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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Bedelia Grantham and Henry Northrup murder, respectively, their father and wife, and in both cases it's presented as a very bad thing to do... but it's very hard to feel sorry for their loathesome victims.



* KickTheSonOfABitch: In the end, [[spoiler: Billy tortures his abusive father with a VoodooDoll that he mail-ordered from an ad in the comic that his father threw out.]]


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* PayEvilUntoEvil: In the end, [[spoiler: Billy tortures his abusive father with a VoodooDoll that he mail-ordered from an ad in the comic that his father threw out.]]
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* AdaptedOut: At one point in the original story Jordy can hear the grass growing in the earth as he places his head to the ground and the whole story takes place right after the Forth of July.
* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: [[spoiler: A slight example in the original story once the weeds have completely covered Jordy he starts to hear the plants [[{{Telepathy}} telepathically]] allowing the plants to hear how much he wants to kill himself. Then after he [[BungledSuicide fails to kill himself]] from the first shot of his shot gun the weeds help him kill himself on the second shot thinking that a dead Jordy well be better to grow on.]]
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* AdaptationDyeJob: In the original story it is hinted at that Jordy Vellill has reddish-gold hair as that is the color of hairs on his arm. Here the acter that plays him (Stephen King) has black hair.
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* AdaptationSpeciesChange: In the original story the weeds are described as being Tendril that are unlike most grass here the weeds are like common flat crabgrass.

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