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* QuickNap: When Auntie May and Daisy are left alone in the diner, Auntie May pulls a flask out of her VictoriasSecretCompartment and takes a swig from it. She then offers it to daisy, who, after a few moments of hesitation, decides that the circumstances warrant it and also takes a swig.

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* QuickNap: QuickNip: When Auntie May and Daisy are left alone in the diner, Auntie May pulls a flask out of her VictoriasSecretCompartment and takes a swig from it. She then offers it to daisy, who, after a few moments of hesitation, decides that the circumstances warrant it and also takes a swig.
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* GenuineHumanHide: When JB and The Collector are examining the Ed Gein exhibit in the museum, they discuss Gein's habit of making objects out of human skin. Later, after Gein and the other killers are brought to life, Gein fights Dahmer for possession of Brian: Gein stating that he wants skin Brian to make a shirt.

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* BiTheWay: Nicole and Candi. They are definitely interested in men (as witnessed by their discussion of whether Kip is gay), but they [[GirlOnGirlIsHot make out with each other enthusiastically in an effort to turn Kip on]]. and Nicole seems okay with being kissed by the female Ripper, and offers to have sex with her when it seems like a means of escape.

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* BiTheWay: Nicole and Candi. They are definitely interested in men (as witnessed by their discussion of whether Kip is gay), but they [[GirlOnGirlIsHot make out with each other enthusiastically in an effort to turn Kip on]]. on]], and Nicole seems okay with being kissed by the female Ripper, and offers to have sex with her when it seems like a means of escape.


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* QuickNap: When Auntie May and Daisy are left alone in the diner, Auntie May pulls a flask out of her VictoriasSecretCompartment and takes a swig from it. She then offers it to daisy, who, after a few moments of hesitation, decides that the circumstances warrant it and also takes a swig.


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* VictoriasSecretCompartment: Auntie May keeps a flask in her cleavage for when she needs a QuickNip.
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* LousiCypher: The ending of the film implies that the bus driver is actually [[spoiler:Satan]].

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* LousiCypher: LouisCypher: The ending of the film implies that the bus driver is actually [[spoiler:Satan]].

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* AngelUnaware: The ending of the film implies that the bus driver is actually [[spoiler:Satan]].


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* LousiCypher: The ending of the film implies that the bus driver is actually [[spoiler:Satan]].
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* AngelUnaware: The ending of the film implies that the bus driver is actually [[spoiler:Satan]].
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* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: In one of a set of compounding bad decisions, Ren and Star decide to have sex in a recreation of Ed Gein's lair in a museum dedicated to serial killers.
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* LeanAndMean: Albert Fish is the smallest and skinniest of the serial killers, but he possesses a wiry strength and is able to put up a good fight, and he is certainly just as evil as the rest of them, being a child murdering cannibal.
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* IBrokeANail: When the resurrection spell is cast, there is an earthquake that shakes the entire GhostTown. As it ends, Nicole lets out an ear piercing shriek, that makes everyone think she has suffered some terrible injury. It turns that she broke a nail when she fell to the floor. Only her friend Candi gives her any sympathy.
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* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: After capturing Nicole, Jack the Ripper straps to what is either a dentist or barber's chair in preparation for the torture and murder that is to follow.

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* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: After capturing Nicole, Jack the Ripper straps her to what is either a dentist or barber's chair in preparation for the torture and murder that is to follow.
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* MadeOfIron: All of the serial killers are fairly tough, but the Zodiac Killer absorbs a ridiculous amount of damage. He absorbs multiple body blows from the magically enhanced Simon without flinching. The protagonists are only able to stop him by [[ManOnFire setting fire to him]] and [[CarFu running him over with a car]].
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* SlashedThroat: In the prologue, Luther kills Simon's mother by slitting her throat while Simon watches.

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* EvilVersusEvil: The serial killers start picking each other off in order to conserve the remaining victims for themselves. In particular, Gein kills Dahmer so he steal Brian from him and skin him to make a shirt.



* LatexPerfection: Jack the Ripper wears a mask that not only makes her look hideously disfigured but hides her long blackhair.

