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* CriticalResearchFailure: The machine they're putting Kyle in isn't a sensory deprivation tank, but quite clearly an MRI machine.
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* NighttimeBathroomPhobia: The prologue is AMinorKidroduction of Kyle (TheHero), who is afraid of going to the bathroom at night (and darkness in general). When his mother tries to reassure him that everything is safe, that's when Matilda Dixon (a psychotic ghost) attacks and kills Kyle's mother. For further irony, Kyle saves himself by running into the bathroom because Dixon is WeakenedByTheLight.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: The townspeople that ''kickstarted the damn story'': While understandably scared that two kids went missing and knowing Matilda to be close to the children, their first thought was to go on a witch hunt and kill her. It makes it worse when the next day, the two kids turned up with no injuries.
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Creator/DarkHorse published a one-shot {{Prequel}} ComicBook, ''Darkness Falls: The Tragic Life of Matilda Dixon'', telling Matilda Dixon's origin.
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* InfantImmortality: Played straight in the sense that none of the on-screen children die, averted in the sense that many, many children have been killed off-screen during Matilda's 150-year rampage.
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* MurderIntoMalevolence: Matilda Dixon was a kindly widow who gave the children of her town gifts in exchange for their teeth. However, the fact she wore a mask and only came out at night (due to suffering severe burns from a fire that burned down her home that left her sensitive to light) made the adults suspicious, and when two children disappeared, they blamed her and promptly lynched her... before the kids returned on their own, unharmed. As she died, Matilda swore vengeance, and afterwards haunts the town of Darkness Falls as a murderous ghost, killing anyone who sees her, seemingly at whim.
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* MurderIntoMalevolence: Matilda Dixon was a kindly widow who gave the children of her town gifts in exchange for their teeth. However, the fact she wore a mask and only came out at night (due to suffering severe burns from a fire that burned down her home that left her sensitive to light) made the adults suspicious, and when two children disappeared, they blamed her and promptly lynched her... before the kids [[AllForNothing returned on their own, own]], unharmed. As she died, Matilda swore vengeance, and afterwards haunts the town of Darkness Falls as a murderous ghost, killing anyone who sees her, seemingly at whim.
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* CriticalResearchFailure: The machine they're putting Kyle in isn't a sensory deprivation tank, but quite clearly an MRI machine.
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* AxCrazy: Considering Matilda is now a simmering volcano of pent up UnstoppableRage that will attack and kill anyone who lays eyes on her, it’s fair to say that any sanity she may have had was lost long ago.
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* MurderIntoMalevolence: Matilda Dixon was a kindly widow who gave the children of her town gifts in exchange for their teeth. However, the fact she wore a mask and only came out at night (due to suffering severe burns somehow that left her sensitive to light) made the adults suspicious, and when two children disappeared, they blamed her and promptly lynched her... before the kids returned on their own, unharmed. As she died, Matilda swore vengeance, and afterwards haunts the town of Darkness Falls as a murderous ghost, killing anyone who sees her, seemingly at whim.
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* MurderIntoMalevolence: Matilda Dixon was a kindly widow who gave the children of her town gifts in exchange for their teeth. However, the fact she wore a mask and only came out at night (due to suffering severe burns somehow from a fire that burned down her home that left her sensitive to light) made the adults suspicious, and when two children disappeared, they blamed her and promptly lynched her... before the kids returned on their own, unharmed. As she died, Matilda swore vengeance, and afterwards haunts the town of Darkness Falls as a murderous ghost, killing anyone who sees her, seemingly at whim.
