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This short contains examples of:

• Art Shift: Includes effects to suggest an old movie.
• Asshole Victim: Foster Brenner, as it would suggest.
• Beauty Mark: Aimee Brenner
• Blondes are Evil: Aimee paid off a couple of people to kill her own father.
• Da Chief: The Police Captain
• Dead All Along
• Death of a Thousand Cuts: The Spectre traps Aimee in a tornado of 100 dollar bills and makes them both completely rigid and razor sharp. She quickly dies in a bloody mess.
• Disposable Love Interest: She is guilty.
• Genre Throwback: To 60s/70s style horror like Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist and detective/crime movies like Dirty Harry.
• Good Is Not Nice: Does he have to kill them?
• Greed: Why else does Aimee do what she does?
• Hollywood California: The setting
• Paper Master: Temporarily, as seen under Death of a Thousand Cuts
• Pay Evil unto Evil
• The Seventies: Where the short takes place.
• Shooting Superman: Aimee fires several shots into Jim and they go straight through him. Then she throws the gun at him and it goes through him as well.
• Shout Out: Some of the puppets resemble Nosferatu and the possessed girl).
  • The first target,a special effects artist, is killed by a giant King Kong puppet.
  • No Celebrities Were Harmed: He also bares a striking resemblance to Tom Savini.
• Skunk Stripe: Jim Corrigan
• Vehicular Assault: The Spectre possesses a target's car and drops it nose down on him.