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* [[Color Wash]]: Red. Everything is red.

** Or [[Unnaturally Blue Lighting|blue]].

** Or yellow, and believe us when we say that bright, saturated colors like these have never looked less cheerful than they do in this film.

* [[Cruel and Unusual Death]]: The deaths of Pat, her friend, and {{spoiler|Sara}} are examples.

* [[Cruel and Unusual Death]]: The deaths of Pat, her friend, and {{spoiler|Sara}} are perfect examples.

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: The final confrontation with the [[Big Bad]] is...surprisingly easy.

* [[Death Trap]]: While following the teachers at night, Sara gets chased by an unseen killer and jumps out of a window into a room full of razor wire.

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* [[Evil Old Folks]]: The [[Big Bad]] of the film is an old woman.

* [[Evil-Detecting Dog]]: Done with a twist. {{spoiler|The evil in question manages to possess it into attacking its owner.}}

* [[Excuse Plot]]: It's all about the colors, music, and gore.

* [[Fainting]]: Suzy faints during ballet practice supposedly because of anemia. {{spoiler|It's actually because of an enchantment a witch put on her.}}

* [[Final Girl]]: Suzy.

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* [[He Knows Too Much]]: {{spoiler|The reason why the two girls are killed.}}

* [[Human Pincushion]]: Pat's friend is impaled by falling glass when Pat's dead falls through the sky light.

* [[Humanoid Abomination]]: The [[Big Bad]] is barely recognisable as a human being thanks to her being "the Black Queen."

* [[Invisibility]]: One of the Witch of Sighs {{spoiler|Helena Markos}} special abilities. She tries to trick the protagonist with this ability, {{spoiler|but it doesn't work}}.

* [[Large Ham]]: Helena Marcos in the American dub, [[Narm|ad nauseam]].

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* [[Token Good Teammate]]: The teacher that took the students to see a play {{spoiler|and in the process quite possibly saved their lives when the school went down with Helena Markos}}.

* [[Trash the Set]]: The Academy's {{spoiler|self-imploding}}.

* Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: It's pretty obvious Suzy and Mark like each other, but it never gets past the flirting stage.

* [[Vader Breath]]: While sleeping in the dance studio due to the school being fumigated for maggots, Sara knows that Helena Marcos, the founder of the dance school and {{spoiler|The Mother of Sighs}}, is in the room with them because of her loud, wheezy breathing.

* [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story]]: The story was inspired to co-scriptwriter Daria Nicolodi by a story about her grandmother having run away from a music academy in which they also taught evil witchcraft.