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* OldSchoolBuilding: [[spoiler: The boarding school gets shut down becomes this after Kat's first spree of gruesome murders. It's that much creepier when the audience follows Kat when she breaks into and returns to the school.]]
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* OldSchoolBuilding: [[spoiler: The boarding school gets shut down and becomes this after Kat's first spree of gruesome murders. It's that much creepier when the audience follows Kat when she breaks into and returns to the school.]]
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* VomitIndiscretionShot: [[The demon in possession of Kat does this at a breakfast with Rose, Ms. Prescott and Ms. Drake in a deliberate show of contempt towards Christian prayer.]]
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* VomitIndiscretionShot: [[The [[spoiler:The demon in possession of Kat does this at a breakfast with Rose, Ms. Prescott and Ms. Drake in a deliberate show of contempt towards Christian prayer.]]
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* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: Kat has a really disturbing one at the very end of the movie. Her efforts to get possessed again by the demon in a vain effort to have a connection to someone, anyone or anything besides herself has been AllForNothing. She realizes that she's now a mass murderer who is likely to spend the rest of her life utterly alone as always, with no friends, no career prospects, on the lam, and vilified by anybody who knows who she is. She breaks down sobbing and screaming in despair.]]
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* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: Kat has a really disturbing one at the very end of the movie. Her efforts to get possessed again by the demon in a vain effort to have a connection to someone, anyone or anything besides herself has been AllForNothing. She realizes that she's now a mass murderer who is likely to spend the rest of her life utterly alone as always, with no friends, no career prospects, on the lam, and vilified by anybody who knows who she is. She breaks down sobbing and screaming in despair.]]
* VomitIndiscretionShot: [[The demon in possession of Kat does this at a breakfast with Rose, Ms. Prescott and Ms. Drake in a deliberate show of contempt towards Christian prayer.]]
* VomitIndiscretionShot: [[The demon in possession of Kat does this at a breakfast with Rose, Ms. Prescott and Ms. Drake in a deliberate show of contempt towards Christian prayer.]]
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* LonersWillStayAlone: [[spoiler: What drives Kat's actions throughout the film, and straight into the arms of the demon who possesses her. She's a shy and socially awkward girl with few if any friends in the school. The film punctuates that point by showing Rose as the popular girl who's always in the company of friends, while the girls always blow right by Kat without even the slightest acknowledgment. She's hurt even further by the fact that Father Brian won't be attending her singing demonstration. Then she loses her parents to a car crash. She's driven by the belief that something, anything, even if it means possession by an evil demon, has to be better than absolutely nothing.]]
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* LonersWillStayAlone: [[spoiler: What drives Kat's actions throughout the film, and straight into the arms of the demon who possesses her. She's a shy and socially awkward girl with few if any friends in the school. The film punctuates that point by showing Rose as the popular girl who's always in the company of friends, while the girls always blow right by Kat without even the slightest acknowledgment. She's hurt even further by the fact that Father Brian won't be attending her singing demonstration. Then she loses her parents to a car crash. She's driven by the belief that something, anything, even if it means [[DemonicPossession possession by an evil demon, demon]], has to be better than absolutely nothing.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler: The demon preys on Kat's loneliness with promises of eternal companionship in order to [[DemonicPossession possess her]] and then murder Rose, Ms. Prescott and Ms. Drake. It is heavily implied that its true objective, besides causing Kat to lose her soul, was to shut down the Catholic boarding school. It no longer has any use for Kat once the [[OldSchoolBuilding goal of shutting down the school]] has been accomplished.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler: The demon preys on Kat's loneliness with promises of eternal companionship in order to [[DemonicPossession possess her]] and then murder Rose, Ms. Prescott and Ms. Drake. It is heavily implied that its true objective, besides causing Kat to lose her soul, was to shut down the Catholic boarding school. It no longer has any use for Kat once the [[OldSchoolBuilding goal of shutting down the school]] has been accomplished.]]
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* FreezeFrameBonus: There's a scene where Joan is looking in the mirror after taking a shower. [[spoiler:It's easy to miss that she has a scar on her left shoulder, one of the first clues that Joan is really an older Kat in a [[AnachronicOrder different timeline]].
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* FreezeFrameBonus: There's a scene where Joan is looking in the mirror after taking a shower. [[spoiler:It's easy to miss that she has a scar on her left shoulder, one of the first clues that Joan is really an older Kat in a [[AnachronicOrder different timeline]].]]
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* FreezeFrameBonus: There's a scene where Joan is looking in the mirror after taking a shower. [[spoiler: It's [[spoiler:It's easy to miss that she has a scar on her left shoulder, one of the first clues that Joan is really an older Kat in a [[AnachronicOrder different timeline]].
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* OldSchoolBuilding: [[spoiler: The boarding school gets shut down becomes this after Kat's first spree of gruesome murders. It's that much creepier when the audience follows Kat when she breaks into and returns to the school.]]
