"They live a lifestyle on the edge of insanity."
Goth is a 2003 Direct to Video horror film.
A teenage couple go to a goth party. There, they meet a woman who claims that she can show them "the true goth lifestyle." They accept, not knowing what's in store. Our heroes are dragged into a world of sex and violence with no escape...
An authorized comic book prequel to the film, written by Natalie Claude with art by Damien Brunk, was released by Sparkle Comics in 2018. Not to be confused with the Japanese novel or its adaptations.
This film contains examples of:
- Antagonist Title: The villain is so obsessed with being goth that she named herself "Goth."
- Big Bad: Goth is an Ax-Crazy zealot for the gothic lifestyle who kidnaps the main couple and tries to make them embrace the darkness.
- The Corrupter: The entire plot is Goth driving a couple to "embrace the darkness."
- Depraved Bisexual: Goth rapes a man and has sex with Crissy.
- Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: Averted; Goth's raping of a guy is treated with the horror it deserves.
- Downer Ending: The Big Bad tricks The Protagonist into committing a mass murder, making our her snap and become just like her nemesis.
- Evil Plan: Goth seeks to corrupt a couple of random into joining her lifestyle of hedonistic violence.
- Fan Disservice: Any scene involving Goth and sex involves some kind of violence or torment that kills the arousal.
- Fanservice: Crissy in her underwear.
- Karma Houdini: Whoever it was that killed Crissy's sister got away with it.
- One-Word Title
- Protagonist Journey to Villain: The film chronicles Crissy being driven to homicidal mania by the trauma Goth heaps on her.
- Sadist: Goth, a madwoman who believes that the true goth lifestyle is raping and murdering anybody she pleases. She spends the film trying to corrupt a couple into her lifestyle, succeeding with one of them.
- You Killed My Father: Subverted: Goth is thought to have killed Crissy's sister, but was just manipulating events to make it seem so.
