History Film / TheBlackcoatsDaughter

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Joan asks Bill, "Why are you helping me so much?" The way she asks it belies an uncomprehending disbelief that anyone would willingly help her at the drop of a hat without asking for anything in return.

** And again when they're in the restaurant. "Well, that' better than [[LonersWillAlwaysBeAlone having no one]], isn't it?"

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Bill to Joan, "Do you believe in God?" Joan can only mumble a weak "No ..." with downcast eyes.

''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.

* BeingGoodSucks: Bill is selfless and compassionate when he offers to give Joan a ride, especially when he notices that she's inadequately dressed for the winter weather. He even expresses the belief that God brought him to Joan for her sake. [[spoiler:He gets a SlashedThroat for his troubles, and his wife gets [[HumanPinCushion brutally stabbed to death shortly thereafter]].]]

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: All of Kat's victims get their [[SlashedThroat throats slashed]] or [[HumanPinCushion 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 [[SlashedThroat throats slashed]] or [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice 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.]]

* BeingGoodSucks: Bill is selfless and compassionate when he offers to give Joan a ride, especially when he notices that she's inadequately dressed for the winter weather. He even expresses the belief that God brought him to Joan for her sake. [[spoiler:He gets a SlashedThroat for his troubles, and his wife gets [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice brutally stabbed to death shortly thereafter]].]]

* CryForTheDevil: [[spoiler:Kat is clearly lost beyond hope or redemption after all the horrible murders she's committed. But it's hard not to feel for her on some level, especially when she's having her VillainousBreakdown to end the movie. Knowing that her dark path had its seeds in her being a school outcast, but then jumped started in earnest by the death of her parents in a car crash, add additional layers.]]

* ItsASmallWorldAfterAll: Bill and his wife happen to pick up Joan, the same girl who murdered their beloved daughter. The fact that the anniversary of Rose's death is an important date for both Bill and Joan, but for very different reasons, is the source of [[TheoryOfNarrativeCausality Narrative Causality]].

* [[PsychopathicManchild Psychopathic Womanchild]]: [[Joan hasn't changed or grown much from the CreepyChild she had been as Kat. She giggles childishly in the washroom after seeing the [[TragicKeepsake school photo]] of Rose. She then briefly wears a PsychoticSmirk as she checks herself out in the mirror, as though she was briefly congratulating herself]].

* ItsASmallWorldAfterAll: Bill and his wife happen to pick up Joan, the same girl who murdered their beloved daughter. The fact that the anniversary of Rose's death is an important date for Bill and Joan, but for very different reasons, is the source of [[TheoryOfNarrativeCausality Narrative Causality]].

* ItsASmallWorldAfterAll: Bill and his wife happen to pick up Joan, the same girl who murdered their beloved daughter. The fact that the anniversary of Rose's death is an important date for Bill and Joan, but for very different reasons, is the source of [[TheTheoryOfNarrativeCausality Narrative Causality]].

* BeingGoodSucks: Bill is selfless and compassionate when he offers to give Joan a ride, especially when he notices that she's inadequately dressed for the winter weather. [[spoiler:He gets a SlashedThroat for his troubles, and his wife gets [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice brutally stabbed to death shortly thereafter]].]]

* HopeSpot: Rose heaves a sigh of relief when she looks at her pregnancy test and confirms that [[AvertedTrope she isn't]] [[MySecretPregnancy pregnant after all]]. [[spoiler: [[CruelAndUnusualDeath Moments later ...]]

* BeingGoodSucks: Bill is selfless and compassionate when he offers to give Joan a ride, especially when he notices that she's inadequately dressed for the winter weather. [[spoiler:He gets a SlashedThroat for his troubles, and his wife gets [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice brutally stabbed to death shortly thereafter]].

* 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.]]

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: [[spoiler:Kat often stabs her victims dozens of times in a flurry, even when once is likely enough to inflict a mortal wounds, and even when the victims are already dead.]]

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Kat often stabs her victims dozens of times in a flurry, even when once is likely enough to inflict a mortal wounds, and even when the victims are already dead.