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* DropTheHammer: When his mother hides in a car, Bobby switches his knife to a hammer to force her out.
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# "He Who Kills" – The Zuni Fetish doll from the original film returns for more murder and mayhem, this time in a museum, where it was brought for study.
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# "He Who Kills" – The Zuni Fetish doll from the original film returns for more murder and mayhem, this time in a museum, museum where it was has been brought for study.
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# "The Graveyard Rats" - A woman and her lover conspire to kill her husband and obtain his money. Based on a short story by Creator/HenryKuttner.
# "Bobby" - A woman brings back her dead son, but he isn't quite what she expected.
# "He Who Kills" - The Zuni Fetish doll from the original film returns for more murder and mayhem, this time in a museum, where it was brought for study.
# "Bobby" - A woman brings back her dead son, but he isn't quite what she expected.
# "He Who Kills" - The Zuni Fetish doll from the original film returns for more murder and mayhem, this time in a museum, where it was brought for study.
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# "The Graveyard Rats" - – A woman and her lover conspire to kill her husband and obtain his money. Based on a short story by Creator/HenryKuttner.
# "Bobby"- – A woman brings back her dead son, but he isn't quite what she expected.
# "He Who Kills"- – The Zuni Fetish doll from the original film returns for more murder and mayhem, this time in a museum, where it was brought for study.
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# "He Who Kills"
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A 1996 sequel to ''Film/TrilogyOfTerror'', once again directed by Dan Curtis [[MadeForTV for television]], bringing three new tales of terror.
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A 1996 sequel to ''Film/TrilogyOfTerror'', once this [[MadeForTVMovie made for TV]] [[AnthologyFilm horror anthology film]] first aired on Creator/USANetwork in 1996. Once again directed by Dan Curtis [[MadeForTV for television]], bringing Curtis, it brings three new tales of terror.
terror, each featuring Creator/LysetteAnthony in the lead role.
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# "The Graveyard Rats" - Woman A woman and her lover conspire to kill her husband and obtain his money. Based on a short story by Creator/HenryKuttner.
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* KnifeNut: After deciding to switch places in his game of hide and seek, Bobby starts hunting his mother with a knife in hand.
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* KnifeNut: PsychoKnifeNut: After deciding to switch places in his game of hide and seek, Bobby starts hunting his mother with a knife in hand.
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* WhamLine: "[[spoiler:Bobby didn't wanna come back, mommy. Bobby hates you, mommy. So he sent me instead.]]"
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* WhamLine: "[[spoiler:Bobby "[[spoiler:You lied, mommy. Bobby didn't drown by accident. You knew that. Bobby drowned himself to get away from you. Bobby didn't wanna come back, mommy. Bobby hates you, mommy. So he sent me instead.]]"
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* ComicBookTime: The original film was made in 1975 and this one in 1996; the story is seemingly a direct continuation of the original's third story [[spoiler:with the police discovering the bodies of Amelia and her mother, probably only hours after their deaths]], despite there being a good bit of technology in the film not existing in the original's time.
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* ComicBookTime: The original film was made in 1975 and this one in 1996; the story is seemingly a [[ImmediateSequel direct continuation continuation]] of the original's third story [[spoiler:with the police discovering the bodies of Amelia and her mother, probably only hours after their deaths]], despite there being a good bit of technology in the film not existing in the original's time.
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* ActingForTwo: Much like Karen Black in the original film, Lysette Anthony plays the lead in all segments.
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A 1996 sequel to ''Film/TrilogyOfTerror'', once again directed by Dan Curtis [[MadeForTV for television]], bringing three new tales of terror.
# "The Graveyard Rats" - Woman and her lover conspire to kill her husband and obtain his money. Based on a short story by Creator/HenryKuttner.
# "Bobby" - A woman brings back her dead son, but he isn't quite what she expected.
# "He Who Kills" - The Zuni Fetish doll from the original film returns for more murder and mayhem, this time in a museum, where it was brought for study.
