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17	->"''They say a dog's supposed to be man's best friend...''"
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19	''Where the Dead Go to Die'' is a [[SurrealHorror surreal]] PsychologicalHorror [[ComputerGeneratedImages CGI]] animated film by James "Jimmy [=ScreamerClauz=]" Creamer, and produced by Unearthed Films, with a cast and aide from individuals such as musician Music/PassengerOfShit and animator Creator/EmilyYoucis.
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21	It is an anthology of three short films:
22	* ''Tainted Milk'', meant to be a disturbing {{Homage}} to ''Franchise/{{Lassie}}'', centers around a boy living in an abusive household who meets up with [[HellHound a strange talking dog]] with [[RedEyesTakeWarning glowing red eyes]] who tells him to do some very disturbing things to his parents.
23	* ''Liquid Memories'' is about a depressed SerialKiller who murders people in order to steal [[FantasticDrug a strange blue liquid from their brains]] to gain their memories. However, once he enters into the minds of these people, their nightmares become his reality.
24	* The third and final short ''The Masks That The Monsters Wear'' is about a disfigured boy who must wear a mask to cover his [[ConjoinedTwins stillborn brother's face attached to his head.]] Living with his horribly abusive parents, he finds friendship with a sweet little girl in his class, but once he meets [[HillbillyHorrors her father]] and discovers the horrors that he puts her through, things begin to go FromBadToWorse.
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26	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, sometimes all at once. If you are easily offended, [[SchmuckBait watch this film at your own risk.]]
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28	!!Where the Dead Go to Trope:
29	* AbusiveParents: The only person who had anything resembling a good family life was the Killer, and even so, that life may not have even been his.
30	* AcidTripDimension: A prominent and recurring location through each short.
31	* AnimalisticAbomination: Labby the {{hellhound}}, who manipulates Tommy into doing horrible things under the guise that it's what God wanted.
32	* TheAntiChrist: Labby tries to convince Tommy that his stillborn sibling (and earlier than that, his grandfather's sheep) is this in ''Tainted Milk.''
33	* AteHisGun: How the [[spoiler: serial killer]] in ''Liquid Memories'' dies.
34	* BarbieDollAnatomy: Invoked on a more-or-less case-by-case basis -- when it's averted, there's usually some effect in mind.
35	* BestialityIsDepraved: PlayedForHorror in ''Tainted Milk'', when Labby takes advantage of Tommy with the promise of bringing his family back.
36	* BloodSplatteredInnocents: Happens to Tommy over the course of the first short, thanks to the atrocities he is ForcedToWatch or [[ForcedIntoEvil commit]].
37	%%* BodyHorror: Plenty of the surreal moments are full of this.
38	* CallBack: Tommy and the Lady In The Well have the same conversation in ''Tainted Milk'' and ''The Masks That The Monsters Wear.''
39	* CaptainObvious: The hooker and Tommy's dad both vocally point out that they're being killed.
40	* CentralTheme: If God exists, He hates the world. Why else would it suck?
41	* ConjoinedTwins: Ralph has the infant face of his stillborn brother attached to the side of his head, which forces him to wear a mask to cover it.
42	* 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.
43	* CreepyChild: Tommy, Ralph, and Johnny. Sophia may count as well.
44	* {{Cyclops}}: A strange recurring set of shadowing humanoid monsters with toothy grins and one eye make constant appearances through each short. It should be noted that each of their one eyes are [[SynchroVox a live-action shot of an actual eye.]]
45	* DarkParody: The first segment was meant to be a parody of ''Series/{{Lassie}}'' where the dog is demonic. When it didn't work without the laugh track, the rest of the short was played for straight-up horror.
46	* DeepSouth: Sophia's abusive redneck father has this vibe to him. [[spoiler:Which also plays up another unflattering stereotype about the deep south.]]
47	* DepravedBisexual: Labby the demon dog, who has sexual interactions (or expresses lustful statements) on both genders. Though somewhat more commonly with male characters.
48	* DerangedAnimation: TO HELL AND BACK! It's an animated horror film and it doesn't hold back on making you feel uncomfortable or creeped out.
49	* DownerEnding: All the shorts end badly for the protagonists and anyone else involved, especially the first two.
50	* DrivenToSuicide:
51	** In ''Tainted Milk'', Tommy mentions that his grandfather committed suicide after he, on Labby's orders, killed all of his sheep.
52	** This is how [[spoiler:the Serial Killer]] goes out, via [[spoiler:[[AteHisGun eating]] his gun]].
53	* EldritchAbomination: In the truest sense of the trope, since the horrific supernatural beings couldn't possibly be more alien and inexplicable if they tried.
54	* ExploitationFilm: The horrifying imagery alone is enough to make this film a rare animated example of this trope.
55	%%* EyesDoNotBelongThere: Pretty much a recurring image throughout the film.
56	* EyeScream: Happens to the Hooker as the result of a John's war flashback.
