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Despite his best efforts, however, he just doesn't have it in him to ever actually take a life. Heck, one time, he tried luring in a woman by faking an injury a la Ted Bundy, and that woman, named Erin, would eventually become his wife.
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Despite his best efforts, however, he just doesn't have it in him to ever actually take a life. Heck, one time, he tried luring in a woman by faking an injury a la Ted Bundy, UsefulNotes/TedBundy, and that woman, named Erin, would eventually become his wife.
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* SickeningCrunch: When [[spoiler:Charles]] kills a guy by caving in his forehead, we hear the slight crunching sound of a skull breaking.
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* InnerMonologue: Aaron's voice serves as the narration for the film.
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* MistakenForGay: Aaron's female colleague at the post office. She hears mention that Erin isn't "[[AmbiguousSyntax doing it]]" for him. After coming back from a night out with [[spoiler:Charles]], where things didn't go well, the female colleague had a very different idea of what Aaron meant.
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* SlashedThroat: [[spoiler:Charles]] open's up a woman's throat in front of Aaron.
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* KilledOffScreen: [[spoiler:Charles]] [[LeaveNoWitnesses blowing a witness' brains out]] isn't shown. After Aaron leaves, it cuts to him in the main room of the bar, and we hear the gunshot.
* LeaveNoWitnesses: Aaron and [[spoiler:Charles]] are spotted murdering a bartender by someone. They corner him in the kitchen, and when Aaron can't shoot him, [[spoiler:Charles]] does ([[KilledOffscreen which is not shown]]).
* LeaveNoWitnesses: Aaron and [[spoiler:Charles]] are spotted murdering a bartender by someone. They corner him in the kitchen, and when Aaron can't shoot him, [[spoiler:Charles]] does ([[KilledOffscreen which is not shown]]).
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* OffWithHisHead: When Aaron can't bring himself to murder a woman in a car, [[spoiler:Charles]] drags her out of it, and then saws her head off.
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* EurekaMoment: When Aaron sees the ring on [[spoiler:Charles']] finger, and remembers that the killer had one just like it, he realizes who the killer is.
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* TapOnTheHead: Aaron gets one from [[spoiler:Charles]] when he and Charles are alone outside Aaron's house.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Attempted by Aaron in the beginning of the movie. He tried faking a foot injury to lure someone in like Ted Bundy did with his victims. The first woman he met while trying this fell in love with him. He had to wear the cast for a month to avoid any suspicion, and eventually married her.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Attempted by Aaron in the beginning of the movie. He tried faking a foot injury to lure someone in like Ted Bundy did with his victims. The first woman he met while trying this fell in love with him. He had to wear the cast for a month to avoid any suspicion, and eventually married her.
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* SickeningCrunch: When [[spoiler:Charles]] kills a guy by caving in his forehead, we hear the slight crunching sound of a skull breaking.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Aaron is never able to end anyone's life, and ends up [[FrameUp taking the blame for all of Charles' murderers he committed in the town]]. Charles, meanwhile, has [[KarmaHoudini escaped all repercussions of his actions]] and is wooing a woman in a new town where his killing spree his likely to continue. However, Aaron willingly accepts responsibility for all the murders and finally gets the fame he's sought for so long. Meanwhile, Erin wrote a book about what it was like being married to him, which is a best-seller.]]
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Charles. He kills multiple people, pins the blame for all their deaths on Aaron by making sure his [=DNA=] and fingerprints are all over the evidence, and gets off scot-free. He's seen romancing a woman at the end of the film.]]
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* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: Aaron wakes up in this situation after [[spoiler:Charles]] knocks him out.
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* DisposingOfABody: Aaron sees the serial killer he's looking for across the river from his date night with Erin. He sees the killer dump a dead body in the river.
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* SerialKiller: What Aaron aspires to be. [[spoiler:What Charles is.]]
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* GetOut: The head of the newspaper shouts a variant on this at Aaron when he catches him rifling through his desk.
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* BlackDress: Erin wears a black dress on her date night with Aaron.
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* LittleBlackDress: Erin wears a black dress on her date night with Aaron.
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* BlandNameProduct: There's an issue of [=TINE=] Magazine with an article about famous serial killers.
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''21st Century Serial Killer'' is a [[HorrorFilms Horror Movie]] directed by Henry Weintraub.
Aaron Schwartz is a man with a dream: be famous. He's tried being famous at the usual endeavours, sports and theater, but didn't find them to be his thing. Then he discovered some of the most well-remembered names in history were those of [[SerialKiller Serial Killers]]...
And, yeah.
Despite his best efforts, however, he just doesn't have it in him to ever actually take a life. Heck, one time, he tried luring in a woman by faking an injury a la Ted Bundy, and that girl would eventually become his wife.
Now he's a mail carrier in a small town (hey, if that doesn't make him wanna gut somebody, what will?) with a relatively happy marriage. He seems to have given up on the hopes that he'll ever really make it as a murderer... and then he gets word that there's one in his own neighbourhood. Seeing his chance, he decides to track the killer down in the hopes that he can learn what he needs to make his dream come true.
The film was released on September 14th, 2013.
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!!''21st Century Serial Killer'' contains examples of:
* BlandNameProduct: There's an issue of [=TINE=] Magazine with an article about famous serial killers.
* InTheHood: In his improv classes early in the movie, Aaron is seen wearing a grey hoodie and sunglasses.
* JoggersFindDeath: Aaron [[spoiler:and Charles]] find a jogger while out one night, and catch her. [[spoiler:Charles]] strangles her to death.
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Aaron Schwartz is a man with a dream: be famous. He's tried being famous at the usual endeavours, sports and theater, but didn't find them to be his thing. Then he discovered some of the most well-remembered names in history were those of [[SerialKiller Serial Killers]]...
And, yeah.
Despite his best efforts, however, he just doesn't have it in him to ever actually take a life. Heck, one time, he tried luring in a woman by faking an injury a la Ted Bundy, and that girl would eventually become his wife.
Now he's a mail carrier in a small town (hey, if that doesn't make him wanna gut somebody, what will?) with a relatively happy marriage. He seems to have given up on the hopes that he'll ever really make it as a murderer... and then he gets word that there's one in his own neighbourhood. Seeing his chance, he decides to track the killer down in the hopes that he can learn what he needs to make his dream come true.
The film was released on September 14th, 2013.
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!!''21st Century Serial Killer'' contains examples of:
* BlandNameProduct: There's an issue of [=TINE=] Magazine with an article about famous serial killers.
* InTheHood: In his improv classes early in the movie, Aaron is seen wearing a grey hoodie and sunglasses.
* JoggersFindDeath: Aaron [[spoiler:and Charles]] find a jogger while out one night, and catch her. [[spoiler:Charles]] strangles her to death.
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