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* KidnappedWhileSleeping: It's implied that this is what happened to Julie since she is barefoot in her nightdress when she wakes up to find herself trapped in a sealed room that is about to be filled with cement.
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* MyBelovedSmother: Jimmy has had to put up with this from Mary all his life, due to the murders of his father and sister.


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* PosthumousSibling: It is implied that young Julie is murdered before her younger brother Jimmy is even born.
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* DiedStandingUp: The ultimate fate of Joseph Malestrazza's HumanSacrifice victims, though the columns in which they were imprisoned would have allowed them enough room to sit, depending on their age, only for them to naturally stand up with a start when they discovered the column was about to be filled with cement.

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* DiedStandingUp: The ultimate fate of Joseph Malestrazza's HumanSacrifice victims, though the columns in which they were imprisoned would have allowed them enough room to sit, depending on their age, sit or crouch, only for them to naturally stand up with a start when they discovered the column was about to be filled with cement.
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The film begins with a little girl named Julie waking up to find she's not in her bed but inside a small room where she is trapped with no way out. The room starts to fill up with cement and the poor girl repeatedly screams for help, bangs on the walls and cries for her father to no avail as the cement rises higher and higher....

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The film begins with a little girl named Julie waking up to find she's not herself in her bed but inside a small room where that is sealed on all sides so she is trapped with no way out. The room starts to fill up with cement and the poor girl repeatedly screams for help, bangs on the walls and cries for her father to no avail as the cement rises higher and higher....
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The film begins with a little girl named Julie waking up to find she's not in her bed but inside a hollow column where she is trapped with no way out. The column starts to fill up with cement and the poor girl repeatedly screams for help, bangs on the walls and cries for her father to no avail as the cement rises higher and higher....

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The film begins with a little girl named Julie waking up to find she's not in her bed but inside a hollow column small room where she is trapped with no way out. The column room starts to fill up with cement and the poor girl repeatedly screams for help, bangs on the walls and cries for her father to no avail as the cement rises higher and higher....
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* WallSlump: Julie's hands slumps down into the rising cement as she's about to drown in it.

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* WallSlump: Julie's hands slumps slump down into the rising cement as she's about to drown in it.
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* DiedStandingUp: The ultimate fate of Joseph Malestrazza's HumanSacrifice victims, though the columns in which they were imprisoned would have allowed them enough room to sit, depending on their age, only for them to naturally stand up with a start when they discovered the column was about to be filled with cement.
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* IWantMyMommy: Played with as poor Julie repeatedly screams for her father as she is about to drown in cement.
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* SinisterSuffocation: Joseph Malestrazza intentionally had 16 innocent people (including at least one child) murdered by burying them alive in cement just to preserve his architecture as he believes HumanSacrifice was used for preservation of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

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* SinisterSuffocation: Young Julie wakes up to find herself about to suffocate in a small sealed room that is quickly filling with cement. It's later revealed that her murder was intentional (along with those of her father and 14 other people) on the part of Joseph Malestrazza intentionally had 16 innocent people (including at least one child) murdered by burying them alive in cement just Malestrazza, the architect who designed the apartment block that Julie was living in, as he wanted to preserve his architecture as he believes the building and believed HumanSacrifice was used for preservation of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
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* InfantImmortality: The film opens with young Julie waking up to find herself about to suffocate in a small sealed room that is quickly filling with cement.
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* InfantImmortality: The film opens with young Julie waking up to find herself about to suffocate in a small sealed room that is quickly filling with cement.


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* SinisterSuffocation: Joseph Malestrazza intentionally had 16 innocent people (including at least one child) murdered by burying them alive in cement just to preserve his architecture as he believes HumanSacrifice was used for preservation of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

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* CornerOfWoe: Poor Julie backs into a corner as she's about to drown in cement.



* EnclosedSpace: In the opening scene, young Julie wakes up to find herself trapped in one. Unfortunately for the poor girl, it happens to be a building column that is about to be filled with cement...

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In the opening scene, young Julie wakes up to find herself trapped in one. Unfortunately for the poor girl, it happens to be a building column that is about to be filled with cement...cement...
** Sam has a nightmare about the same thing happening to her.
** [[spoiler: Mary has Joseph Malestrazza imprisoned in the basement. Sam ends up joining him when she falls into the basement.]]


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* WallSlump: Julie's hands slumps down into the rising cement as she's about to drown in it.
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* EnclosedSpace: In the opening scene, young Julie wakes up to find herself trapped in one. Unfortunately for the poor girl, it happens to be a building column that is about to be filled with cement...
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** Mary is overprotective abusive to her son Jimmy [[spoiler: as a result of her own RoaringRampageOfRevenge for the murders of his father and sister.]]

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** Mary is overprotective to the point of abusive to her son Jimmy [[spoiler: as a result of her own RoaringRampageOfRevenge for the murders of his father and sister.]]
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* DrowningPit: Malestrazza's method of HumanSacrifice in which the victim is imprisoned inside a hollow column that cement is poured into.

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* DrowningPit: Malestrazza's method of HumanSacrifice in which the victim is imprisoned inside a hollow column that cement is poured into.and buried alive in cement.
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* DownerBeginning: The first scene of the movie is young Julie about to drown in cement.

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* DownerBeginning: The first scene of thing we see in the movie is young Julie about to drown in cement.
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* WouldHurtAChild:
** Joseph Malestrazza [[spoiler: willingly abducted an innocent little girl (Julie) from her apartment in the middle of the night, walled her up inside a hollow building column and drowned her in cement, just to preserve his architecture. Who's to say he didn't do this to another child or two?]]
** Mary is overprotective abusive to her son Jimmy [[spoiler: as a result of her own RoaringRampageOfRevenge for the murders of his father and sister.]]
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The film begins with a little girl named Julie waking up to find she's not in her bed anymore but inside a hollow column where she is trapped with no way out. The column starts to fill up with cement and the poor girl repeatedly screams for help, bangs on the walls and cries for her father to no avail as the cement rises higher and higher....

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The film begins with a little girl named Julie waking up to find she's not in her bed anymore but inside a hollow column where she is trapped with no way out. The column starts to fill up with cement and the poor girl repeatedly screams for help, bangs on the walls and cries for her father to no avail as the cement rises higher and higher....



* YouAreTooLate: Implied with Jimmy's dog[[spoiler: when it came to tagging on to Julie's demise.]]

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* YouAreTooLate: Implied with Jimmy's dog[[spoiler: dog [[spoiler: when it came to tagging on to Julie's demise.]]
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The film begins with a little girl named Julie waking up to find she's not in her bed anymore but inside a hollow column where she is trapped with no way out. The column starts to fill up with cement and the poor girl repeatedly screams for help, bangs on the walls and cries for her father to no avail as the cement rises higher and higher....

15 years later, Samantha (Sam) Walczak is offered the opportunity to become her father's business partner in demolition and as assigned to oversee the demolition of the Malestrazza building. What she doesn't realise is that there is a deep dark secret associated with the building....
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* AbusiveMom: Mary to Jimmy if he goes anywhere near Sam. He rebelliously meets up with Sam and tries to help her while his mother's not looking.

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* AbusiveMom: AbusiveParents: Mary to Jimmy if he goes anywhere near Sam. He rebelliously meets up with Sam and tries to help her while his mother's not looking.
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* TimeSkip: After Julie's impending demise in TheTeaser, the rest of the movie is set 15 years later.

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* DaddysGirl: Julie repeatedly screams for her father as she's about to drown in cement.

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* DaddysGirl: DaddysGirl:
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Julie repeatedly screams for her father as she's about to drown in cement.cement.
** Sam is implied to be this in addition to being her father's employee [[spoiler: and soon-to-be business partner.]]



* GoryDiscretionShot: The screen fades to black when Julie is seconds from drowning in cement.

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* GoryDiscretionShot: The screen fades to black when Julie is seconds from drowning about to drown in cement.
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* GoryDiscretionShot: The screen fades to black when Julie is just seconds away from drowning in cement.

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* GoryDiscretionShot: The screen fades to black when Julie is just seconds away from drowning in cement.
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* MoodWhiplash: The start of the movie consists of young Julie about to drown in cement, the title sequence with implications of further deaths by burial in cement then Sam celebrating her birthday in that order.
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* DaddysGirl: Julie screams for her father as she's about to drown in cement.

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* DaddysGirl: Julie repeatedly screams for her father as she's about to drown in cement.
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* DaddysGirl: Julie cries for her father as she's about to drown in cement.

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* DaddysGirl: Julie cries screams for her father as she's about to drown in cement.

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* TragicKeepsake: Jimmy's dog [[spoiler:was originally bought by his father for Julie.]]

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* TragicKeepsake: TragicKeepsake:
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Jimmy's dog [[spoiler:was originally bought by his father for Julie.]]]]
** Sam finds a framed photograph of Julie during her first night in the Malestrazza building.
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A Canadian-made 2009 horror-thriller directed and co-written by Gilles Paquet-Brenner and starring Creator/MischaBarton, Creator/CameronBright, and Creator/DeborahKaraUnger. It is based on the best-selling French novel Les Emmurés by Serge Brussolo.

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A Canadian-made 2009 horror-thriller directed and co-written by Gilles Paquet-Brenner and starring Creator/MischaBarton, Creator/CameronBright, and Creator/DeborahKaraUnger. It is based on the best-selling French novel Les Emmurés ''Les Emmurés'' by Serge Brussolo.
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Jimmy throws himself to his death from the roof to the basement in order to save Sam.]]

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