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* [[Come to Gawk]]
* [[Creepy Circus Music]] - The soundtrack (in places), and it's heartbreaking.
* [[Dream Sequence]]: Provides the surreal, since most of the film avoids the [[Mind Screw]] Lynch is known for.▼
* [[Deliberately Monochrome]]
▲* [[Dream Sequence]]: Provides the surreal, since most of the film avoids the [[Mind Screw]] Lynch is known for.
* [[Everything's Better with Monkeys]] - Averted, with the big mean baboons at the circus.
* [[The Grotesque]]
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* [[Oscar Bait]]: A partial aversion. It was a tragic biopic about a physically disabled man shot in black and white, which certainly covers several typical [[Oscar Bait]] traits, and was nominated for seven different Oscars. However, [[Award Snub|it won none of them.]]
** Also averted in that most people agree a [[Raging Bull|different tragic biopic shot in black and white]] should have won most of the Oscars that year (and indeed, it did win two).
* [[Take Our Word for It]] - For the first chunk of the movie, we never get a good look at John.▼
** It helps build the suspense as we only see the reactions of others to poor Merrick's [[Body Horror|physical deformities]].▼
* [[Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Trailer]] - Executive producer {{spoiler|[[Mel Brooks]]}} deliberately kept his name off the film, for fear people would expect it to be a comedy. He did the same with ''[[The Fly]]'', among other films in the early 80s.
* {{spoiler|[[Suicide Is Painless]]}}: See [[Bittersweet Ending]].
▲* [[Take Our Word for It]] - For the first chunk of the movie, we never get a good look at John.
▲** It helps build the suspense as we only see the reactions of others to poor Merrick's [[Body Horror|physical deformities]].
* [[This Is Sparta]]: "'''I'''! AM NOT! AN '''ELEPHANT! I''' AM NOT! AN '''ANIMAL!''' I! AM A '''HUMAN! BEING!''' I! AM! ...a man."
** "Where - ''is'' - he?"
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