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* LatexPerfection: Jack the Ripper wears a mask that not only makes her look hideously disfigured but hides her long blackhair.black hair.
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* GhostTown: The Death Factory is located in a ghost town in the middle of nowhere: built in the expectation of a gold rush that never came.
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* CellPhonesAreUseless: The bus breaks down in a valley where the mountains block cell phone signals. Bill briefly manages to get half a bar, and no one else can get anything.

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* SinsterScythe: The Zodiac Killer uses a sickle as his WeaponOfChoice.

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* SinsterScythe: SinisterScythe: The Zodiac Killer uses a sickle as his WeaponOfChoice.


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* TwangHello: When the Zodiac Killer starts to drag Ren out of Gein's room, Gein gets his attention by throwing an axe into the door jamb beside Zodiac's head.

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* ManBitesMan: When Geoffrey Dahmer and Kip are fighting, Dahmer keeps biting chunks out Kip. He later bites a chunk out of Brian's leg after capturing him.

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* ManBitesMan: When Geoffrey Jeffery Dahmer and Kip are fighting, Dahmer keeps biting chunks out Kip. He later bites a chunk out of Brian's leg after capturing him.



* MythologyGag: Ed Gein uses a chainsaw to drive off the Zodiac Killer: a reference to Gein being the inspiration for Leatherface in ''Franchise/TheTexasChainsawMassacre'', despite him never using a chainsa in his RealLife killings.
* ReusableLighterToss: After being soaked in kerosene when Kip smashes a lanter on him, the Zodiac Killer is set alight when Daisy tosses Simon JB's lighter, who ignites it and drops it in the spilled fuel.

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* MythologyGag: Ed Gein uses a chainsaw to drive off the Zodiac Killer: a reference to Gein being the inspiration for Leatherface in ''Franchise/TheTexasChainsawMassacre'', despite him never using a chainsa chainsaw in his RealLife killings.
* ReusableLighterToss: After being soaked in kerosene when Kip smashes a lanter lantern on him, the Zodiac Killer is set alight when Daisy tosses Simon JB's lighter, who ignites it and drops it in the spilled fuel.


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* SinsterScythe: The Zodiac Killer uses a sickle as his WeaponOfChoice.

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* CarFu: Auntie May uses JB's car to ram the Zodiac Killer at high speed after he has been turned into a ManOnFire.



* IAmAHumanitarian: Albert Fish and Jeffery Dahmer are both cannibals. Fish is destroyed before he as an opportunity to demonstarte this part of his personality, but Dahmer takes several bites out of Kip while fighting him, and later captures Brian and is preparing to butcher and eat him.



* MonsterClown: John Wayne Gacy spends the entire film in clown makeup and costume, which is deeply disturbing.




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* WouldHitAGirl: Simon, a trained soldier, drops Jill the Ripper with the same ruthless efficiency he shows in disposing of the male serial killers.
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* BiTheWay: Nicole and Candi. They are definitely interested in men (as witnessed by their discussion of whether Kip is gay), but they [[GirlOnGirlIsHot make out with each other enthusiastically in an effort to turn Kip on]]. and Nicole seems okay with being kissed by the female Ripper, and offers to have sex with her when it seems like a means of escape.

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* GirlOnGirlIsHot: While trying to seduce Kip, Nicole and Candi start making out. Kip, who was anxious to get out there, decides that he has time to stop and watch.



* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: After capturing Candi, Jack the Ripper straps to what is either a dentist or barber's chair in prepeation for the torture and murder that is to follow.

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* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: After capturing Candi, Nicole, Jack the Ripper straps to what is either a dentist or barber's chair in prepeation preparation for the torture and murder that is to follow.
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* MythologyGag: Ed Gein uses a chainsaw to drive off the Zodiac Killer: a reference to Gein being the inspiration for Leatherface in ''Franchise/TheTexasChainsawMassacre'', despite him never using a chainsa in his RealLife killings.


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* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: After capturing Candi, Jack the Ripper straps to what is either a dentist or barber's chair in prepeation for the torture and murder that is to follow.
* SweetPollyOliver: Jack the Ripper is really a beautiful woman disguised as a man.

