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* MagicMirror: A parody of ''Snow White'''s talking magic mirror appears in the Ravish perfume commercial.
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* DoubleMeaningTitle: It refers to both the commercial actresses being "lookers" and the device being used to kill them.
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* DoubleMeaningTitle: It refers to both the commercial actresses being "lookers" and the device being used to kill them. Lampshaded in the film when Dr. Roberts is being taken in by Reston Industries security men and he asks them about the L.O.O.K.E.R. gun, only for them to talk about the women passing by their vehicle being "lookers".
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* HypnoRay: The L.O.O.K.E.R. gun which poses as a strobe light gun, but actually uses light to hypnotize its victims so that they lose all sense of time.
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* HypnoRay: The L.O.O.K.E.R. gun which poses as a strobe light gun, but actually uses light to hypnotize its victims so that they lose all sense of time.time, rendering the user of the gun invisible to their victims.
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* StepIntoTheBlindingFight: The serial killer uses the L.O.O.K.E.R. gun's invisibility effect on people to knock Dr. Roberts around the Digital Matrix laboratory until he gets a special pair of glasses to shield himself from the effect. Dr. Roberts ends up using the L.O.O.K.E.R. gun on the serial killer to give him a GroinAttack before his escape with Cindy.
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* SmokeOut: People sent to kidnap Dr. Roberts' patient Cindy while she is hiding out in his office overnight use a smoke screen to prevent the doctor from using the L.O.O.K.E.R. gun he had stolen from Digital Matrix.
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* FunWithAcronyms: Light Ocular-Oriented Kinetic Emotive Responses (L.O.O.K.E.R.)
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* FunWithAcronyms: Light Ocular-Oriented Kinetic Emotive Responses '''L'''ight '''O'''cular-'''O'''riented '''K'''inetic '''E'''motive '''R'''esponses (L.O.O.K.E.R.)
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* SerialKiller: The one in this film primarily goes after commercial actresses who just had plastic surgery by Larry Roberts and also had their body measurements scanned by Digital Matrix.
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* SerialKiller: The one in this film primarily goes after commercial actresses who just had plastic surgery by Larry Roberts and also had their body measurements scanned by Digital Matrix.Matrix.
* VirtualCelebrity: What Digital Matrix seems to be creating with the commercial actors and actresses they have scanned, with the implied intention that once the original models have been made into virtual actors, they can be easily disposed of. It should be noted that none of the original actors that were used as templates for the models are in themselves celebrities.
* VirtualCelebrity: What Digital Matrix seems to be creating with the commercial actors and actresses they have scanned, with the implied intention that once the original models have been made into virtual actors, they can be easily disposed of. It should be noted that none of the original actors that were used as templates for the models are in themselves celebrities.
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* CigaretteOfAnxiety: The commercial actress who comes to warn Dr. Roberts about someone killing all the other actresses he had worked on breaks out a cigarette and tries to find a lighter when the doctor kindly lights it for her.
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* EightiesHair: An early example.
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* EightiesHair: An early example.example, particularly with the actresses in the New Wave shampoo commercial.
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* EightiesHairEightiesHair: An early example.
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* BlackComedy: Some of the commercials that were being filmed near the end of the movie feature accidental cases of it with characters that are either dead or dying, such as Jon Reston's death during a Spurt toothpaste commercial.
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* BlackComedy: Some of the commercials that were being filmed near the end of the movie feature accidental cases of it with characters that are either dead or dying, such as Jon Reston's death during a Spurt toothpaste commercial.commercial with its slogan of making your mouth come to life.
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* SerialKiller: The one in this film primarily goes after commercial actresses who just had plastic surgery by Larry Roberts.
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* SerialKiller: The one in this film primarily goes after commercial actresses who just had plastic surgery by Larry Roberts.Roberts and also had their body measurements scanned by Digital Matrix.
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* BlackComedy: Some of the commercials that were being filmed near the end of the movie feature accidental cases of it with characters that are either dead or dying, such as John Reston's death during a Spurt toothpaste commercial.
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* BlackComedy: Some of the commercials that were being filmed near the end of the movie feature accidental cases of it with characters that are either dead or dying, such as John Jon Reston's death during a Spurt toothpaste commercial.
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* CurtainCamouflage: The serial killer with the L.O.O.K.E.R. gun hides behind translucent curtains while stalking his prey, who cannot see him because the gun has rendered him invisible to her, and eventually wraps her up inside a curtain before she falls to her death.
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* CarCushion: One of the commercial actresses falls to her death on top of a parked car from her apartment balcony.
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[[caption-width-right:350:"If looks could kill..."]]
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* HypnoRay: The L.O.O.K.E.R. gun which poses as a strobe light gun, but actually uses light to hypnotize its victims so that they lose all sense of time.
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* HypnoRay: The L.O.O.K.E.R. gun which poses as a strobe light gun, but actually uses light to hypnotize its victims so that they lose all sense of time.
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* BlindedByTheLight: The L.O.O.K.E.R. gun doesn't blind its victims, but rather uses light to hypnotize its victims so that they lose all sense of time.
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* HypnoRay: The L.O.O.K.E.R. gun which poses as a strobe light gun, but actually uses light to hypnotize its victims so that they lose all sense of time.
