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* HarsherInHindsight:
** The Police Chief who helped Halleck get away with the crime, Duncan Hopely, ends up being cursed by the Romani with large boils all over his body and ends up [[spoiler:[[DrivenToSuicide shooting himself in the head]] rather than living the [[BodyHorror gruesome]] and [[FateWorseThanDeath horrifying]] existence that he would be living.]] Several years after the movie's premiere, his actor, Daniel von Bargen, did the exact same thing due to similar reasons (albeit due to diabetes, already having had a leg amputated, and facing more amputations, and he ''did'' survive, at least for another three years.)
** Michael Constantine playing an 106-year-old character in the film becomes tragic irony in light of the actor's passing in 2021 at the age 94, never having actually to live up to that age as his character despite being just twelve years younger away from it.
* HilariousInHindsight:
** Richie The Hammer kidnaps Lemke's granddaughter by posing as an FBI agent. Richie's Actor Joe Mantegna later plays an FBI profiler in ''Series/CriminalMinds''.
** One reader [[http://charnelhouse.tripod.com/essays/bachmanhistory.html stated]] that "This is what Stephen King would write if he could really write."

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* HarsherInHindsight:
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HarsherInHindsight: The Police Chief who helped Halleck get away with the crime, Duncan Hopely, ends up being cursed by the Romani with large boils all over his body and ends up [[spoiler:[[DrivenToSuicide shooting himself in the head]] rather than living the [[BodyHorror gruesome]] and [[FateWorseThanDeath horrifying]] existence that he would be living.]] Several years after the movie's premiere, his actor, Daniel von Bargen, did the exact same thing due to similar reasons (albeit due to diabetes, already having had a leg amputated, and facing more amputations, and he ''did'' survive, at least for another three years.)
** Michael Constantine playing an 106-year-old character in the film becomes tragic irony in light of the actor's passing in 2021 at the age 94, never having actually to live up to that age as his character despite being just twelve years younger away from it.
* HilariousInHindsight:
** Richie The Hammer kidnaps Lemke's granddaughter by posing as an FBI agent. Richie's Actor Joe Mantegna later plays an FBI profiler in ''Series/CriminalMinds''.
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HilariousInHindsight: One reader [[http://charnelhouse.tripod.com/essays/bachmanhistory.html stated]] that "This is what Stephen King would write if he could really write."
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: The ending can be deeply affected in both versions depending on whether [[spoiler:The pie is only cursed to kill the first person who eats it, the next person who eats it, or everyone that eats it]]. Notably [[spoiler:It doesn't seem to show signs of the curse struggling to escape it the next morning]].

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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: The ending can be deeply affected in both versions depending on whether [[spoiler:The pie is only cursed to kill the first person who eats it, the next person who eats it, it (if the last person is still alive), or everyone that eats it]]. Notably [[spoiler:It doesn't seem to show signs of the curse struggling to escape it the next morning]].
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: The ending can be deeply affected in both versions depending on whether [[spoiler:The pie is only cursed to kill the first person who eats it, or everyone that eats it]]. Notably [[spoiler:It doesn't seem to show signs of the curse struggling to escape it the next morning]].

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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: The ending can be deeply affected in both versions depending on whether [[spoiler:The pie is only cursed to kill the first person who eats it, the next person who eats it, or everyone that eats it]]. Notably [[spoiler:It doesn't seem to show signs of the curse struggling to escape it the next morning]].
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** The Police Chief who helped Halleck get away with the crime, Duncan Hopely, ends up being cursed by the Romani with large boils all over his body and ends up [[spoiler:[[DrivenToSuicide shooting himself in the head]] rather than living the [[BodyHorror gruesome]] and [[FateWorseThanDeath horrifying]] existence that he would be living.]] Several years after the movie's premiere, his actor, Daniel von Bargen, did the exact same thing due to similar reasons (albeit it was due to diabetes and already having a leg amputated and was facing more amputations and he ''did'' survive, at least for another three years.)

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** The Police Chief who helped Halleck get away with the crime, Duncan Hopely, ends up being cursed by the Romani with large boils all over his body and ends up [[spoiler:[[DrivenToSuicide shooting himself in the head]] rather than living the [[BodyHorror gruesome]] and [[FateWorseThanDeath horrifying]] existence that he would be living.]] Several years after the movie's premiere, his actor, Daniel von Bargen, did the exact same thing due to similar reasons (albeit it was due to diabetes and diabetes, already having had a leg amputated amputated, and was facing more amputations amputations, and he ''did'' survive, at least for another three years.)
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* OneSceneWonder: Duncan only has one scene in the book (in the movie he has more but they're shorter) but it is ''immensely'' memorable given the misery and BodyHorror his curse is inflicting and how Duncan acknowledges his belief that the Roma's vengeance towards him, Billy and Harry is justified.

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* OneSceneWonder: Duncan Hopley only has one scene in the book (in the movie he has more but they're shorter) but it is ''immensely'' memorable given the misery and BodyHorror his curse is inflicting and how Duncan acknowledges his belief that the Roma's vengeance towards him, Billy and Harry is justified.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: The ending can be deeply affected in both versions depending on whether [[spoiler:The pie is only cursed to kill the first person who eats it, or everyone that eats it]]. Notably [[spoiler:It doesn't seem to show signs of the curse struggling to escape it the next morning]].

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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: The ending can be deeply affected in both versions depending on whether [[spoiler:The pie is only cursed to kill the first person who eats it, or everyone that eats it]]. Notably [[spoiler:It doesn't seem to show signs of the curse struggling to escape it the next morning]].



** Michael Constantine playing an 106-year-old character in the film becomes tragic irony in light of the actor's passing in 2021 at the age 94, never having actually to live up to to that age as his character despite being just twelve years younger away from it.

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** Michael Constantine playing an 106-year-old character in the film becomes tragic irony in light of the actor's passing in 2021 at the age 94, never having actually to live up to to that age as his character despite being just twelve years younger away from it.
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* ValuesDissonance: The portrayal of the Romani in this book, and its subsequent movie adaptation, hasn't aged particularly well to say the least.

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