While carpooling, their car breaks down on a deserted road in the middle of nowhere.
InDownrange, he wastes no time in moving the plot right along.
Death’s generally inevitable, but these movies take it to another level.
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After all, covering between an SUV and driftwood doesn’t provide much cinematic variety.
While Freddy and Michael Myers terrorize suburbia, Jason tends to stick closer to nature.
The rifleman inDownrangealso uses the woods as his hunting ground.
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Up until the very end, he’s also pretty much omnipotent.
Every slasher needs to have a Final Girl, andDownrangehas two candidates for the title.
Each represents the two most common archetypes of the trope.
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Onthe Final Girl scale, she would grade somewhere between Nancy Thompson and Erin fromYou’re Next.
And it’s whereDownrangemanages its biggest twist, which comes into collision with the supposed cathartic nature of horror.
Even revenge,the bread and butter of genre films, gets derogatory treatment here.
Sometimes revenge is a dish that just explodes right in your face.
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