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'''Looker''' is a 1981 science fiction film written and directed by Creator/Michael Crichton, starring Albert Finney, Susan Dey, and James Coburn. In the film, Finney plays Dr. Larry Roberts, a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon whose patients are becoming victims of a serial killer targeting commercial actresses. One of his Roberts' patients, played by Susan Dey, is the killer's next victim. Roberts discovers that his patients have all been associated with a company called Digital Matrix, who is developing technology for computer-generated actors, and one of their technologies may have been used by the serial killer.
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'''Looker''' is a 1981 science fiction film written and directed by Creator/Michael Crichton, Creator/MichaelCrichton, starring Albert Finney, Susan Dey, and James Coburn. In the film, Finney plays Dr. Larry Roberts, a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon whose patients are becoming victims of a serial killer targeting commercial actresses. One of his Roberts' patients, played by Susan Dey, is the killer's next victim. Roberts discovers that his patients have all been associated with a company called Digital Matrix, who is developing technology for computer-generated actors, and one of their technologies may have been used by the serial killer.
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'''Looker''' is a 1981 science fiction film written and directed by Michael Crichton, starring Albert Finney, Susan Dey, and James Coburn. In the film, Finney plays Dr. Larry Roberts, a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon whose patients are becoming victims of a serial killer targeting commercial actresses. One of his Roberts' patients, played by Susan Dey, is the killer's next victim. Roberts discovers that his patients have all been associated with a company called Digital Matrix, who is developing technology for computer-generated actors, and one of their technologies may have been used by the serial killer.
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'''Looker''' is a 1981 science fiction film written and directed by Michael Creator/Michael Crichton, starring Albert Finney, Susan Dey, and James Coburn. In the film, Finney plays Dr. Larry Roberts, a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon whose patients are becoming victims of a serial killer targeting commercial actresses. One of his Roberts' patients, played by Susan Dey, is the killer's next victim. Roberts discovers that his patients have all been associated with a company called Digital Matrix, who is developing technology for computer-generated actors, and one of their technologies may have been used by the serial killer.
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[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/looker_poster_7351.jpg]]
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* BlackComedy: Some of the commercials that were being filmed near the end of the movie feature accidental cases of it with characters that are either dead or dying, such as John Reston's death during a Spurt toothpaste commercial.
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* GroinAttack: Dr. Roberts delivers one to the serial killer.
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* ThemeSerialKiller: The one in this film primarily goes after commercial actresses who just had plastic surgery by Larry Roberts.
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* HypnoticEyes: Digital Matrix creates computer-generated actors that have hypnotic eyes that cause the viewers to fall into a trance so that they would be receptive to whatever message the producers want to communicate through the TV commercials.
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* HypnoticEyes: Digital Matrix creates computer-generated actors that have hypnotic eyes that cause the viewers to fall into a trance so that they would be receptive to whatever message the producers want to communicate through the TV commercials.commercials.
* ThemeSerialKiller: The one in this film primarily goes after commercial actresses who just had plastic surgery by Larry Roberts.
* ThemeSerialKiller: The one in this film primarily goes after commercial actresses who just had plastic surgery by Larry Roberts.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Jon Reston, played by James Coburn.
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* DoubleMeaningTitle: It refers to both the commercial actresses being "lookers" and the device being used to kill them.
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* HypnoticEyes: Digital Matrix creates computer-generated actors that have hypnotic eyes that cause the viewers to fall into a trance so that they would be receptive to whatever message the producers want to communicate through the TV commercials.
* HypnoticEyes: Digital Matrix creates computer-generated actors that have hypnotic eyes that cause the viewers to fall into a trance so that they would be receptive to whatever message the producers want to communicate through the TV commercials.
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'''Looker''' is a 1981 science fiction film written and directed by Michael Crichton, starring Albert Finney, Susan Dey, and James Coburn. In the film, Finney plays Dr. Larry Roberts, a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon whose patients are becoming victims of a serial killer targeting commercial actresses. One of his Roberts' patients, played by Susan Dey, is the killer's next victim. Roberts discovers that his patients have all been associated with a company called Digital Matrix, who is developing technology for computer-generated actors, and one of their technologies may have been used by the serial killer.
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'''Looker''' is a 1981 science fiction film written and directed by Michael Crichton, starring Albert Finney, Susan Dey, and James Coburn. In the film, Finney plays Dr. Larry Roberts, a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon whose patients are becoming victims of a serial killer targeting commercial actresses. One of his Roberts' patients, played by Susan Dey, is the killer's next victim. Roberts discovers that his patients have all been associated with a company called Digital Matrix, who is developing technology for computer-generated actors, and one of their technologies may have been used by the serial killer.killer.
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* BlindedByTheLight: The L.O.O.K.E.R. gun doesn't blind its victims, but rather uses light to hypnotize its victims so that they lose all sense of time.
* FunWithAcronyms: Light Ocular-Oriented Kinetic Emotive Responses (L.O.O.K.E.R.)
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* BlindedByTheLight: The L.O.O.K.E.R. gun doesn't blind its victims, but rather uses light to hypnotize its victims so that they lose all sense of time.
* FunWithAcronyms: Light Ocular-Oriented Kinetic Emotive Responses (L.O.O.K.E.R.)
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'''Looker''' is a 1981 science fiction film written and directed by Michael Crichton, starring Albert Finney, Susan Dey, and James Coburn. In the film, Finney plays Dr. Larry Roberts, a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon whose patients are becoming victims of a serial killer targeting commercial actresses. One of his Roberts' patients, played by Susan Dey, is the killer's next victim. Roberts discovers that his patients have all been associated with a company called Digital Matrix, who is developing technology for computer-generated actors, and one of their technologies may have been used by the serial killer.
