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3''Horrific'' is a 2000 AnthologyFilm from Creator/FullMoonFeatures, featuring three stories edited down from previous Full Moon releases.
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5The three chapters are:
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7* ''Crypt of the Undead'': Schoolmates accidentally unearth three undead executioners from their graves during a Ouija board seance who initiate a bloody killing spree.
8* ''Terror Vision'': A brilliant scientist performs his final experiment which seems to be yet another waste of life. But something begins to stir in one of the still eye sockets of the victim...a new form of life has begun.
9* ''Masters of Death'': Six teenagers have been chosen to be a part of a terrifying ritual - three destined to be killers and three destined to be the victims - unholy sacrifices that will awaken the sleeping masters.
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11!!Tropes in ''Horrific'' include:
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13* AirVentPassageway: In ''Terror Vision'', the giant eye uses the air vents to travel around the apartment building.
14* BringMeMyBrownPants: Rory wets himself when Calvin sits up after FakingTheDead in ''Crypt of the Undead''.
15* DeadMansChest: In ''Terror Vision'', Dr. Jordan and Morty stuff the body of the dead prostitute into a crate and hide it in the attic. It only takes about ten minutes for another character to discover it.
16* DisposableSexWorker: In ''Terror Vision'', Dr. Jordan hires a male prostitute to be the subject of his perception experiment. He is killed when a giant monster crawls out of his eye socket.
17* ExpressDelivery: At the end of ''Terror Vision'', Rita and Jane both feel the first stirring of their alien pregnancies, despite the FaceFullOfAlienWingWong having occurred no more than a few hours earlier.
18* ExtremelyShortTimespan: All three stories take place in less than a day.
19* EyeScream: In ''Terror Vision'', Dr. Jordan hires a [[DisposableSexWorker male prostitute]] to be the subject of his perception experiment. He is killed when a giant monster crawls out of his eye socket.
20* FaceFullOfAlienWingWong: In ''Terror Vision'', the giant floating eyeball impregnates Rita and Jane to create an invasion force for its species.
21* FacelessEye: The monster in the ''Terror Vision'' segment is a giant floating eyeball.
22* FakingTheDead: In ''Crypt of the Undead'', Kristof stages a practical joke where he tells his friends that Calvin has died and they will be attending a private viewing of the body. However, once at the funeral home, the still-alive Calvin sits up in the coffin.
23* HandOnWomb: A horror version occurs at the the end of ''Terror Vision'' segment, as Rita and Jane both place their hands on their bellies as they feel the first stirrings of their [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong alien pregnancies]].
24* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: ''Crypt of the Undead'' takes place in a funeral home that is built on top of the remains of Blood Prison.
25* InconvenientSummons: In ''Masters of Death'', the six strangers all experienced a mental compulsion to abandon what they were doing an travel to the cabin in the woods. One of the girls mentions that she was taking an exam and just stood up and walked out.
26* MadScientistLaboratory: In ''Terror Vision'', Jordan has converted his apartment into one for his experiments in accessing the 8th dimension.
27* MarsNeedsWomen: In ''Terror Vision'', the giant eye comes from a parthenogenic race. However, because it crossed into our dimension through a male host, it now needs human females to propagate its race.
28* MonsterMisogyny: The giant killer eye in ''Terror Vision'' aims its attacks at Rita and Jane.
29* NaughtyTentacles: The giant killer eye uses the tendrils from its optic nerve to violate Rita and Jane in ''Terror Vision''.
30* {{Oculothorax}}: The monster in the ''Terror Vision'' segment is a giant floating eyeball dragging a gigantic optic nerve behind it.
31* PlatonicProstitution: In ''Terror Vision'', Dr. Jordan hires a male prostitute to be the subject of his perception experiment. However, he soon becomes a DisposableSexWorker.
32* PrematurelyMarkedGrave: The six people trapped in the cabin find crosses with their names and today's date on them in the small graveyard in ''Masters of Death''.
33* RedEyesTakeWarning: In ''Crypt of the Undead'', the undead executioners have red eyes, as does anyone possessed by the ghosts of the witches.
34* ShovelStrike: In ''Masters of Death'', Roz kills Len with a shovel in the graveyard. Later, the resurrected Len uses the same shovel to beat her to death.
35* SinisterScythe: In ''Crypt of the Undead'', one the undead executioners carries a sickle as his weapon.
36* AThreesomeIsHot: In ''Terror Vision'', Rita is cheating on her neglectful husband by having threesomes with the two hot studs who live the apartment below.
37* WombHorror: In ''Terror Vision'', the [[{{Oculothorax}} giant floating eyeball]] impregnates Rita and Jane to create an invasion force for its species.
38* YouCantFightFate: In ''Masters of Death'', six people trapped in a cabin a presented with a prophecy that three of them will be killed by the other three. Roz is convinced that Len is going to kill her, and winds up killing him. She believes she has cheated the prophecy (he can't kill her if he's dead), but the others point out she has changed nothing: the prophecy never specified who would kill whom, and there is still one murderer and one victim.
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