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* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Frank Elwood, Walter's fellow male student, friend, and neighbor in the original short story is turned into ''Frances'' Elwood, a female single mother neighbor, who is also the mother of the kidnapped child (unrelated in the story). Not only is Walter attracted to her, but as a result of [[spoiler:the child's death]] she obviously wants nothing to do with him in the final scene, whereas in the original, Frank was present when [[spoiler:Brown Jenkin killed Walter]].
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* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Frank Elwood, Walter's fellow male student, friend, and neighbor in the original short story is turned into ''Frances'' Elwood, a female single mother neighbor, who is also the mother of the kidnapped child (unrelated in the story). Not only is Walter attracted to her, but as a result of [[spoiler:the the child's death]] death she obviously wants nothing to do with him in the final scene, whereas in the original, Frank was present when [[spoiler:Brown Brown Jenkin killed Walter]].Walter.
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* CassandraTruth: Nobody ever believes Walter's claims about the Witch, moreso after he is [[spoiler:arrested and interned in an asylum for Danny's murder]].
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* CruelTwistEnding: Walter seemingly [[spoiler:kills the Witch, but Brown Jenkin kills Danny and later Walter himself]].
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* CruelTwistEnding: Walter seemingly [[spoiler:kills kills the Witch, but Brown Jenkin kills Danny and later Walter himself]].himself.
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* DeathOfAChild: The witch has been manipulating innocent men into killing children for centuries. [[spoiler:And poor Danny is not the exception, meeting his end at the teeth of Brown Jenkin.]]
* DecompositeCharacter: Because of Walter alienating Frances after she believes that he killed [[spoiler:Danny]], she's not present when [[spoiler:Walter is killed by Brown Jenkin]], unlike her counterpart in the original story, Frank Elwood. Instead, it is an unnamed mental hospital orderly who witnesses the latter.
* DecompositeCharacter: Because of Walter alienating Frances after she believes that he killed [[spoiler:Danny]], she's not present when [[spoiler:Walter is killed by Brown Jenkin]], unlike her counterpart in the original story, Frank Elwood. Instead, it is an unnamed mental hospital orderly who witnesses the latter.
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* DeathOfAChild: The witch has been manipulating innocent men into killing children for centuries. [[spoiler:And And poor Danny is not the exception, meeting his end at the teeth of Brown Jenkin.]]
Jenkin.
* DecompositeCharacter: Because of Walter alienating Frances after she believes that he killed[[spoiler:Danny]], Danny, she's not present when [[spoiler:Walter Walter is killed by Brown Jenkin]], Jenkin, unlike her counterpart in the original story, Frank Elwood. Instead, it is an unnamed mental hospital orderly who witnesses the latter.
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* DiabolusExMachina[=/=]DownerEnding: Brown Jenkin appears from nowhere to kill [[spoiler:Danny]] when Walter seemingly [[HopeSpot fights off]] the Witch's manipulations to make him do the deed himself. Then he does it again to kill [[spoiler:Walter after he is interned in a mental asylum.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: After the plan to stop [[spoiler:Danny's]] HumanSacrifice fails, [[spoiler:Mr. Masurewicz]] hangs himself.
* DrivenToSuicide: After the plan to stop [[spoiler:Danny's]] HumanSacrifice fails, [[spoiler:Mr. Masurewicz]] hangs himself.
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* DiabolusExMachina[=/=]DownerEnding: Brown Jenkin appears from nowhere to kill [[spoiler:Danny]] Danny when Walter seemingly [[HopeSpot fights off]] the Witch's manipulations to make him do the deed himself. Then he does it again to kill [[spoiler:Walter Walter after he is interned in a mental asylum.]]
asylum.
* DrivenToSuicide: After the plan to stop[[spoiler:Danny's]] Danny's HumanSacrifice fails, [[spoiler:Mr. Masurewicz]] Mr. Masurewicz hangs himself.
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* TheHeroDies: In a gruesome way, [[spoiler:Brown Jenkin kills Walter by burrowing into his chest]] at the end of the episode.
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* KarmaHoudini: While [[spoiler:the Witch]] is ultimately fought off successfully, [[spoiler:Brown Jenkin]] kills two of three characters and escapes unharmed.
