Dick Tracy (film)/Nightmare Fuel

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  • The general freakish nature of most of Tracy's rogue gallery, where with the exception of the Breathless Mahoney (who designed the Blank costume/persona to wear so that she could go around killing people without anyone suspecting her), the costume designers went overboard to portray all of Tracy's villains as the grotesque looking freaks they were in the comics. Even Big Boy Caprice.
    • So many of the gangsters (Pruneface, Influence, and Steve the Tramp, to name just three) are so unbelievably ugly (courtesy of some truly pull-out-all-the-stops movie makeup) that the average 6- or 7-year-old's reaction is less likely to be "Hee-hee, they're funny-looking" to "Mommy, make the scary people go away...."
    • A surprisingly high body count for a PG-rated film, with seven men being killed in the first 10 minutes alone.
    • Lips Manlis pathetically begging for his life as cement slowly covers him.
    • Big Boy Caprice's lethal temper and chronic fondness for Kicking The Dog.
    • The Blank's inhuman - even reptilian - hiss of a voice.
    • The final gun battle on the street, with Influence and Flattop shown getting shot in disturbing close-ups. ( Flattop's spasmodic death throes, his tommy gun firing wildly as his fingers lock on the trigger in a death grip, is virtually guaranteed to be the stuff of nightmares.)
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