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* LovecraftCountry: Hobb's End. The film is inspired by, and contains ShoutOut after ShoutOut to Creator/HPLovecraft. Hell, a nightmare sequence even has a ContinuityCameo from [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Cthulhu]].

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* LovecraftCountry: Hobb's End.End, New Hampshire. The film is inspired by, and contains ShoutOut after ShoutOut to Creator/HPLovecraft. Hell, a nightmare sequence even has a ContinuityCameo from [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Cthulhu]].



* TownWithADarkSecret: Hobb's End, of course, in the tradition of similar locals such as [[Creator/StephenKing Castle Rock and Derry]], along with [[Creator/HPLovecraft Innsmouth and Arkham.]]

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* TownWithADarkSecret: Hobb's End, of course, in the tradition of similar locals such as [[Creator/StephenKing Castle Rock and Derry]], along with [[Creator/HPLovecraft Innsmouth Innsmouth, Dunwich, and Arkham.]]


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* UnexplainedAccent: Sam Neill, David Warner, and Wilhelm von Homburg all speak in their native accents (New Zealand, England, and Germany, respectively) despite the movie being set in the United States and there are no references to any of them being expats. In von Homburg's case it's especially strange since he's supposed to be a blue-collar Hobb's End local.
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* AngryGuardDog: Cane sics several of them on Simon and his cohorts as they try to confront him at the church. They're surprisingly effective considering the men are angry and toting rifles [[spoiler: or maybe not, considering Cane literally wrote into reality what would happen]].

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* DrivenToMadness: Probably Trent. Likely Cane. Maybe the whole world? Or it could be none of these people are real anyway...

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* DrivenToMadness: Probably Trent. Likely Cane. Maybe the whole world? Or it could be none Enforced. The Old Ones operate on ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve rules, so making a sufficiently large number of these people insane enough to accept their existence is basically their form of colonisation. Cane and his writings are real anyway...simply their main vehicle for this.



* EndlessCorridor: The passage way that leads back from Hobb's End to the real world.

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* EndlessCorridor: The passage way passageway that leads back from Hobb's End to the real world.


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* NightmareSequence: Played with. The characters have frequent surreal and horrifying visions that they then wake up from, but given that it's in the context of reality and fiction merging and the waking world (insofar as the viewer can distinguish such a thing) getting weirder and weirder, describing them as simply 'bad dreams' seems a dangerous oversimplification.

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