History YMMV / TrashFire

* JerkassWoobie: Pearl Roberts is a socially maladjusted repressed pervert, but with an abusive shrike like Violet as a guardian, it is not surprising she ended up that way, and it is easy to feel bad for her.

* CompleteMonster: [[GruesomeGrandparent Violet Roberts]], Owen Roberts's abusive grandmother, is a [[TheFundamentalist religious fanatic]] who regularly mistreated Owen and his sister Pearl as children. Initially presented as merely an unpleasant woman, Violet is later revealed to be behind the fire that killed his parents, attempting to drive Owen to suicide by convincing him he was responsible. When Owen is not looking, Violet [[MedicationTampering tampers with his epilepsy medication]]. Revealing her involvement in the fire and her intentions to kill the rest of her family to her minister, Pastor Sterling, Violet {{blackmail}}s Sterling into refraining from interfering by reminding him that he molested her daughter. Stealing the latter's pet rattlesnake, she attempts to kill Owen's pregnant girlfriend, Isabel Sullivan, by [[TheCanKickedHim hiding the snake in the toilet]]. When this fails, she sends Owen under the porch under the pretense of checking the pipes, trying, but failing to set him on fire while he is underneath. Violet pulls a gun on Pearl later that night, only backing off when Pearl pulls her own gun. When Owen finally collapses due to his faulty medication, Violet prepares to shoot him and Isabel. A disgusting, self-righteous woman, Violet is a chilling example of an abuser.

* JerkassWoobie: Pearl Roberts is a socially maladjusted repressed pervert, but with an abusive shrike like Violet as a guardian, it is not surprising she ended up that way, and it is easy to feel bad for her.

* CreepyAwesome: [=AnnaLynne McCord's=] performance as the perverted and tragic Pearl Roberts is both unsettling and engaging at the same time.

* CreepyAwesome: [=AnnaLynne McCord's=] performance as the perverted and tragic Pearl is both unsettling and engaging at the same time.

* CreepyAwesome: [[=AnnaLynne McCord's=] performance as the perverted and tragic Pearl is both unsettling and engaging at the same time.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Considering the fact that the movie is about an almost unlikable curmudgeon who tries to reconnect with his dysfunctional family, and considering the fact that the movie is chock full of depressing subject matter, such as psychological and emotional abuse, as well as familicide, it may be difficult to feel anything other than disinterest by the time the movie ends on a depressing note.
* EsotericHappyEnding: Sure, [[TheDogBitesBack Violet dies at the hands of Pearl after years of abuse]], but so does Owen, leaving Isabel without a father for her baby; for an ending that may have been intended to be hopeful, it comes off as rather bleak.

* CompleteMonster: [[EvilMatriarch Violet Roberts]], Owen Roberts's abusive grandmother, is a [[TheFundamentalist religious fanatic]] who regularly mistreated Owen and his sister Pearl as children. Initially presented as merely an unpleasant woman, Violet is later revealed to be behind the fire that killed his parents, attempting to drive Owen to suicide by convincing him he was responsible. When Owen is not looking, Violet [[MedicationTampering tampers with his epilepsy medication]]. Revealing her involvement in the fire and her intentions to kill the rest of her family to her minister, Pastor Sterling, Violet {{blackmail}}s Sterling into refraining from interfering by reminding him that he molested her daughter. Stealing the latter's pet rattlesnake, she attempts to kill Owen's pregnant girlfriend, Isabel Sullivan, by [[TheCanKickedHim hiding the snake in the toilet]]. When this fails, she sends Owen under the porch under the pretense of checking the pipes, trying, but failing to set him on fire while he is underneath. Violet pulls a gun on Pearl later that night, only backing off when Pearl pulls her own gun. When Owen finally collapses due to his faulty medication, Violet prepares to shoot him and Isabel. A disgusting, self-righteous woman, Violet is a chilling example of an abuser.

* CompleteMonster: [[EvilMatriarch Violet]], Owen's abusive grandmother, is a [[TheFundamentalist religious fanatic]] who regularly mistreated Owen and his sister Pearl as children. Initially presented as merely an unpleasant woman, Violet is later revealed to be behind the fire that killed his parents, attempting to drive Owen to suicide by convincing him he was responsible. When Owen is not looking, Violet [[MedicationTampering tampers with his epilepsy medication]]. Revealing her involvement in the fire and her intentions to kill the rest of her family to her minister, Pastor Sterling, Violet {{blackmail}}s Sterling into refraining from interfering by reminding him that he molested her daughter. Stealing the latter's pet rattlesnake, she attempts to kill Owen's pregnant girlfriend, Isabel, by [[TheCanKickedHim hiding the snake in the toilet]]. When this fails, she sends Owen under the porch under the pretense of checking the pipes, trying, but failing to set him on fire while he is underneath. Violet pulls a gun on Pearl later that night, only backing off when Pearl pulls her own gun. When Owen finally collapses due to his faulty medication, Violet prepares to shoot him and Isabel. A disgusting, self-righteous woman, Violet is a chilling example of an abuser.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Considering the fact that the movie is about an almost unlikable curmudgeon who tries to reconnect with his dysfunctional family, and considering the fact that the movie is chock full of depressing subject matter, such as psychological and emotional abuse, as well as familicide, it may be difficult to feel anything other than disinterest by the time the movie ends on a depressing note.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Considering the fact that the movie is about an almost unlikable curmudgeon who tries to reconnect with his dysfunctional family, and considering the fact that the movie is chock full of depressing subject matter, such as psychological and emotional abuse, as well as familicide, it may be difficult to feel anything other than disinterest by the time the movie ends on a downer.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Considering the fact that the movie is about an almost unlikable curmudgeon who tries to reconnect with his dysfunctional family, and considering the fact that the movie is chock full of depressing subject matter, such as psychological and emotional abuse, as well as familicide, it's hard to feel anything other than disinterest by the time the movie ends on a downer.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Considering the fact that the movie is about an almost unlikable curmudgeon who tries to reconnect with his dysfunctional family, and considering the fact that the movie is chock full of depressing subject matter, it's hard to feel anything other than disinterest by the time the movie ends on a downer.

* CompleteMonster: [[EvilMatriarch Violet]], Owen's abusive grandmother, is a [[TheFundamentalist religious fanatic]] who regularly mistreated Owen and his sister Pearl as children. Initially presented as merely an unpleasant woman, Violet is later revealed to be behind the fire that killed his parents, attempting to drive Owen to suicide by convincing him he was responsible. When Owen is not looking, Violet [[MedicationTampering tampers with his epilepsy medication]]. Revealing her involvement in the fire and her intentions to kill the rest of her family to her minister, Pastor Sterling, Violet {{blackmail}}s Sterling into refraining from interfering by reminding him that he molested her daughter. Stealing the latter's pet rattlesnake, she attempts to kill Owen's pregnant girlfriend, Isabel, by [[TheCanKickedHim hiding the snake in the toilet]]. When this fails, she sends Owen under the porch under the pretense of checking the pipes, trying, but failing to set him on fire while he is underneath. Violet pulls a gun on Pearl later that night, only backing off when Pearl pulls her own gun. When Owen finally collapses due to his faulty medication, Violet prepares to shoot him and Isabel. A disgusting, self-righteous woman, Violet is a chilling example of an abuser.