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It should be noted that, beyond the <s>similar titles</s> title which is obviously a [[Shout-Out|reference]] (and [[Mistaken for Spies|superficial plot similarities]]), this film has nothing to do with Hitchcock's thriller ''[[The Man Who Knew Too Much]]''.

* [[And You Thought It Was a Game]]

* [[Anticlimax Cut]]: In one scene, Wallace tells Lori that he's not completely a good guy, that if she wants his help, she'll have to do something for him. The dialogue is set up to make the viewer think Wallace is talking about sex... then the scene cuts to Wallace driving Lori's Cooper Mini.

** For extra points, he uses a croquet mallet, which is what Jack Torrance used in the original novel.

* [[Balcony Escape]]: Wallace prefers doing this for the film because its much more dramatic than the more conventional method. Since he isn't that strong, he has trouble doing it.

* [[The Baroness]]: Dr. Ludmilla Kropotkin averts the superficial aspects of the "evil torturer lady" stereotype. But Wallace's [[Wrong Genre Savvy|familiarity with that particular trope]] leads him to mistake the first septuagenerian dominatrix he meets for Dr. Kropotkin.

* [[Black Comedy]]: Referenced and played with. Wallace Ritchie is just having fun gawking at the elaborate "sets" and the performances of his fellow "actors", but Lori interprets his lighthearted demeanor around so much death and danger as a sign that he is an [[Lack of Empathy|emotionally-stunted]] hitman with a [[Laughably Evil|seriously depraved sense of humour]].

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