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* ShootTheShaggyDog: Right after Walter kills [[spoiler:the Witch]] and saves [[spoiler:Danny]], Brown Jenkin comes out of nowhere, kills him, and frames Walter for the murder.
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* ShootTheShaggyDog: Right after Walter kills [[spoiler:the Witch]] the Witch and saves [[spoiler:Danny]], Danny, Brown Jenkin comes out of nowhere, kills him, and frames Walter for the murder.
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* SympatheticMurderer: Mr. Masurewicz reveals that he killed an unspecified number of [[spoiler:children]] under the influence of the Witch, and is deeply regretful about it.
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* SympatheticMurderer: Mr. Masurewicz reveals that he killed an unspecified number of [[spoiler:children]] children under the influence of the Witch, and is deeply regretful about it.
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* SettingUpdate: The original was published in 1933. This moves the story to the modern day; the main change is that Walter goes from being just a physics student to specializing in String Theory (which was formalized in the 1960s, though it had antecedents in the 1910s).
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* CruelTwistEnding: Walter seemingly [[spoiler:kills the Witch, but Brown Jenkin kills Danny and later Walter himself]].
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* CompositeCharacter: Frances Elwood replaces Frank Elwood and is also the mother of the missing child, who was unrelated in the story. The Witch uses her image to seduce Walter, and first appears to him while wearing a heavy black robe that makes her featureless, like the AdaptedOut Black Man.
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* DecompositeCharacter: Because of Walter alienating Frances after she believes that he killed [[spoiler:Danny]], she's not present when [[spoiler:Walter is killed by Brown Jenkin]], unlike her counterpart in the original story, Frank Elwood. Instead, it is an unnamed mental hospital orderly who witnesses the latter.
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* BilingualBonus: The OminousLatinChanting that is heard during the two apparitions of the witch is actually a Spanish song about HumanSacrifice.
* CassandraTruth: Nobody believes Walter's claims about the witch, especially [[spoiler:after he is arrested and interred in an asylum, accused of Danny's murder]]. To be fair, would you have believed him?
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: The elderly tenant.
* DeathOfAChild: [[spoiler:The witch has been manipulating unfortunate men into killing children for centuries, and poor Danny meets his end at the teeth of Brown Jenkin.]]
* DiabolusExMachina: At the end, [[spoiler:Walter is killed by Brown Jenkin while interned in a mental asylum]].
* DownerEnding
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:After the plan to stop Danny's sacrifice fails, the elderly tenant hangs himself.]]
* EvilDetectingBaby: The main guy agrees to babysit his female neighbor's baby while she goes to a job interview. When she suddenly returns to apparently seduce him, it's clear that it's really the witch in disguise because the baby starts loudly crying.
* EyeScream: The way Walter [[spoiler:brings down the witch]].
* {{Familiar}}: Brown Jenkin.
* FanDisservice: The sex scene the protagonist has with the witch. She's [[ShapeshiftingSeducer secretly morphed into his attractive neighbor]] to seduce him, but it's clear from the start that bad things are about to happen. She starts clawing at his back with her [[FemmeFatalons sharp nails]] and morphs back into the withered ancient husk that she really is as she laughs at him.
* {{Fanservice}}: The witch's way to bring Walter to the dark side surely worked on a great number of viewers... although it quickly becomes FanDisservice.
* FemmeFatalons: The witch has some razor-sharp nails which she uses to claw bloody marks into Walter's back.
* GenderFlip: Frank Elwood from the original short story is changed into a woman named Frances in this episode.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Brown Jenkin, the [[BrainBleach human-faced rat]] that accompanies the witch.
* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:Walter ends up in an insane asylum after being framed for the baby's murder by the Witch's rat familiar. The familiar then tracks him down and burrows into his chest.]]
* CassandraTruth: Nobody believes Walter's claims about the witch, especially [[spoiler:after he is arrested and interred in an asylum, accused of Danny's murder]]. To be fair, would you have believed him?
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: The elderly tenant.
* DeathOfAChild: [[spoiler:The witch has been manipulating unfortunate men into killing children for centuries, and poor Danny meets his end at the teeth of Brown Jenkin.]]
* DiabolusExMachina: At the end, [[spoiler:Walter is killed by Brown Jenkin while interned in a mental asylum]].
* DownerEnding
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:After the plan to stop Danny's sacrifice fails, the elderly tenant hangs himself.]]
