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* BenevolentConspiracy: Implied at the beginning. Its results are not so much.
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* BrownNote: A sinister note plays on the synthesizer during several scenes, most notably when the nurse discovers a notebook that hints at implied RapeAsDrama.
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* GenreThrowback: To "cold sci-fi" of the 1970s
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* MadScientist: Or mad pseudo-scientist, Barry.
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* RapeAsDrama: Implied as part of the backstory (though it's never really clear) when the BattleAxeNurse finds a notebook featuring illustrations of male and female sexual organs. Cue BrownNote.
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* SoundtrackDissonance: The end credits feature a somewhat poppy tune by SSQ. While the lyrics are still mysterious, the tune is considerably more upbeat than the [[BrownNote]] synths that have been playing throughout the movie.
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* ShoutOut: Barry's pills are from "Benway's Pharmacy," an appropriate shout-out to WilliamSBurroughs. The way he [[spoiler:kills his wife]] is also reminiscent of Tyrell's death in ''BladeRunner''.
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* ShoutOut: Barry's pills are from "Benway's Pharmacy," an appropriate shout-out to WilliamSBurroughs. The way he [[spoiler:kills his wife]] is also reminiscent of Tyrell's death in ''BladeRunner''.''Film/BladeRunner''.
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* FadeToBlack: Averted: whenever there's a scene change, the movie fades to ''red'' instead.
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* AssholeVictim: Margo
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* VillainousBreakdown: Barry goes from a cold and calculating {{PsychoPsychologist}} to a [[spoiler: bald, ranting, hallucinating, knife wielding psychopath.]]
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* VillainousBreakdown: Barry goes from a cold and calculating {{PsychoPsychologist}} PsychoPsychologist to a [[spoiler: bald, ranting, hallucinating, knife wielding psychopath.]]
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* BigBad: Dr. Barry Nyle
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* AirVentPassageway: Elena uses one to travel rooms.
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* AssholeVictim: Margo
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* LeftHanging: The main conflict is resolved before the end, but the film ends very abruptly and many things remain unexplained.
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* LeftHanging: The main conflict PeaceAndLoveIncorporated: If you believe their promotional material, Arboria is resolved before the end, but the film ends very abruptly a holistic psychological research center dedicated to helping people achieve happiness and many things remain unexplained.realize their full potential.
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* CultClassic
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* BaldOfEvil: Barry, toward the end, when he's gone completely AxCrazy.
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* EstablishingShot: Relentlessly subverted. An establishing shot of a room is likely to be done through macro photography of the carpet.
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* EstablishingShot: Relentlessly subverted. An establishing shot of a room is likely to be done through macro photography of the carpet.carpet.
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* EyeScream: A few.
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* {{Homage}}: In terms of style as well as subject matter, to science fiction films of the early 1980s.
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* PsychoPsychologist: Barry.
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* DrugsAreBad: "Benign pharmacology" proves to be anything but benign. The anti-drug Aesop fits nicely with the movie's Reagan-era aesthetic.
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* LeftHanging: The main conflict is resolved before the end, but the film ends very abruptly and many things remain unexplained.
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* MushroomSamba: The flashback sequence (if not the whole movie).
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A very 70's-ish sci-fi film.
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A film made in 2010, set in 1983, and very 70's-ish sci-fi film.much done in the style of early-80s movies. A telepathic girl is being studied in an institute for research into ESP. Her psychiatrist has an unhealthy interest in her. Then things get weird'''er.'''
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SpiritualSuccessor-To Altered States maybe?
SpiritualSuccessor-To Altered States maybe?
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SpiritualSuccessor-To Altered States maybe?
* EstablishingShot: Relentlessly subverted. An establishing shot of a room is likely to be done through macro photography of the carpet.
* MindScrew: Endlessly. It reaches the point that a perfectly ordinary [[spoiler: EstablishingShot]] of a perfectly ordinary [[spoiler: staff break room]] will ''unwind your mind.''
* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''AlteredStates,'' among others.
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''SlasherMovie''-The film kind of turns into one near the end.
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