History Film / Snix

* ArtifactofDoom: Snix's mask constantly takes control of James and his friends, either by being worn willingly or by levitating onto them.

* ChainedToARailway: This appens to the Mask of Snix in ''Rotten Corpse'', to the tune of the ''[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/KillerInstinct?from=Main.KillerInstinct Killer Instinct Theme]]''. He's not really tied down, but he is immobilized [[ForgotAboutHisPowers because he forgot how to teleport.]] Despite this incontinuity, the scene might arguably be the [[RuleofCool coolest thing to happen in the series.]]

* HeroOfAnotherStory: Xins was the one who killed Snix three centries ago. He even passes down the same sword he used to slay him to James in the Rotten Corpse of Snix. He's also been supporting him throughout the series.

* NoBudget: James explicitly says so in his 1998 introduction to the first film.

* OldShame: Even James Rolfe back when he was a young adult was hesitant in showing the first movie. He only does it just so he and his friends can get a laugh, and he makes an exception in his introduction because the film needed to be seen to understand the foundation behind it.

* ThrowItIn: This happened often.
** When an actor tripped, it was left in. It's a real trip, after all!
** A particularly lucky example occurs in a fight scene in the third film- Snix and another character are battling next to a window, with Snix wielding a plunger. Suddenly, the window falls down, Snix's arm is trapped under it and drops the plunger, and the hero takes the opportunity to punch Snix in the face. This was completely unplanned: James, playing Snix, accidentally bumped the ruler that was holding up the window pane, causing his arm to get trapped. You can actually hear him laughing in surprise as it happens. He kept it in, though, because it worked!

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In the introduction to the third film, James mentions his previous intention of having himself "turn into Snix through animation." This idea was unfortunately discarded when he reworked the trilogy into the final "Six Snix Flix."
** Actually, he mentioned that this was one of his many, many ideas that he said that it could not fit in one movie, which is why there were six.
*** It might be worth mentioning that he said that he tried to avoid cutting a lot out of the movie, or otherwise he "may as well remake them."

* GenreSavvy: In the sixth movie, James caught on to the RuleOfThree and called Brian and Joe to help.

''Snix'' is a series of amateur [[SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror Comedy-Horror]] short films, created by JamesRolfe in his teenage years. The series revolves around an evil warlock by the name of Snix, who died 300 years ago but has returned to life by way of his evil mask, and is now possessing innocent people.

Not to be confused with {{SNICK}}.

* AntagonistTitle

* BatterUp: The ghost of Snix hits James with a baseball bat. It was delivered under-whelmingly comical.

** Inverted, probably intentionally in Snix Again. Snix comes out to scare Brian, only for crazy video game music to play. It's actually quite amusing.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: In the Evil Spirit of Snix, Brian [[spoiler: gets chased by a possessed James, and decides to just ignore him and stay at his house for the rest of the day. Thankfully, Joe ends up saving James.]]

* ChekhovsGunman: One of James' friends appears near the end of the Rotten Corpse of Snix to witness [[spoiler: Snix's corpse on the front porch after a sword fight]]. He comes back in the Evil Spirit of Snix [[spoiler: to fight the possessed James]].

** His other friend, Brian, made a constant appearance until the fifth movie, where he was absent. He was present in the sixth movie, but only briefly, as he would be replaced by a younger friend of James'. Justified as anyone involved in the movie did not have as much of an open schedule as James did after the second movie.

** Happens again in Snix: The Return where Brian tortures a doll. James told him to stop with that

** It might be worth mentioning that he said that he tried to avoid cutting a lot out of the movie, or otherwise he "may as well remake them."
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: James' friend in the first movie is only seen and mentioned in flash backs of the first movie.
** His other friend made a constant appearance until the fifth movie, where he was absent. He was present in the sixth movie, but only briefly, as he would be replaced by a younger friend of James'. Justified as anyone involved in the movie did not have as much of an open schedule as James did after the second movie.

* HandWave: In the first movie, James looked into the box that contains the scariest thing ever, and (naturally) got really scared. In the second movie, he mentioned that he completely forgot what was inside that box (justified since it has been ''three years'').