History Film / TheDayOfTheBeast

* InnocentInaccurate: A small girl mistakes José María for SantaClaus when he and Ángel sneak into her family's apartment [[EnterStageWindow through the window]].

* GilliganCut: When Ángel unpacks a copy of Cavan's book and tries to leave, the clerk tells him that he has to pay for the book. Ángel pretends to not know what he is talking about and asks "[[SchmuckBait What? Which book?]]" Cut to him being dragged away by mall cops.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Right at the start, Ángel walks into the frame, looks around awkwardly, and heads into the church. You know right then that he's a priest and something's not quite right with him.

* WelcomeToTheBigCity: The scene after the prologue in the Basque Country, which shows Ángel arriving in Madrid and seeing, beggars, street performers, and PoliceBrutality among others.

* DoNotTauntCthulhu: The Devil lets [[spoiler:José María]] fall to his death in response to laughing at him.

* WelcomeToTheBigCity: The scene after the prologue in the Basque Country, which shows Ángel arriving in Madrid and seeing street performers and PoliceBrutality among others.

* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: The police fail to shoot Ángel while he is on a stage right in front of them [[spoiler:killing the Three Wisemen actors behind him instead.]]

* PoliceBrutality: One of the first things Ángel sees when arriving in Madrid is a group of cops beating some immigrants. In a later display of lacking common sense, they try to shoot Ángel in very busy Galerías Preciados, [[spoiler:killing the actors playing the Three Wisemen.]]

* MistakenForProstitute: A guy keeps calling Rosario's boarding home thinking it is a brothel, until Rosario clarifies that the prostitutes's flat is across the street. Her property is for sleeping only.

* DeterminedWidow: Rosario is implied to be one (she wears all-black and keeps the photo and uniform of her presumed late husband in her room, who is unmentioned).

* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: It is possible that the two appearances of Satan are just in the main character's minds.

** The English dub makes no attempt to keep Cavan's Italian accent, nor of his relations. Not that him being Italian is tully relevant to the story.
** The English dub also changes one of the most quoted lines by Spanish fans - José María's "Yes, sir. And from Carabanchel!" to just "Yeah, sure."

* SatanicPanic: Referenced by Ángel's belief that hidden Satanic messages may be found in Metal and Music/HardRock records played backwards.

* ChekhovsGun: The shopping mall security chief has an iron over his desk, no doubt just retrieved from another shoplifter. [[spoiler:Ángel uses it knock him out and escape.]]

* ChekhovsGunman: During the opening titles, Ángel passes by the Gate of Europe and past a homeless couple with a pregnant woman and a black goat, all of which return for the final scene.

* HeroicSacrifice: A feature film-long one. Ángel has most likely led an immaculate life before resolving that he must sin and join Satan's coven in order to stop him, damning himself in the process. At the end of the movie, [[spoiler:José María dies saving Ángel from Satan, who in turn saves Cavan from the neonazis. From their perspective they have saved the world, but nobody will know it and they have lose their identity in the process.]]

* HopeSpot: The protagonists arrive at the Gate of Europe and approach a sleeping homeless couple, hearing the wailing of their newborn... but then the "Clean Madrid" neonazis attack.

* TwoFaced: [[spoiler: Cavan]] gains this disfigurement after being set on fire by the neonazis, which puts a [[CareerEndingInjury definitive end to his career]].

* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler: The neonazis mercilessly gun down the homeless couple and their baby, to the surprise of the main characters (and the audience) who believe him to be the Antichrist.]]
* WretchedHive: Madrid is depicted as a [[ComicBook/{{Batman}} Gotham City]]-esque place with rampant delinquency and rich neonazis who murder [[KillThePoor the homeless]] with impunity.

* LostInTranslation: The English dub makes no attempt to keep Cavan's Italian accent, nor of his relations. Not that him being Italian is tully relevant to the story.

* NiceCharacterMeanActor: Cavan secretly hates his program, audience, and crew. He calls the audience "ten million dumbasses" in his last aired appearance.

* NiceCharacterMeanActor: Cavan secretly hates his program, audience, and crew. He calls the audience "ten million dumbasses" in his last air appearance.

* CountryMouse: Father Ángel, a beret-wearing rural priest somewhat cluelessly trying to be a sinner in the capital.

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* DeterminedWidow: Rosario is implied to be one (she wears all-black and keeps a photo of her presumed late husband in her room, who is unmentioned).