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* AnArmAndALeg: Wendell Owens reluctantly cuts his wife apart using an electric carving knife.


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* DismemberingTheBody: Wendell Owens reluctantly cuts his wife apart using an electric carving knife.
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* MisterSeahorse: Jake’s punishment, complete with childbirth via penis.
* MurderByCremation: Dr. Kubler and his wife comes home to find [[spoiler:their son cremated in the oven]]. What happens to Jake is probably the worst physical thing a man can imagine happening to him.

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* MisterSeahorse: Jake’s punishment, complete with childbirth via penis.
penis. What happens to Jake is probably the worst physical thing a man can imagine happening to him.
* MurderByCremation: Dr. Kubler and his wife comes home to find [[spoiler:their son cremated in the oven]]. What happens to Jake is probably the worst physical thing a man can imagine happening to him.
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* CaretakingIsFeminine: The final segment consists of Logan's babysitter Sam fighting off a murderous psychopathic home invader intent on killing Logan. [[spoiler:The film exploits this trope to preserve the reveal that the seemingly kind blond angelic-looking girl we've been led to believe was Sam was really the ''invader'', and the man she'd been fighting was actually Sam. Not long after it's revealed that the man is Logan's babysitter, a news reel reveals the monster that the fake Sam, Charlotte Gibbins, really is.]]

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** The headline of the newspapers the young boy is delivering during the opening credits speak of the "Bog Bay Tooth Fairy" killer still being at large.



* OutOfCharacter: The intruder of the Kubler home is an escapee from a mental asylum, and a cannibalistic psychopathic child murderer. And yet, during the whole fight with Sam, he never moves to kill her despite all his chances to do so, [[spoiler: because he's ''not'' the psychopath in question. He's the real ''Sam'', and the girl we've followed as Sam the whole time is actually Charlotte Gibbins, the psychopathic child murderer who escaped]].

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* OutOfCharacter: The intruder of the Kubler home is an escapee from a mental asylum, and a cannibalistic psychopathic child murderer. And yet, during the whole fight with Sam, he never moves to kill her despite all his chances to do so, [[spoiler: because he's ''not'' the psychopath in question. He's the real ''Sam'', and the girl we've followed as Sam the whole time is actually Charlotte Gibbins, Gibbons, the psychopathic child murderer who escaped]].



* RetiredMonster: Montgonery Darke reveals he was once "very much" like Charlotte Gibbons and it eventually led him to the Mortuary. He seems fairly harmless in present day regardless.

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* RetiredMonster: Montgonery Montgomery Darke reveals he was once "very much" like Charlotte Gibbons and it eventually led him to the Mortuary. He seems fairly harmless in present day regardless.
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# Segment 3: In the 1970s, Wendell Owens is depressed and weary of the task of caring for his [[AndIMustScream comatose]] wife, Carol. Although he cares for her, he resents having to plan his entire life around her and miss out on the life he could have had, especially when his neighbour tactlessly tells him about her exotic holiday abroad. His doctor, Dr. Kubler subtly suggests that Wendell [[MercyKill euthanase]] his wife using an overdose of painkillers. Wendell prepares porridge for his wife for dinner, placing the ground up pills in the porridge. He presents her with a pointed statuette of a rabbit of the kind she used to collect. He asks her to give him any sign that she wants to go on living. When she is unresponsive, Wendell serves her the porridge. She grabs his arm and begins to choke. Realising that Carol wants to live and horrified by what he has done, Wendell desperately makes her cough up the poisoned porridge, only for Carol to [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impale her head on the statuette]]. Wendell calls Dr. Kubler who tells him to get rid of the body. Wendell begins dismembering Carol's carcass, only for her to awaken screaming, despite the statuette having gone straight through to the back of her head. Wendell manages to dismember her nevertheless, before packing all of the limbs into a trunk which he takes into the elevator, something which he always avoided using. The elevator gets stuck and amidst Wendell's protestations, his neighbour goes to call the police to get the elevator fixed. Blood starts oozing from the trunk and covering the elevator floor. Carol's dead body rises from the trunk in one piece as a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampiric]] creature which pulls Wendell in for a kiss as the elevator fills with blood. When the police arrive, they find Wendell sat on the bloody floor of the elevator beside the body in the trunk, rocking back and forth and [[MadnessMantra repreating his wedding vows over and over again]].

