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* CuriosityKilledTheCast: Teddy and Walter go to Friar and search for the road to get enough material for a book. Even when things start to get dangerously strange, Teddy still wants to see what lies at the end of the trial. Likewise, curiosity seems to be essentially Liv's motivation for joining the expedition.

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* CuriosityKilledTheCast: Teddy and Walter go to Friar and search for the road to get enough material for a book. Even when things start to get dangerously strange, Teddy still wants to see what lies at the end of the trial.trail. Likewise, curiosity seems to be essentially Liv's motivation for joining the expedition.
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* GovernmentConspiracy: The reason no one has heard about an entire American town spontaneously committing mass suicide is because it was covered up. As the film opens, the protagonists have already spent a great deal of time pursuing Freedom of Information requests for access to the official records. [[spoiler: And it is the [[BigBad entity responsible for the event]] who sees to it that the [[SchmuckBait request is granted.]]]]

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* GovernmentConspiracy: The reason no one has heard about an entire American town spontaneously committing mass suicide is because it was covered up.up very effectively. As the film opens, the protagonists have already spent a great deal of time pursuing Freedom of Information requests for access to the official records. [[spoiler: And it is the [[BigBad entity responsible for the event]] who sees to it that the [[SchmuckBait request is granted.]]]]
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* AlienGeometries: [[spoiler: The distance the party travels within the forest seems to add up and make perfect sense while the group is walking. When added up later the distances do not make sense at all.]]

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* AlienGeometries: [[spoiler: The distance the party travels within the forest seems to add up and make perfect sense while the group is walking. When added up later the distances do not make sense at all. Also even though they're just in a forest in New Hampshire their GPS reports at different points that they're in Guam, Italy, and Australia.]]
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* CuriosityKilledTheCast: Teddy and Walter go to Friar and search for the road to get enough material for a book. Even when things start to get dangerously strange, Teddy still wants to see what lies at the end of the trial. Likewise, curiosity seems to be essentially Liv's motivation for joining the expedition.
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* UnrequitedLoveLastsForever: Walter was in love with Melissa for years, never pursuing a romantic relationship with anyone else. Still, he remained close friends and colleagues with both Melissa and her husband Teddy. [[spoiler: Eventually, whatever controls the "road" exploits this to drive Walter to suicide.]] Teddy seems to have always been aware of Walter's feelings [[spoiler: and hopes Melissa will move on with Walter although, tragically, by that point both Melissa and Walter are dead or about to die.]]
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* PreviewsPulse: Rare in-universe example. At one point the old-timey music changes into a monstrously loud, deafening, shake-you-to-your-knees, make-your-ears-bleed sound. It leaves no room in their heads for anything other than the desire to escape that hellish noise. And it is hellish: a thrumming, discordant, spiking roar that on a decent sound system or coming through good headphones will make you wince and feel sick with vertigo. Nothing can stand against this aural assault, which seems malevolent and calculating. Imagine the BWAAAAAM noise from the film Inception, jacked-up on steroids and angel dust, just waiting for you to almost get your bearings before jumping you from behind. It's like that.

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* PreviewsPulse: Rare in-universe example. At one point the old-timey music changes into a monstrously loud, deafening, shake-you-to-your-knees, make-your-ears-bleed sound. It leaves no room in their heads for anything other than the desire to escape that hellish noise. And it is hellish: a thrumming, discordant, spiking roar that on a decent sound system or coming through good headphones will make you wince and feel sick with vertigo. Nothing can stand against this aural assault, which seems malevolent and calculating. Imagine the BWAAAAAM noise from the film Inception, jacked-up on steroids and angel dust, just waiting for you to almost get your bearings before jumping you from behind. It's like that.
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* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:Daryl]] ''rips'' [[spoiler:Erin's]] leg off with his bare hands after damaging it with a heavy leg over an argument about his hat.

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* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:Daryl]] ''rips'' [[spoiler:Erin's]] leg off with his bare hands after damaging it with a heavy leg log over an argument about his hat.
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''[=YellowBrickRoad=]'' is a 2010 horror film by Jesse Holland and Andy Mitton that starring Creator/CassidyFreeman, Creator/AnessaRamsey and Creator/LauraHeisler.

