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* [[Genre Busting]]: A cross between the Gothic horror of the 1800s and the immediate, gory horror of the 1970s. |
* [[Genre Busting]]: A cross between the Gothic horror of the 1800s and the immediate, gory horror of the 1970s. |
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* [[The Heartless]]: Nola literally gives birth to her inner demons. |
* [[The Heartless]]: Nola literally gives birth to her inner demons. |
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* [[Hey It's That Guy]]: Robert Silverman does quite [[Scanners|a]] [[eXistenZ|few]] films with Cronenberg. |
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Robert Silverman does quite [[Scanners|a]] [[eXistenZ|few]] films with Cronenberg. |
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* [[Homage]]: Hartog is probably named after the vampire hunter from the [[Hammer Horror]] picture ''The Vampire Lovers''. |
* [[Homage]]: Hartog is probably named after the vampire hunter from the [[Hammer Horror]] picture ''The Vampire Lovers''. |
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* [[Mad Love]] / [[Manufacturing Victims]]: Not as in erotic or romantic love, but Mike, one of Raglan's patients, becomes addicted to the treatment when Raglan plays a surrogate of his father who gives Mike all the love his real father didn't give him. He constantly looks for someone to "be my daddy" when Raglan {{spoiler|throws every patient of the institute out when he's dealing with Nola's ultimate breakdown.}} He even says that no one can play his daddy like Dr. Raglan, giving it a very creepy and disturbing pseudo-incestuous vibe. |
* [[Mad Love]] / [[Manufacturing Victims]]: Not as in erotic or romantic love, but Mike, one of Raglan's patients, becomes addicted to the treatment when Raglan plays a surrogate of his father who gives Mike all the love his real father didn't give him. He constantly looks for someone to "be my daddy" when Raglan {{spoiler|throws every patient of the institute out when he's dealing with Nola's ultimate breakdown.}} He even says that no one can play his daddy like Dr. Raglan, giving it a very creepy and disturbing pseudo-incestuous vibe. |
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* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: {{spoiler|Raglan}} |
* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: {{spoiler|Raglan}} |
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* [[Self-Made Orphan]]: {{spoiler|Indirectly, Nola}} |
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* [[This Trope Is Bleep]]: As indicated above, the censors' trimming of Nola's birthing scene made a sequence of her licking her hate-baby clean look more like she was eating it |
* [[This Trope Is Bleep]]: As indicated above, the censors' trimming of Nola's birthing scene made a sequence of her licking her hate-baby clean look more like she was eating it |
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* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Mike, of the skin welts. |
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Mike, of the skin welts. |
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