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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 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''.
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* 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''.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Carole from ''Series/{{Glee}}'' (Romy Rosemont) as Sylvia's mother, Creator/EvanPeters as Ricky.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Carole from ''Series/{{Glee}}'' (Romy Rosemont) (Creator/RomyRosemont) as Sylvia's mother, Creator/EvanPeters as Ricky.
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** Jenny having to witness her older sibling's torture murder. That's going to haunt her.
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** Jenny having to witness her older sibling's torture murder.torture/murder. That's going to haunt her.
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** Sylvia. She was an innocent who had her life cut short at 16, and she was killed very slowly and painfully.
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** Sylvia. She was an innocent child who had her life cut short at 16, and she was killed very slowly and painfully.
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* AdultFear: Your family's desperately impoverished, and the only work you can find requires leaving your daughters with an unstable caretaker who starves and tortures one of them to death.
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** The film is actually based on a true story. [[NightmareFuel Let that sink in]].
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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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** Children and teenagers: Your foster parents want to torture you to death.
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** Children and teenagers: Your foster parents want to torture you to death. If you try to tell, no one will believe you, not even the police. And even the kids you thought were your friends will turn on you as soon as they see you're helpless.
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* AdultFear: Your family's desperately impoverished, and the only work you can find requires leaving your daughters with an unstable caretaker who starves and tortures one of them to death.
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*** The final shot: Sylvia on a ride at her parent's carnival, the only place she felt safe.
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*** 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.
---->'''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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** 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.
*** The final shot: Sylvia on a ride at her parent's carnival, the only place she felt safe.
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Has to be commercially unsuccessful to prove it alienated them.
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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: It's a film about the real-life torture murder of an innocent teenage girl at the hands of her babysitter and various children. Does that sound like a movie you want to watch, want to have watched, or even a movie you can get through without feeling overwhelmed?
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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: It's a film about the real-life torture murder of an innocent teenage girl at the hands of her foster mother and various children. Does that sound like a movie you want to watch, want to have watched, or even a movie you can get through without feeling overwhelmed?
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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: It's a film about the real-life torture murder of an innocent teenage girl at the hands of her foster mother babysitter and various children. Does that sound like a movie you want to watch, want to have watched, or even a movie you can get through without feeling overwhelmed?
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Example Indentation In Trope Lists. Word Cruft. Moral Event Horizon is a single action that makes a character irredeemably evil for the rest of the work, not multiple actions.
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* FridgeHorror: The film is actually based on a true story. [[NightmareFuel Let that sink in]].
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* FridgeHorror: FridgeHorror:
** The film is actually based on a true story. [[NightmareFuel Let that sink in]].
** The film is actually based on a true story. [[NightmareFuel Let that sink in]].
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* RetroactiveRecognition : Carole from ''Series/{{Glee}}'' (Romy Rosemont) as Sylvia's mother, Creator/EvanPeters as Ricky.
* TearJerker: If you have any sympathy for Sylvia at all, expect to cry during the torture scenes.
* TearJerker: If you have any sympathy for Sylvia at all, expect to cry during the torture scenes.
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* RetroactiveRecognition : RetroactiveRecognition: Carole from ''Series/{{Glee}}'' (Romy Rosemont) as Sylvia's mother, Creator/EvanPeters as Ricky.
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** If you have any sympathy for Sylvia at all, expect to cry during the torture scenes.
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** To a lesser degree 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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** To a lesser degree 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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* FridgeHorror: This film is actually based on a true story. [[NightmareFuel Let that sink in]].
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* FridgeHorror: This The film is actually based on a true story. [[NightmareFuel Let that sink in]].
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** Also, remember the fact that this film is based on a true story...
** Also, remember the fact that this film is based on a true story...
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* FridgeHorror: This film is actually based on a true story. [[NightmareFuel Let that sink in]].
** Jenny having to witness her older sibling's torture murder. That's going to haunther.
** Also, remember the fact that this film is based on a true story...her.
** Jenny having to witness her older sibling's torture murder. That's going to haunt
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** Also, remember the fact that this film is based on a true story...
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No implication that movies should be fun, but being able to get through it without feeling overwhelmed is most likely not enough to make one watch a movie.
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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: It's a film about the real-life torture murder of an innocent teenage girl at the hands of her foster mother and various children. Does that sound like a movie you can get through without feeling overwhelmed?
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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: It's a film about the real-life torture murder of an innocent teenage girl at the hands of her foster mother and various children. Does that sound like a movie you want to watch, want to have watched, or even a movie you can get through without feeling overwhelmed?
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The assumption that movies should be \'\'fun\'\' is idiotic. People should know better.
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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: It's a film about the real-life torture murder of an innocent teenage girl at the hands of her foster mother and various children. Does that sound like a fun film to watch?
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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: It's a film about the real-life torture murder of an innocent teenage girl at the hands of her foster mother and various children. Does that sound like a fun film to watch?movie you can get through without feeling overwhelmed?
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* CompleteMonster: Gertrude definitely falls under this by the end although the film does attempt to humanize her.
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* MoralEventHorizon; Pretty much anything Gertrude does.
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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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** The mere fact that Gertrude ''got children to enjoy torturing an innocent'' can seriously drain one's faith in humanity.
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** The mere fact that Gertrude ''got children to enjoy torturing an innocent'' can seriously drain one's faith in humanity. humanity.
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** Children and teenagers: Your foster parents want to torture you to death.
** Parents: Don't trust anyone to take care of your children, unless you want them to suffer undeserved, cruel, and dragged out deaths.
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** Children and teenagers: Your foster parents want to torture you to death.
** Parents: Don't trust anyone to take care of your children, unless you want them to suffer undeserved, cruel, and dragged out deaths.
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** 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.
dying. You knew the escape scene wouldn't last, but ''damn'', how you wanted it to be real.
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** Sylvia. She was an innocent who had her life cut short at 16, and she was killed very slowly and painfully.
** To a lesser degree 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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** Sylvia. She was an innocent who had her life cut short at 16, and she was killed very slowly and painfully.
** To a lesser degree 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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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: It's a film about the real-life torture murder of an innocent teenage girl at the hands of her foster mother and various children. Does that sound like a fun film to watch?
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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.
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* NightmareFuel: NightmareFuel:
** The torture scenes are extremely hard to watch. It doubles as FridgeHorror when you realize what happened in real life was evenworse.worse.
** The mere fact that Gertrude ''got children to enjoy torturing an innocent'' can seriously drain one's faith in humanity.
* 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.
** The torture scenes are extremely hard to watch. It doubles as FridgeHorror when you realize what happened in real life was even
** The mere fact that Gertrude ''got children to enjoy torturing an innocent'' can seriously drain one's faith in humanity.
* 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.
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Not YMMV anymore. Moving.
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* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Gertrude is this initially as we see her fall apart from the stress but it becomes harder and harder to sympathize with her as her actions become more horrific.
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Updated to meet new Nightmare Fuel criteria.
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* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: The torture scenes are extremely hard to watch. It doubles as FridgeHorror when you realize what happened in real life was even worse.
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* CompleteMonster: Gertrude definitely falls under this by the end although the film does attempt to humanize her.
* TheWoobie: Sylvia
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Gertrude is this initially as we see her fall apart from the stress but it becomes harder and harder to sympathize with her as her actions become more horrific.
* TheWoobie: Sylvia
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Gertrude is this initially as we see her fall apart from the stress but it becomes harder and harder to sympathize with her as her actions become more horrific.
