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  • Complete Monster: The Satan Man is a Serial Killer terrorizing a small Island town on All Hallows' Eve; convincing the Satan-obsessed child, Douglas Whooly, to act as his helper while he slaughters the townsfolk, convincing Douglas it is all fake. After almost forcing himself on Dougie's sister Jenna, the Satan Man takes him around town, killing a bunch of people along the way; including running over a baby carriage with a shopping cart and hanging an old woman from her second-story window. Slaughtering his way through the local police department, Satan Man sets all of the criminals free, causing more chaos. After tricking Jenna into killing her own boyfriend and disguising himself as a police officer, Satan Man invades Douglas' house to kill him along with his mother and sister.
  • Crosses the Line Twice: Satan Man loves doing this.
    • He pointlessly kills a cat because he can. It goes without saying that this was disturbing. But then, he smears its head up against a wooden board on someone's front porch, writing "BOO" in its blood for all to see. What really makes this scene is that a mother and her two daughters ask to take his picture when they see him.
    • Later, after shoplifting and stabbing a clerk, then throwing him in a dumpster, he hits a pregnant woman, a baby, and a blind man with a shopping cart. All the while, Dougie is shouting, "50 points! 100 points!"
    • Satan Man beats Nicole, Alex's father's girlfriend to death. It's later shown that he carved a smiley face into her, using her breasts as the eyes and carved the mouth on her stomach.
    • After disembowelling Dean in front of his wife and children, he ties his intestine to a chair for no apparent reason.
  • Les Yay: Between Jenna and ... her mother.
  • Moral Event Horizon: Really, killing officers, ramming into pregnant women with shopping carts and molesting Jenna when she thought it was boyfriend was already and indication of "Satan" being past this already. Although Dougie finds he's crossed this in-universe when he kills his father. He had no reason to do this since Dougie has been nothing but helpful and friendly to him, this was all For the Evulz.
  • Narm:
    • The fact that the in-universe video game, "Satan's Little Helper" is shown to be very popular and addicting despite not even being up to Newgrounds standards, visually.
    • "That man was Alex's father ... and Jesus is Satan!"
    • "He killed Daddy! His ass is fucking grass!"
  • Realism-Induced Horror: There is nothing supernatural in this movie, but Satan Man is a horrifying monster who commits murder on the fly for fun, even killing a cat to paint with its blood. He spends most of his screen time with a naïve boy who wants to be a good helper and molests his beautiful sister when she mistakingly thinks he's her boyfriend, even attempting to rape her before interrupted. The fact that he's still a normal human under that mask makes him even more horrifying.
  • Special Effects Failure:
    • The in-universe "Satan's Little Helper" video game. It looks like something created by someone using Adobe Flash for the first time in their life.
    • Dean's intestines look horribly fake.
  • Squick:
    • Dougie wants to marry Jenna, his sister.
    • Their mother shows a few incestuous desires towards her daughter, including giving her her "Renaissance slut" costume, and spanking her while she's bent over at the window.
  • Unintentional Uncanny Valley: The "Jesus" costume that the Satan Man dons as a new disguise features a mask that is so uncannily like a normal face that it's even scarier than his first costume.
  • The Woobie:
    • Alex. He gets abused by his father, both verbally and physically, Dougie hates him even though he tries hard to get along with him, he repeatedly gets beaten up by "Satan," and is ultimately killed by his own girlfriend after "Satan" knocks him out and places him in his costume.
    • Jenna herself does have it any better. Her brother befriends a serial killer that then proceeds to molest her taking advantage of her thinking he is her boyfriend Alex. He would've raped her hadn't Dougie interrupted the "intimate" moment. She then realizes the man who gropped her is not her boyfriend and not just that but he is also a dangerous serial killer who eventually kills her father and tricks her into killing her own boyfriend. She has her entire life ruined by the end of the movie... assuming she wasn't killed at the end.


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