* CatharsisFactor: Coopersmith getting back at those responsible for him BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil.
* CompleteMonster: [[SinisterMinister Father Lorenzo Esteban]] was a [[HollywoodSatanism Satanic]] priest who murdered numerous innocents, slaughtering them in grim [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice]] before being caught and exiled from Spain. When his evil spirit is found by a bullied young cadet, Esteban [[TheCorrupter corrupts him into evil]] until he allows the wicked priest to [[DemonicPossession possess him]], whereupon Esteban goes on a brutal killing spree to massacre everyone in the near vicinity.
* MoralEventHorizon: [[JerkJock Bubba]] and his friends [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals killing Coopersmith's puppy as a sacrifice.]] While it doesn't work (due to the sacrifice requiring ''human'' blood), it's what finally motivates Coopersmith to make a DealWithTheDevil so he can get revenge.
* NightmareFuel: [[FullBoarAction Pigs being possessed and eating people]], including a scene where said pigs break into a woman's bathroom and eat her while she's in her bath, messy decapitations aplenty, and blood and gore all over the place with OminousLatinChanting in the background. And as if that wasn't nightmarish enough already, [[spoiler:the movie [[DownerEnding ends]] with the possessed computer flashing a message saying "I will return."]]
* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/LorenLester and Creator/RichardMoll who both acted in this film would a decade later be the voices of ComicBook/{{Robin}} and ComicBook/TwoFace in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''.
* RootingForTheEmpire: This is pretty much inevitable, given almost ''everyone'' who gets killed is a total asshole.
* TheyCopiedItSoItSucks: It's been criticized on the grounds that it's basically a genderbent ''Film/{{Carrie|1976}}'', although some like it for precisely that reason.
* TooBleakStoppedCaring: It's really hard to care for anyone in this film from the beginning to the end considering it takes place in a WorldOfJerkass and follows a ProtagonistJourneyToVillain following BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil.
* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: The makeup and gore effects in this film are very impressive, particularly in the climax with Stanley exacting spectacularly bloody revenge on his tormentors. Also noteworthy are the intricate animations used to represent Father Esteban's power and influence, including the ''[[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey 2001]]''-esque finale.

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