!!Overall tropes:
* ActingForTwo: Much like Karen Black in the original film, Lysette Anthony plays the lead in all segments.
* NumberedSequels
* TheXOfY
!!"The Graveyard Rats"
* {{Blackmail}}: Mr. Ansford forces Laura to be with him by threatening to send a video of her having sex with her cousin to the news station, and leaving her off from his will.
* EvilCripple: Mr. Ansford is a wheelchair-bound, abusive prick who is made unlikeable as possible.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: The eponymous rats have red eyes.
* RobbingTheDead:
** Stubbs the cemetery caretaker makes some money on the side by digging up corpses and stripping them from their valuables.
** Realizing that the key to get their hands on Ansford's hidden assets is inside the gold watch that he was buried with, Laura and Ben go to dig him up. They find Stubbs working on his grave upon arriving, and he gets beaten up.
* RodentsOfUnusualSize: The graveyard where Mr. Ansford was buried is filled with rats, some of them as big as dogs. They pose a problem when they snatch his corpse right before Laura's eyes.
* StaircaseTumble: Inspired by the FilmNoir ''Film/KissOfDeath'' (1947), his favourite movie, Ben pushes Mr. Ansford down a flight of stairs, killing him.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: After finding her husband's gold watch, Laura shoots Ben because she doesn't need him anymore.
!!"Bobby"
* AbusiveParents: It's implied that Bobby's mother is/was one.
* AntagonistTitle
* CameBackWrong: Bobby. [[spoiler:Averted, however, in that it's not really Bobby at all, but a demon that Bobby's soul sent to punish his mother.]]
* CreepyChild: [[spoiler:The demon disguised as ]]Bobby.
* DestinationDefenestration: Bobby's mother shoots him several times, and he falls through a second-story window.
* DrivenToSuicide: It's suggested that Bobby didn't drown by accident, but that he killed himself to escape his mother's abuse.
* DropTheHammer: When his mother hides in a car, Bobby switches his knife to a hammer to force her out.
* KnifeNut: After deciding to switch places in his game of hide and seek, Bobby starts hunting his mother with a knife in hand.
-->'''Bobby:''' Well, look what I found. A big, sharp knife!
* StaircaseTumble: Bobby teleports behind his mother and pushes her down the stairs while yelling "surprise!"
* WhamLine: "[[spoiler:Bobby didn't wanna come back, mommy. Bobby hates you, mommy. So he sent me instead.]]"
* WrenchWhack: Bobby's mother defends herself from him with a wrench.
!!"He Who Kills"
* AntagonistTitle: The scripture that came with the doll names it "He Who Kills".
* ComicBookTime: The original film was made in 1975 and this one in 1996; the story is seemingly a direct continuation of the original's third story [[spoiler:with the police discovering the bodies of Amelia and her mother, probably only hours after their deaths]], despite there being a good bit of technology in the film not existing in the original's time.
* HollywoodAcid: [[spoiler:Dr. Simpson almost destroys the Zuni Fetish doll for good by putting it into a container filled with sulfuric acid]].
* PowerfulPick: Dr. Simpson attack the Zuni Fetish doll with a pick when it tries to get out of the bag it was trapped in.
* ShoutOut: A security guard reads a comic book based on the television show ''Series/DarkShadows'', which was created by the movie's director Dan Curtis.
* SlashedThroat: Dr. Simpson finds the older security guard with his throat slashed.
* SuperWindowJump: The doll jumps through a doow window to get at Dr. Simpson.
* TwistEnding: [[spoiler:Much like Amelia in the original film, Dr. Simpson manages to destroy the Zuni Fetish doll, but is then [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie possessed by the spirit residing in it]], and the segment ends with her ambushing her boyfriend with a fire-axe]].
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# "The Graveyard Rats" - Woman and her lover conspire to kill her husband and obtain his money. Based on a short story by Creator/HenryKuttner.