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# Segment 3: In the 1970s, Wendell Owens is depressed and weary of the task of caring for his [[AndIMustScream comatose]] wife, Carol. Although he cares for her, he resents having to plan his entire life around her and miss out on the life he could have had, especially when his neighbour tactlessly tells him about her exotic holiday abroad. His doctor, Dr. Kubler subtly suggests that Wendell [[MercyKill euthanase]] his wife using an overdose of painkillers. Wendell prepares porridge for his wife for dinner, placing the ground up pills in the porridge. He presents her with a pointed statuette of a rabbit of the kind she used to collect. He asks her to give him any sign that she wants to go on living. When she is unresponsive, Wendell serves her the porridge. She grabs his arm and begins to choke. Realising that Carol wants to live and horrified by what he has done, Wendell desperately makes her cough up the poisoned porridge, only for Carol to [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impale her head on the statuette]]. Wendell calls Dr. Kubler who tells him to get rid of the body. Wendell begins dismembering Carol's carcass, only for her to awaken screaming, despite the statuette having gone straight through to the back of her head. Wendell manages to dismember her nevertheless, before packing all of the limbs into a trunk which he takes into the elevator, something which he always avoided using. The elevator gets stuck and amidst Wendell's protestations, his neighbour goes to call the police to get the elevator fixed. Blood starts oozing from the trunk and covering the elevator floor. Carol's dead body rises from the trunk in one piece as a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampiric]] creature which pulls Wendell in for a kiss as the elevator fills with blood. When the police arrive, they find Wendell sat on the bloody floor of the elevator beside the body in the trunk, rocking back and forth and [[MadnessMantra repreating repeating his wedding vows over and over again]].
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#Segment 2: In the 1960s, [[JerkJock buff]], [[BeautyIsBad handsome]] [[BigManOnCampus frat boy]], Jake, hands out condoms on campus, [[StrawHypocrite preaching the importance of being careful whilst having sex]]. Upon meeting a pretty girl named Sandra, he discretely removes his condom before having sex with her. He awakens the previous day with a severe rash. Jake goes to see a doctor who informs him that he is pregnant. He phones Sandra and arranges to meet her but is ambushed by his frat brothers who lift him onto an enormous chair and bounce it up and down in a surprise congratulation ritual for having [[TheCasanova bedded sixty seven women]]. His waters break, covering them in ooze. Jake manages to get to Sandra's house and admits what he did. She is angered and feels no sympathy. Her parents help him go into labour, informing him that there's only one way the baby can come out: the same way it came in. After Jake's unsurprising death, they take the [[EnfanteTerrible monstrous mutant baby]] and lay it in a crib upstairs in a room filled with other mutant babies.

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#Segment 2: In the 1960s, [[JerkJock buff]], [[BeautyIsBad handsome]] [[BigManOnCampus frat boy]], Jake, hands out condoms on campus, [[StrawHypocrite preaching the importance of being careful whilst having sex]]. Upon meeting a pretty girl named Sandra, he discretely discreetly removes his condom before having sex with her. He awakens the previous next day with a severe rash. Jake goes to see a doctor who informs him that he is pregnant. He phones Sandra and arranges to meet her but is ambushed by his frat brothers who lift him onto an enormous chair and bounce it up and down in a surprise congratulation ritual for having [[TheCasanova bedded sixty seven women]]. His waters break, covering them in ooze. Jake manages to get to Sandra's house and admits what he did. She is angered and feels no sympathy. Her parents help him go into labour, informing him that there's only one way the baby can come out: the same way it came in. After Jake's unsurprising death, they take the [[EnfanteTerrible monstrous mutant baby]] and lay it in a crib upstairs in a room filled with other mutant babies.
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* AloneWithThePsycho: Sam the babysitter has been hired by Dr. Kubler and his wife to look after their son, Logan. While she is cooking, she misses the report on the television stating that a cannibalistic SerialKiller known as the Bog Bay Tooth Fairy has broken free of the local asylum and is on the prowl. Shortly thereafter a mysterious stranger turns up at the house. He demands to know where the child is and attacks Sam. Plot twist: [[spoiler:He's the real Sam the babysitter. She's the Tooth Fairy Killer and her real name is Charlotte Gibbons. Sam is trying to protect Logan from her]].

