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** The crooked angles in the lighthouse are a homage to ''[[The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari]]'', a German film told from the perspective of an asylum patient.

** Key parts of the plot and overall theme may be an homage to ''[[The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari]]'' as well.

* [[I Know You Know I Know]]: A somewhat meta-example; any sufficiently [[Genre Savvy]] viewer should be able to spot the obvious twist a mile away, but the way the film plays out makes one constantly question whether or not that's just what the filmmakers want you to expect.

* [[Infant Immortality]]: Brutally Averted. Along with the dead children at Dachau, Rachael Solando killed her three children by drowning them {{spoiler|and by extension, so did Dolores}}.