill his sister]], the audience knows next-to-nothing about Bobby, except the fact that he has psychic dreams, which are unexplained.
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* {{Nephewism}}: Beth was raised by her aunt.
* NewTransferStudent: Played with. Beth moves into the sorority house at the start of the film, but seemed to have been attending the college for some time.
* NiceGirl: Beth. Really the other girls - Tracy, Linda, and Sara - aren't too bad either, though some verge on JerkWithAHeartOfGold territory.
* {{Nephewism}}: Beth was raised by her aunt.
* NewTransferStudent: Played with. Beth moves into the sorority house at the start of the film, but seemed to have been attending the college for some time.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To some degree, the ''Film/TheSlumberPartyMassacre'' franchise. Both were produced by Roger Corman.
* TeensAreMonsters: Bobby Henkel was implicitly a teenager when he killed his parents and sisters.
* TheUnreveal: It's unknown why Bobby and [[spoiler: Beth]] have a psychic connection.
* WildTeenParty: Beth, Sara, Tracy, and Linda planned one during the weekend.
* WouldHurtAChild: Bobby Henkel murdered three ofher his younger sisters and attempted to kill the fourth.
* TeensAreMonsters: Bobby Henkel was implicitly a teenager when he killed his parents and sisters.
* TheUnreveal: It's unknown why Bobby and [[spoiler: Beth]] have a psychic connection.
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''Sorority House Massacre'' is a 1986 American SlasherMovie written and directed by Carol Frank and co-produced by Creator/RogerCorman. The film focuses on a group of sorority girls who stay at their host house over the Memorial Day weekend hoping to have a good time with their boyfriends. Meanwhile, a serial killer who murdered most of his family over a decade earlier has escaped from a nearby mental hospital after developing a seemingly inexplicable psychic connection with one of the sorority girls.
Basically, it's ''Film/Halloween1978'' [[RecycledInSpace in a sorority house and on Memorial Day.]] Loosely connected to the ''[[Film/TheSlumberPartyMassacre Slumber Party Massacre franchise]]'' due to their connection with Roger Corman.
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!!This film has examples of:
* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler: The main character Beth is the sister of the film's BigBad, Bobby Henkel, who murdered their three sisters and parents fifteen years earlier and is now back to kill her. Ultimately, it's Beth who takes out Bobby.]]
* DeathBySex: Tracy and Craig are having sex in a tipi when Bobby first attacks then. Tracy is killed outright, but Craig escapes...only to die later.
* FinalGirl: [[spoiler: Beth, who takes out her brother.]]
* InTheBack: When Bobby first attacks Beth, he stabs her LoveInterest John in the back as she dodges the attack. Later, Linda is fatally stabbed in the back just before she could escape with Beth.
* MiddleNameBasis: [[spoiler: Beth goes by her middle name instead of her first name "Laura", likely because her aunt wanted to protect her.]]
* RecycledInSpace: The basis premise of the first two ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' films - [[spoiler: a mass murderer going after his sister upon escaping from a psychiatric hospital]] - is copied here with some changes.
* SoleSurvivor: Barring Bobby (who murdered most of the family), the only survivor of the Henkel family is [[spoiler: Beth]].
* WouldHurtAChild: Bobby Henkel murdered three of her younger sisters and attempted to kill the fourth.
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[[caption-width-right:223:''Who'll survive the final exam?'']]
''Sorority House Massacre'' is a 1986 American SlasherMovie written and directed by Carol Frank and co-produced by Creator/RogerCorman. The film focuses on a group of sorority girls who stay at their host house over the Memorial Day weekend hoping to have a good time with their boyfriends. Meanwhile, a serial killer who murdered most of his family over a decade earlier has escaped from a nearby mental hospital after developing a seemingly inexplicable psychic connection with one of the sorority girls.
Basically, it's ''Film/Halloween1978'' [[RecycledInSpace in a sorority house and on Memorial Day.]] Loosely connected to the ''[[Film/TheSlumberPartyMassacre Slumber Party Massacre franchise]]'' due to their connection with Roger Corman.
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!!This film has examples of:
* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler: The main character Beth is the sister of the film's BigBad, Bobby Henkel, who murdered their three sisters and parents fifteen years earlier and is now back to kill her. Ultimately, it's Beth who takes out Bobby.]]
* DeathBySex: Tracy and Craig are having sex in a tipi when Bobby first attacks then. Tracy is killed outright, but Craig escapes...only to die later.
* FinalGirl: [[spoiler: Beth, who takes out her brother.]]
* InTheBack: When Bobby first attacks Beth, he stabs her LoveInterest John in the back as she dodges the attack. Later, Linda is fatally stabbed in the back just before she could escape with Beth.
* MiddleNameBasis: [[spoiler: Beth goes by her middle name instead of her first name "Laura", likely because her aunt wanted to protect her.]]
* RecycledInSpace: The basis premise of the first two ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' films - [[spoiler: a mass murderer going after his sister upon escaping from a psychiatric hospital]] - is copied here with some changes.
* SoleSurvivor: Barring Bobby (who murdered most of the family), the only survivor of the Henkel family is [[spoiler: Beth]].
* WouldHurtAChild: Bobby Henkel murdered three of her younger sisters and attempted to kill the fourth.
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