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* AloneWithThePsycho: Sam the babysitter has been hired by Dr. Kubler and his wife to look after their son, Logan. While she is cooking, she misses the report on the television stating that a cannibalistic SerialKiller known as the Bog Bay Tooth Fairy has broken free of the local asylum and is on the prowl. Shortly thereafter a mysterious stranger turns up at the house. He demands to know where the child is and attacks Sam. Plot twist: [[spoiler:He's [[spoiler:[[GenderBlenderName He's the real Sam Sam]] the babysitter. She's the Tooth Fairy Killer and her real name is Charlotte Gibbons. Sam is trying to protect Logan from her]].
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* DeathByChildbirth: [[spoiler: Jake's]] fate. A bit more likely than usual when one is giving birth to [[spoiler: a huge mutant baby through one's ''penis'']].
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* ContraceptionDeception: Jake takes the condom off as soon as he can get his partner to look away.


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** Jake in particular suffers ''exactly'' what he almost certainly inflicted on one or more of his sixty-seven victims: pregnancy (and symptoms of an STD, but that's the least of his problems). And while it's not as certain that any of them suffered DeathByChildbirth, it's always a risk, and he was glad to let them take it.
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** That said, if [[spoiler: Darke's demise]] is any indication, [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty karma isn't done with]] [[spoiler: her]] yet.

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* AdultFear: UpToEleven with Dr. Kubler and his wife coming home to find [[spoiler:their son cremated in the oven]]. What happens to Jake is probably the worst physical thing a man can imagine happening to him.


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* BadassBoast: Charlotte comes out with one of these towards the end, [[spoiler:after her true nature is revealed]]. "''I'' decide how my story ends."

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* BadassBoast: Charlotte comes out with one of these towards the end, [[spoiler:after her true nature is revealed]]. "''I'' decide how my story ends."". Although Darke does [[ShutUpHannibal fire back]] almost immediately.


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* BetterThanABareBulb: The framing device of the movie consists of Montgomery Darke telling Sam stories and both parties discussing the various tropes found in them. The final story dips straight into MetaFiction with the slasher film-esque segment being propped up in parallel with [[ShowWithinAShow a slasher film in the story itself]].


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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Sam is uncharacteristically startled when Darke brings up the local asylum, and when Darke asks why she brushes it off with "everybody knows the asylum". This detail proves to be very relevant in the third act.

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%% * BlackComedy: The film ''oozes'' this.

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%% * BlackComedy: The film ''oozes'' this.violence and sardonic wit at several points, namely with [[DeadpanSnarker Darke's]] commentary over the stories. The second segment in particular treats the chilling BodyHorror of a young man getting pregnant with a very acerbic tone.



* LaserGuidedKarma: The main theme of the film; people in the stories get a dark fate they've earned for themselves.

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* LaserGuidedKarma: The main theme of the film; people in the stories get a dark fate they've earned for themselves. Darke and Sam actually discuss the validity of the trope at several points.



* ShoutOut: Chalotte Gibbons, the escaped psychopath from the local lunatic asylum is known as [[Literature/RedDragon the Tooth Fairy]].

