1 | %%* CultClassic: It ''is'' a Creator/JohnWaters movie. |
2 | * HesJustHiding: [[spoiler: Juror #8]] could have only been unconscious after being hit twice with a telephone receiver. |
3 | * HilariousInHindsight: |
4 | ** The movie shows clips of the [[Creator/JoanCrawford Joan Crawford]] film ''Straight-Jacket''. John Waters would later play the director William Castle in ''{{Series/Feud}}'', at a screening of ''Straight-Jacket'', no less. |
5 | ** John Waters and Justin Whalin, who both worked on this movie, also had acted in the ''Franchise/ChildsPlay'' films (Waters would later play the {{Slimeball}} paparazzi photographer Pete Peters in ''Film/SeedOfChucky'' and would later play Good Guy creator Wendell Wilkins in the [[Series/{{Chucky}} the tv series]], while Whalin had played the teenaged Andy Barclay in ''Film/ChildsPlay3''). Ironically, both film installments Waters and Whalin were a part of were [[{{Sequelitis}} low points for the franchise]]. |
6 | ** Creator/MatthewLillard plays a horror-obsessed video store clerk two years before bullying such a character in ''Film/{{Scream}}.'' |
7 | * RetroactiveRecognition: Rosemary is played by Creator/MaryJoCatlett, the voice of [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants Mrs. Puff.]] |
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9 | * SpiritualSuccessor: [[WordOfGod John Waters said]] that ''Serial Mom'' is basically a theoretical "part two" of ''Film/FemaleTrouble''. |
10 | * {{Squick}}: Beverly and Eugene moan loudly while having sex, much to the disgust of their children, who can hear everything. |
11 | * UnintentionallySympathetic: Creator/RogerEbert wasn't too keen on the film, mostly because he found Kathleen Turner's portrayal of Beverly to be this trope. |
12 | --> Watch "Serial Mom" closely, however, and you'll realize that something is miscalculated at a fundamental level. Turner's character is helpless and unwitting in a way that makes us feel almost sorry for her - and that undermines the humor. She isn't funny crazy, she's sick crazy. The movie shows her triggered by passing remarks (a garbage man says "somebody ought to kill" a neighbor woman who refuses to recycle). She gets a weird light in her eyes that I guess we're supposed to laugh at, but, gee, it's kind of pathetic the way she goes into murderous action. |
13 | * TheWoobie: |
14 | ** Poor Dottie is tortured with obscene phone calls (even after changing her number twice) and is framed for breaking a mutual friend's prized possession just because she unknowingly took a parking spot Beverly wanted. |
15 | ** Eugene is a decent FamilyMan who has to deal with his wife murdering many of their acquaintances and the knowledge that she'll either go free when she's guilty or be sentenced to death. |
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