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* [[Big Bad]]: Nola.
* [[Big Bad]]: Nola.
* [[Body Horror]]: Cronenberg is the king of this trope.
* [[Body Horror]]: Cronenberg is the king of this trope.
* [[Canada Eh]]: The movie makes no attempt to hide the fact that it's filmed and set in Toronto.
* [[Canada, Eh?]]: The movie makes no attempt to hide the fact that it's filmed and set in Toronto.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Jan Hartog, the guy with lymph cancer.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Jan Hartog, the guy with lymph cancer.
** Also Mike, the man who wants you to "be my daddy."
** Also Mike, the man who wants you to "be my daddy."
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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.
* [[The Heartless]]: Nola literally gives birth to her inner demons.
* [[The Heartless]]: Nola literally gives birth to her inner demons.
* [[Hey Its 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.
* [[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''.
* [[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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* [[Self Made Orphan]]: {{spoiler|Indirectly, Nola}}
* [[Self Made Orphan]]: {{spoiler|Indirectly, Nola}}
* [[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
* [[Well Done Son Guy]]: Mike, of the skin welts.
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Mike, of the skin welts.
* [[Your Mind Makes It Real]]: The whole point of Raglan's therapy. He would make mental illnesses into physical ones, which he would then cure.
* [[Your Mind Makes It Real]]: The whole point of Raglan's therapy. He would make mental illnesses into physical ones, which he would then cure.


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