* EvilDetectingBaby: The main guy agrees to babysit his female neighbor's baby while she goes to a job interview. When she suddenly returns to apparently seduce him, it's clear that it's really the witch in disguise because the baby starts loudly crying.
* EyeScream: The way Walter [[spoiler:brings down the witch]].
* {{Familiar}}: Brown Jenkin.
* FanDisservice: The sex scene the protagonist has with the witch. She's [[ShapeshiftingSeducer secretly morphed into his attractive neighbor]] to seduce him, but it's clear from the start that bad things are about to happen. She starts clawing at his back with her [[FemmeFatalons sharp nails]] and morphs back into the withered ancient husk that she really is as she laughs at him.
* {{Fanservice}}: The witch's way to bring Walter to the dark side surely worked on a great number of viewers... although it quickly becomes FanDisservice.
* FemmeFatalons: The witch has some razor-sharp nails which she uses to claw bloody marks into Walter's back.
* GenderFlip: Frank Elwood from the original short story is changed into a woman named Frances in this episode.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Brown Jenkin, the [[BrainBleach human-faced rat]] that accompanies the witch.
* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:Walter ends up in an insane asylum after being framed for the baby's murder by the Witch's rat familiar. The familiar then tracks him down and burrows into his chest.]]
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* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Frank Elwood, Walter's fellow male student, friend, and neighbor in the original short story is turned into ''Frances'' Elwood, a female single mother neighbor, who is also the mother of the kidnapped child (unrelated in the story). Not only is Walter attracted to her, but as a result of [[spoiler:the child's death]] she obviously wants nothing to do with him in the final scene, whereas in the original, Frank was present when [[spoiler:Brown Jenkin killed Walter]].
* AdaptedOut: The Black Man, though the Witch appears to Walter wearing a black cape that also makes her featureless.
* BilingualBonus: The seemingly OminousLatinChanting that is heard during thetwo apparitions of the witch Witch is actually a Spanish song about HumanSacrifice.
* CassandraTruth: Nobody ever believes Walter's claims about thewitch, especially [[spoiler:after Witch, moreso after he is arrested [[spoiler:arrested and interred interned in an asylum, accused of asylum for Danny's murder]]. To be fair, would you have believed him?
murder]].
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: The elderlytenant.
tenant Mr. Mazurewicz, and eventually Walter himself become this, regarding their claims about the Witch existing and using them as pawns.
* DeathOfAChild:[[spoiler:The The witch has been manipulating unfortunate innocent men into killing children for centuries, and centuries. [[spoiler:And poor Danny meets is not the exception, meeting his end at the teeth of Brown Jenkin.]]
*DiabolusExMachina: At {{Demythification}}: Walter ponders that the end, Witch's abilities came from having mastered string theory to travel within dimensions.
* DiabolusExMachina[=/=]DownerEnding: Brown Jenkin appears from nowhere to kill [[spoiler:Danny]] when Walter seemingly [[HopeSpot fights off]] the Witch's manipulations to make him do the deed himself. Then he does it again to kill [[spoiler:Walter after he iskilled by Brown Jenkin while interned in a mental asylum]].
* DownerEnding
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:After the plan to stop Danny's sacrifice fails, the elderly tenant hangs himself.asylum.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: After the plan to stop [[spoiler:Danny's]] HumanSacrifice fails, [[spoiler:Mr. Masurewicz]] hangs himself.
* EvilDetectingBaby:The main guy Walter agrees to babysit his female neighbor's baby Danny while she Frances goes to a job interview. When she suddenly returns to apparently seduce him, it's clear that it's really she's actually the witch Witch in disguise because the baby starts loudly crying.
* EyeScream:The way How Walter [[spoiler:brings brings down the witch]].
[[spoiler:the Witch]].
* {{Familiar}}: BrownJenkin.
Jenkin, a rat with a human's face, is one for the Witch Keziah Mason.
* FanDisservice: The sex scene between Walter and theprotagonist has with the witch. Witch. She's [[ShapeshiftingSeducer secretly morphed shapeshifted into his attractive neighbor]] Frances]] to seduce him, but it's clear from the start that bad things are about going to happen. She starts clawing at claws a pentagram on his back with her [[FemmeFatalons sharp nails]] nails]], and morphs back into the withered ancient husk that she really is as she laughs at him.
laughs.
