History Film / HomeMovie

* HolyBurnsEvil: Jack and Emily attempting to interrupt the Thanksgiving prayers ''might'' be a downplayed example of this trope.

* HolyBurnsEvil: Jack and Emily attempting to interrupt the Thanksgiving prayers might be a downplayed example of this trope.

* OffscreenTeleportation: Fuck, those kids are fast!

* TooDumbToLive: While Clare and Dave are suspicious of Jack and Emily's behavior, they don't really take any precautions to keep anything serious from happening, even after [[spoiler:the kids are discovered trying to kill a classmate]].

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:David's story about the two-headed dragon wearing the paper bag over his head, and the scene where the children throw their dinnerware to the ground, is echoed in the final shot of the film--their struggling parents are restrained on the dining table, partially wrapped in garbage bags (in which the dead bugs and leaves were put in the beginning of the film) while the children sit clutching silverware and wearing paper bags over their heads. The ice cream truck mentioned earlier in the film makes an appearance near the end, as well. Not to forget that David loves to jokingly frame his home videos as an ApocalypticLog ...]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:David's story about the two-headed dragon wearing the paper bag over his head, and the scene where the children throw their dinnerware to the ground, is echoed in the final shot of the film--their struggling parents are restrained on the dining table, partially wrapped in garbage bags (in which the dead bugs and leaves were put in the beginning of the film) while the children sit clutching silverware and wearing paper bags over their heads. The ice cream truck mentioned earlier in the film makes an appearance near the end, as well.]]

-->-- Director and Writer '''Christopher Denham'''

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Definitely not to be confused with ''HomeMovies''.

->''There seems to be a tendency nowadays to, and it's been gradual, I think, there's a checklist that we have for children; where whenever there is a problem, there's a solution, and we have Oprah, and we have pills and we can sort of prescribe away the problem. I think it's still possible for a family to do everything right, and still have things go terribly wrong.''
->--Director and Writer Christopher Denham

'''''Home Movie''''' documents one family's descent into darkness through compilation of the Poe family's home-made video footage. In the remote woods of upstate New York, David and Clare Poe are attempting to live an idyllic life. However, the Poe children are hiding a dark secret and something is wrong with ten-year old twins, Jack and Emily Poe. To stop them, their parents must enter the nightmare of their children’s minds. As they try to regain control of the children’s lives, the pressing question becomes who will ultimately survive the battle.

* CreepyTwins: The parents are made distinctly uncomfortable by their Jack and Emily.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: The parents are drugged and, it's implied, about to be eaten with by their children.]]

* FairyTaleMotifs: ''The Story of the Dragon and the Paper Bag''; it's about a two-headed dragon that disguises itself as a normal child, as apart of a plan to kill and eat all the children in the town it lives near.

* HairpinLockpick: Dave teaches Jack And Emily how to do it. Really, really bad idea.

* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler: As shown by them eating raw meat, their penchant for biting, and some of their drawings, the kids apparently harbor cannibalistic fantasies. The ending also heavily implies the kids eat their parents, who they have strapped to the table, forks and knives at the ready.]]

* KickTheDog: See TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior.

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Are the kids just sociopathic, or is there something to Dave's rants about an evil in the house and surrounding area?

* OrAreYouJustHappyToSeeMe: Said when Clare sits on the Easter Bunny suit wearing Dave's lap. Turns out it is just a carrot.

* TooDumbToLive: The parents who even after [[spoiler:Jack and Emily are found ready to kill a classmate]] don't take very strict precautions.

* TheUnreveal: The film skips Jack's responses to the Rorschach ink blot test, though it's possible he didn't give any actual answers, hence the fast forwarding.

* [[spoiler:{{Self Made Orphan}}s]]

* {{Expy}}: Most likely unintentional, but any anime fan will be reminded of [[Manga/BlackLagoon two other incestuous murdering prepubescent sexually fraternal twins]]. They're glad that they don't look similar enough to cross dress as the other, though not by much.

* [[HotMom Hot]] [[HotDad Parents]]: The actors for both parents look much better than any parents as harried as these ought to look.

* AbusiveParents: Dave's apparently were.

* {{Callback}}: [[spoiler:Emily pretends to be dead while Clare is dragging her through the forest in the wagon at the beginning, and in the end Clare is in the exact same position in the wagon as Emily is dragging her back to the house.]]

* ChristianityIsCatholic: Averted; Dave is a Lutheran minister..

* CreepyBasement

* CreepyTwins
* CutPhoneLines

* DontGoInTheWoods
* DownerEnding

* {{Gasshole}}: Dave is a minor example.

* [[HotMom Hot]] [[HotDad Parents]]

* InUniverseCamera

* KidsAreCruel

* KnifeNut: Emily briefly weilds one.

* {{Manchild}}: Dave.

* {{Mockumentary}}

* PsychoSmirk

* SexyPriest: Dave.

* SiblingsInCrime

* TooDumbToLive: The main criticism.

* WritersCannotDoMath: The kids' age isn't really consistent with when Dave and Clare mentioned they got married.
** FridgeBrilliance: Maybe they got pregnant out of wedlock?

* {{Expy}}: Most likely unintentional, but any anime fan will be reminded of [[BlackLagoon two other incestuous murdering prepubescent sexually fraternal twins]]. They're glad that they don't look similar enough to cross dress as the other, though not by much.

* ChristianityIsCatholic: Averted; Dave is a Methodist priest.
** Although it should be pointed out that Methodists and Protestants in general, [[CriticalResearchFailure don't have priests.]]
*** Actually, Dave is a Lutheran minister, not a Methodist priest. So, it seems that the critical research failure was itself averted.

* KidsAreCruel: [[spoiler:More like [[CompleteMonster "Kids Are Complete Monsters"!]]]]

* ImAHumanitarian: As shown by them eating raw meat, their penchant for biting, and some of their drawings, the kids apparently harbor cannibalistic fantasies. [[spoiler:The ending also heavily implies the kids eat their parents, who they have strapped to the table, forks and knives at the ready.]]

*** Actually, Dave is a Lutheran minister, not a Methodist priest. So, it seems that the critical research failure was averted.

* FauxSymbolism: [[spoiler:A priest is killed by his children, who he had assumed were possessed, on Easter.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Always a good sign.]]

* Expy: Most likely unintentional, but any anime fan will be reminded of [[BlackLagoon two other incestuous murdering prepubescent sexually fraternal twins]]. They're glad that they don't look similar enough to cross dress as the other, though not by much.