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* ShoutOut: Chalotte Charlotte Gibbons, the escaped psychopath from the local lunatic asylum is known as [[Literature/RedDragon the Tooth Fairy]].Fairy]].
** The noisy zoom-in shots in the second segment are very reminiscent of Creator/SamRaimi.


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** Darke's summation that he was once "a explorer in the further regions of experience" is taken from Pinhead's introductory scene from ''Film/{{Hellraiser}}''.
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** Montgomery Darke, with his balding head, corpse-like appearance, penchant for elegant suits, and embalming fluid for blood, bears more than a passing resemblance to [[Film/{{Phantasm}} another sinister (and much less polite) undead mortician]].
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* NothingIsScarier: We never actually see "Sam"'s dinner, just a silhouette with visible ribs. Based on Dr. and Mrs. Kubler's reactions, she's not exactly Franchise/HannibalLecter when it comes to meal prep.

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* NothingIsScarier: [[spoiler: We never actually see "Sam"'s dinner, just a silhouette with visible ribs. Based on Dr. and Mrs. Kubler's reactions, she's not exactly Franchise/HannibalLecter when it comes to meal prep.]]

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* BlackComedy: The film ''oozes'' this.
* BlondesAreEvil: [[spoiler:Sam, or rather, Charlotte]].

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* BlondesAreEvil: [[spoiler:Sam, or rather, Charlotte]].
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* WhamLine: Dr. Kubler identifying the dead man as [[spoiler: Sam, the babysitter]] in the final segment.
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* GoMadFromtheRevelation: Wendell Owens does this after killing his wife and seeing her seemingly rise from the dead.

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* GoMadFromtheRevelation: GoMadFromTheRevelation: Wendell Owens does this after killing his wife and seeing her seemingly rise from the dead.
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* ThouShaltNotKill: [[spoiler: The real Sam was unwilling to kill Charlotte Gibbons, which she uses to gain an advantage over him and ultimately prevail.]]
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* NothingIsScarier: We never actually see "Sam"'s dinner, just a silhouette with visible ribs. Based on Dr. and Mrs. Kubler's reactions, she's not exactly [[TheSilenceOfTheLambs Hannibal Lecter]] when it comes to meal prep.

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* NothingIsScarier: We never actually see "Sam"'s dinner, just a silhouette with visible ribs. Based on Dr. and Mrs. Kubler's reactions, she's not exactly [[TheSilenceOfTheLambs Hannibal Lecter]] Franchise/HannibalLecter when it comes to meal prep.

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# Segment 3: In the 1970s, Wendell Owens is depressed and weary of the task of caring for his [[AndIMustScream comatose]] wife, Carol. Although he cares for her, he resents having to plan his entire life around her and miss out on the life he could have had, especially when his neighbour tactlessly tells him about her exotic holiday abroad. His doctor, Dr. Kubler subtly suggests that Wendell [[MercyKill euthanase]] his wife using an overdose of painkillers. Wendell prepares porridge for his wife for dinner, placing the ground up pills in the porridge. He presents her with a pointed statuette of a bird of the kind she used to collect. He asks her to give him any sign that she wants to go on living. When she is unresponsive, Wendell serves her the porridge. She grabs his arm and begins to choke. Realising that Carol wants to live and horrified by what he has done, Wendell desperately makes her cough up the poisoned porridge, only for Carol to [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impale her head on the statuette]]. Wendell calls Dr. Kubler who tells him to get rid of the body. Wendell begins dismembering Carol's carcass, only for her to awaken screaming, despite the statuette having gone straight through to the back of her head. Wendell manages to dismember her nevertheless, before packing all of the limbs into a trunk which he takes into the elevator, something which he always avoided using. The elevator gets stuck and amidst Wendell's protestations, his neighbour goes to call the police to get the elevator fixed. Blood starts oozing from the trunk and covering the elevator floor. Carol's dead body rises from the trunk in one piece as a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampiric]] creature which pulls Wendell in for a kiss as the elevator fills with blood. When the police arrive, they find Wendell sat on the bloody floor of the elevator beside the body in the trunk, rocking back and forth and [[MadnessMantra repreating his wedding vows over and over again]].

