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Nightmare Fuel / Alice, Sweet Alice

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  • Alice has aroused suspicion to those around her and for good reason even though she wasn't the killer. She gets pretty violent and screams a lot, is usually angry but at the same time, she's desperate for attention, especially when she just wants to be with her mom and dad and it's been shown that she's been so messed up due to the events lately (or even prior, which might have something to do with her father leaving) she's become paranoid. Her switch from troubled, disobedient kid to frightened little girl is astonishing.
  • The scene where Alice scares Karen in the warehouse has deserved a special mention in Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments. To elaborate: Alice lures Karen into the building and as soon as she finds her, she's seen wearing the mask. She takes it off and reveals a more ghastly looking mask underneath. Then Alice traps her in a room where she starts crying to get her out. After setting her free, she threatens that if she ever tells their mother, she will never see her doll again.
  • The murders committed by the killer, especially the first it appears strangling poor Karen during the communion and in the end after it was revealed that it was Mrs. Tredoni all along who then stabs the priest in the neck because it seemed like it just came completely out of nowhere.
    • How Karen's body was found. A nun smells the smoke (caused by the killer lighting a candle and placing on Karen's body before leaving) being blown by the fan and she is led to a bench compartment, opens it, then immediately slams it down. Terrified, all she could do was stand by and sob until everybody runs to the situation. Aunt Annie's reaction to seeing Karen's body was also pretty horrifying, screaming "OH MY GOD!" while smoke surrounds her.
    • Dom's murder wasn't all that pleasant either. He's led to an empty building, gets stabbed in the shoulder, and after trying to follow it, gets knocked unconscious with a brick. He is then rolled out to a window but not before the killer reveals her true identity- Mrs. Tredoni- and repeatedly beats him with her shoe after he bit down on Karen's crucifix which she had took, until finally being pushed to his death.
  • Aunt Annie's bloodcurdling scream when she was being stabbed in the leg by the killer. While she didn't die, she was so heavily traumatized that she's convinced herself and admitted to everyone that it was Alice, all the while screaming again.
  • Karen's body wasn't shown on screen after her initial death scene, possibly wanting to leave the resulting visual of her gruesome death to the imagination of the viewer. However, later on in the film after the funeral scene, a police photograph of a corpse is shown descending a dumbwaiter. Only the face is shown, but the face has clear burn marks with the eyes rolled back into their head. While not outright stated, it's clear the corpse is Karen's.
    • This scene takes place just after a scene that involves Mrs. Tredoni, who is later revealed as the person who did this to Karen.

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