* {{Fanservice}}:The witch's way to bring Walter to Before becoming FanDisservice, the dark side surely worked on Witch poses as a great number of viewers... although it quickly becomes FanDisservice.
completely naked Frances, who is shown in full view both from the front and the back.
* FemmeFatalons: Thewitch Witch has some razor-sharp nails which she uses to claw bloody marks into symbols on Walter's back.
* GenderFlip: Frank Elwood from the original short storyis changed into a woman named becomes Frances Elwood in this the episode.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Brown Jenkin, the[[BrainBleach human-faced rat]] rat that accompanies the witch.
* TheHeroDies:[[spoiler:Walter ends up in an insane asylum after being framed for the baby's murder In a gruesome way, [[spoiler:Brown Jenkin kills Walter by the Witch's rat familiar. The familiar then tracks him down and burrows burrowing into his chest.]]chest]] at the end of the episode.
* AdaptedOut: The Black Man, though the Witch appears to Walter wearing a black cape that also makes her featureless.
* BilingualBonus: The seemingly OminousLatinChanting that is heard during the
* CassandraTruth: Nobody ever believes Walter's claims about the
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: The elderly
* DeathOfAChild:
*
* DiabolusExMachina[=/=]DownerEnding: Brown Jenkin appears from nowhere to kill [[spoiler:Danny]] when Walter seemingly [[HopeSpot fights off]] the Witch's manipulations to make him do the deed himself. Then he does it again to kill [[spoiler:Walter after he is
* DownerEnding
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:After the plan to stop Danny's sacrifice fails, the elderly tenant hangs himself.
* DrivenToSuicide: After the plan to stop [[spoiler:Danny's]] HumanSacrifice fails, [[spoiler:Mr. Masurewicz]] hangs himself.
* EvilDetectingBaby:
* EyeScream:
* {{Familiar}}: Brown
* FanDisservice: The sex scene between Walter and the
* {{Fanservice}}:
* FemmeFatalons: The
* GenderFlip: Frank Elwood from the original short story
* HalfHumanHybrid: Brown Jenkin, the
* TheHeroDies:
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* HotWitch: Subverted in the episode, where the witch in question has a full frontal nude scene. However, she's impersonating someone else. The witch herself plays the [[WickedWitch "hag-like" look]] straight.
* HumanResources: The Necronomicon has tapes of human skin.
* HumanSacrifice: With a twist. According to the old tenant, what the witch is after in reality is the soul of the man that performs the sacrifice, not the child's.
* {{Jerkass}}: Mr. Dombrowski, the manager.
* KarmaHoudini: Brown Jenkin.
* LargeHam: Brown Jenkin.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: At one point, Walter ponders that the witch's abilities came from having mastered [[MagicFromTechnology string theory to travel within dimensions]].
* HumanResources: The Necronomicon has tapes of human skin.
* HumanSacrifice: With a twist. According to the old tenant, what the witch is after in reality is the soul of the man that performs the sacrifice, not the child's.
* {{Jerkass}}: Mr. Dombrowski, the manager.
* KarmaHoudini: Brown Jenkin.
* LargeHam: Brown Jenkin.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: At one point, Walter ponders that the witch's abilities came from having mastered [[MagicFromTechnology string theory to travel within dimensions]].
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* HotWitch: Subverted in the episode, where the witch in question SubvertedTrope. The Witch Keziah has a full frontal nude scene. However, scene while she's impersonating someone else. The witch herself plays the [[WickedWitch "hag-like" look]] straight.
Frances, but her actual image is that of a typical old witch.
* HumanResources: TheNecronomicon has ''Necronomicon'' is bound with tapes of human skin.
* HumanSacrifice: With a twist. According tothe old tenant, Mr. Masurewicz, what the witch Witch is after in reality is the soul of the man that performs the sacrifice, and not the child's.
child himself.
* {{Jerkass}}: Mr. Dombrowski, the house manager.
* KarmaHoudini:Brown Jenkin.
* LargeHam: Brown Jenkin.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: At one point, Walter ponders that the witch's abilities came from having mastered [[MagicFromTechnology string theory to travel within dimensions]].While [[spoiler:the Witch]] is ultimately fought off successfully, [[spoiler:Brown Jenkin]] kills two of three characters and escapes unharmed.
