History YMMV / Stoker

* EvilIsSexy: Charlie is played by Matthew Goode, after all.

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: As noted below under DarknessInducedAudienceApathy, a violent psychological thriller about a [[SerialKiller serial-killing]] CreepyUncle trying to seduce his teenage niece into becoming his romantic partner-in-crime is not everyone's idea of a good time at the movies. Shame.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: The movie is ultimately about [[spoiler: how a CreepyUncle seduces his niece into becoming a Sociopath and largely succeeding]]. To the film's credit it never gets too overbearing thanks to its dark sense of humor.

* FanPreferredCouple: What little ''Stoker'' fanfiction is out there has India actually ending up with Charlie in the end.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: the movie is ultimately about [[spoiler: how a CreepyUncle seduces his niece into becoming a Sociopath and largely succeeding]]. To the film's credit it never gets too overbearing thanks to its dark sense of humor.

* JerkassWoobie: Evelyn is a neglectful mother, an alcoholic, [[spoiler: is shacking up with her husband's brother days after her husband dies]], and is generally a stuck-up [[RichBitch rich bitch]] but losing her husband in a terrible accident, dealing with a daughter who clearly doesn't like her and being lead on by a man who ends up having an interest in her child instead is already pretty harsh, [[spoiler: not even mentioning nearly being murdered and then totally abandoned by her only remaining family afterwards.]]
* MoralEventHorizon:
** Charlie crossed this a long time ago when he [[spoiler: killed his and Robert's younger brother, Jonathan, by burying him alive]].

* {{TearJerker}} [[spoiler: Despite [[CreepyUncle Uncle]] [[TheSociopath Charlie's]] [[SerialKiller evilness]] his death and India's [[NotSoStoic acute emotion]] over it is actually rather tragic.]]

** [[spoiler: By the end, [[ProtagonistJourneyToVillain India]] herself.]]

** Overlooking the incest do Uncle Charlie and India really have any genuine affection for one another (if they're even capable of it) or do they both simply like having someone who understands them?

** Overlooking the {{Squick incest}} do Uncle Charlie and India really have any genuine affection for one another (if they're even capable of it) or do they both simply like having someone who understands them?

** Overlooking the [[Squick incest]] do Uncle Charlie and India really have any genuine affection for one another (if they're even capable of it) or do they both simply like having someone who understands them?

** Is Evelyn a just shallow and selfish wife and mother who only cares about living her best life or is she a well-educated if spoiled woman who felt ignored by her husband in favor of her daughter, who openly disdains her, while living in an isolated and rural area where she feels her life is wasting away?

** Is Evelyn just a shallow and selfish who only cares about living her best life or is she a well-educated if spoiled woman who felt ignored by her husband in favor of her daughter, who openly disdains her, while living in an isolated and rural area where she feels her life is wasting away?

** Was India's father her [[MoralityChain morality chain]], fully aware of her [[TheSociopath nature]] or at least the possibility of it and trying to keep her in check by channeling it through hunting?

* {{Earworm}}: ''Summer Wine'', a Nancy Sinatra/Lee Hazlewood track incongruous with a tense, otherwise mostly instrumental score.

* SignatureScene: The piano duet.

* AwesomeMusic:

** Philip Glass' contribution to the score, "Duet," is simply stunning