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* [[Cute Mute]]: [[Moe|Adorable little Max.]]
* {{spoiler|[[Downer Ending]]: Sure, Kate kills <s> Esther</s> Leena, but John is most likely dead, who knows what kind of brain damage Danny has from being smothered, and ''poor little Max...''}}
** {{spoiler|1=[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM9IcZFeMjk The alternate ending] is ten times worse, if you assume that "Esther" succeeds in fooling the police officers. Not only will she probably be adopted by another unwitting, innocent family, but poor Kate, the woman who stood in Leena's way of romancing John and nearly succeeded in killing her? Yeah, Leena ''knows where she lives''. And considering Kate would have no proof in this situation that she wasn't a mentally slipping alcoholic like everyone around her believes, good luck convincing anyone that that sweet, innocent girl could decide to come murder her and her family.}}
*** {{spoiler|It's highly unlikely that "Esther" would have fooled the police - she's covered in blood, smiling as happy as clam, despite the dead body and the house having been wrecked, not to mention the police were notified of an intruder. It wouldn't take take a genius for them to figure out the girl was off her rocker, it's more depressing in the fact that you realize this girl has really lost it.}}
*** {{spoiler|Unless the police assume that the intruder wrecked the house and hurt "Esther". her demeanor could come off to the police as post-traumatic stress.}}
*** {{spoiler|Esther would be taken by the police to be examined by a doctor as a matter of course. As soon as that happens all of Kate's allegations about Esther would be proven beyond all doubt}}
* [[Dysfunction Junction]]: On both the villainous '''and''' heroic sides.
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* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]: The movie was supposed to take place in the fall, but a record snow fall hitting the filming location during filming changed this to the winter, in turn eliminating a scene in the script at a Halloween carnival at Danny and Esther's school. Some might say the winter atmosphere helped make the movie more creepy.
* [[Replacement Goldfish]]: A tale of this trope in action, gone horribly, '''horribly''' wrong.
* [[Russian Roulette]]: ''"Want to play?"''
* [[Sickbed Slaying]]: {{spoiler|Danny. He survives, though.}}
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: "The Glory of Love" plays over a disturbing, UV paint-splattered credits reel.
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* [[Took a Level
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Sure, the first few results of Esther's psychopathy ''could'' be chalked up to coincidence. But John ''still'' refuses to believe Kate after {{spoiler|Danny's treehouse mysteriously burns down, putting him in the hospital. When Esther just HAPPENED to be near it at the time. [[What an Idiot!|Must've been spontaneous combustion, right?]]}}
** Kate earns some of this for not thinking to call the cops sooner, especially as she is fairly quick to realize that there is something wrong with Esther. Why on earth would she even let her come to the hospital?
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* [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]]
* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: Towards {{spoiler|her adoptive father John.}}
* [[Creepy Child]]: {{spoiler|Subverted, since she's really thirty three years old. She's still way creepy, though.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Dawson Casting]]: Zig-zagged to all '''hell.''' 12-year-old [[Isabelle Fuhrman]] plays 33-year-old Leena who poses as 9-year-old Esther.}}
* [[Drop the Hammer]]: Uses a claw hammer to murder {{spoiler|Sister Abigail.}}
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* {{spoiler|[[Psychopathic Manchild|Psychopathic Womanchild: An odd yet disturbingly literal example.]]}}
* [[Pyromaniac]]
* {{spoiler|[[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|Really 33 Years Old]]}}
* [[Replacement Goldfish]]: The Coleman family '''really''' should have just gotten a puppy.
* [[Room Full of Crazy]]: {{spoiler|Look at all those pretty paintings she made! Wait...oh dear God...}}
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