Apaches
Apaches is a 1977 public information film made in the United Kingdom. Intended to show the dangers of playing with farm equipment, this film was distributed to a number of schools throughout the United Kingdom.
It focuses on six children who pretend to be Apaches (the American Indian tribe) in their make-believe. They play their games on a farm where, one by one, they fall victim to fatal accidents. After that, they continue as if nothing happened, until only one is left.
Not to be confused with Ten Little Indians.
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Tropes used in Apaches include:
- Adult Fear - Pure 100% Concentrated This.
- Deer in the Headlights - Danny's (the narrator) expression every time one of his friends is killed, or about to be.
- Forgotten Fallen Friend - Taken Up to Eleven. When one of the kids dies, the rest are acting in the next scene as if nothing happened.
- My Friends and Zoidberg - Four out of the six kids get proper introductions. The last two? "Tom, Robert."
- Posthumous Narration
- Scream Discretion Shot
- Too Dumb to Live - Just about all the children. They do stupid things that get them killed, and then keep on doing them.