History Film / CruelAndUnusual

* AllCrimesAreEqual: Murdering both your parents, your own children, killing yourself because you feel you're a burden upon your family and accidentally killing your wife (who had also deliberately poisoned ''you'') all receive the same punishment in the afterlife.

* DomesticAbuse: Edgar is slowly revealed to have controlled his wife's life almost completely, stopping her from working or having her own bank account, and constantly being paranoid that she'd leave him or was having affairs. It's also implied that she's stuck with him if she wants to stay in the country, as her residence there appears to depend upon their marriage. She poisoned him due to feeling it was the only way to escape.

* CelestialBureaucracy: The afterlife takes a form very reminiscent of a psychiatric hospital, with group therapy sessions led by facilitators over television screens.

* HeelRealization: Edgar realizes after living through Maylon and her son's memories that he really was an abusive asshole to them.

* SympatheticMurderer: Maylon, who tries to kill Edgar so she can escape the complete control he has over her life.

* HeroicSuicide: [[spoiler: Edgar takes Doris' place, which spars not only her but Maylon from condemnation in the afterlife.]]

* PlotTriggeringDeath: Maylon, Edgar's wife, dying at his hand sets off the plot as he's condemned in the afterlife as a murderer for it, forced to relive the events.

* AccidentalMurder: Edgar kills Maylon by pressing down while struggling to grab the phone with his arm against her throat, strangling her.

* CelestialBureaucracy: The afterlife takes a form reminiscent of a psychiatric hospital, with group therapy sessions led by facilitators over television screens.

* DomesticAbuse: Edgar is slowly revealed to have controlled his wife's life almost completely, stopping her from working or having her own bank account, and constantly being paranoid that she'd leave him. It's also implied that she's stuck with him if she wants to stay in the country, as her residence there appears to depend upon their marriage. She poisoned him due to feeling it was the only way to escape.

* DomesticAbuse: Edgar is slowly revealed to have controlled his wife's life almost completely, stopping her from working or having her own bank account, and constantly being paranoid that she'd leave him. It's also implied that she's stuck with him if she wants to stay in the country, as her residence there appears to depend upon their marriage.

* SuicideIsShameful: Doris is condemned as a murderer for hanging herself. The tattoo on her arm she has in the afterlife says "Ego", showing that she's the victim.
* WouldHurtAChild: Julien drowned his children to punish their mother for something.

* WouldHurtAChild: Julien drowned his children to punish their mother.

* SuicideForOthersHappiness: Doris believed she was just a burden to her family, being an alcoholic that could barely function, so she hanged herself.
* SuicideIsShameful: Doris is condemned as a murderer for hanging herself. The tattoo on her arm she's in the afterlife says "Ego", showing that she is the victim.
* WouldHurtAChild: Julien drowned his children to punish their mother.

* OffOnATechnicality: Edgar is outraged when some of the other condemned suggest that, just because she died first, Maylon wasn't condemned for his murder while he was for hers.

* WouldHurtAChild: Julien drowned his children to punish their mother.

* OffOnATechnicality: Edgar is outraged when some of the other condemned suggest that, because she died first, Maylon wasn't condemned for his murder while he was for hers.

* WouldHurtAChild: Julien drowned his children to punish their mother.

* HowWeGotHere: The film gradually shows what led up to Edgar being in the afterlife condemned for murdering his wife, reliving the memories every time he enters a certain room.

* WouldHurtAChild: Julien drowned his children to punish their mother.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Edgar didn't kill his wife intentionally, but this is still treated as murder. [[spoiler: Finally, Edgar is sent back to the afterlife for killing himself, but this was to save Doris and Maylon. Because he feels proud of that, it's implied he may never move on.]] Of course, just look at the title...

* WouldHurtAChild: Julien drowned his children to punish their mother.

* DomesticAbuse: Edgar is slowly revealed to have controlled his wife's life almost completely, stopping her from getting working or having her own bank account, and constantly being paranoid that she'll leave him. It's also implied that she's stuck with him, as her residence in Canada appears to depend upon their marriage.
* GroinAttack: The facilitator rips Julien's testicles off using {{telekinesis}} after he tries to intercede with her on Edgar's behalf when he first arrives. Of course, when next he's seen there's no sign anything happened, him being dead after all.

* WouldHurtAChild: Julien drowned his children to punish their mother.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Edgar didn't kill his wife intentionally, but this is still treated as murder. [[spoiler: Finally, Edgar is sent back to the afterlife for killing himself, but this was to save Doris and Maylon. Because he feels proud of that, it's implied he may never move on.]] Of course, look at the title...

* WouldHurtAChild: Julien drowned his children to punish their mother.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Edgar didn't kill his wife intentionally, but this is still treated as murder. [[spoiler: Finally, Edgar is sent back to the afterlife for killing himself, but this was to save Doris and Maylon. Because he feels proud of that, it's implied he may never move on.]]