57	* FanDisservice: Any instance of eroticism in any of the shorts is packed to the gills with this, thanks to the animation and the fact that it's horror.
58	%%* FreakOut: Par for the course on all three shorts.
59	* {{Gorn}}: Each short contains various scenes involving graphically bloody violence. ''Tainted Milk'', for example, has one notorious moment where [[spoiler:Labby rips out Tommy's unborn brother from his mother's stomach and then proceeds to tear off his father's penis afterwards]].
60	* GreaterScopeVillain: The Keeper of Man's Fears and the Creator of His Woes, the HumanoidAbomination who created evil.
61	* GroinAttack: In one of the more iconic scenes from ''Tainted Milk,'' Labby does this to both of Tommy's parents.
62	* HateSink:
63	** 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.]]
64	** 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.]]
65	* 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.]]
66	* {{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.
67	* 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]].
68	* HumanoidAbomination: The Keeper Of Man's Fears and the Creator Of His Woes, and many other monsters.
69	* 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]].
70	* IntelligibleUnintelligible: The Lady in the Well in ''Tainted Milk'' "speaks" with some [[VoiceOfTheLegion echoy voice]] that's incomprehensible, yet Tommy appears to understand her just fine. We hear what she was saying in ''The Masks That The Monsters Wear'', however.
71	* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Ralph delivers them to both his abusive parents and the horrible pedophile father of his love interest, Sophia.]]
72	%%* KidsAreCruel: Johnny and possibly Tommy.
73	* LightIsNotGood: The Keeper Of Man's Fears and the Creator Of His Woes is a HumanoidAbomination with a fireball for a head.
74	* LimitedAnimation: The whole film was done from the director's home, with hobbyist-level software and jerry-rigged, consumer-grade hardware.
75	* ManipulativeBastard: Labby the hell-hound, who easily manipulates a vulnerable young boy to do heinous acts.
76	%%* MeatMoss: Every surreal scene in the film, such as the "hallucinations" depicted in ''Liquid Memories'' loves this.
77	* MindScrew: Many of the characters tend to randomly experience what appear to be ''extremely'' horrific hallucinations and many of the demons don't have any sort of explanation as to what they even are.
78	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
79	-->'''[[spoiler:Ralph]]:''' I did things I didn't know I was capable of doing...
80	%%* NightmareFuelColoringBook: Ralph's drawings are these.
81	* NothingIsScarier: None of the recurring characters, or any of the supernatural horrors for that matter, are given any sort of overt explanation as to what they ''are''. The most obvious interpretation would be that they're demons, but the bizarrely pro-Christian imagery and their sheer [[SurrealHorror bizarreness]] seems to imply something else altogether.
82	* PaedoHunt: A major focus of the third short.
83	* PleaseWakeUp: Taken to rather disturbing lengths in ''Tainted Milk.''
84	* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Ralph's father is homophobic, as evidenced when he tells Ralph he doesn't want a "faggot" for a son.
85	* RedEyesTakeWarning: To really nail in that Labby's not to be trusted and is also a hellhound.
86	* 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.
87	* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler:Labby convinces Ralph to brutally murder both of his parents, and anybody else he felt was getting between him and Sophia.]]
88	%%* RuleOfSymbolism: All over the place.
89	* {{Satan}}: Makes an appearance during one of Labby's monologues in "Tainted Milk". The freaked-out animation works in the film's favor there, as this movie's depiction of Satan is ''terrifying''.
90	* SceneryPorn: Admittedly, there are quite a few lovingly-detailed scene shots, especially in ''The Masks That The Monsters Wear.'' [[SceneryGorn A few of them are of rather grotesque or ruinous locations...]]
91	* SerialKiller: The main protagonist of ''Liquid Memories'', as his main MO is to kill people and well take their liquid memories.
92	* ShellShockedVeteran: One appears in ''Liquid Memories.'' It's the reason he goes nuts and assaults the Hooker -- he had a war flashback.
93	* SlasherSmile: Those creepy yellow Smiley faced monsters in the war veteran's flashback sport these.
94	* StalkerWithACrush: Ralph, although his crush does like him back.
95	* SuddenlySpeaking: [[spoiler:The Keeper Of Man's Fears and the Creator Of His Woes]] speaks in ''The Masks That The Monsters Wear.''
96	* SurrealHorror: And overkill on both counts!
97	* SynchroVox: Done on the eyes of the shadowy Cyclops monsters that appear throughout the film.
98	* TheUnfavorite: Ralph is this to his ''parasitic twin''. His parents despise him for being born while his brother didn't survive birth, constantly guilt-trip him over it, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking shave his head to keep his hair from covering the twin's face]].
99	* UnnamedParent: None of the children's parents in the film are given names.
100	* UnreliableNarrator: Save for a few moments, it's hard to tell how lucid (if indeed at all) the protagonist of ''Liquid Memories'' is.

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