* AccidentalInnuendo:
** If footmen tire you, [[BestialityIsDepraved what will horses do]]?
** There's also Reverend Pirkle's final words to the audience. It's supposed to be a call to arms for Jesus Christ, but the wording lends it a slightly...''different'' interpretation.
-->'''Rev. Pirkle:''' [[CallingYourOrgasms Will you come?]] [[TheImmodestOrgasm Will you come?]] [[TheGruntingOrgasm Will you come?]]
* {{Anvilicious}}: Communism is bad, mkay?
* CultClassic: This movie and Pirkle's two other movies have received this status to the point where a digital restoration of all three of them was produced by Creator/NicolasWindingRefn for his streaming website [[https://bynwr.com/ byNWR]].
* EnsembleDarkhorse: That weird, [[{{Squick}} gross]], unintentionally LaughablyEvil Commissar who shows up several times to KickTheDog (... with [[RapeDiscretionShot implied]] [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rape]] of [[DamselInDistress a woman]] after killing her husband, [[OffWithHisHead chopping]] off a [[WouldHurtAChild kid's head]] and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking talking]] like [[DeepSouth Foghorn Leghorn]] doing a bad [[VampireVords Dracula]] impression) seems to border on this.
* HilariousInHindsight: Modern video gamers might get a chuckle from the name [[VideoGame/DarkSouls Estus.]]
* NightmareFuel:
** A military officer punishes a little boy by ''shoving pencils'' in the boy's ears. And then the boy throws up.
** Estus W. Pirkle's ramblings [[SinisterMinister get increasingly outlandish and disturbing]] as the film progresses, to the point where he almost sounds like [[Film/TheNightOfTheHunter the reverend Harry Powell]] at times. And to think [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_McIntire there were people who ''agreed'' with him...]]
* RetroactiveRecognition: Estus' son and future congressional candidate Greg Pirkle plays the little boy who's [[spoiler: decapitated by a Communist soldier]] near the end of the movie.
* SampledUp: Much of its notoriety comes from Music/{{Negativland}}'s sampling in the song "Christianity is Stupid".
* SoBadItsGood: The whole movie, especially the DirtyCommies and particularly the main "Commissar" guy. He's as unintentionally silly and ridiculous as he is icky.
* SpecialEffectsFailure: Most of the carnage is this, along with the bargain-basement acting. Among other cinematic atrocities, you have:
** Some of the gunned-down people being played by mannequins.
** Blood that looks like cherry dessert topping.
** The boy's beheading involves a totally fake knife from the toy section at K-Mart and is cheesily portrayed.
** The "Soviet" flags and insignias look like they were made from scratch by five-year-olds.
** The news anchor's newsroom is an ugly wood-paneled wall with a map on it.
** The flashback scenes where Rev. Pirkle muses fondly about the [=McGuffey=] Readers are supposedly set in the turn of the 20th Century but everybody still dresses like it's TheSeventies.

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