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''The Shadow of Chikara'' (also known as ''Demon Mountain'', ''The Ballad of Virgil Cane'', ''Thunder Mountain'', ''Wishbone Cutter'', and ''The Curse of Demon Mountain'') is a 1977 American western horror film written and directed by Earl E. Smith. The film stars Creator/JoeDonBaker, Sondra Locke, Ted Neeley, Joy N. Houck Jr., and Slim Pickens.
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''The Shadow of Chikara'' (also known as ''Demon Mountain'', ''The Ballad of Virgil Cane'', ''Thunder Mountain'', ''Wishbone Cutter'', and ''The Curse of Demon Mountain'') is a 1977 American western horror film written and directed by Earl E. Smith. The film stars Creator/JoeDonBaker, Sondra Locke, Ted Neeley, Joy N. Houck Jr., and Slim Pickens.
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* AnAxeToGrind: Moon uses a tomahawk as a personal weapon, including burying it in the back of a Union soldier during the opening battle.
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* MixedAncestry: Half Moon O'Brian's father was an Irish trapper and his mother was a Cherokee woman.
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Following the last battle of UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar, disgruntled Confederate captain Wishbone Cutter (Baker) and his longtime companion ArmyScout Half Moon O'Brian (Houck) recruit geologist Amos 'Teach' Richmond and go in search of a fortune in diamonds their dying sergeant told them lay hidden in a cave in the mountains of Arkansas. On the way they rescue a young woman, Drusilla Wilcox (Locke), from an a mysterious band of Indians. As the four of them continue into the mountains, they find they are being followed by a mysterious hunter (or hunters) who may have a connection to a mythic eagle spirit.
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Following the last battle of UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar, disgruntled Confederate captain Wishbone Cutter (Baker) and his longtime companion ArmyScout Half Moon O'Brian (Houck) recruit geologist Amos 'Teach' Richmond (Neely) and go in search of a fortune in diamonds their dying sergeant told them lay hidden in a cave in the mountains of Arkansas. On the way they rescue a young woman, Drusilla Wilcox (Locke), from an a mysterious band of Indians. As the four of them continue into the mountains, they find they are being followed by a mysterious hunter (or hunters) who may have a connection to a mythic eagle spirit.
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* DumbStruck: Dancer has been unable to speak (and generally 'not right in the head') ever since he was attacked and scarred by a huge eagle.
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* LiteralCliffhanger: Drusilla wings clinging to a ledge after the horses are swept off the mountainside by a landslide.
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* LiteralCliffhanger: Drusilla wings winds clinging to a ledge after the horses are swept off the mountainside by a landslide.
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* AnAxeToGrind: Moon uses a tomahawk as a personal weapon, including burying it in the back of a Union soldier during the opening battle.
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* ScarilyCompetantTracker: Moon is shown to be this throughout the movie, so when he cannot find any sign of the hunters who are pursuing them through the wilderness, it seriously freaks him out.
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* ScarilyCompetantTracker: ScarilyCompetentTracker: Moon is shown to be this throughout the movie, so when he cannot find any sign of the hunters who are pursuing them through the wilderness, it seriously freaks him out.
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* ScarilyCompetantTracker: Moon is shown to be this throughout the movie, so when he cannot find any sign of the hunters who are pursuing them through the wilderness, it seriously freaks him out.
* ToplessnessFromTheBack: Drusilla is shown topless from behind when she is mending her dress; having pulled the top of it down so she could sew it without having to take the dress off.
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* WarIsHell: The open scenes feature Captain Cutter being ordered to lead his men into a battle that his knows is futile and is going to be bloodbath. By the end of it, everyone except Cutter and Moon are dead.
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* WarIsHell: The open opening scenes feature Captain Cutter being ordered to lead his men into a battle that his knows is futile and is going to be bloodbath. By the end of it, everyone except Cutter and Moon are dead.
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* ArmyScout: Moon was an army scout for the Confederate Army, and served alongside Cutter for years.
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* ArmyScout: Moon was an army scout for the Confederate Army, and served alongside Cutter for years.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It is left ambiguous as to whether there really is a guardian spirit of the mountain or if [[spoiler:Drusilla is insane believes she is Chikara]].
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* AnnoyingArrows: Zigzagged. When they recue Drusilla, Teach gets an arrow through his upper arm that Cutter and Moon have to shove through and snap off in order to remove. Despite Teach occassionaly complaining of discomfort from his injured arm, it does not prevent him him hauling on ropes, climbing down pits,etc. However, this is the only instance of this, and the rest of the time arrows are shown as lethal: major character or not.
* BrutalBirdOfPrey: When Moon recovers the horses after they are let loose, one of the has scars on its flanks as if from the talons of a massive eagle. Later they meet Dancer who has similar scars on his face and, according ro Rafe, has been unable to speak ever since he was attacked by a giant eagle. This eagle [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane might be Chikara, the guardian spirit of the mountain]].
