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* BastardBastard: Alice was conceived before her parents actually married. It is implied that her status as a child out of wedlock among a largely Catholic community made her bitter, lashing out at the more favorable Karen, and earning the ire of her Aunt Anne.
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* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler: Mrs. Tredoni's daughter was killed during her first communion, so she does the same to Karen, believing that children pay for the sins of their parents. The sin in question is for having a child (Alice) out of wedlock, so it's assumed that Tredoni had her daughter before marriage, and erroneously attributed her daughter's untimely death as God's retribution for her sin.]]
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* HenpeckedHusband: Jim, Aunt Anne's husband, rarely gets a word in edgewise from his naggy and overbearing wife.
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* TheUnfavorite: Alice to Aunt Anne. Katherine confronts to her that Anne hated Alice because Katherine was pregnant with her when she got married.
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* TheButlerDidIt: [[spoiler: Mrs. Tredoni, a housekeeper to the priests and the monsignor, is the murderer.]]
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** PresentDayPast: ...though the fashion does little to indicate this). Alice and Karen wear their hair long that's more reminiscent of the hippy movement, none of the women are sporting bouffants or beehives, and the men have medium hair with sideburns; a type of hairstyle that wouldn't be popular for men until at least the much later 60s.
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** PresentDayPast: ...though the fashion does little to indicate this).this. Alice and Karen wear their hair long that's more reminiscent of the hippy movement, none of the women are sporting bouffants or beehives, and the men have medium hair with sideburns; a type of hairstyle that wouldn't be popular for men until at least the much later 60s.
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* CreepyDoll: Karen has a three faced baby doll that Alice likes to hide from her. It wouldn't be so creepy if not for the uncanny expressions each face the doll makes.
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** Tredoni seems to be obsessed with keeping Father Tom close to the church that she considers the Spages a total nuisance, despite the fact that they had just lost a daughter. [[spoiler: Her obsession proves to be fatal as she was revealed to be Karen's murderer, and Tom becomes the fina victim, as if to have him all to herself.]]
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* DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler: Mrs. Tredoni killed Karen just because Karen's parents had Alice out of wedlock and still remained Catholic. In general, she seems to be after the entire family for being "sinners" and kills Tom due to this reason as well, and Annie's stabbing was the result of being mistaken for Katherine, Karen and Alice's mother.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Alice was put through a lie detector test, she answers "no" to being asked if she stabbed her aunt, and the machine doesn't respond, indicating that she answered honestly. It's one of the first clues that assumes Alice's innocence, and the subsequent questions also make her out to be a BadLiar, so there's no way she could've cheated on that question.
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* MistakenIdentity: [[spoiler: It's later inferred that Annie got stabbed by Mrs. Tredoni because the killer mistook her for Katherine. Regardless, this works in her favor because it looked like Alice stabbed her aunt after being strict with her.]]
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* MistakenIdentity: [[spoiler: It's later inferred that Annie got stabbed by Mrs. Tredoni because the killer mistook her for Katherine. thought she was Katherine due to both having similar hairstyles. Regardless, this works in her favor because it looked like Alice stabbed her aunt after being too strict with her.]]
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* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: [[spoiler: Mrs. Tredoni serves coffee to Katherine that's implied to be spiked. Tredoni makes the excuse that she doesn't drink coffee after breakfast when she's asked why she doesn't have some. Father Dom comes home just in time before she could drink it.]]
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* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: [[spoiler: Mrs. Tredoni serves coffee to Katherine that's implied to be spiked. Tredoni makes the excuse that she doesn't drink coffee after breakfast when she's asked why she doesn't have some. Father Dom Tom comes home just in time before she Katherine could drink it.take a sip.]]
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* GreenEyedMonster: Alice, due to the more attentive treatment of her little sister. She also got rather upset at the fact that her sister was receiving her first communion when she, herself, didn't making it all the more reasonable to point her out as a possible suspect.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler: Mrs. Tredoni killed Karen just because Karen's parents had Alice out of wedlock and still remained Catholic.]]
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* BillingDisplacement: After Brooke Shields got famous, the movie was re-released playing up her role [[spoiler: despite her character dying within the first ten minutes.]]
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'''''Alice, Sweet Alice''''' (1977) is an American {{psychological horror}} {{film}} that was first released as ''Communion'' in 1976, then as ''Alice, Sweet Alice'' in 1978, and as ''Holy Terror'' in 1981. It is noteworthy for being the feature film debut of Brooke Shields.
