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| 3 | ''The House That Drips Blood on Alex'' is a horror comedy film that stars (though is not written) by Creator/TommyWiseau, who you probably remember from [[Film/TheRoom2003 another film]]. |
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| 5 | In a movie theater, two teenaged girls are watching a film, [[FramingDevice when a creepy man right next to them decides to tell them a story]] about a man named Alex who bought a house on "3 Blood Street" ([[InsistentTerminology it's pronounced "bluud"]].) from a shady contractor, and this house seems to drip blood on Alex. |
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| 8 | !!The Tropes That Drip Blood on Alex: |
| 9 | * DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Alex finds his own corpse in the attic.]] |
| 10 | * EvilLaugh: Alex shows some serious GenreBlindness when he signs the contract to buy the house. |
| 11 | * GainaxEnding: [[spoiler:Alex was DeadAllAlong, but the theater presents a trailer for a film that posits the exact same premise as the story the creepy man told... But then the two teenagers look at the creepy man again and he's suddenly a skeleton.]] |
| 12 | * IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: ''Blood Street.'' Fortunately it's not pronounced that way. |
| 13 | %% * ObviouslyEvil: The contractor/landlord. |
| 14 | * TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday: The place where the contractor sold Alex the house is decrepit and broken down when they visit it again. |
| 15 | * ShoutOut: The short derives its name from the film ''Film/TheHouseThatDrippedBlood''. |
| 16 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The fate of Alex's friends, Thomas and Bobby, are never explained after [[spoiler:Alex finds his own dead body in the attic]]. |
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