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* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: If one does the math; Diane is 32 and Dana is 16. The novelization clarifies that Diane is actually Steven's second wife, and only Dana's stepmother. Robbie and Carol Anne are Diane's children.

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* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: Downplayed. If one does the math; Diane is 32 and Dana is 16.16. Unusual but not unheard of in real life. The novelization clarifies that Diane is actually Steven's second wife, and only Dana's stepmother. Robbie and Carol Anne are Diane's children.



* CreepyChild: Carol Anne has her moments. Witness her sing-song "Theeeeeeyyyyy're heeeeerrreee!" after some ghosts try to reach for her through the TV screen and her parents wake up to see her sitting in front of the TV.

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* CreepyChild: Carol Anne has her moments.moments despite being a sweet kid. Witness her sing-song "Theeeeeeyyyyy're heeeeerrreee!" after some ghosts try to reach for her through the TV screen and her parents wake up to see her sitting in front of the TV.



* ShooOutTheClowns: The first twenty minutes of this film are very light-hearted, like when Steve and his neighbor are dueling with their remotes. After Carol Ann utters "They're here..." the film becomes considerably darker. The neighbors later reappear in a scene where Steven and Diane go to ask them if they experience any "disturbances" too (to which the neighbors look at them like they're crazy, and which is played for laughs). Once the film turns really dark, the neighbors aren't shown or mentioned again. They actually reappear to [[spoiler:rescue Diane from the pool corpses]], but then it is very brief and they've completely lost their comedic tendencies.

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* ShooOutTheClowns: The first twenty minutes of this film are very light-hearted, like when Steve and his neighbor are dueling with their remotes. After Carol Ann utters "They're here..." the film becomes considerably darker. The neighbors later reappear in a scene where Steven and Diane go to ask them if they experience any "disturbances" too (to which the neighbors look at them like they're crazy, and which is played for laughs). Once the film turns really dark, the neighbors aren't shown or mentioned again. They actually reappear to [[spoiler:rescue Diane from the pool corpses]], but then it is very brief and they've completely lost their comedic tendencies. Ironically, a literal clown would appear later in the movie after this trope was in effect, but of the MonsterClown variety.
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** There's another scene nearing the end of the film, after rescuing the daughter the mother and the daughter come out of the ghost's world, and they're both coated with blood-tinted globs of mucus.

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** There's another scene nearing the end of the film, after film. After rescuing the daughter daughter, the mother and the daughter come out of the ghost's world, and they're both coated with blood-tinted globs of mucus.

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