A 2018 Comedy Horror directed by Crispian Mills that follows a British boarding school that becomes a battleground when a fracking site unleashes monsters onto the world.
The films stars Asa Butterfield, Finn Cole, Hermione Corfield, Michael Sheen, Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, and Margot Robbie.
It was released on October 31, 2018 in the UK and May 17, 2019 in the US.
Tropes for the film:
- An Arm and a Leg: The creatures tear off various limbs in their attacks, most graphically tearing off both of Clegg's arms and Meredith's right arm.
- Arsehole Victim: Terrafrack and Clegg. As well as any "House God" unlucky enough to run into the jaws of a dragon.
- Boarding School of Horrors: There's a strict pecking order, the "House Gods" (basically prefects) dish out strict physical punishment to those who break the rules, or whom they just don't like, and the people high on the pecking order gladly order around those they consider beneath them, much to the ignorance of the adults theoretically keeping order. And there are dragons in the tunnels.
- Bury Your Gays: Poor Seymour doesn't even make it as far as the start of the movie. Averted with Willoughby, who tries to pull a Heroic Sacrifice but is saved by Don.
- Butt-Monkey: Meredith has to deal with a collapsing long-distance relationship with his girlfriend, taking over classes he isn't qualified to teach, a general lack of respect from various pupils, and ultimately has his arm torn off by one of the creatures (although he survives the subsequent explosion of the school).
- Chekhov's Gun: Seymour's lighter and Willoughby's snuff box. Also, Hargreaves' literal gun.
- Driven to Suicide: Happens before the movie begins with Seymour, Willoghby's roommate before Don. He and Willoughby were in a relationship, and Seymour kills himself when Clegg catches them together and outs them to the school authorities and their parents.
- Willoughby tries to do the same in his grief and rage over Seymour, but Don intervenes.
- Dug Too Deep: Fracking unearths carnivorous subterranean lizards driven down there in the 14th century.
- Elmuh Fudd Syndwome: Woody has a distinct case of it, although it never really makes a difference plotwise. He just sounds a bit funny.
- Fingore: During an attack on an upper-form party, one of the creatures bites off someone's fingers.
- Gayngst: The cause of Seymour's suicide and Willoughby's attempted suicide. Not much detail is given as to what exactly happened after they were Forced Out of the Closet, but safe to say it wasn't good.
- The Ghost: Willoughby's former roommate Seymour influences the plot a number of times (his suicide is the reason for Willoughby's ongoing rebellion against the school and his own attempted suicide; plus the lighter he left to Willoughby is Chekhov's Gun in a number of scenes) despite not even appearing in photographs.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Meredith and Willoughby, at different points, both choose to hurl themselves at the monsters so that the rest of the group can get away. Subverted in that they're two of only eight characters to ultimately survive the night.
- Inferiority Superiority Complex: Clegg relies on his position as a house god to put down those he sees as beneath him, but when faced with a genuine threat he basically suffers a breakdown and ends up getting his arms torn off by the monsters.
- Innocent Fanservice Girl: Clemsie has to take off her shirt to wrap up a baby monster inside it at one point and is left wearing an undergarment for several scenes until she borrows a jacket.
- Last-Second Word Swap: While angrily addressing his students to find out who pulled a prank related to Seymour's suicide, Meredith starts to say "fuck" before stopping himself and saying "heck."
- My Sister Is Off-Limits: It's subtly implied that this was why Smudger threw a rugby ball at Dom's head.
- Phoneaholic Teenager: One scene shows a pair of Make-Out Kids texting over each other's shoulders while they kiss.
- Pretentious Latin Motto: The school has a motto that translates to "Through Slaughter, To Immortality".
- Relative Error: Clemsie spends a lot of time hanging around Smudgers, touches his arm, and mentions that she loves him. The final act reveals that the two are siblings, not lovers.
- Selective Obliviousness: The Head ignores all evidence that the fracking project is dangerous (although he is also being bribed by the fracking company to support their efforts). It costs him fatally.
- Shout-Out: Clegg's death, where he gets pulled through an open window and torn apart by two of the creatures, is almost identical to David's death in Shaun of the Dead.
- Token Good Teammate: Clemsie and her friend are the only two upper crust at the boarding school that don't treat the Sparta house members like dirt. To a lesser extent Smudgers, who doesn't actively bully but does nothing to help either.
