Line #34 Film/Savaged


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3	->''"They took her body. She'll take their souls."''
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5	''Savaged'' is a 2013 action-horror film directed by Michael S. Ojeda.
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7	A white deaf girl is murdered by rednecks. An Apache spirit possesses her body and hunts them down one by one.
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9	The film has the alternate title of ''Avenged''.
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11	!!This film contains examples of:
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13	* AndIMustScream: Hoo boy. Zoe is dead, and her soul is trapped inside her decaying corpse with the angry ghost of an Apache war chief.
14	* ArchEnemy:
15	** Zoe has Trey, the leader of the gang of rednecks who raped and murdered her.
16	** The Apache chief has Trey's grandfather, who killed him and his entire tribe a long time ago.
17	* BeatStillMyHeart: During the showdown at the mine, Zoe kills [[spoiler:Wes]], and then emerges from behind cover and extends his still beating heart towards [[spoiler: Trey]].
18	* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted. [[spoiler: By the end of the movie, Zoe is a rotting, maggot-infested mess barely held together by duct tape and the pissed-off ghost of an Apache chieftain.]]
19	* BigBad: Trey, the primary target of Zoe's wrath.
20	* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Zoe is dead, but so are Trey and his gang; and Dane and Grey Wolf survive.]]
21	* BlackAndGrayMorality: Trey and his gang are sadistic, racist {{serial killer}}s and rapists. The Apache chief is a wrathful phantom willing to resort to brutal war tactics and trap a young woman in a FateWorseThanDeath to avenge the genocide of his people. Zoe's a pretty reasonable person but is treated horrifically by both.
22	* BodyHorror: [[spoiler: Zoe unwraps the crude bandages around her wrists and sees maggots crawling in her rotting flesh. Her horrified screams make it even worse.]]
23	* BowsAndErrors: Zoe finds a recurve bow and quiver of arrows in a barn and takes it with her and uses it on her RoaringRampageOfRevenge. However, the bow had been stored strung and, according to its owner, had been in the barn for months. This would have ruined the tension in the bow and rendered it useless.
24	* CameBackWrong: Grey Wolf attempts to bring Zoe back from the dead. The ritual succeeds, but she comes back sharing her body with an angry Apache spirit who sends her on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge.
25	* CarFu: Trey and his gang use their pickup to run down a couple of Indians: a crime which Zoe witnesses. Later, they run over Zoe after she is thrown from the back of the truck.
26	* ChainsawGood: Trey chooses to wield a chainsaw as his weapon in his final showdown against Zoe.
27	* CopKiller: Zoe's first victim is a deputy sheriff, one of her rapists. As a result, it's sympathetic. Even so, all his colleagues react with realistic zeal (the sheriff is completely oblivious to his criminal side, viewing him as a good man and deputy).
28	* DuctTapeForEverything: Zoe uses duct tape to patch up her rotting body as it slowly falls apart.
29	* ElectromagneticGhosts: Zoe's presence at the mine causes the lights to flicker and various pieces of machinery to malfunction.
30	* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Zoe starts off badass enough to pull her hands out of barb-wire binds. Then she gets possessed by the ghost of an Apache chief and becomes strong enough to [[GrievousBottleyHarm disembowel a man with a broken bottle]].
31	* GrievousBottleyHarm: In the bar, Zoe snatches a beer bottle off Jed, smashes it, and uses it to (literally) gut him.
32	* GuttedLikeAFish: Zoe opens Jed up with a [[GrievousBottleyHarm broken beer bottle]] and pulls his intestines out with her bare hands.
33	* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler: Following the final battle, Zoe has been cut in half at the waist by Trey's [[ChainsawGood chainsaw]], but--being a RevenantZombie--still cannot die.]]
34	* HateSink: Trey is a redneck from a long line of anti-Native American serial killers. First introduced running his latest victim down with a truck, he abducts a deaf woman who witnessed the crime. After binding her with barbed wire, Trey rapes her before killing her to prevent police attention. After Zoe comes back with the help of an Apache ghost, Trey forces his friends to help him fight her on pain of death.
35	* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler: Zoe is burnt to death in a MercyKill.]]
36	* HighSpeedHijack: When Trey and his gang abducts Dane, Zoe jumps into the back of their speeding truck and gets in a fight with Wes in the back of the truck.
37	* HistoricalCharactersFictionalRelative: Trey is a descendant of Brigadier General Joseph R. West, the US officer who infamously murdered Apache leader Mangas Coloradas under a flag of truce and allowed the decapitation and desecration of his body. Trey keeps Mangas's skull in a cupboard and is attempting to follow in his ancestor's footsteps as a killer of Indians.
