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The main story is centered around a little girl, Emma, who is abducted into the dream world by the namesake villain Ink. A group of Storytellers try to rescue her by bringing her separated father to her bed as her body lies in a coma. This involves one of the coolest chain reactions in film. (Which is no surprise, considering it's made by the same people who brought us [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP59tQf_njc Spin].)

The movie hit it big on bittorrent sites in early November 2009. The director squealed with glee. This reaction was the [[The Man From Earth|second]] admission by a film director or film producer that "unauthorized" downloads can be good for getting the word out for a work.

 

* [[Action Girl]]: All girls here kick ass Buffy Style.

** Ink's a little touchy about his inadequacy.

* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Subverted when Ink kidnaps Emma. He thrashes the main Storytellers before they call in reinforcements, and even then he still escapes. The best they do is slow him down.

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: {{spoiler|The mass summon signal.}}

* [[Cheshire Cat Grin]]: Most of the Incubi invariably walk around with permanent [[Stepford Smiler]] faces, although the Keymaster Incubus in particular has a creepy moment where you see the smile ''spread'' across his face from his initially neutral expression. It seems to stretch pretty wide.

* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]: Natural Light = Real World. White, Green, and (Beige/Orange?) are the [[Spirit World]], Nightmares (and Incubi-induced thoughts), and Dreams respectively.

* [[Dead Little Sister]]: John's wife fits into this role.

** You can guess how some of them stack, but others are a complete surprise.

* [[Dissonant Serenity]]: When John is walking through the hospital to find Emma's room, while the Storytellers are having a huge brawl with the Incubi all around him. Justified in that the fighting takes place in [[Spirit World|another plane of existence]] that he can't perceive.

* [[Driven to Suicide]]: {{spoiler|In one reality, John does this after the loss of both his wife and his daughter. This leads to him becoming Ink after his death.}}

* [[Foil]]: Ink is a foil for John {{spoiler|as they the same person}}. It also seems that Liev is meant to remind {{spoiler|Ink and}} Emma of the {{spoiler|wife/}}mother.

* [[Fridge Brilliance]]: What would have happened if {{spoiler|Ink and John were not redeemed at the same time?}}

** Liev can undo what already was done.

** If you look closely, he has scars, or at least very thick veins and imperfections all over his head.

* [[Hair of Gold]]: Emma. Odd, because her parents and maternal grandparents (or at least grandmother) are dark.

* {{spoiler|[[Infant Immortality]]}}: {{spoiler|Brutally [[Subverted Trope|subverted]] in Ink's parent timeline. Played straight in the other timeline.}}

* [[Kick the Dog]]: Ink, after Liev's surrender.

* [[Large Ham]]: The Pathfinder, again. Sadie also hams it up quite a bit as well.

* [[No Budget]]: Made on a quarter of a million dollars.

* [[Oh Crap]]: That is a LOT of Incubi...

* [[Our Ghosts Are Different]]: The spirits of the dead can end up either as Storytellers, Incubi, or Drifters. Storytellers are good people who give people happy dreams (and can kick ass when needed, but not affect the physical world). Incubi give people nightmares and try to influence them to increase the amount of pride and selfishness in the world. Drifters are the most like traditional ghosts, owing allegiance to neither side, and most seem to be caught up in the obsessions they had in life. All spirits can be [[Deader Than Dead|killed by another]] in the same way that humans can be killed, but it never says what, if anything, happens to them after that.

* [[Pet the Dog]]: {{spoiler|Ink}} gets one when he prevents Sadie chopping off all of Liev's hair and further humiliating her.

* [[Power Fist]]: Gabe breaks out some brass knuckles for the climactic fight.

* [[Pride]]: Pretty much what the movie is about.

* [[Reset Button]]: Two - the one that fixes things broken when Storytellers fight, and {{spoiler|The [[Stable Time Loop]]-breaking one at the end.}}

* [[The Reveal]]: {{spoiler|Ink is John from a [[Bad Future]]. Specifically, he completed his business deal, let Emma die alone in the hospital, spiraled into depression and blew his brains out, scarring his already twisted soul enough to turn him into monster.}}

* [[Sinister Schnoz]]: Ink.

* [[Stable Time Loop]]: {{spoiler|The Incubi's plan for Ink's initiation ritual is to create one.}}

* [[Stepford Smiler]]: Aside from the Prince, every single one of the Incubi has a screen in front of their faces which projects this image. And they have [[Slasher Smile|sharp teeth.]]

* [[Tear Jerker]]: "She's going to be okay." The scene is even worse if you close your eyes and turn the sound up.

** Emma, about to be sacrificed: "When I die will I be a storyteller like you?" Liev: "No. You will be much greater than that."

* [[This Is Sparta]]: Shake. The. Shit. Out of her.

* [[Traumatic Haircut]]: Liev gets one from Sadie.

* [[Uncanny Valley]]: Purposefully and rather effectively done with the Incubi. The screens in front of their faces greatly distort and exaggerate their [[Stepford Smiler|Stepford Smiles]] to a disturbing level.

* [[Urban Fantasy]]

* [[Waistcoat of Style]]: Gabe sports one.

* [[Was Once a Man]]: {{spoiler|Ink and the junk collector were once men. Who knows what Sadie once was.}}

** A woman?

* [[You Shall Not Pass]]: Each of the main Storytellers pulls one of these to buy John more time.

 

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