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* ReplacementGoldfish: [[spoiler: According to his wife, Bill tends to exhibit fatherly tendencies towards any mid-20s woman he comes across, and tell them they remind him of someone he once knew, as Rose in Joan's timeline would be in that age range. It's a source of [[AwfulWeddedLife unhappiness in his marriage]].]]
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* FlashbackStares: A rather unusual example. The stares themselves occur early on when Kat converses with Father Brian or Rose or other characters, and they wonder what's distracting her into what comes across as [[ThousandYardStare Thousand Yard Stares]]. The flashbacks do not get [[TheReveal revealed]] until the third act. [[spoiler: And it turns out the demon was appearing to her and speaking to her during her stares.]]
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* [Foreshadowing]: [[spoiler: At least two instances. One is where Kat, Rose, Ms. Prescott and Ms. Drake are having supper together. All hell breaks loose, literally, the next time they sit at a table together. Second is when Rose pulls out a drawer filled with long sharp knives. Guess what happens next?]]
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* [Foreshadowing]: {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: At least two instances. One is where Kat, Rose, Ms. Prescott and Ms. Drake are having supper together. All hell breaks loose, literally, the next time they sit at a table together. Second is when Rose pulls out a drawer filled with long sharp knives. Guess what happens next?]]
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* {Foreshadowing}: [[spoiler: At least two instances. One is where Kat, Rose, Ms. Prescott and Ms. Drake are having supper together. All hell breaks loose, literally, the next time they sit at a table together. Second is when Rose pulls out a drawer filled with long sharp knives. Guess what happens next?]]
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* {Foreshadowing}: [Foreshadowing]: [[spoiler: At least two instances. One is where Kat, Rose, Ms. Prescott and Ms. Drake are having supper together. All hell breaks loose, literally, the next time they sit at a table together. Second is when Rose pulls out a drawer filled with long sharp knives. Guess what happens next?]]
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* AlphaBitch: Played with in that Rose initially displays such tendencies towards Kat. She becomes genuinely and increasingly concerned for Kat's well-being as the story progresses, which starts to imply she's actually a LovableAlphaBitch.
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The Blackcoat's Daughter is a 2015 horror film directed by Oz Perkins, son of Creator/AnthonyPerkins. The movie follows two storyines, the first centering around a pair of girls, Kat and Rose. The two have no choice but to stay at their Catholic school when neither girl's parents arrive to pick them up for Christmas break. As the two get to know one another, Rose begins to suspect that something's not quite right about Kat. The second storyline follows a third girl, Joan, who is picked up by a couple when she's found all alone in the cold. As her storyline unfolds, we gradually learn more about the disturbing backstory that led to her current predicament.
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* AllForNothing: [[Kat murders a nurse to escape the mental institution. She then murders Bill and his wife en route to the now shut down boarding school. She brings their heads to the furnace hoping the demon will possess her again, but he never comes, leading to the DownerEnding and VillainousBreakdown noted below.]]
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* AllForNothing: [[Kat [[spoiler:Kat murders a nurse to escape the mental institution. She then murders Bill and his wife en route to the now shut down boarding school. She brings their heads to the furnace hoping the demon will possess her again, but he never comes, leading to the DownerEnding and VillainousBreakdown noted below.]]
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*AllForNothing: [[Kat murders a nurse to escape the mental institution. She then murders Bill and his wife en route to the now shut down boarding school. She brings their heads to the furnace hoping the demon will possess her again, but he never comes, leading to the DownerEnding and VillainousBreakdown noted below.]]
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* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Not only does Kat and Rose's story take place almost a decade before Joan's, but Joan is actually just Kat living under an alias.]]
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* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Not only does Kat and Rose's story take place almost a decade before Joan's, but Joan is actually just Kat living under an alias.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: Kat has a really disturbing one at the very end of the movie. Her efforts to get possessed again by the demon in a vain effort to have a connection to someone, anyone or anything besides herself has been AllForNothing. She realizes that she's now a mass murderer who is likely to spend the rest of her life utterly alone as always, with no friends, no career prospects, on the lam, and vilified by anybody who knows who she is. She breaks down sobbing and screaming in despair.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: Kat has a really disturbing one at the very end of the movie. Her efforts to get possessed again by the demon in a vain effort to have a connection to someone, anyone or anything besides herself has been AllForNothing. She realizes that she's now a mass murderer who is likely to spend the rest of her life utterly alone as always, with no friends, no career prospects, on the lam, and vilified by anybody who knows who she is. She breaks down sobbing and screaming in despair.]]
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* PleaseDontLeaveMe: An almost literal example. [[spoiler: Father Brian comes to Kat while she's restrained in a hospital bed, and pulls off what is arguably the easiest exorcism in the history of horror cinema. The demon willingly leaves after just a few words from Father Brian, after having used Kat for his purposes. She pleads with him, "Please don't go." But off he goes, and never to return to Kat.]]
