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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Charlie calls Sid "Caprain of the Nazis." The film is set sometime in the 1920's. Hitler didn't become Chancellor of Germany until 1933, and WWII didn't start until 1939. It was ''long'' before Nazis became a VillainByDefault.
* AssholeVictim: The entire victim pool are sinners the Angel was sent to cleanse the Earth of.

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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Charlie calls Sid "Caprain of the Nazis." The film is set sometime in the 1920's.1920s. Hitler didn't become Chancellor of Germany until 1933, and WWII didn't start until 1939. It was ''long'' before Nazis became a VillainByDefault.
* AssholeVictim: The entire victim pool are is sinners the Angel was sent to cleanse the Earth of.



* DrivenToSuicide: A farmer is driven to shoot himself by the foreclosure upon his home by the local MorallyBankruptBanker.

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* DrivenToSuicide: A farmer is driven to shoot himself by the foreclosure upon of his home by the local MorallyBankruptBanker.



* TheParanoiac: Mrs. Finch believes that anybody who walks past her property is planning something, imagines peeping toms that aren't there and assumes hired help are stealing her brandy.

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* TheParanoiac: Mrs. Finch believes that anybody who walks past her property is planning something, imagines peeping toms that aren't there and assumes hired help are is stealing her brandy.
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* VillainProtagonist: The EnsembleCast of the film is full of sinners sho commit various heinous acts before the Angel of Death comes after them.

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* VillainProtagonist: The EnsembleCast of the film is full of sinners sho who commit various heinous acts before the Angel of Death comes after them.
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Good Adultery Bad Adultery now focuses on at least two affairs where one is portrayed as "good" and another "bad"


* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: Bad. The storeowner's wife only married him [[GoldDigger for the money]], her paramour is dsting her hoping to usurp her husband's business, and they accidentally kill the storeowner and try to MakeItLookLikeAnAccident.
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* VillainProtagonist: The EnsembleCast of the film is full of sinners sho commit various heinous acts before the Angel of Death comes after them.
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'''''A Day of Judgment''''' is a 1981 American religious propaganda film turned SlasherMovie. It concerns the Angel of Death coming to clean up a town after it becomes so sinful its preacher abandons it.
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!!This film contains examples of:

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Charlie calls Sid "Caprain of the Nazis." The film is set sometime in the 1920's. Hitler didn't become Chancellor of Germany until 1933, and WWII didn't start until 1939. It was ''long'' before Nazis became a VillainByDefault.
* AssholeVictim: The entire victim pool are sinners the Angel was sent to cleanse the Earth of.
* CruellaToAnimals: Finch poisons some kids' goat because she thinks they're conspiring against her.
* DarkIsNotEvil: [[spoiler:The Angel of Death may be an imposing, skeletal figure in all black, but he's merciful enough to rewind time so his victims can repent.]]
* DraggedOffToHell: After the Angel kills Finch, she's dragged into the ground by a bunch of hands and consumed in flame.
* DrivenToSuicide: A farmer is driven to shoot himself by the foreclosure upon his home by the local MorallyBankruptBanker.
* EnsembleCast: Different segments of the film follow different sinners in the town before the Angel kills them.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: George's AmoralAttorney is perfectly okay with his client tricking his parents into giving him power of attorney and sending them to the county poorhouse, but he draws the line at sending them to [[BedlamHouse the local insane asylum]].
* EventTitle
* EverybodyLives: [[spoiler:The Angel rewinds time to before any of the deaths happen.]]
* EvilDetectingAnimal: Cage's horse freaks out when it notices the Angel of Death.
* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: Bad. The storeowner's wife only married him [[GoldDigger for the money]], her paramour is dsting her hoping to usurp her husband's business, and they accidentally kill the storeowner and try to MakeItLookLikeAnAccident.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:The Angel of Death lets its victims awaken on the day before their sins, and they all repent due to visions of Hell.]]
* ItsAllMyFault: Reverend Cage blames himself for how sinful the town has become.
* LaserGuidedKarma: The Angel's punishments are based on the crimes his victims committed. For example, he has a woman who poisoned a child's pet in her paranoia about her gardens DraggedOffToHell via her plants.
* NeverMyFault: Charlie blames literally everybody he knows for his own drunken and abusive tendencies ruining his marriage and life.
* TheParanoiac: Mrs. Finch believes that anybody who walks past her property is planning something, imagines peeping toms that aren't there and assumes hired help are stealing her brandy.
* PropheticDream: God sends the town preacher a dream about his wrath coming upon the town as a warning for him to leave.
* TheScourgeOfGod: Literally, the slasher here is an actual agent of the Almighty.
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