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* GolfClubbing: In the prologue, young Siomn cracks his abusive father over the head with a gold club, then keeps whacking him once he is on the ground.

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* GolfClubbing: In the prologue, young Siomn Simon cracks his abusive father over the head with a gold club, then keeps whacking him once he is on the ground.


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* LatexPerfection: Jack the Ripper wears a mask that not only makes her look hideously disfigured but hides her long blackhair.

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* ManOnFire: The tourist manage to defeat the Zodiac Killer by using a ReusableLighterToss to set him alight.
* ReusableLighterToss: After being soaked in kerosene when Kip smashes a lanter on him, the Zodiac Killer is set alight when Daisy tosses Simon JB's lighter, who ignites it and drops it in the spilled fuel.
* SassyBlackWoman: Auntie May, who takes guff from no one, even if they are a resurrected serial killer. And she is prepared to go one on one against the Zodiac Killer if she has to.



* ThrowTheBookAtThem: JB slams Ed Gein in the face with the Book of the Dea.

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* ThrowTheBookAtThem: JB slams Ed Gein in the face with the Book of the Dea.Dead.

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* BenchBreaker: When Simon is tied up by John Wayne Gacy, he escapes by smashing the chair he is tied to.



* ThrowTheBookAtHim: JB slams Ed Gein in the face with the Book of the Dea.

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* SinisterEcrapingSound: As the Zodiac Killer is chasing Ren, he drags his [[SinisterScythe sickle]] along the wall of the caravan, producing a sinister scraping sound.

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* SinisterEcrapingSound: SinisterScrapingSound: As the Zodiac Killer is chasing Ren, he drags his [[SinisterScythe sickle]] along the wall of the caravan, producing a sinister scraping sound.



* ThrowingTheBookAtHim: JB slams Ed Gein in the face with the Book of the Dea.

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* GolfClubbing: In the prologue, young Siomn cracks his abusive father over the head with a gold club, then keeps whacking him once he is on the ground.



* ManBitesMan: When Geoffrey Dahmer and Kip are fighting, Dahmer keeps biting chunks out Kip. He later bites a chunk out of Simon's leg after capturing him.

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* LodgedBladeRecycling: After breaking loose from the chair where Gacy had tied him, Simon stabs Gacy to death with the knife Gacy had stuck in his shoulder while torturing him.
* ManBitesMan: When Geoffrey Dahmer and Kip are fighting, Dahmer keeps biting chunks out Kip. He later bites a chunk out of Simon's Brian's leg after capturing him.

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* ChainsawGood: Ed Gein picks up a chainsaw and uses it to drive off the Zodiac Killer.



* TomeOfEldritchLore: The Book of the Dead is used to cast a resurrection spell that brings the serial killers back from the dead.

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* ManBitesMan: When Geoffrey Dahmer and Kip are fighting, Dahmer keeps biting chunks out Kip. He later bites a chunk out of Simon's leg after capturing him.
* SinisterEcrapingSound: As the Zodiac Killer is chasing Ren, he drags his [[SinisterScythe sickle]] along the wall of the caravan, producing a sinister scraping sound.
* SwordSparks: The Zodiac Killer generates sparks, as well as a SinisterScrapingSound, by dragging his [[SinisterScythe sickle]] along the wall of the caravan while chasing Ren.
* ThrowingTheBookAtHim: JB slams Ed Gein in the face with the Book of the Dea.
* TomeOfEldritchLore: The Book of the Dead is used to cast a resurrection spell that brings the serial killers back from the dead.dead.

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* HistorysCrimeWave: A TomeOfEldritchLore brings Ed Gein, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, Albert Fish, the Zodiac Killer, and UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper (or, more aptly, ''Jill'' the Ripper) back to life.
* TomeOfEldritchLore: The Book of the Dead is used to cast a resurrection spell that brings the serial killers back from the dead.
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''The Butchers'' (also known as ''Death Factory'' and ''The Factory'') is a 2014 horror film directed by Steven Judd and written by David Dittlinger and Stephen Durham.

Strangers on a bus find themselves fighting for their lives when one of them reads from a Gothic book and brings to life six dead serial killers who proceed to hunt them down one by one.

!!Tropes used in ''The Butchers'' include:

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