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''[=YellowBrickRoad=]'' is a 2010 horror film by Jesse Holland and Andy Mitton that starring Creator/CassidyFreeman, Creator/AnessaRamsey and Creator/LauraHeisler.
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I believe this alternate official poster is a legitimate, and perhaps even preferable, expression of the tone and themes of Yellow Brick Road.



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[[caption-width-right:350:''This is our home now.'']]
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* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:Daryl]] ''rips'' [[spoiler:Erin's]] leg off with his bare hands over an argument about his hat.

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* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:Daryl]] ''rips'' [[spoiler:Erin's]] leg off with his bare hands after damaging it with a heavy leg over an argument about his hat.
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Kill Em All was renamed Everybody Dies Ending due to misuse. Dewicking


* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: As Liv tells it, part of the allure of the trail is the temptation to "get away" from all the pain and disappointment of mundane life. [[KillEmAll The trail certainly delivers on that]].

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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: As Liv tells it, part of the allure of the trail is the temptation to "get away" from all the pain and disappointment of mundane life. [[KillEmAll The trail certainly delivers on that]].that.
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*AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:Daryl]] ''rips'' [[spoiler:Erin's]] leg off with his bare hands over an argument about his hat.
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%% * DontGoInTheWoods DontGoInTheWoods: Something in the woods is luring people into it to commit mass suicide/homicide.



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%% * GainaxEndingGainaxEnding: [[spoiler: The trail ends at an inexplicable movie theatre manned by the clerk from the beginning of the film who treats the lone survivor to a film of his wife's dismembered corpse that greets him with the words "this is our home" while spectral moviegoers laugh all around him.]] Roll credits.



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%% * LovecraftCountryLovecraftCountry: A creepy New England town that was once all-but destroyed by an unseen, seemingly all-powerful and mind-altering presence in the forests surrounding it.

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''[=YellowBrickRoad=]'' is a 2010 horror film. In 1940 the entire population of Friar, New Hampshire spontaneously walked into the forest surrounding the town. Rescuers recovered a single deranged survivor but the rest of the townsfolk either disappeared entirely or else were found dead of exposure or various acts of violence. 70 years later, a husband and wife explorer team have been seeking access to the official records of the incident to no avail. When the records are unexpectedly released, they quickly organize a team of scientists and set off in search of the secret behind an entire town's self-destruction.

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''[=YellowBrickRoad=]'' is a 2010 horror film. film by Jesse Holland and Andy Mitton that starring Creator/CassidyFreeman, Creator/AnessaRamsey and Creator/LauraHeisler.

In 1940 the entire population of Friar, New Hampshire spontaneously walked into the forest surrounding the town. Rescuers recovered a single deranged survivor but the rest of the townsfolk either disappeared entirely or else were found dead of exposure or various acts of violence. 70 years later, a husband and wife explorer team have been seeking access to the official records of the incident to no avail. When the records are unexpectedly released, they quickly organize a team of scientists and set off in search of the secret behind an entire town's self-destruction.



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* GainaxEnding
* GeniusLoci: the forest itself.

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* GeniusLoci: the The forest itself.



* LovecraftCountry

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* WildWilderness: the forest.

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* WildWilderness: the The forest.

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* PreviewsPulse: Rare in-universe example. At one point the old-timey music changes into a monstrously loud, deafening, shake-you-to-your-knees, make-your-ears-bleed sound. It leaves no room in their heads for anything other than the desire to escape that hellish noise. And it is hellish: a thrumming, discordant, spiking roar that on a decent sound system or coming through good headphones will make you wince and feel sick with vertigo. Nothing can stand against this aural assault, which seems malevolent and calculating. Imagine the BWAAAAAM noise from the film Inception, jacked-up on steroids and angel dust, just waiting for you to almost get your bearings before jumping you from behind. It’s like that.



* WholePlotReference: To ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''. The film plays out like a twisted and nihilistic reimagining of Dorothy's journey to the Emerald City.

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* WholePlotReference: To ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''. The film plays out like a twisted and nihilistic reimagining re-imagining of Dorothy's journey to the Emerald City.
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* IncessantMusicMadness

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* IncessantMusicMadnessIncessantMusicMadness: Three days into their expedition, the crew begins to hear old-timey dance hall music. It comes from everywhere, and nowhere.
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* DontGoInTheWoods

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