* BrutalBirdOfPrey: When Moon recovers the horses after they are let loose, one of the has scars on its flanks as if from the talons of a massive eagle. Later they meet Dancer who has similar scars on his face and, according ro Rafe, has been unable to speak ever since he was attacked by a giant eagle. This eagle [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane might be Chikara, the guardian spirit of the mountain]].
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* DeadlyHug: [[spoiler:Drusilla pulls Cutter into an intimate embrace and then fatally stabs him.]]
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* Impromptu Tracheotomy: Teach gets shot through the throat with one of the mysterious black arrows, which leaves him [[PinnedToTheWall nailed to the tree behind him]].
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* Impromptu Tracheotomy: ImpromptuTracheotomy: Teach gets shot through the throat with one of the mysterious black arrows, which leaves him [[PinnedToTheWall nailed to the tree behind him]].
* StillWearingTheOldColors: Wishbone Cutter spends the entire movie in his old Confederate uniform.
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* WarIsHell: The open scenes feature Captain Cutter being ordered to lead his men into a battle that his knows is futile and is going to be bloodbath. By the end of it, everyone except Cutter and Moon are dead.
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* WarIsHell: The open scenes feature Captain Cutter being ordered to lead his men into a battle that his knows is futile and is going to be bloodbath. By the end of it, everyone except Cutter and Moon are dead.dead.
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* MixedAncestry: Half Moon O'Brian's father was an Irish trapper and his mother was a Cherokee woman.
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* PinnedTotheWall: Teach gets nailed to a tree trunk by a black arrow [[ImpromptuTracheotomy through his throat]].
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* Impromptu Tracheotomy: Teach gets shot through the throat with one of the mysterious black arrows, which leaves him [[PinnedToTheWall nailed to the tree behind him]].
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* PinnedTotheWall: Teach gets nailed to a tree trunk by a black arrow [[ImpromptuTracheotomy through his throat]].
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* TwangHello: When Moon is on watch, one of the mysterious black arrows buries itself into a tree beside his head.
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* DangerousDeserter: Posey, Rafe and Dancer are a trio of deserters from the Confederate army living as [[MountainMan mountain men]] and bushwhackers: robbing, raping and murdering travellers.
* LiteralCliffhanger: Drusilla wings clinging to a ledge after the horses are swept off the mountainside by a landslide.
* MountainMan: The party encounters a trio of mountain men as they make they make their way into the mountain. However, these three are also {{Dangerous Deserter}}s who plan to rob and murder them, and rape Drusilla.
* TwangHello: When Moon is on watch, one of the mysterious black arrows buries itself into a tree beside hishead.head.
* WarIsHell: The open scenes feature Captain Cutter being ordered to lead his men into a battle that his knows is futile and is going to be bloodbath. By the end of it, everyone except Cutter and Moon are dead.
* LiteralCliffhanger: Drusilla wings clinging to a ledge after the horses are swept off the mountainside by a landslide.
* MountainMan: The party encounters a trio of mountain men as they make they make their way into the mountain. However, these three are also {{Dangerous Deserter}}s who plan to rob and murder them, and rape Drusilla.
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* ArmyScout: Moon was an army scout for the Confederate Army, and served alongside Cutter for years.
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''The Shadow of Chikara'' (also known as ''Demon Mountain'', ''The Ballad of Virgil Cane'', ''Thunder Mountain'', ''Wishbone Cutter'', and ''The Curse of Demon Mountain'') is a 1977 American western horror film written and directed by Earl E. Smith. The film stars Creator/JoeDonBaker, Sondra Locke, Ted Neeley, Joy N. Houck Jr., and Slim Pickens.
Following the last battle of UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar, disgruntled Confederate captain Wishbone Cutter (Baker) and his longtime companion ArmyScout Half Moon O'Brian (Houck) recruit geologist Amos 'Teach' Richmond and go in search of a fortune in diamonds their dying sergeant told them lay hidden in a cave in the mountains of Arkansas. On the way they rescue a young woman, Drusilla Wilcox (Locke), from an a mysterious band of Indians. As the four of them continue into the mountains, they find they are being followed by a mysterious hunter (or hunters) who may have a connection to a mythic eagle spirit.
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Following the last battle of UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar, disgruntled Confederate captain Wishbone Cutter (Baker) and his longtime companion ArmyScout Half Moon O'Brian (Houck) recruit geologist Amos 'Teach' Richmond and go in search of a fortune in diamonds their dying sergeant told them lay hidden in a cave in the mountains of Arkansas. On the way they rescue a young woman, Drusilla Wilcox (Locke), from an a mysterious band of Indians. As the four of them continue into the mountains, they find they are being followed by a mysterious hunter (or hunters) who may have a connection to a mythic eagle spirit.
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