# "Bobby" - A woman brings back her dead son, but he isn't quite what she expected.
# "He Who Kills" - The Zuni Fetish doll from the original film returns for more murder and mayhem, this time in a museum, where it was brought for study.
!!Overall tropes:
* ActingForTwo: Much like Karen Black in the original film, Lysette Anthony plays the lead in all segments.
* NumberedSequels
* TheXOfY
!!"The Graveyard Rats"
* {{Blackmail}}: Mr. Ansford forces Laura to be with him by threatening to send a video of her having sex with her cousin to the news station, and leaving her off from his will.
* EvilCripple: Mr. Ansford is a wheelchair-bound, abusive prick who is made unlikeable as possible.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: The eponymous rats have red eyes.
* RobbingTheDead:
** Stubbs the cemetery caretaker makes some money on the side by digging up corpses and stripping them from their valuables.
** Realizing that the key to get their hands on Ansford's hidden assets is inside the gold watch that he was buried with, Laura and Ben go to dig him up. They find Stubbs working on his grave upon arriving, and he gets beaten up.
* RodentsOfUnusualSize: The graveyard where Mr. Ansford was buried is filled with rats, some of them as big as dogs. They pose a problem when they snatch his corpse right before Laura's eyes.
* StaircaseTumble: Inspired by the FilmNoir ''Film/KissOfDeath'' (1947), his favourite movie, Ben pushes Mr. Ansford down a flight of stairs, killing him.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: After finding her husband's gold watch, Laura shoots Ben because she doesn't need him anymore.
!!"Bobby"
* AbusiveParents: It's implied that Bobby's mother is/was one.
* AntagonistTitle
* CameBackWrong: Bobby. [[spoiler:Averted, however, in that it's not really Bobby at all, but a demon that Bobby's soul sent to punish his mother.]]
* CreepyChild: [[spoiler:The demon disguised as ]]Bobby.
* DestinationDefenestration: Bobby's mother shoots him several times, and he falls through a second-story window.
* DrivenToSuicide: It's suggested that Bobby didn't drown by accident, but that he killed himself to escape his mother's abuse.
* DropTheHammer: When his mother hides in a car, Bobby switches his knife to a hammer to force her out.
* KnifeNut: After deciding to switch places in his game of hide and seek, Bobby starts hunting his mother with a knife in hand.
-->'''Bobby:''' Well, look what I found. A big, sharp knife!
* StaircaseTumble: Bobby teleports behind his mother and pushes her down the stairs while yelling "surprise!"
* WhamLine: "[[spoiler:Bobby didn't wanna come back, mommy. Bobby hates you, mommy. So he sent me instead.]]"
* WrenchWhack: Bobby's mother defends herself from him with a wrench.
!!"He Who Kills"
* AntagonistTitle: The scripture that came with the doll names it "He Who Kills".
* ComicBookTime: The original film was made in 1975 and this one in 1996; the story is seemingly a direct continuation of the original's third story [[spoiler:with the police discovering the bodies of Amelia and her mother, probably only hours after their deaths]], despite there being a good bit of technology in the film not existing in the original's time.
* HollywoodAcid: [[spoiler:Dr. Simpson almost destroys the Zuni Fetish doll for good by putting it into a container filled with sulfuric acid]].
* PowerfulPick: Dr. Simpson attack the Zuni Fetish doll with a pick when it tries to get out of the bag it was trapped in.
* ShoutOut: A security guard reads a comic book based on the television show ''Series/DarkShadows'', which was created by the movie's director Dan Curtis.
* SlashedThroat: Dr. Simpson finds the older security guard with his throat slashed.
* SuperWindowJump: The doll jumps through a doow window to get at Dr. Simpson.
* TwistEnding: [[spoiler:Much like Amelia in the original film, Dr. Simpson manages to destroy the Zuni Fetish doll, but is then [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie possessed by the spirit residing in it]], and the segment ends with her ambushing her boyfriend with a fire-axe]].
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