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[[File:BloodRageNew_6711.jpg|frame|This cover more or less encapsulates the [[Slasher Film]] genre perfectly.]]
[[File:BloodRageNew_6711.jpg|frame|This cover more or less encapsulates the [[Slasher Film]] genre perfectly.]]



{{quote|''Identical twins with brutally different personalities!''}}
{{quote|''Identical twins with brutally different personalities!''}}
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The film (the ''Blood Rage'' version, that is) is also known for being gory as Hell.
The film (the ''Blood Rage'' version, that is) is also known for being gory as Hell.


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=== This film provides examples of the following tropes: ===

* [[Eighties Hair]]
* [[Eighties Hair]]
* [[Acting for Two]]: As adults, Todd and Terry are both played by Mark Soper.
* [[Acting for Two]]: As adults, Todd and Terry are both played by Mark Soper.
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* [[Giggling Villain]]: Terry.
* [[Giggling Villain]]: Terry.
* [[Gold Digger]]: Possibly Julie.
* [[Gold Digger]]: Possibly Julie.
* [[Go Mad From the Revelation]]: Maddy, after being told it was Terry she shot to death.
* [[Go Mad from the Revelation]]: Maddy, after being told it was Terry she shot to death.
* [[Gorn]]: ''Oh, Hell yeah!''
* [[Gorn]]: ''Oh, Hell yeah!''
* [[Gory Discretion Shot]]: Maddy shooting herself in the head; her blood is shown splattering on the floor as the handgun falls from her grasp.
* [[Gory Discretion Shot]]: Maddy shooting herself in the head; her blood is shown splattering on the floor as the handgun falls from her grasp.
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* [[Pool Scene]]
* [[Pool Scene]]
* [[Reaction Shot]]
* [[Reaction Shot]]
* [[Re Cut]]: The extremely cut down ''Nightmare at Shadow Woods''.
* [[Recut]]: The extremely cut down ''Nightmare at Shadow Woods''.
* [[Rule of Three]]: Terry cracks "It's not cranberry sauce..." in regards to his victims' blood at least three times.
* [[Rule of Three]]: Terry cracks "It's not cranberry sauce..." in regards to his victims' blood at least three times.
* [[The Scourge of God]]: Jackie gets killed shortly after deciding to take a marijuana break.
* [[The Scourge of God]]: Jackie gets killed shortly after deciding to take a marijuana break.
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Latest revision as of 14:00, 13 July 2021

This cover more or less encapsulates the Slasher Film genre perfectly.

Identical twins with brutally different personalities!

Blood Rage is a 1983 Slasher Film, which is also known as both Nightmare at Shadow Woods and Complex.

In 1974, while at a Drive-In Theater with his mother Maddy, and his twin brother Todd, a young boy named Terry Simmons brutally murdered a fellow moviegoer, and framed Todd for it. Traumatized by witnessing what his brother had done, Todd fell into a catatonic state, and was placed in a mental institution, while Terry went on to live a normal life with their mother, even getting a girlfriend named Karen. Unfortunately for Terry, a decade after the murder, Todd starts to come out of his shell, and regains the memories of what really happened all those years ago; he subsequently manages to escape the asylum on Thanksgiving. This, coupled with Maddy's intention to marry her boyfriend Brad (who owns the sprawling apartment complex where they live) causes Terry to snap and go on a killing spree.

The film has a bit of a convulted history. While made in 1983, it was shelved until 1987, when a severely cut version of the film (dubbed Nightmare at Shadow Woods) showed up in a few theaters, while that same year the original uncut version of the film was released on VHS by Prism Entertainment. Some seventeen years later, Nightmare at Shadow Woods got its own home release, a DVD by Legacy Entertainment.

The film (the Blood Rage version, that is) is also known for being gory as Hell.

Tropes used in Blood Rage include: