History Film / TheFieldGuideToEvil

* FamilialCannibalismSurprise: "Beware the Melonheads" ends with William feeding Arnold his father's flesh to complete his transformation into a melonhead, with Arnold no longer even recognising who is father is as he eats the offered flesh.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: In the first segment, Kathi is seen masturbating while dealing with her attraction to Valerie. Later, she does it to lure the Trud (a creature drawn in by sin) to her bed in an attempt to kill it.

* LaughingMad: After [[GoMadFromTheRevelation being driven mad by what he saw]] in "The Palace of Horrors", Henry wakes up in a hospital in Calcutta, [[MadnessMantra compulsively singing a hymn]] and laughing uncontrollably at those times when he cannot sing.

* MadnessMantra: After [[GoMadFromTheRevelation being driven mad by what he saw]] in "The Palace of Horrors", Henry wakes up in a hospital in Calcutta, compulsively singing a hymn and [[LaughingMad laughing uncontrollably]] at those times when he cannot sing.

* SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny: in "The Sinful Women of Höllfall," Kathi is very attracted to Valerie, but after their first sexual encounter fears she's being stalked by a nightwalking creature called the Trud, and is shown desperately scrubbing herself in the river to try washing her "sin" away. [[spoiler:After luring the Trud into her bed and apparently killing it, Kathi is freed from all guilt and inhibition and approaches Valerie fully nude, inviting her for a tryst in the woods.]]

* SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny: in "The Sinful Women of Höllfall," Kathi is very attracted to Valerie, but after their first sexual encounter gears she's being stalked by a nightwalking creature called the Trud, and is shown desperately scrubbing herself in the river to try washing her "sin" away. [[spoiler:After luring the Trud into her bed and apparently killing it, Kathi is free from all guilt and inhibition and approaches Valerie fully nude, inviting her for a tryst in the woods.]]

* EngagementChallenge: In "The Cobbler's Lot", Tivald goes to the king to ask him for Princess Boglarka's hand. The king initially attempts to dismiss him, but, on seeing that he is serious, he assigns him a task. Tivald must trek through TheLostWoods to the loosestrife pool, and return with a single strand of loosestrife. If he succeeds, he will be permitted to marry the princess.

* TheLostWoods: In keeping with the fairy tale nature of the story, Tivald is required to travel trek through the deepest, darkest forest in the kingdom in order to locate the loosestrife pool and complete his EngagementChallenge in "The Cobbler's Lot".

* MainliningTheMonster: In "What Ever Happened to Panagas the Pagan?", the goblin bleeds an incredibly intoxicating wine that, according to legend, can send the drinker mad.

* LaughingMad: After [[GoMadFromTheRevelation being driven mad by what he saw]] in "The Palace of Horrors", Henry wakes up in a hospital in Calcutta, compulsively singing a hymn and laughing uncontrollably at those times when he cannot sing.

* TheUnreveal: The true form of the King in "Palace of Horrors". Gentry sees it and [[GoMadFromTheRevelation Goes From the Revelation]]. Henry only sees the King in shadow and goes mad for several months. The audience doesn'y really see anything beyond vague hints.

* SiblingTriangle: In "The Cobbler's Lot", brothers Tivald and Botand and both in love (or, at least, obsessed) with Princess Boglarka (and her asphodel slippers). Boglarka favours the younger and more talented brother Tivald, but that not does prevent Botland from attempting to claim her for himself.

* OurGoblinsAreDifferent: In "What Ever Happened to Paganus the Pagan?", goblins minor demons from Greek mythology. They dwell in the Underworld and only allowed to travel to Earth one day a year, [[HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday Christmas]], where they play tricks on drunken humans, like a low-power version of TheKrampus.

* ResurrectionRevenge: In "The Cobbler's Lot", Princess Boglarka returns from the dead to take revenge on the two brothers: Botand for [[DrivenToSuicide driving her to suicide]], and Tivald for [[YourCheatingHeart being unfaithful]].

* OurGeniesAreDifferent: In "Haunted by Al Karisi, the Childbirth Djinn", the eponymous djinn manifests as a goat and passes judgement on a pregnant teenager, later possessing the girl's invalid mother-in-law wreak vengeance on her.

* TheLostWoods: In keeping with the fairy tale nature of the story, Tivald is required to travel trek through the deepest, darkest forest in the kingdom in order to locate the loosestrife pool and complete his EnagementChallenge in "The Cobbler's Lot".

* EngagementChallenge: In "The Cobbler's Lot", Tivald goes to the king to ask him for Princess Boglarka's hand. The king initially attempts to dismiss him, but, on seeing that he is serious, he assigns him a task. Tivald must trek through the DarkWood to loosestrife pool, and return with a single strand of loosestrife. If he succeeds, he will be permitted to marry the princess.

* SiblingTRiange: In "The Cobbler's Lot", brothers Tivald and Botand and both in love (or, at least, obsessed) with Princess Boglarka (and her asphodel slippers). Boglarka favours the younger and more talented brother Tivald, but that not does prevent Botland from attempting to claim her for himself.

* ShootTheDog: In "A Nocturnal Breath", Xaver is forced to shoot the farm's only cow after she is bitten by the drude, and then burn her body. Later, he holds his beloved dog Wachter in his lap and slits the dog's throat after it has been bitten.