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* DropTheHammer: A variation. Theresa [[spoiler:bludgeons Keith to death]] using a ''clothes iron'', of all implements.
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* MoodDissonance: Theresa's [[spoiler:climactic suicide by poisoning]] is framed as a transcendent and even magical, combined with the SoundtrackDissonance of Peter Raeburn's triumphant [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vq9Rk1gpUw "Murder to Death and Beyond."]]

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* MoodDissonance: Theresa's [[spoiler:climactic suicide by poisoning]] is framed as a transcendent and even magical, magical event, combined with the SoundtrackDissonance of Peter Raeburn's triumphant [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vq9Rk1gpUw "Murder to Death and Beyond."]]
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* DrugsAreBad: [[ZigZagged Zig-Zagged]]. It's implied Theresa's constant pot used leads her to [[spoiler:accidentally give Johnny the laced weed]], and her use of the poisonous cannabinoid pushes her to extremes she almost certainly wouldn't go to if sober, but it's also clear she's severely depressed and [[DeathSeeker suicidal]] and uses drugs as self-medication.

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* DrugsAreBad: [[ZigZagged Zig-Zagged]]. It's implied Theresa's constant pot used use leads her to [[spoiler:accidentally give Johnny the laced weed]], and her use of the poisonous cannabinoid pushes her to extremes she almost certainly wouldn't go to if sober, but it's also clear she's severely depressed and [[DeathSeeker suicidal]] and uses drugs as self-medication.
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* DrugsAreBad: [[ZigZagged Zig-Zagged]]. It's implied Theresa's constant pot used leads her to [[spoiler:accidentally give Johnny the laced weed]], and her use of the poisonous cannabinoid pushes her to extremes she almost certainly wouldn't go to if sober, but it's also clear she's severely depressed and [[DeathSeeker suicidal]] and uses drugs as self-medication.
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* MoodDissonance: Theresa's [[spoiler:climactic suicide by poisoning]] is framed as a transcendent and even magical, combined with the SoundtrackDissonance of Peter Raeburn's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vq9Rk1gpUw "Murder to Death and Beyond."]]

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* MoodDissonance: Theresa's [[spoiler:climactic suicide by poisoning]] is framed as a transcendent and even magical, combined with the SoundtrackDissonance of Peter Raeburn's triumphant [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vq9Rk1gpUw "Murder to Death and Beyond."]]
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* MoodDissonance: Theresa's [[spoiler:climactic suicide by poisoning]] is framed as a transcendent and even magical, combined with the SoundtrackDissonance of Peter Raeburn's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vq9Rk1gpUw "Murder to Death and Beyond."]]
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* GenreBusting: A psychological drama with psychedelic elements that has drawn comparisons to horror.
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* ReallyDeadMontage: The final scene of the movie is implied to be this [[spoiler:from Theresa's perspective]].

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* ReallyDeadMontage: MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes: The final scene of the movie is implied to be this [[spoiler:from Theresa's perspective]].a montage of memories and imagery from [[spoiler: Theresa's]] dying perspective.
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* ReallyDeadMontage: The final scene of the movie is implied to be this [[spoiler:from Theresa's perspective]].

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* TheStoner: Played for drama with Theresa, who's so burned out she's in a constant haze and unable to connect with most people in her life.

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* TheStoner: Played for drama with Theresa, who's so burned out she's in a constant haze and unable to connect with most people in her life. life, including her husband. [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] when, while high, [[spoiler:she accidentally gives Johnny weed laced with a lethal poison, killing him]].
** Keith is a dark example of an EruditeStoner who acts chill and wise but does not hesitate to threaten Theresa when [[spoiler:she suggests confessing the truth of Johnny's death to the cops]].
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Theresa is a cannabis dispensary clerk in [[UsefulNotes/TheOtherRainforest northern California]] who has been left reeling from the death of her mother (which [[MercyKill she had a hand in]]) and uses marijuana to self-medicate. But when an innocent slip-up results in tragedy and Theresa finds herself unable to confess the truth of what happened, she begins experimenting with the poison used to euthanize her mother and triggers a downward spiral that drags in everybody around her.

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Theresa is a cannabis dispensary clerk in [[UsefulNotes/TheOtherRainforest northern California]] who has been left reeling from the death of her mother (which [[MercyKill she had a hand in]]) and uses marijuana to self-medicate. But when an innocent slip-up results in tragedy and Theresa finds herself unable to confess the truth of what happened, she begins experimenting experiments with the poison used to euthanize her mother and triggers mother, triggering a downward spiral that drags in everybody around her.

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* TheOtherRainforest: Theresa and Nick live in rural northern California within walking distance of an awe-inspiring redwood forest.



* SceneryPorn: Theresa's nature walks among the massive redwoods certainly count.

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* SceneryPorn: Theresa's nature walks among the [[UsefulNotes/TheOtherRainforest massive redwoods of Humboldt County]] certainly count.qualify.
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Theresa is a cannabis dispensary clerk in [[TheOtherRainforest northern California]] who has been left reeling from the death of her mother (which [[MercyKill she had a hand in]]) and uses marijuana to self-medicate. But when an innocent slip-up results in tragedy and Theresa finds herself unable to confess the truth of what happened, she begins experimenting with the poison used to euthanize her mother and triggers a downward spiral that drags in everybody around her.

