Line #10 Film/Funhouse2020


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3	''Funhouse'' is a 2020 horror film.
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5	8 social media celebrities from around the world are invited to a remote mansion to participate in a brand-new elimination-style RealityTV show. After several days, they discover that the elimination is [[DeadlyGame final]] and only one person will be left standing at the end.
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8	!!This film provides examples of:
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10	* BearsAreBadNews: Nero Alexander uses the avatar of a CGI panda named Furcas to communicate with the contestants. The guards also wear panda masks.
11	* CatFight: Subverted. Ximena and Ula, two attractive young women, end up being forced to fight each other to the death after they've been sniping at each other for days. However, the fight between them is realistically brutal with no [[ClothingDamage stripping]] or hair-pulling as they are given battle axes and the light is turned off to make it more difficult.
12	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Not all of them. Some of the execution methods, like dying from a bullet to the head or being beaten to death are almost merciful compared to the more creatively cruel ones:
13	** [[spoiler:Dex]] is lowered into a vat full of HollywoodAcid for trying to escape. When he's pulled out, his entire lower body has been dissolved.
14	** [[spoiler:Ula]] is slowly quartered after she loses both her memory challenge and the spinning wheel of death.
15	* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler:When Headstone finds out that Nero was lying to him about the rules of the cage fight, he calls Nero a coward and goes down fighting.]]
16	* DwindlingParty: The contestants are participating in a DeadlyGame popularity contest. Every 3 days, Furcas will announce the current vote tally with snarky and malicious commentary. The contestant with the lowest vote will face a challenge that almost inevitably ends with their death. However, if the lowest votes are within a percentage point of each other, they will have to compete against each other for survival.
17	* FamousForBeingFamous: Many of the contestants are people who have become famous for being tabloid fodder. Kasper in particular is singled out because he became a reality TV star by happening to marry a female pop star.
18	* HollywoodAcid: For breaking the rules and trying to escape, Furcas murders [[spoiler:Dex]] by forcing him to bathe in fluoroantimonic acid. While [=H2FSbF6=] is indeed the most corrosive superacid that can be created on Earth, it's also so exothermic that it would be highly impractical as a murder weapon.
19	* HopeSpot: [[spoiler:Headstone manages to narrowly beat Botas in a DuelToTheDeath despite the latter's massive size advantage. Nero congratulates him, only to reveal that he will now have to fight the other 3 {{Wrestling Monster}}s simultaneously while already being exhausted from the first fight.]]
20	* MsFanservice: Ula is a Russian instagram model who manages to get a lot of votes by turning the camera on in her shower. She becomes more desperate after she learns the true nature of the DeadlyGame and starts [[FanDisservice breaking into tears on camera]]. After a while, even the audience starts to tire of this after she tries to seduce Kasper, which is cruelly mocked by Furcas.
21	* MultinationalTeam: The contestants are E-celebs from numerous different countries, including the United States, Mexico, the UK, Ireland, Russia, and Sweden.
22	* MurderDotCom: A group of minor celebrities are invited onto a Reality TV show at an undisclosed location to win 5 million dollars. They don't discover that they are fighting for their lives until the first guy who gets voted off by the global audience watching them is tortured to death in front of them. The FBI does make a concerted effort to track down the signal or at least cut off the feed, but all their attempts prove fruitless and the entire thing is aired up to the end.
23	* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: When Kasper confronts Nero on why he's torturing and murdering 8 innocent people, Nero goes on a rant calling all of them worthless people who haven't contributed anything meaningful to society. Kasper doesn't buy it and points out that beneath his veneer, Nero is just a sadist.
24	* SarcasticTitle: It's a house where people are murdered for an audience.
25	* SexForSolace: After [[spoiler:Headstone]]'s tragic death and with only 3 contestants remaining, Kasper and Lonnie decide to have sex. Meanwhile, Mouse decides to put on a show for the camera by masturbating.
26	* WrestlingMonster: Headstone's challenge is to fight 1 of 4 such opponents in a cage match: Vapula, an [[TheApunkalypse Apunkalypse]] barbarian; Sabnock, a MonsterClown; Botis, a giant with a SkullForAHead; or Orobas, a BrutalButcher with a pig mask.

Context Film / Funhouse2020