Home Movie: Difference between revisions

Definitely not to be confused with ''[[Home Movies]]''.

 

* [[Abusive Parents]]: Dave's apparently were.

* [[The Alcoholic]]: Dave.

* [[Bedsheet Ladder]]: The kids use one to sneak out on Easter.

* [[Bound and Gagged]]: {{spoiler|Christian, and later Dave and Clare.}}

* [[Call Back]]: {{spoiler|Emily pretends to be dead while Clare is dragging her through the forest in the wagon at the beginning, and in the end Clare is in the exact same position in the wagon as Emily is dragging her back to the house.}}

* [[Chase Scene]]: {{spoiler|Near the end the kids chase Clare through the woods.}}

* [[Deliberately Cute Child]]: Jack and Emily pull this, after being prescribed pills, and after the exorcism.

* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]:

* [[Demonic Possession]]: Dave tries exorcising the children at one point. {{spoiler|We never find out if they were possessed or not, but given how the film ended, it's doubtful.}}

* [[Determinator]]: {{spoiler|Clare was beaten, stabbed in the arm, and drugged, and still managed to make it through the woods and to the road while being chased.}}

* [[Emotionless Girl]]: Emily hums, but never says a word in English for the first half of the film. Even in the second part, she only says a few words.

* [[Enfant Terrible]]: The kids gradually escalate to this.

* [[Fairy Tale Motifs]]: ''The Story of the Dragon and the Paper Bag''; it's about a two-headed dragon that disguises itself as a normal child, as apart of a plan to kill and eat all the children in the town it lives near.

* [[Faux Symbolism]]: {{spoiler|A priest is killed by his children, who he had assumed were possessed, on Easter.}}

* [[Foreshadowing]]: {{spoiler|David's story about the two-headed dragon wearing the paper bag over his head, and the scene where the children throw their dinnerware to the ground, is echoed in the final shot of the film--their struggling parents are restrained on the dining table, partially wrapped in garbage bags (in which the dead bugs and leaves were put in the beginning of the film) while the children sit clutching silverware and wearing paper bags over their heads. The ice cream truck mentioned earlier in the film makes an appearance near the end, as well.}}

* [[Full Name Ultimatum]]:

* [[Gasshole]]: Dave is a minor example.

* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]:

'''Clare:''' "Yeah, I said frickin', sorry." }}

* [[Hairpin Lockpick]]: Dave teaches Jack And Emily how to do it. Really, really bad idea.

* [[Haunted House]]: Dave starts to think some outside force might be influencing the kids.

* [[Hollywood Exorcism]]: Dave performs an amateur one on the kids and their room, and actually does mention how archaic the practice is.

* [[Home Porn Movie]]: Joked about by Dave, when he brings the anniversary dinner to the showering Clare.

* [[Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday]]: A birthday, Halloween, an anniversary, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's Eve, Valentine's Day, and finally Easter.

* [[Hostile Show Takeover]]:

* [[Hot Mom|Hot]] [[Hot Dad|Parents]]

* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]: As shown by them eating raw meat, their penchant for biting, and some of their drawings, the kids apparently harbor cannibalistic fantasies. {{spoiler|The ending also heavily implies the kids eat their parents, who they have strapped to the table, forks and knives at the ready.}}

* [[Jittercam]]: Not often, but certainly present when the camera holder is [[Justified Trope|running]].

* [[Kids Are Cruel]]: {{spoiler|More like [[Complete Monster|"Kids Are Complete Monsters"!]]}}

* [[Kick the Dog]]: See [[Troubling Unchildlike Behavior]].

* [[Knife Nut]]: Emily briefly weilds one.

* [[Little No]]: {{spoiler|When Dave finds all the fucked up stuff in the kids' clubhouse.}}

* [[Malevolent Masked Men]]: {{spoiler|The kids don Halloween demon masks for the big night, and later have paper bags on as they're about to kill their parents.}}

* [[Man Child]]: Dave.

* [[Meganekko]]: Clare, in her work attire.

* [[Mockumentary]]

* [[Oh Crap]]: {{spoiler|When Clare realizes that she and David have been drugged.}} The viewers get one too when {{spoiler|Jack starts filming.}}

* [[Offscreen Teleportation]]: Fuck, those kids are fast!

* [[Psycho Smirk]]

* [[Removed From the Picture]]: Dave finds a family photo in the kids' clubhouse, with his and Clare's faces scratched out.

* [[Sexy Priest]]: Dave.

* [[Shower Scene]]: Clare gets one, but [[Sexy Discretion Shot]] is in play.

* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: Cheerful ice cream truck music is played over the first bit of the credits.

* [[Strapped to An Operating Table]]: {{spoiler|1=The kids tie Christian McNamara to a makeshift one, apparently intent on butchering him.}}

* [[Tastes Like Diabetes]]: In-universe, the kids' Thanksgiving pilgrim costumes:

* [[That Thing Is Not My Child|Those Things Are Not My Children]]: Clare says something to this effect near the end.

* [[The Voiceless]]: The kids don't talk much, up until the end.

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: The main criticism.

* [[Twisted Christmas]]: On Christmas morning, the twins kill and crucify the family cat on a decorative cross in the house.

* [[Vomit Discretion Shot]]: {{spoiler|David, upon finding the family dog's head on a pike.}}

* [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit]]: The kids possibly injure themselves in order to make Dave out as an abuser.

* [[Writers Cannot Do Math]]: The kids' age isn't really consistent with when Dave and Clare mentioned they got married.

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