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The Tripper (2006) KILL COUNT is the three hundred and sixty-fifth video of The Kill Count.
Overview[]
In 1967, a young boy is watching a news report on TV of then-governor of California Ronald Reagan railing against the environmentalist movement. The boy's father, a local logger named Dylan Riggs, faces resistance from a group of tree-hugging hippies who will not allow him to clear the forest, despite how he needs the money to buy medicine for his ailing wife. A standoff between Dylan and the hippies ensues, following which Dylan's disturbed son takes a chainsaw to the neck of one of the protesters.
39 years later, a group of friends - Joey, Ivan, Samantha, Linda, Jade and Jack - are driving through the woods to the American Free Love Festival (a modern-day Woodstock festival) for a weekend of debauchery. During the journey, the group stops at a gas station to pick up supplies, only to run into a group of older hooligans, who begin threatening them. A fight ensues, which sees an older man named Gus breaking the arm of one of the hooligans.
Meanwhile, Frank Baker, the organizer for the event, is preparing for the festival, despite local police officer Buzz Hall reminding him that a girl had died at the one held the previous year. The festival begins anyway, but one festival goer gets killed by an unseen figure after wandering into the woods by himself. The next day, Linda and Joey head off into the woods by themselves to have sex, only to be ambushed by the hooligans with paintball guns. Suddenly, a man dressed like Ronald Reagan appears and murders all five of them.
Back at the festival, the headless body of an older hippie (killed earlier by Reagan) is found hanging from a tree. Buzz quickly orders the festival to be shut down, and tells the attendees to go home, much to the chagrin of Baker. Since Joey had the keys for their van, Samantha goes off looking for him, only to find a car belonging to her abusive ex-boyfriend Jimmy (whom she thinks has been following her over the past few days). Frightened, she flees back to the van, only to find that Jack and Jade have been murdered. Jimmy suddenly appears, holding a gun to Ivan's neck. Samantha confronts Jimmy, accusing him of murdering the others, but then Reagan appears and kills Jimmy and Ivan, upon which Samantha flees.
Meanwhile, Buzz, believing Dylan Riggs to be the killer, heads out to his shack, where he finds Dylan seemingly cutting up the bodies of the murdered victims. A chase begins, but it quickly ends after Dylan accidentally falls into his own punji stick trap, killing himself. Elsewhere, Reagan begins pursuing Baker, but he manages to escape by hiding in an outhouse toilet. Reagan then goes back to chasing after Samantha, when Buzz appears and shoots him down, seemingly killing him. Suddenly, Reagan pops back up, but Samantha is able to beat him down again with a hammer, knocking him out. She then demasks the killer, revealing him to be Gus, the man from the gas station who was also the son of Dylan.
The next morning, Samantha is escorted away from the woods by law enforcement, although Buzz learns that Gus's body wasn't found where it should have been. Meanwhile, Baker re-emerges from the outhouse and wanders off into the woods, where Gus suddenly appears and murders him with a chainsaw.
Deaths[]
Counted Deaths[]
- Angry Protester - Chainsaw to neck - 5 mins in
- Flashback Festivalgoer - Chased through woods, face ripped open - 20 mins in
- Old Woods Hippie - Beheaded with axe - 29 mins in
- Ginger Nudist - Hung from tree by ankles, disemboweled - 37 mins in
- Trucker Muff - Just say neck snap - 50 mins in
- Joey - Hand cut off - 52 mins in
- Trucker Hank - Chopped to death with axe - 52 mins in
- Trucker Tyler - Stabbed in... dick? Oh gut, then disemboweled - 53 mins in
- Linda - Stabbed 5x in stomach - 54 mins in
- Jack - Postcoital carve up - 1 hr 9 mins in
- Jade - Postcoital carve up - 1 hr 9 mins in
- Jimmy - Chest chopped 4x with axe - 1 hr 11 mins in
- Ivan - Splashy strobe light axe chopped - 1 hr 11 mins in
- Dylan Riggs - Impaled on his own pitfall trap - 1 hr 12 mins in
- Festivalgoer #1 - Hacked and slashed into various states of red - 1 hr 14 mins in
- Festivalgoer #2 - Hacked and slashed into various states of red - 1 hr 14 mins in
- Festivalgoer #3 - Hacked and slashed into various states of red - 1 hr 14 mins in
- Festivalgoer #4 - Hacked and slashed into various states of red - 1 hr 14 mins in
- Festivalgoer #5 - Hacked and slashed into various states of red - 1 hr 15 mins in
- Festivalgoer #6 - Hacked and slashed into various states of red - 1 hr 15 mins in
- Festivalgoer #7 - Hacked and slashed into various states of red - 1 hr 15 mins in
- Festivalgoer #8 - Hacked and slashed into various states of red - 1 hr 15 mins in
- Festivalgoer #9 - Hacked and slashed into various states of red - 1 hr 15 mins in
- Mayor Hal Burton - Ripped apart by dogs - 1 hr 20 mins in
- Festivalgoer #10 - Mauled by dogs - 1 hr 23 mins in
- Festivalgoer #11 - Killed offscreen, found dead - 1 hr 28 mins in
- Festivalgoer #12 - Killed offscreen, found dead - 1 hr 28 mins in
- Festivalgoer #13 - Killed offscreen, found dead - 1 hr 28 mins in
- Frank Baker - Chainsaw bifurcation - 1 hr 29 mins in
Non-Counted Deaths[]
- Mrs. Riggs - Possibly died from illness
Trivia[]
- This is the first Sunday Kill Count of 2023.
- The is also the last Sunday Kill Count of Year 6.
- This is the first Kill Count since Deathgasm without additional statistics in the Numbers.
- This is the second kill count to be not on the playlist, first one being Black Phone.
- It was later went to the playlist but hours late.
- This is the third stoner horror movie, the others being Evil Bong and Idle Hands.
- This is the only Kill Count to not feature the Numbers logo, as it uses the jellybean transition from the movie.