38	* HumanPincushion: Zoe shoots Creed with so many arrows that Trey describes him as being 'a human pincushion'.
39	* JavelinThrower: Zoe kills Cody by throwing an Apache war lance throw the windscreen of his speeding car, and then ducking under the car as it flips and crashes.
40	* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler: The only way Dane can find to release Zoe from her RevenantZombie state is to burn her to ashes.]]
41	* LiteralDisarming: During the final showdown, Zoe cuts off Trey's hand with a knife. The severed hand remains clamped on the throttle of the [[ChainsawGood chainsaw]] he is wielding, keeping it running.
42	* MagicalNativeAmerican: Grey Wolf is a shaman who finds Zoe after she has been LeftForDead. He preforms a ritual in an attempt to bring her back, but she [[CameBackWrong comes back wrong]].
43	* MalignedMixedMarriage: The rednecks are ''very'' disapproving of Zoe, who's white, being with Dane, her black fiancé. After they meet him, some cruelly joke that she must be colorblind.
44	* MercyKill: [[spoiler: At the end of the movie, Dane finds Zoe, now HalfTheWomanSheUsedToBe but still unable to die, feebly trying to bury herself. To release her tortured soul, he [[KillItWithFire incinerates her remains]].]]
45	* MonsterFromBeyondTheVeil: A MagicalNativeAmerican attempts to bring Zoe back from the dead. He succeeds, but she returns with a passenger: the angry Ghost of the Apache chief Mangas Coloradas. The ghost sends her on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against both the men who raped and killed her and the descendants of the general who murdered him under a flag of truce.
46	* OurGhostsAreDifferent: These are spirits who resemble their living forms surrounded by green gas, and they interact with the world by possessing dead bodies.
47	* OurZombiesAreDifferent: These are revenants resurrected by a spirit to take revenge, and their bodies don't stop rotting.
48	* PragmaticVillainy: Trey wants to keep Zoe as a SexSlave, but he kills her because her disappearance will bring extreme heat on him due to MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome.
49	* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The rednecks are very racist, calling Native Americans "savages" and "gut-eaters" and assuming Zoe is colorblind because she's dating a black man, who they call the n-word to his face.
50	* RacistGrandpa: Colby's father is a Korean War veteran who tells Dane (a black man) that his fiancée probably developed a new appreciation for the white man by being raped by Wes and his redneck cronies.
51	* RapeAndRevenge: Zoe is raped by Trey and killed by West, gets resurrected with an Apache ghost, and butchers everybody involved.
52	* RevenantZombie: Zoe is resurrected by a shaman, who accidentally causes her body to be possessed by ghosts. She's also [[LivingOnBorrowedTime rotting]].
53	* RightBehindMe: Jed is sitting at the bar describing everything he did to Zoe (in the form of a hypothetical situation) when Zoe walks in behind him. He keeps talking for some time before Colby's horrified expression clues him in that something is wrong.
54	* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: After being raped and murdered by a gang of racist rednecks, a woman bonds with the ghost of an Apache chief who was killed by the leader's grandfather. Using her newfound knowledge of the chief's brutal war tactics, she guts and scalps her way through the gang.
55	* TheSavageSouth
56	* SenseFreak: When deaf girl Zoe is resurrected and possessed by the spirit of an Apache warrior, she discovers that she can now hear. She becomes fascinated by sound, and she is especially entranced by an opera singer on the radio.
57	* ShootOutTheLock: When Zoe's powers cause a door to slam in Wes's face and lock at the mine, Wes responds by blasting the door open with a shotgun.
58	* ShoutOut: Several to Film/TheCrow1994, like the basic premise. There's also the scene where Zoe wraps her forearms and midsection in duct tape in an attempt to fix her wounds. Chief Red Sleeves's war paint also certainly counts.
59	* SlasherFilm: One of the rare slasher films with a sympathetic protagonist due to the horrible crime committed against her by her victims.
60	* TwoShotsFromBehindTheBar: When Zoe attacks Jed in the bar, the bartender grabs a shotgun from behind the bar and starts desperately fumbling to load it. It does him no good.
61	* VerbedTitle
62	* VoiceOfTheLegion: Zoe speaks like this when she awakens after being possessed by the spirit.
63	* WhoNeedsTheirWholeBody: Following the final battle, [[spoiler: Zoe is still functioning despite [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe having been cut in half]] with a [[ChainsawGood chainsaw]]. She drags herself into an open grave and starts trying to pull the soil down on top of herself. Her fiancé Dane finally preforms a MercyKill by [[KillItWithFire setting fire to her]].]]

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