| 1 | * AdaptationDisplacement: A "derivative work becomes successful enough to overshadow the original work completely" is especially true here. Hardly anyone knows of Dean Koontz's ''Intensity'', and if they do, they probably know of the book but not the [[TheFilmOfTheBook 2-part miniseries]]. It's why this is available on Netflix and Blockbuster, and ''Intensity'' isn't. It's why this is available on Blu-Ray and DVD, and you can only find [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes illegally burned copies]] of ''Intensity'', or on Website/YouTube before it gets deleted due to copyright violations. |
| 2 | * AssPull: [[spoiler: The killer being [[TheReveal revealed]] as Marie's SplitPersonality.]] One of the most infamous examples outside of Creator/MNightShyamalan. Critics and filmgoers with both positive and negative things to say about the movie point to this as its biggest flaw, especially regarding the enormous PlotHole it causes. |
| 3 | * BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The opening, depicting the killer having sex with a severed head, is retroactively made one after TheReveal. |
| 4 | * HilariousInHindsight: Creator/AlexandreAja has said that the scene where the killer searches the bathroom is intended as a ShoutOut to ''Film/Maniac1980''. He would later write the screenplay for that film's 2012 remake. |
| 5 | * ItWasHisSled: The film's much-maligned TwistEnding is almost as infamous as the movie's violence, with so many critics and filmgoers claiming it [[AssPull ruined an otherwise excellent horror film]]. |
| 6 | * SpiritualAdaptation: As noted above, to the Creator/DeanKoontz novel ''Intensity''. It's also a rare example of a ''{{Disowned|Adaptation}}'' Spiritual Adaptation, as Koontz considered suing for UsefulNotes/{{plagiarism}} but decided not to because he hated the film so much (specifically, he found it [[TooBleakStoppedCaring relentlessly grim]] to the point where he described it as "full of loathing for humanity") that he didn't want it associated with his book, even for the sake of royalties. |
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