History Film / XX

* LongTitle: [[spoiler:Its actual EitherOrTitle. ''The Birthday Party, or, The Memory Lucy Suppressed From Her Seventh Birthday That Wasn't Really Her Mom's Fault (Even Though Her Therapist Says It's Probably Why She Fears Intimacy)''.]]
* NeverMyFault: Mary brushes off comments from her daughter's therapist that state she's the reason for Lucy's anxiety. [[spoiler:The LongTitle also implies she'll feel this way after her daughter is scarred for life, when it would have been easier to just call the police.]]

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:[[DownerEnding None of the cast survive the events of this segment]].]]

* BasedOnATrueStory

* {{Determinator}}: Mary absolutely refuses to let her husband's suicide ruin Lucy's birthday.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: David's body is eventually discovered, and the title cards imply that it [[HarmfulToMinors scarred Lucy for life]].]]

* HarmfulToMinors: What Mary is trying to prevent. [[spoiler: She fails. [[CrowdPanic Spectacularly]].]]
* INeedAFreakingDrink: After hiding David in [[spoiler: a panda-suit]] just as the guests arrive, Mary pours his flask into her drink.

* OddballInTheSeries: Unlike the other segments, this one [[spoiler: is a BlackComedy]].

* CrusadingWidower: [[spoiler: When her family finally starves to death, Susan becomes determined to find the man with the box.]]

* StealthSequel: [[spoiler:To [[Film/RosemarysBaby Rosemary's Baby]], although it barely tries to hide it.]]

[=XX=] is a Horror AnthologyFilm directed by Roxanne Benjamin, Sofia Carrillo, Creator/KarynKusama, Music/StVincent, and Jovanka Vuckovic. It stars Natalie Brown, Melanie Lynskey, Breeda Wool, and Christina Kirk. The main gimmick of the movie was that all of the four segments were directed by women.

* AdultFear: Out of the four segments, three of them (The Box, The Birthday Party, and Her Only Living Son) portray a mother as a protagonist dealing with a calamity befalling her family.

[=XX=] is a Horror AnthologyFilm directed by Roxanne Benjamin, Sofia Carrillo, Creator/KarynKusama, St. Vincent, and Jovanka Vuckovic. It stars Natalie Brown, Melanie Lynskey, Breeda Wool, and Christina Kirk. The main gimmick of the movie was that all of the four segments were directed by women.

Not to be confused with ''Film/{{XXX}}''

!!This film provides examples of:

* '''The Birthday Party''': Mary (Melanie Lynskey) was setting up a birthday party for her daughter Lucy. However, things took a turn for the worse when her husband had committed suicide. She would have to hide the body so it doesn't ruin the party.

* '''Her Only Living Son''': A single mother, Cora, had to deal with her troubled teenage son, Andy. However, she soon find out said son was a spawn of Satan himself.

* AdultFear: Out of the four segments, three of them (The Box, The Birthday Party, and Her Only Living Son) portray a mother as a protagonist dealing with a calamity befalling on her family.

** Mary's nightmare, where a large chunk of flesh has been carved from her leg.

* CreepyChild: Danny after peeking inside the man's red box, and his sister too after he passes on the secret. Especially creepy during Mary's nightmare about the family eating her for dinner.

* EatenAlive: Mary has a nightmare in which she carved up by her family, who then devour her flesh, all while she is still alive.
* EurekaMoment: When Danny hands Mary a box exactly like the one the man showed him, Mary realizes why he and the rest of her family have stopped eating.

* ImAHumanitarian: Mary has a nightmare where she is being consumed by her family.
* NightmareSequence: Mary suffers a nightmare where she's [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalized by her family at the dinner table]].

* BedsheetGhost: After a PottyFailure ruins Lucy's first costume, Mary creates her a new costume as a bedsheet ghost.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: David's body is eventually discovered, and the title implies that it [[HarmfulToMinors scarred Lucy for life]].]]

* OfCorpseHesAlive: [[spoiler:Mary dresses her husband's corpse in a panda suit and props it up the head of the table]]. The charade lasts for a remarkably long time.

* DangerousKeyFumble: Jay drops the keys to the RV when he goes back to rescue Jess. He has to go back and attempt to retrieve them from under the broken window that Gretchen is lurking outside.

* AdultsAreUseless: After Andy violently attacks another student and sends her to the emergency room, the school refuses to do anything, even going so far as to blame the victim. [[spoiler:As they're in the same cult as Chet is.]]

* TheAntichrist: [[spoiler:Andy is the offspring of Cora and Satan, destined to bring about an "empire of suffering".]]

* DeadAnimalWarning: The cult nails a dead squirrel to a tree outside Cora's home.

* DisappearedDad: Cora mentions that Andy's father had no interest in raising him, preferring to carouse around Hollywood with girlfriends. [[spoiler:Because he knows he's not a real father, and just sold Cora out for fame and fortune.]]
* {{Fingore}}: Andy is described as ripping [[NoodleIncident another student's fingernails off.]] [[spoiler:She's not his only victim, judging by the box of nails and fingertips under his bed.]]

* LongTitle: [[spoiler:Its actual title. ''The Birthday Party, or, The Memory Lucy Suppressed From Her Seventh Birthday That Wasn't Really Her Mom's Fault (Even Though Her Therapist Says It's Probably Why She Fears Intimacy)''.]]

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:None of the cast survive the events of this segment.]]

[=XX=] is a Horror AnthologyFilm directed by Roxanne Benjamin, Sofia Carrillo, Karyn Kusama, St. Vincent, and Jovanka Vuckovic. It stars Natalie Brown, Melanie Lynskey, Breeda Wool, and Christina Kirk. The main gimmick of the movie was that all of the four segments were directed by women.

* {{Fingore}}: Andy rips another student's fingernails off. [[spoiler:She's not his only victim, judging by the box of nails and fingertips under his bed.]]

* HeartDrive: What the dollhouse is ultimately trying to find for it's friend.

* BodyHorror: Mary's nightmare, where a large chunk of flesh has been carved from her leg.

* [[spoiler: NothingIsScarier: We never find out what's in the box, who (or what) the man carrying it was, and why he showed it to Danny.]]

** AntiAntichrist: [[spoiler:What Cora tries to persuade him to be. She succeeds, but they're both killed.]]

** RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Only for him to be killed when he embraces her.]]

* WindowPain: Gretchen throws [[spoiler:Paul]]'s body through the rear window of the RV.

* CuriousityKilledTheCast: Danny should not have peeked inside that box. And the others should not have strived to find out from him what was in the box.