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* [[Beauty Is Never Tarnished]]: Played straight for nearly the entire film, {{spoiler|but [[Incredibly Lame Pun|diabolically]] subverted at the end.}}
* [[Big Bad]]: The Lamia.
* [[Bloody Hilarious]]: The [[High
* [[Break the Cutie]]: Which eventually leads to {{spoiler|[[Kill the Cutie|killing the cutie]].}}
* [[Camp]]: It's [[Sam Raimi]]. The 'scary' scenes had as much chance of making you either scream, puke, or laugh.
* [[Can't Get Away With Nuthin']]: Christine, an untypically nice horror heroine is cursed just because she did one mean thing in her life. And even then, what she did wasn't ''that'' mean. She was just doing her job.
* [[Can You Hear Me Now]]: When the Lamia attacks, Christine attempts to call Clay. Of course, since [[A Wizard Did It|this is a supernatural demon we're talking about]], it doesn't work; the Lamia drains the battery power in 5 seconds, [[Jump Scare|then has an image of Mrs. Ganush jumping at Christine appear on the screen]].
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: {{spoiler|The coin}}.
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* [[Hair of Gold]]
* [[Hell]] - [[Captain Obvious|It's where the curse drags you.]]
* [[High
* [[Hope Spot]] - An absolutely merciless one.
* [[Infant Immortality]] - Averted in the prologue.
* [[Inter Class Romance]]: Christine is clearly from humbler roots than wealthy Clay and the whole plot is caused in part because she wants a promotion to measure up to his family.
* [[It Got Worse]]: Does it ''ever''.
* [[Jerkass]]: Stu, and arguably [[Obnoxious
* [[Karma Houdini]] - Averted with Sylvia Ganush. She dies almost immediately after cursing Christine and has her corpse exhumed and gypsy-handled. And since odds are that she killed the boy in the intro and {{spoiler|curse killed Christine as well}}, there's really only one place she's going to end up. Hint, it's not [[Heaven]].
* [[Large Ham]]: The Lamia absolutely ''[[Chewing the Scenery|devours]]'' the scenery when it's summoned at the seance.
* [[Morally Bankrupt Banker]]: Averted with Christine, played straight with her competitor.
* [[Obnoxious
* [[Oh Crap]]: {{spoiler|When Christine realizes that she used the wrong envelope}}
* [[Oops I Dropped the Keys]]: Christine does this in the car.
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*** A further ''Evil Dead'' shout-out occurs in Clay's description of the cottage he plans to take Christine to for the weekend - "Lots of trees, private..."
*** The [[Anvil On Head]] - [[Eye Scream]] bit is a direct callback to ''[[Evil Dead]] II'', which has almost the exact same effect in different circumstances.
*** [[Rule of Three]] - ''[[Evil Dead]] II'' has a [[High
*** The cat scene is a direct visual callback to "YOU LOVED HER!" from the original.
** ''[[Night of the Demon]]''/''Curse Of The Demon'' - Sam Raimi knew they were basically doing a [[Inspired By|retread]] of this classic British horror movie, right down to the manner of the {{spoiler|Lamia's}} manifestations and the train station ending. Though, to be fair, that film didn't have a [[Downer Ending]]. If it weren't for the change of characters and location, it might as well have been a [[The Remake|Remake]].
* [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]]! - "Choke on it, bitch!"
* [[Through the Eyes of Madness]]: This is one possible interpretation of the film.
* [[Trailers Always Spoil]] - The trailers feature a part of the last scene of the film. It may not necessarily be seen as a major spoiler. Many viewers may see it as snippet from a final showdown or something, as opposed to the last thing that happens. {{spoiler|it's only when the climax occurs with that scene not yet happening that you realize that Christine is fucked.}}
* [[Voice of the Legion]]: The Lamia speaks like this whenever it possesses someone.
* [[What Do You Mean
* [[Yank the
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