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# Segment 3: In the 1970s, Wendell Owens is depressed and weary of the task of caring for his [[AndIMustScream comatose]] wife, Carol. Although he cares for her, he resents having to plan his entire life around her and miss out on the life he could have had, especially when his neighbour tactlessly tells him about her exotic holiday abroad. His doctor, Dr. Kubler subtly suggests that Wendell [[MercyKill euthanase]] his wife using an overdose of painkillers. Wendell prepares porridge for his wife for dinner, placing the ground up pills in the porridge. He presents her with a pointed statuette of a bird rabbit of the kind she used to collect. He asks her to give him any sign that she wants to go on living. When she is unresponsive, Wendell serves her the porridge. She grabs his arm and begins to choke. Realising that Carol wants to live and horrified by what he has done, Wendell desperately makes her cough up the poisoned porridge, only for Carol to [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impale her head on the statuette]]. Wendell calls Dr. Kubler who tells him to get rid of the body. Wendell begins dismembering Carol's carcass, only for her to awaken screaming, despite the statuette having gone straight through to the back of her head. Wendell manages to dismember her nevertheless, before packing all of the limbs into a trunk which he takes into the elevator, something which he always avoided using. The elevator gets stuck and amidst Wendell's protestations, his neighbour goes to call the police to get the elevator fixed. Blood starts oozing from the trunk and covering the elevator floor. Carol's dead body rises from the trunk in one piece as a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampiric]] creature which pulls Wendell in for a kiss as the elevator fills with blood. When the police arrive, they find Wendell sat on the bloody floor of the elevator beside the body in the trunk, rocking back and forth and [[MadnessMantra repreating his wedding vows over and over again]].


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* NothingIsScarier: We never actually see "Sam"'s dinner, just a silhouette with visible ribs. Based on Dr. and Mrs. Kubler's reactions, she's not exactly [[TheSilenceOfTheLambs Hannibal Lecter]] when it comes to meal prep.
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* OutOfCharacter: The intruder of the Kubler home is an escapee from a mental asylum, and a cannibalistic psychopathic child murderer. And yet, during the whole fight with Sam, he never moves to kill her despite all his chances to do so, [[spoiler: because he's ''not'' the psychopath in question. He's the real ''Sam'', and the girl we've followed as Sam the whole time is actually Charlotte Gibbins, the psychopathic child murderer who escaped]].
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* FreezeFrameBonus: During the final fight sequence between the intruder and the babysitter Sam, the girl bites off the man's ear and spits it onto a picture of the kid Logan and another person. Pause it at the right moment, and you'll see that the person in the picture with Logan is Sam. [[spoiler: As in, the real Sam who's babysitting Logan, the same man who's fighting the girl.]]
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* SequelHook: At the end of the film, [[spoiler:Montgomery Darke [[PuffOfLogic has exploded, having walked out into the sunlight]], thereby leaving the resurrected Charlotte Gibbons as the new funeral director of Raven's End Mortuary. The boy who taunted Darke at the beginning has turned up and it seems as though she's now about to kill and eat him. WordOfGod also says that the sequel will explore Darke's dark past.]]

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* CassandraTruth: When Jake jokes that he only comes to orientations to get laid, Sandra quips “me, too”, startling him. [[spoiler:Given the collection of children seen at her parents’ home, she may have been 100% sincere.]]



** Arguably Jake. Throwing away a condom before having sex with a girl is undoubtedly a very shitty thing to do but did he deserve to die as a result of giving birth to a demon baby that made his penis explode?

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** Arguably Jake. Throwing away a condom before having sex with a girl is undoubtedly a very shitty thing to do -and is in fact considered rape on some jurisdictions - but did he deserve to die as a result of giving birth to a demon baby that made his penis explode?

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