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The movie begins with the murder of a farmer by an elderly insane woman with terribly burned facial features. After stabbing the farmer and accidentally setting his barn on fire, the woman stumbles home to her family. The family, an older couple and a young teenage woman, argue about the best way to handle the situation and make vague references that the elderly woman may have killed people in the past.
The scene then switches to the main character, a young man named Jodie who is on an open-ended car trip across America to find himself and discover whether or not he wishes to follow in his father's footsteps as a lawyer. Jodie stops at a small pond to have lunch and meets Melissa, the teenage girl from the previous scene.
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* [[Amazing Freaking Grace]]: A ''perfectly'' appropriate witch-burning song and note that it's used ''four times'' in total.
* [[Ax Crazy]]: 'Grandma.'
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* [[Cassandra Truth]]: Even when she tells him point blank, even when she gives him a dream of the past, even when the people Melissa's living with agree with her, Jodie refuses to believe Melissa's a witch. This may have something to do with the fact that Jodie isn't exactly a physics professor.
* [[Cool Car]]
* [[Deal
* [[Devil but No God]]
* [[Downer Ending]]
* [[Embarrassing Middle Name]]: Jodie doesn't care for his middle name, Lee, very much, if the one time he talks about it is any indication. For some reason he's okay with his girly first name, but doesn't like his perfectly normal middle name.
* [[Failed a Spot Check|Failed A Listen Check]]: In the flashback scene, we hear an [[Angry Mob]] marching on the house while chanting "Burn the witch!" Melissa actually asks her father "What is it?" ''multiple times'', to which Crow [[Deadpan Snarker|responds]] "It's a mob chanting 'Burn the witch!' Have you no comprehension skills at all?!"
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Directed by Billy Jack and featuring the main hick from ''[[Giant Spider Invasion]]'' in a supporting role.
** It's never been confirmed that it really was the same Tom Laughlin. This movie isn't under his filmography on IMDb and he's understandably not owning up to it if it really was him.
* [[I Have Many Names]]: "I am a friend and companion of the night. I rejoice in spilled blood and the baying of dogs. I wander among shades and tombs. I am Gorgo, and Mormo, of the thousand-faced moon."
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* [[Insane Equals Violent]]: The "great grandmother" of Melissa really has no reason for murdering other than this.
* [[Ironic Echo Cut]]: At the start of the movie, a farmer being killed transitions to Melissa and her family laughing pleasantly. Presumably, inverting the trope was the intent.
* [[Madwoman in
* [[Malaproper]]: "See, the way I got it figured, this job was done by one of them ''fromokaidal'' maniacs, and we ain't got none of them around here"
* [[May-December Romance]]
* [[Never Mess
* [[No Immortal Inertia]]
* [[Older Than They Look]]: Melissa and her family.
* [[Product Placement]]
* [[Public Domain Soundtrack]]: ''Amazing Grace''
* [[Shout
* [[Torches and Pitchforks]]
* [[Unfortunate Names]]
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