* WouldHurtAChild: Julien drowned his children to punish their mother.

* CessationOfExistence: Doris believed that when she died, that would be it, just blackness and silence, but instead has been stuck reliving her suicide for decades in the afterlife.

* WouldHurtAChild: Julien drowned his children to punish their mother.

* CessationOfExistence: Doris believed that when she died, that would be it, just blackness and then nothing, but instead has been stuck reliving her suicide for decades in the afterlife.

* WouldHurtAChild: Julien drowned his children to punish their mother.

* WouldHurtAChild: Julien drowned his children to punish their mother.

* CelestialBureaucracy: The afterlife takes a form reminiscent of a psychiatric hospital, with group therapy sessions led by facilitators over television screens.

* GroinAttack: The facilitator rips Julien's testicles off using {{telekinesis}} after he tries to intercede with her on Edgar's behalf when he first arrives. Of course, when next he's seen there's no sign anything happened, him being dead after all.

* HowWeGotHere: The film gradually shows what led up to Edgar condemned in the afterlife, reliving his memories every time he enters a certain room.

* SuicideForOthersHappiness: Doris believed she was just a burden to her family, being an alcoholic that could barely function, so she hanged herself.

* SuicideIsShameful: Doris is condemned as a murderer for hanging herself. The tattoo on her arm says "Ego", indicating she is the victim.

* WouldHurtAChild: Julien drowned his children to punish their mother.

AccidentalMurder:

AllJustADream: {{Discussed}} by Edgar early on, who says he'd like to believe that the afterlife is just a nightmare, but knows it's too real for that to be true.

CelestialBureaucracy: The afterlife takes a form reminiscent of a psychiatric hospital, with group therapy sessions led by facilitators over television screens.

CessationOfExistence: Doris believed that when she died, that would be it, just blackness and then nothing, but instead has been stuck reliving her suicide for decades in the afterlife.

ClearMyName: Edgar is certain he didn't murder his wife, and that there has been some mistake, desperately trying to convince the authorities in the afterlife of this.

GroinAttack: The facilitator rips Julien's testicles off using {{telekinesis}} after he tries to intercede with her on Edgar's behalf when he first arrives. Of course, when next he's seen there's no sign anything happened, him being dead after all.

{{Flashback}}: The rooms Edgar and the other people enter trigger this, making them relive what they did to be condemned.

HowWeGotHere: The film gradually shows what led up to Edgar condemned in the afterlife, reliving his memories every time he enters a certain room.

IronicHell: In the afterlife murderers are forced to continually relive their crime so they come to terms with it. Some of them have already been doing this for decades without success.

OffOnATechnicality:

PlotTriggeringDeath: Maylon, Edgar's wife, dying at his hand sets off the plot as he's condemned in the afterlife as a murderer for it, forced to relive the events.

{{Pride}}:

SelfInflictedHell:

SelfMadeOrphan: William, who murdered both his parents.

SuicideForOthersHappiness:

SuicideIsShameful: Doris is condemned as a murderer for hanging herself. The tattoo on her arm says "Ego", indicating she is the victim.

YourCheatingHeart:

GroinAttack: The facilitator rips off Julien's testicles after he tries to intercede with her on Edgar's behalf when he first arrives. Of course, when next he's seen there's no sign anything happened, him being dead after all.

YourCheatingHeart:

A surreal Canadian film, it begins with a man trying unsuccessfully to resuscitate a woman lying on the bathroom floor of a house. When the scene abruptly shifts to the two in a car, we soon learn they are a couple, Edgar and Maylor (or May). Edgar is bewildered over what just happened, confusing May as they are out looking for her son. They return to their house, at which point Edgar finds himself somewhere else in another abrupt scene shift. He find himself in a strange building, where every door is locked until he comes to one room where what appears to be a group therapy session is going on. The session is run by an elderly woman by teleconference, and Edgar is horrified to hear a young man named William stand up to discuss brutally murdering both of his parents. Seeing his confusion, the facilitator sends him to another room, while another man who attempts to intercede on his behalf is cruelly punished. A man on another television screen explains that he is dead, and in the afterlife. He has killed his wife, the man says, and must come to accept this before he moves on. Edgar vehemently denies, this, claiming there has been some mistake, but is thrust into another memories where he views what happened again.

CelestialBureaucracy:

CessationOfExistence:

ClearMyName: Edgar is certain he's been wrongly condemned for killing his wife, and that there was some mistake, desperately trying to convince the authorities in the afterlife of this.

GroinAttack:

{{Flashback}}:

HowWeGotHere: The film gradually shows what led up to Edgar entering the afterlife by reviewing his memories every time he enters a certain room.

IronicHell:

PlotTriggeringDeath:

SuicideIsShameful:

YourCheatingHeart: