History WesternAnimation / WhereTheDeadGoToDie

The film has become somewhat... notorious for its subject matter and the plethora of horrific imagery the film is plastered from start to finish. It contains disturbing amounts of {{Gorn}}, nudity, and controversial topics such as child pornography, [[UpToEleven sometimes all at once]]. If you are easily offended, [[SchmuckBait watch this film at your own risk.]]

* DerangedAnimation: [[UpToEleven TO HELL AND BACK!]] It's an animated horror film and it doesn't hold back on making you feel uncomfortable or creeped out.

* AteHisGun: [[spoiler:How the serial killer in ''Liquid Memories'' dies.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350: This isn't even the most [[NightmareFuel horrific image]] this film has to offer.]]

* BarbieDollAnatomy: Invoked on a more-or-less case-by-case basis--when it's averted, there's usually some effect in mind.

* CrapsackWorld: The world depicted in the film is depressingly bleak and hopeless--the only decent people are children, and the inverse isn't necessarily true.

* DeepSouth: Sophia's abusive redneck father, has this vibe to him. [[spoiler:Which also plays up another unflattering streotype about the deep south.]]

** Ralph's parents, while understandably sad that one of their sons died before birth, put the blame on Ralph himself and force him to keep his brother's face on his head, despite the mental issues it causes him, and shave his head so that the twin can be seen. The father also beats Ralph frequently and the mother doesn't do anything to stop it. [[spoiler: Even worse, it turns out Ralph's father had starred in one of Sophie's child porn movies and congratulates his son for doing the same thing and even proposes to fuck her both together. Their deaths feel very deserved]]
** Sophie's father seems like a nice guy on the outside, [[spoiler: but he's actually a horrible abuser, who forces his daughter to star in child porn movies and hangs her up to the ceiling with a mask if she pisses him for the pettiest reasons. He also sold one of the mentioned movies to Ralph, who is also underage, and convinced him to star in a movie with Sophie, telling him that he's making her happy by raping her. Considering how his son is like, it's quite possible that he's neglectful towards him. Nobody feels sorry when he dies.]]
* HarmfulToMinors: Two of the shorts have bad things happen to some poor kids. [[BrainBleach That's not to say plenty of adults won't find it harmful to themselves either.]]
* {{Hellhound}}: Labby, very much so; other than being a [[AlwaysLawfulGood Labrador]], he fulfills the criteria in every other way. What exactly he ''[[InexplicablyAwesome is]]'' is not made very clear, but based on the imagery he is either a demon or some sort of AnimalisticAbomination. Uniquely for a hellhound, he does seem to mention God a lot, and at least claims that serving the Lord is his primary motivation.
* HillbillyHorrors: Sophia's father is a disgusting abusive redneck who [[spoiler: forces her to strip down and star in his own homemade child porn of her. Whenever she misbehaves, he hangs her from the ceiling wearing a muzzle tied to a chain. He even gets his hillbilly son to beat her with a stick while she is tied up there.]]

* ImplausibleDeniability: Labby encourages this in ''Tainted Milk,'' [[spoiler:suggesting that Tommy scratch himself up with his stillborn sibling's fingernails to make it look as though the sibling struck first.]]

* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Ralph delivers them to both his abusive parents and the horrible pedophile father of his love interest, Sophia.]]

* ManipulativeBastard: Labby the hell-hound, she easily manipulates a vulnerable young boy to do heinous acts.

-->[[spoiler:'''Ralph]]:''' I did things I didn't know I was capable of doing...
%%* NightmareFuelColoringBook: Ralph's Drawings are these.

* TheReveal: The ending of the third short reveals [[spoiler:the identity of the Smiling Man, as well as the symbolic roles of the other characters throughout the film.]] A lot is left to interpretation, though.

* ShellShockedVeteran: One appears in ''Liquid Memories.'' It's the reason he goes nuts and assaults the Hooker- he had a war flashback.

* BodyHorror: Plenty of the surreal moments are full of this.

* HateSink: Ralph's parents, while understandably sad that one of their sons died before birth, put the blame on Ralph himself and force him to keep his brother's face on his head, despite the mental issues it causes him, and shave his head so that the twin can be seen. The father also beats Ralph frequently and the mother doesn't do anything to stop it. [[spoiler: Even worse, it turns out Ralph's father had starred in one of Sophie's child porn movies and congratulates his son for doing the same thing and even proposes to fuck her both together.]] [[spoiler: Their deaths feel very deserved]]
** Sophie's father seems like a nice guy on the outside, [[spoiler: but he's actually a horrible abuser, who forces his daughter to star in child porn movies and hangs her up to the ceiling with a mask if she pisses him for the pettiest reasons. He also sold one of the mentioned movies to Ralph, who is also underage, and convinced him to star in a movie with Sophie, telling him that he's making her happy by raping her. Considering how his son is like, it's quite possible that he's neglectful towards him]]. [[spoiler: Nobody feels sorry when he dies.]]

* DownerEnding: All the shorts don't end very nicely for the protagonists or anyone involved, especially the first two.

* BloodSplatteredInnocents: Happens to Tommy over the course of the first short, thanks to the atrocities he is forced to commit or is forced to watch.

* AteHisGun: [[spoiler:How the serial killer in ''Liquid Memories''.]]

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