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* BigBad: [[spoiler:Mrs. Tredoni]] turns out to be the killer.
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* {{Expy}}: [[spoiler: A female killer with her backstory of a dead kid, murdering folks on a whim and seems to mutter crazy stuff to herself. Sounds like [[Film/FridayThe13th1980 Mrs. Voorhees]], no?]]
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''Alice, Sweet Alice'' (1977) is an American {{psychological horror}} {{film}} that was first released as ''Communion'' in 1976, then as ''Alice, Sweet Alice'' in 1978, and as ''Holy Terror'' in 1981. It is noteworthy for being the feature film debut of Brooke Shields.
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Alphonso]]
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* DaylightHorror: All of the committed murders took place on a bright sunny day. [[spoiler: Aunt Annie doesn't count because one, it was a very rainy day and two, she doesn't die in the end]].
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* DaylightHorror: All of the committed murders took place on a bright sunny day. [[spoiler: Aunt Annie Anne doesn't count because one, it was a very rainy day and two, she doesn't die in the end]].
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* DaylightHorror: All of the committed murders took place on a bright sunny day. [[spoiler: Aunt Annie doesn't count because one, it was a very rainy day and two, she doesn't die in the end]].
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* OneSteveLimit: Averted. There is the Father (priest) and Alice and Karen's father, their names being Tom and Dom, respectively. Both are important characters, [[spoiler: that eventually get killed, [[DecoyProtagonist pretty unexpectedly]]]] yet nobody mixes them up.
* ParentalAbandonment: Dom, Alice and Karen's father, is usually away and seemed to contribute as to why Alice kept crying for attention.
* ParentalAbandonment: Dom, Alice and Karen's father, is usually away and seemed to contribute as to why Alice kept crying for attention.
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* {{Expy}}: [[spoiler: A female killer with her backstory of a dead kid, murdering folks on a whim and seems to mutter crazy stuff to herself. Sounds like [[FridayThe13th Mrs. Voorhees]], no?]]
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* {{Expy}}: [[spoiler: A female killer with her backstory of a dead kid, murdering folks on a whim and seems to mutter crazy stuff to herself. Sounds like [[FridayThe13th [[Film/FridayThe13th1980 Mrs. Voorhees]], no?]]
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* {{Expy}}: [[spoiler: The killer with her backstory of a dead kid, murdering folks on a whim. Sounds like [[FridayThe13th Mrs. Voorhees]], no?]]
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* {{Expy}}: [[spoiler: The A female killer with her backstory of a dead kid, murdering folks on a whim.whim and seems to mutter crazy stuff to herself. Sounds like [[FridayThe13th Mrs. Voorhees]], no?]]
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** Ultimately, it could be said that the real protagonist is [[spoiler: Alice but a UselessProtagonist at that.]]
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* BlackComedy: [[spoiler: Alphonso's death which is PlayedForLaughs and causes a ''massive'' MoodWhiplash as it comes after the death of a major character.]]
* BillingDisplacement: After Brooke Shields got famous, the movie wasrereleased re-released playing up her role [[spoiler: despite her character dying within the first ten minutes.]]
* DecoyProtagonist: The movie has fun with this trope.
** [[spoiler: It seems that Alice could be the movie's VillainProtagonist but she is the RedHerring and spends the second half of the movie in a psychiatric ward.]]
** [[spoiler: Dom, the father then tries to clear her name and gets offed two-thirds through the movie.]]
** [[spoiler: Alice then returns towards the end though but doesn't cause any major effect on the plot.]]
** Ultimately, it could be said that the real protagonist is [[spoiler: Alice but a UselessProtagonist at that.]]
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* DecoyProtagonist: The movie has fun with this trope.
** [[spoiler: It seems that Alice could be the movie's VillainProtagonist but she is the RedHerring and spends the second half of the movie in a psychiatric ward.]]
** [[spoiler: Dom, the father then tries to clear her name and gets offed two-thirds through the movie.]]
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* {{Jerkass}}: '''Aunt Anne''' and Mrs. Tredoni. [[spoiler: The latter turns out to be [[AxCrazy much worse though]].]]
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* TheDanza: Alphonso is played by Alphonso [=DeNoble=].
* DawsonCasting: Paula Sheppard was 19 when she was cast as 12-year-old Alice.
* DawsonCasting: Paula Sheppard was 19 when she was cast as 12-year-old Alice.
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