* HumanResources: The
* HumanSacrifice: With a twist. According to
* {{Jerkass}}: Mr. Dombrowski, the house manager.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: At one point, Walter ponders that the witch's abilities came from having mastered [[MagicFromTechnology string theory to travel within dimensions]].
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* ShootTheShaggyDog: [[spoiler:Just as Walter kills the witch and saves little Danny, Brown Jenkin comes out of nowhere and kills the baby]].
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* ShootTheShaggyDog: [[spoiler:Just as Right after Walter kills the witch [[spoiler:the Witch]] and saves little Danny, [[spoiler:Danny]], Brown Jenkin comes out of nowhere and nowhere, kills him, and frames Walter for the baby]].murder.
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** [[Film/TheShining The witch takes the form of an attractive naked woman to seduce the protagonist, and reveals her true old, hideous image after she has done it]].
** The OminousLatinChanting heard during this scene contains the line [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos "Iah! Iah!"]]
* SympatheticMurderer: [[spoiler:The elderly tenant reveals to Walter that he killed an unspecified amount of children under the influence of the witch, and is, understandably, deeply regretful about it.]]
* TomeOfEldritchLore: The Necronomicon.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: Walter and Frances.
* WickedWitch: The witch is a decrepit old woman who forces various men to sacrifice children for her spells.
* WouldHurtAChild: The witch ritualistically sacrifices infants for unexplained reasons, forcing various helpless men to do so. At the end it's revealed that the house's walls contain corpses going back all the way to the ''1600s''.
** The OminousLatinChanting heard during this scene contains the line [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos "Iah! Iah!"]]
* SympatheticMurderer: [[spoiler:The elderly tenant reveals to Walter that he killed an unspecified amount of children under the influence of the witch, and is, understandably, deeply regretful about it.]]
* TomeOfEldritchLore: The Necronomicon.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: Walter and Frances.
* WickedWitch: The witch is a decrepit old woman who forces various men to sacrifice children for her spells.
* WouldHurtAChild: The witch ritualistically sacrifices infants for unexplained reasons, forcing various helpless men to do so. At the end it's revealed that the house's walls contain corpses going back all the way to the ''1600s''.
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** [[Film/TheShining The witch As in ''Film/TheShining'', the Witch takes the form of an attractive naked woman to seduce the protagonist, and reveals her true old, hideous image after she has done it]].
it.
** The OminousLatinChanting heard duringthis the same scene contains the line [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos "Iah! Iah!"]]
* SympatheticMurderer:[[spoiler:The elderly tenant Mr. Masurewicz reveals to Walter that he killed an unspecified amount number of children [[spoiler:children]] under the influence of the witch, Witch, and is, understandably, is deeply regretful about it.]]
it.
* SurpriseCharacter: The ''Necronomicon'' book from other Lovecraft stories is given a small role.
* TomeOfEldritchLore: TheNecronomicon.
aforementioned ''Necronomicon''.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: Walter andFrances.
Frances feel attracted to one another from the beginning, but things eventually go sour.
* WickedWitch:The witch Keziah Mason is a decrepit old woman who forces various men to sacrifice children for to power her spells.
* WouldHurtAChild: Thewitch ritualistically sacrifices infants for unexplained reasons, forcing various helpless Witch manipulates men to do so. At the sacrifice children. The end it's revealed reveals that the house's her former home's walls contain corpses going back all the way to the ''1600s''.1600s, when she lived there.
** The OminousLatinChanting heard during
* SympatheticMurderer:
* SurpriseCharacter: The ''Necronomicon'' book from other Lovecraft stories is given a small role.
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Directed by [[Film/ReAnimator Stuart Gordon]] Creator/StuartGordon and based on the short story "Literature/TheDreamsInTheWitchHouse" by Creator/HPLovecraft. Modern-day college student Walter Gillman (Ezra Godden) rents a room in a colonial house looking for a quiet environment wherein to study his grade on String Theory. However, he soon begins to experience some weird and very vivid dreams till he is convinced that a 17th century witch wants him to sacrifice the baby of the woman next door (Chelah Horsdal).
