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* KensingtonGore: [[spoiler: John's]] blood at the end is ''bright'' red.
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* AdultFear: Losing a child, very popular.
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* AlienGeometries: Venice comes across like this, with John and Laura getting lost far too easily in places they should feel familiar with.
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* AlienGeometries: Venice comes across like this, with John and Laura getting lost far too easily in places they should feel familiar with.with, given that this is clearly not their first time in that city.
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John is skeptical of all this, and thinks the sisters are trying to dupe his emotionally-fragile wife. While John and Laura work through their grief and try to save their marriage, Venice is being terrorized by a series of murders. Then John notices a small figure darting around the city's alleys, wearing the same kind of coat Christine did when she died. But, as John himself observes, "Nothing is what it seems."
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John is skeptical of all this, and thinks the sisters are trying to dupe his emotionally-fragile wife. While John and Laura work through their grief and try to save their marriage, Venice is being terrorized by a series of murders. Then John notices a small figure darting around the city's alleys, wearing the same kind of a similar red coat to the one Christine did wore when she died. But, as John himself observes, "Nothing is what it seems."
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* {{Homage}}: The aural match cut following Christine's death from Laura's scream to the screech of a drill is reminiscent of a cut in ''Film/The39Steps'', when a woman's scream cuts to the whistle of a steam train.
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* {{Homage}}: The aural match cut following Christine's death from Laura's scream to the screech of a drill is reminiscent of a cut in ''Film/The39Steps'', ''Film/The39Steps1935'', when a woman's scream cuts to the whistle of a steam train.
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* DeathOfAChild: The Baxters' daughter Christine drowns in the opening scene.
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* DeathOfAChild: The Baxters' daughter film opens with Christine drowns drowning in a lake. This prompts the opening scene.narrative of the rest of the film.
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* LittleDeadRidingHood: Christine drowns in a bright red coat.
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* {{Homage}}: The aural match cut following Christine's death from Laura's scream to the screech of a drill is reminiscent of a cut in ''Film/The39Steps'', when a woman's scream cuts to the whistle of a steam train.
* LittleDeadRidingHood: Christinedrowns wears a hooded red coat. She drowns. And the ghost of her is seen as such...[[spoiler:turns out to be a dwarf murderer in a bright red coat.coat, thus actually inverting the trope]].
* LittleDeadRidingHood: Christine
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* RaincoatOfHorror: John catches glimpses of a figure in a red raincoat that might be the ghost of his daughter (who was wearing a red raincoat when she died).
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* SplashOfColor: It's a color film, but shot in very subdued, dark, dingy tones. A red child's coat is made extremely vivid by contrast, and has plot significance.
* SurrealHorror: There are several scenes where John has recurring visions of his deceased daughter and of his own death and funeral as he wanders lost in abandoned plazas, courtyards, and palaces in Venice (which themselves are distorted and dreamlike due to the near-absence of other people).
* SurrealHorror: There are several scenes where John has recurring visions of his deceased daughter and of his own death and funeral as he wanders lost in abandoned plazas, courtyards, and palaces in Venice (which themselves are distorted and dreamlike due to the near-absence of other people).
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* TreacherousSpiritChase: John thinks he is seeing the spirit of his dead daughter and tries to track her down throughout the film. [[spoiler:When he finally tracks down the hooded figure it turns out to be the serial killer mentioned on the radio earlier]].
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* WomenAreWiser: Women are shown to be better at communicating than men. Heather is psychic, Laura regularly stays in contact with the Baxter's son, Johnny and when the Baxters receive a phone call informing them of Johnny's accident at the boarding school, the headmaster's inarticulateness in explaining the situation causes his wife to intercept and explain instead.
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* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In the original short story Christine dies of meningitis rather than drowning.
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* RewatchBonus: All of the imagery from the beginning when you realize [[spoiler: John is having premonitions of his own death and funeral.]]
