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* FridgeHorror: Jenny having to witness her older sibling's torture/murder. That's going to haunt her.
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** Jenny. Imagine being forced to watch your older sibling being tortured to death and you can't do anything about it because you know that if you try, you'll get the same treatment. In real life, she suffered trauma well into adulthood, still terrified that Gertrude would get her.
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** Jenny. Imagine being forced to watch your older sibling being tortured to death and you can't do anything about it because you know that if you try, you'll get the same treatment. In real life, she suffered trauma well into adulthood, still terrified that Gertrude would get her.
of Gertrude.
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** Jenny. Imagine being forced to watch your older sibling being tortured to death and you can't do anything about it because you know that if you try, you'll get the same treatment.
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** Jenny. Imagine being forced to watch your older sibling being tortured to death and you can't do anything about it because you know that if you try, you'll get the same treatment.
treatment. In real life, she suffered trauma well into adulthood, still terrified that Gertrude would get her.
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* CriticalDissonance: Critical reception for the film was mixed, with praise made towards the uneasy tone and acting performances but faced accusations of exploiting the real-life tragedy. Audience reception, meanwhile, leaned more to the positive side.
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* NightmareFuel:
** The torture scenes are extremely hard to watch. It doubles as FridgeHorror when you realize what happened in real life was even worse.
** The mere fact that Gertrude ''got children to enjoy torturing an innocent'' can seriously drain one's faith in humanity.
** The first time you know something's wrong is when Gertrude hits Sylvia with a belt. The second time? ''[[NauseaFuel Making Sylvia shove a Coke bottle in her privates]]''. In ''front of her kids''.
** The film is actually based on a true story. Let that sink in. And in real life, it was worse.
** The torture scenes are extremely hard to watch. It doubles as FridgeHorror when you realize what happened in real life was even worse.
** The mere fact that Gertrude ''got children to enjoy torturing an innocent'' can seriously drain one's faith in humanity.
** The first time you know something's wrong is when Gertrude hits Sylvia with a belt. The second time? ''[[NauseaFuel Making Sylvia shove a Coke bottle in her privates]]''. In ''front of her kids''.
** The film is actually based on a true story. Let that sink in. And in real life, it was worse.
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* TearJerker:
** If you have any sympathy for Sylvia at all, expect to cry during the torture scenes.
** Sylvia's DyingDream of escaping and reuniting with her parents, who tearfully apologize for leaving Sylvia to live with Gertrude. It gets worse when it's revealed to be a dream and that Sylvia is dying. You knew the escape scene wouldn't last, but ''damn'', how you wanted it to be real.
** The ending: Gertrude and her family are found guilty and there ''is'' a small amount of AlasPoorVillain towards the family and ''especially'' some when Gertrude sees Sylvia's ghost in her cell and before she can even utter a tearful "I'm sorry", Sylvia vanishes.
*** The final shot: Sylvia on a ride at her parent's carnival, the only place she felt safe. Made a little more horrific by the final line's implication that Sylvia's spirit may remain here, at an empty carnival, forever, or until she makes sense of her death. At the very least her words underscore the emptiness and pointlessness of her death:
---->'''Sylvia (voiceover)''': Reverend Bill used to say, "For every situation, God always has a plan." I guess I'm still trying to figure out what that plan was.
** If you have any sympathy for Sylvia at all, expect to cry during the torture scenes.
** Sylvia's DyingDream of escaping and reuniting with her parents, who tearfully apologize for leaving Sylvia to live with Gertrude. It gets worse when it's revealed to be a dream and that Sylvia is dying. You knew the escape scene wouldn't last, but ''damn'', how you wanted it to be real.
** The ending: Gertrude and her family are found guilty and there ''is'' a small amount of AlasPoorVillain towards the family and ''especially'' some when Gertrude sees Sylvia's ghost in her cell and before she can even utter a tearful "I'm sorry", Sylvia vanishes.
*** The final shot: Sylvia on a ride at her parent's carnival, the only place she felt safe. Made a little more horrific by the final line's implication that Sylvia's spirit may remain here, at an empty carnival, forever, or until she makes sense of her death. At the very least her words underscore the emptiness and pointlessness of her death:
---->'''Sylvia (voiceover)''': Reverend Bill used to say, "For every situation, God always has a plan." I guess I'm still trying to figure out what that plan was.
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** Jenny having to witness her older sibling's torture/murder. That's going to haunt her.
** Jenny having to witness her older sibling's torture/murder. That's going to haunt her.
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* FridgeHorror:
**FridgeHorror: Jenny having to witness her older sibling's torture/murder. That's going to haunt her.
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** The film is actually based on a true story. [[NightmareFuel Let that sink in]]. And in real life, it was worse.
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** The film is actually based on a true story. [[NightmareFuel Let that sink in]].in. And in real life, it was worse.