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Directed by [[Film/ReAnimator Stuart Gordon]] and based on the short story "Literature/TheDreamsInTheWitchHouse" by Creator/HPLovecraft. Modern-day college student Walter Gillman (Ezra Godden) rents a room in a colonial house looking for a quiet environment wherein to study his grade on String Theory. However, he soon begins to experience some weird and very vivid dreams till he is convinced that a 17th century witch wants him to sacrifice the baby of the woman next door (Chelah Horsdal).
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* BilingualBonus: The OminousLatinChanting that is heard during the two apparitions of the witch is actually a Spanish song about HumanSacrifice.
* CassandraTruth: Nobody believes Walter's claims about the witch, especially [[spoiler:after he is arrested and interred in an asylum, accused of Danny's murder]]. To be fair, would you have believed him?
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: The elderly tenant.
* DeathOfAChild: [[spoiler:The witch has been manipulating unfortunate men into killing children for centuries, and poor Danny meets his end at the teeth of Brown Jenkin.]]
* DiabolusExMachina: At the end, [[spoiler:Walter is killed by Brown Jenkin while interned in a mental asylum]].
* DownerEnding
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:After the plan to stop Danny's sacrifice fails, the elderly tenant hangs himself.]]
* EvilDetectingBaby: The main guy agrees to babysit his female neighbor's baby while she goes to a job interview. When she suddenly returns to apparently seduce him, it's clear that it's really the witch in disguise because the baby starts loudly crying.
* EyeScream: The way Walter [[spoiler:brings down the witch]].
* {{Familiar}}: Brown Jenkin.
* FanDisservice: The sex scene the protagonist has with the witch. She's [[ShapeshiftingSeducer secretly morphed into his attractive neighbor]] to seduce him, but it's clear from the start that bad things are about to happen. She starts clawing at his back with her [[FemmeFatalons sharp nails]] and morphs back into the withered ancient husk that she really is as she laughs at him.
* {{Fanservice}}: The witch's way to bring Walter to the dark side surely worked on a great number of viewers... although it quickly becomes FanDisservice.
* FemmeFatalons: The witch has some razor-sharp nails which she uses to claw bloody marks into Walter's back.
* GenderFlip: Frank Elwood from the original short story is changed into a woman named Frances in this episode.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Brown Jenkin, the [[BrainBleach human-faced rat]] that accompanies the witch.
* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:Walter ends up in an insane asylum after being framed for the baby's murder by the Witch's rat familiar. The familiar then tracks him down and burrows into his chest.]]
* HotterAndSexier: Lovecraft's stories generally weren't known for full-frontal nudity, although Stuart Gordon is known for [[Film/{{Reanimator}} other]] [[Film/FromBeyond exceptions]].
* HotWitch: Subverted in the episode, where the witch in question has a full frontal nude scene. However, she's impersonating someone else. The witch herself plays the [[WickedWitch "hag-like" look]] straight.
* HumanResources: The Necronomicon has tapes of human skin.
* HumanSacrifice: With a twist. According to the old tenant, what the witch is after in reality is the soul of the man that performs the sacrifice, not the child's.
* {{Jerkass}}: Mr. Dombrowski, the manager.
* KarmaHoudini: Brown Jenkin.
* LargeHam: Brown Jenkin.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: At one point, Walter ponders that the witch's abilities came from having mastered [[MagicFromTechnology string theory to travel within dimensions]].
* ShapeshiftingSeducer: The witch appears to Walter as his comely neighbor Frances to seduce them. The subterfuge is aided by the fact that he's keeping watch in her apartment at the moment. She eventually turns back into her regular decrepit form and laughs at him as he screams.
* ShootTheShaggyDog: [[spoiler:Just as Walter kills the witch and saves little Danny, Brown Jenkin comes out of nowhere and kills the baby]].
* ShoutOut:
** [[Film/TheShining The witch takes the form of an attractive naked woman to seduce the protagonist, and reveals her true old, hideous image after she has done it]].
** The OminousLatinChanting heard during this scene contains the line [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos "Iah! Iah!"]]
* SympatheticMurderer: [[spoiler:The elderly tenant reveals to Walter that he killed an unspecified amount of children under the influence of the witch, and is, understandably, deeply regretful about it.]]
* TomeOfEldritchLore: The Necronomicon.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: Walter and Frances.
* WickedWitch: The witch is a decrepit old woman who forces various men to sacrifice children for her spells.