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* KillAndReplace: [[spoiler: Kat was locked up in a mental institution after her first series of murders. She picks up that she bears an uncanny resemblance to a nurse named Joan who works at the institute, so Kat strangles her and uses her ID to escape. She even uses Joan as her new name to facilitate travel by bus, and otherwise avoid revealing her true identity.]]
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* CountryMatters: [[spoiler:Comes up twice on account of the demon possessing Kat. First, it uses Kat's mouth and voice to call Ms. Drake on. Everyone besides Kat drops their mouths in astonishment. It is a pretty big deal, considering the Catholic school setting. Second, it commands Kat over the payphone to "Kill all of the ..."]]
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* CountryMatters: [[spoiler:Comes up twice on account of the demon possessing Kat. First, it uses Kat's mouth and voice to call Ms. Drake on.one. Everyone besides Kat drops their mouths in astonishment. It is a pretty big deal, considering the Catholic school setting. Second, it commands Kat over the payphone to "Kill all of the ..."]]"]]
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: All of Kat's victims get their throats slashed or stabbed to death prior to beheading. Bonus points to Miss Prescott. Kat slashes her throat just enough to render her helpless and in agony, but shallow enough so that the death is anything but quick.]]
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: All of Kat's victims get their throats slashed or stabbed to death prior to beheading. Bonus points to Miss Prescott. Kat slashes her throat just enough to render her helpless and in agony, but shallow enough so that the death is anything but quick.]]
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* LonersWillStayAlone: [[spoiler: What drives Kat's actions throughout the film, and straight into the arms of the demon who possesses her. She's a shy and socially awkward girl with few if any friends in the school. The film punctuates that point by showing Rose as the popular girl who's always in the company of friends, while the girls always blow right by Kat without even the slightest acknowledgment. She's hurt even further by the fact that Father Brian won't be attending her singing demonstration. Then she loses her parents to a car crash. She's driven by the belief that something, anything, even if it means possession by an evil demon, has to be better than absolutely nothing.]]
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* CountryMatters: [[spoiler:Comes up twice on account of the demon possessing Kat.
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* NothingIsScarier: The film ''rolls'' with this with both Rose and Kat's stories, but especially with [[spoiler: Joan and her "father"]].
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The Blackcoat's Daughter is a 2015 horror film directed by Oz Perkins, son of Creator/AnthonyPerkins. The movie follows two storyines, the first centering around a pair of girls, Kat and Rose. The two have no choice but to stay at their Catholic school when neither girl's parents arrive to pick them up for Christmas break. As the two get to know one another, Rose begins to suspect that something's not quite right about Kat. The second storyline follows a third girl, Joan, who is picked up by a Catholic priest couple when he finds her she's found all alone in the cold. As her storyline unfolds, we gradually learn more about the disturbing backstory that led to her current predicament.
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Rose is long dead, Bill and his wife are dead too, and Kate is unable to summon the demonic entity that possessed her years earlier. The movie ends with her sobbing, with no idea what to do with her life now.]]
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The Blackcoat's Daughter is a 2015 horror film directed by Oz Perkins, son of Creator/AnthonyPerkins. The movie follows two storyines, the first centering around a pair of girls, Kat and Rose. The two have no choice but to stay at their Catholic school when neither girl's parents arrive to pick them up for Christmas break. As the two get to know one another, Rose begins to suspect that something's not quite right about Kat. The second storyline follows a third girl, Joan, who is picked up by a Catholic priest when he finds her all alone in the cold. As her storyline unfolds, we gradually learn more about the disturbing backstory that led to her current predicament.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AloneWithThePsycho: Rose slowly gathers reason to believe that Kat, with whom she is stuck with for the time being, is completely insane. [[spoiler:It turns out that she's actually possessed, although her sanity in the present day is dubious at best.]]
* AnachronicOrder: [[spoiler:The whole movie jumps back and forth between two time periods, but this doesn't become apparent until the end.]]
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:The reason behind Kat's strange behavior. Her motivation in the present day is to become possessed all over again.]]
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Rose is long dead, Bill and his wife are dead too, and Kate is unable to summon the demonic entity that possessed her years earlier. The movie ends with her sobbing, with no idea what to do with her life now.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Not only does Kat and Rose's story take place almost a decade before Joan's, but Joan is actually just Kat living under an alias.]]
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AloneWithThePsycho: Rose slowly gathers reason to believe that Kat, with whom she is stuck with for the time being, is completely insane. [[spoiler:It turns out that she's actually possessed, although her sanity in the present day is dubious at best.]]
* AnachronicOrder: [[spoiler:The whole movie jumps back and forth between two time periods, but this doesn't become apparent until the end.]]
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:The reason behind Kat's strange behavior. Her motivation in the present day is to become possessed all over again.]]
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Rose is long dead, Bill and his wife are dead too, and Kate is unable to summon the demonic entity that possessed her years earlier. The movie ends with her sobbing, with no idea what to do with her life now.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Not only does Kat and Rose's story take place almost a decade before Joan's, but Joan is actually just Kat living under an alias.]]
