* CompleteMonster: Both Zalman and Steele are played for laughs. Mike's role, however is played very seriously.
** The hooker's brother, Freddy. [[spoiler: He faked the letter from her dad, since her dad died months before (and she didn't know), just so he could get her to turn up and he could see how bad her life was.]]
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: In part 2, [[spoiler: the hooker knocks Matty out, takes his gun and shoots Zalman with it.]]
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: The whole entire soundtrack! Not one single song is out of place.
* FetishFuel: Hookers, Brad Jones's voice, a {{Woobie}} [[TheAlcoholic drunk]] MadScientist, mobsters in nice suits, [[SoGoodWeMentionedItTwice Brad Jones's voice]], Jillian's ... tracts of land ... the movie is a goldmine of FetishFuel.
* NauseaFuel / NightmareFuel: [[spoiler: One scene has Steele threatening his love interest (actually Brad's RealLife wife) by threatening to kill her like he did his ex girlfriend. He does this by showing her the body of his ex, which is locked away in a room bathed in Red lighting, then proceeds to have sex with his current girlfriend in front of the dead body. ]]
** ...so... [[spoiler: No mention of the heart removal scene from the end of part 4, set to Neil Young's "Heart of Gold"?]]
* WhatAnIdiot: During the chase scene in Part 1, the hooker runs into an alley and looks around the corner. As soon as Zalman appears, what she ''should'' have done was pull back... what she ''did'' do was keep looking, allowing him to see her.
* TheWoobie: The hooker.
** Janet. She gets forcibly given to Steele.