* WouldHurtAChild: The witch ritualistically sacrifices infants for unexplained reasons, forcing various helpless men to do so. At the end it's revealed that the house's walls contain corpses going back all the way to the ''1600s''.
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!!Tropes:
* BilingualBonus: The OminousLatinChanting that is heard during the two apparitions of the witch is actually a Spanish song about HumanSacrifice.
* CassandraTruth: Nobody believes Walter's claims about the witch, especially [[spoiler:after he is arrested and interred in an asylum, accused of Danny's murder]]. To be fair, would you have believed him?
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: The elderly tenant.
* DeathOfAChild: [[spoiler:The witch has been manipulating unfortunate men into killing children for centuries, and poor Danny meets his end at the teeth of Brown Jenkin.]]
* DiabolusExMachina: At the end, [[spoiler:Walter is killed by Brown Jenkin while interned in a mental asylum]].
* DownerEnding
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:After the plan to stop Danny's sacrifice fails, the elderly tenant hangs himself.]]
* EvilDetectingBaby: The main guy agrees to babysit his female neighbor's baby while she goes to a job interview. When she suddenly returns to apparently seduce him, it's clear that it's really the witch in disguise because the baby starts loudly crying.
* EyeScream: The way Walter [[spoiler:brings down the witch]].
* {{Familiar}}: Brown Jenkin.
* FanDisservice: The sex scene the protagonist has with the witch. She's [[ShapeshiftingSeducer secretly morphed into his attractive neighbor]] to seduce him, but it's clear from the start that bad things are about to happen. She starts clawing at his back with her [[FemmeFatalons sharp nails]] and morphs back into the withered ancient husk that she really is as she laughs at him.
* {{Fanservice}}: The witch's way to bring Walter to the dark side surely worked on a great number of viewers... although it quickly becomes FanDisservice.
* FemmeFatalons: The witch has some razor-sharp nails which she uses to claw bloody marks into Walter's back.
* GenderFlip: Frank Elwood from the original short story is changed into a woman named Frances in this episode.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Brown Jenkin, the [[BrainBleach human-faced rat]] that accompanies the witch.
* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:Walter ends up in an insane asylum after being framed for the baby's murder by the Witch's rat familiar. The familiar then tracks him down and burrows into his chest.]]
* HotterAndSexier: Lovecraft's stories generally weren't known for full-frontal nudity, although Stuart Gordon is known for [[Film/{{Reanimator}} other]] [[Film/FromBeyond exceptions]].
* HotWitch: Subverted in the episode, where the witch in question has a full frontal nude scene. However, she's impersonating someone else. The witch herself plays the [[WickedWitch "hag-like" look]] straight.
* HumanResources: The Necronomicon has tapes of human skin.
* HumanSacrifice: With a twist. According to the old tenant, what the witch is after in reality is the soul of the man that performs the sacrifice, not the child's.
* {{Jerkass}}: Mr. Dombrowski, the manager.
* KarmaHoudini: Brown Jenkin.
* LargeHam: Brown Jenkin.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: At one point, Walter ponders that the witch's abilities came from having mastered [[MagicFromTechnology string theory to travel within dimensions]].
* ShapeshiftingSeducer: The witch appears to Walter as his comely neighbor Frances to seduce them. The subterfuge is aided by the fact that he's keeping watch in her apartment at the moment. She eventually turns back into her regular decrepit form and laughs at him as he screams.
* ShootTheShaggyDog: [[spoiler:Just as Walter kills the witch and saves little Danny, Brown Jenkin comes out of nowhere and kills the baby]].
* ShoutOut:
** [[Film/TheShining The witch takes the form of an attractive naked woman to seduce the protagonist, and reveals her true old, hideous image after she has done it]].
** The OminousLatinChanting heard during this scene contains the line [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos "Iah! Iah!"]]
* SympatheticMurderer: [[spoiler:The elderly tenant reveals to Walter that he killed an unspecified amount of children under the influence of the witch, and is, understandably, deeply regretful about it.]]
* TomeOfEldritchLore: The Necronomicon.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: Walter and Frances.
* WickedWitch: The witch is a decrepit old woman who forces various men to sacrifice children for her spells.
* WouldHurtAChild: The witch ritualistically sacrifices infants for unexplained reasons, forcing various helpless men to do so. At the end it's revealed that the house's walls contain corpses going back all the way to the ''1600s''.
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