Slaughterhouse Fight

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A fight that takes place in a slaughterhouse, amongst the meat chunks hanging from the hooks. Adds a certain edge to a confrontation, surrounding it with death from the onset and simultaneously blocking the line of sight in all directions. Expect No OSHA Compliance.

Not to be confused with Slaughterhouse-Five.

Examples of Slaughterhouse Fight include:

Anime and Manga

Film

  • Predator 2: The chilly temperatures to keep the meat from spoiling are a plot point.
  • At the end of Wanted, fighting the knife master.
  • The Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake and its prequel.
  • Happened in the 2009 Sherlock Holmes movie, with the Damsel in Distress chained to a Conveyor Belt O' Doom leading to a bandsaw and gas pipes spewing flame. The location was later justified when it was revealed the Big Bad was refining his poison gas in the bellies of swine.
  • The Reb Brown Captain America film has one fight scene and it takes place in a slaughter house.
  • Van Damme's character finds himself in such situation in Maximum Risk, as he is chased by a chainsaw wielding bad guy.
  • The 2005 horror film The Slaughterhouse Massacre.

Literature

Live-Action Television

  • There are at least two examples in The X-Files, one of them in episode "Red Museum".

Video Games

  • Norman fights a minor criminal inside a slaughterhouse in Heavy Rain. A meathook ends up playing an important part in the fight.
  • The second escape sequence through Lupino's hotel in Max Payne takes Max through a slaughterhouse full of gangsters at one point.
  • In a late level in the original Splinter Cell, Sam has to crawl through a slaughterhouse filled with enemy guards (and turrets).
  • The fight against Eddie in Silent Hill 2. The theme of "butchery" is also significant in Silent Hill Origins.
  • Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard has the beginning of the second level (arguably the first real level, since the first is more of a tutorial/setting-of-the-stage thing) set in a butcher's store, complete with a shootout in the meatlocker, and an achievement for destroying all the hanging sides of meat.
  • In the original Half Life, there was a level that partly took place in a giant walk-in refrigerator with hanging meat.