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Theresa is a cannabis dispensary clerk in [[TheOtherRainforest [[UsefulNotes/TheOtherRainforest northern California]] who has been left reeling from the death of her mother (which [[MercyKill she had a hand in]]) and uses marijuana to self-medicate. But when an innocent slip-up results in tragedy and Theresa finds herself unable to confess the truth of what happened, she begins experimenting with the poison used to euthanize her mother and triggers a downward spiral that drags in everybody around her.

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Theresa is a cannabis dispensary clerk in [[TheOtherRainforest northern California]] who has been left reeling from the death of her mother (which he had [[MercyKill a hand in]]) and medicates

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Theresa is a cannabis dispensary clerk in [[TheOtherRainforest northern California]] who has been left reeling from the death of her mother (which he had [[MercyKill she had a hand in]]) and medicates
uses marijuana to self-medicate. But when an innocent slip-up results in tragedy and Theresa finds herself unable to confess the truth of what happened, she begins experimenting with the poison used to euthanize her mother and triggers a downward spiral that drags in everybody around her.


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* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: A possible interpretation of Theresa's actions in the latter half of the film after [[spoiler:Keith discourages her from going to the police about Johnny's death]].


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* TheStoner: Played for drama with Theresa, who's so burned out she's in a constant haze and unable to connect with most people in her life.

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Theresa is a cannabis dispensary clerk in [[TheOtherRainforest northern California]] who has been left reeling from the death of her mother (which he had [[MercyKill a hand in]]) and medicates



* DeathSeeker: Theresa is left depressed and despondent after her mother's death, but after [[spoiler:accidentally killing Johnny]] she starts to engage in riskier and riskier behaviour.

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* DeathSeeker: Theresa is left depressed and despondent after in the wake of her mother's death, but after [[spoiler:accidentally killing Johnny]] she starts to engage in riskier and riskier behaviour.


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* TheOtherRainforest: Theresa and Nick live in rural northern California within walking distance of an awe-inspiring redwood forest.


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* SceneryPorn: Theresa's nature walks among the massive redwoods certainly count.
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* DropTheHammer: A variation. Theresa bludgeons [[spoiler: Keith to death]] using a ''clothes iron'', of all implements.

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* DropTheHammer: A variation. Theresa bludgeons [[spoiler: [[spoiler:bludgeons Keith to death]] using a ''clothes iron'', of all implements.

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* DrivenToSuicide:

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* DrivenToSuicide:DeathSeeker: Theresa is left depressed and despondent after her mother's death, but after [[spoiler:accidentally killing Johnny]] she starts to engage in riskier and riskier behaviour.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Ed dies of a heart attack, Theresa kills Keith and fatally poisons herself, and Nick is presumably left all alone.]]
* DrivenToSuicide:
* DropTheHammer: A variation. Theresa bludgeons [[spoiler: Keith to death]] using a ''clothes iron'', of all implements.
* MercyKill: Theresa's mother requests a poison-laced joint to ease her passing from cancer in the first scene of the film.

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* SanitySlippage: Theresa isn't in the best mental state at the outset, grappling with her mother's death and her own depression, but thanks to drugs and circumstance

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* MurderSuicide: [[spoiler:Theresa bludgeoning Keith to death before overdosing in the forest can be interpreted this way.]]
* MushroomSamba: A cannabinoid rather than mushrooms, but Theresa spends much of the movie in a drug-induced haze that alters her perceptions and influences her actions.
* SanitySlippage: Theresa isn't in the best mental state at the outset, grappling with her mother's death and her own depression, but thanks to drugs and circumstancecircumstance she goes off the deep end.
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Woodshock was released on September 22, 2017, and distributed through independent film production company Creator/A24.

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Woodshock was released on September 22, 2017, and distributed through independent film production company Creator/A24.
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Not to be confused with the music festival UsefulNotes/{{Chernobyl}}.

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Not to be confused with the music festival UsefulNotes/{{Chernobyl}}.UsefulNotes/{{Woodstock}}.
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Not to be confused with the music festival UsefulNotes/Woodstock..

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Not to be confused with the music festival UsefulNotes/Woodstock..UsefulNotes/{{Chernobyl}}.
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[[caption-width-right:350:''What did you do, Theresa? What did you do?'']]

->''What did you do, Theresa? What did you do?''

''Woodshock'' is a 2017 psychological drama film written and directed by Kate and Laura Mulleavy, the sisters behind fashion label Rodarte, and starring Creator/KirstenDunst.

Woodshock was released on September 22, 2017, and distributed through independent film production company Creator/A24.

The trailer can be seen [[https://youtu.be/RpscZ_YD-ns here]].

Not to be confused with the music festival UsefulNotes/Woodstock..
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* DrivenToSuicide:
* SanitySlippage: Theresa isn't in the best mental state at the outset, grappling with her mother's death and her own depression, but thanks to drugs and circumstance
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