History Film / Stitches

There are two different films named ''Stitches''.

* ''Film/{{Stitches 2001}}''.
* ''Film/{{Stitches 2012}}''.

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->''"Everybody happy?"''
-->-- '''Stitches'''

''Stitches'' is a 2012 Irish SlasherMovie, starring Ross Noble as the title character. Also starring [[Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures Tommy Knight]] and Gemma Leah-Devereux.

After Stitches the clown is killed brutally at Tom's 10th birthday party, he is brought back to life six years later by a cult of clowns and seeks revenge on the children that brought about his untimely demise. Just in time for Tom's house party to celebrate his 16th birthday.

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!!''Stitches'' contains examples of the following tropes:

* ActionGirl: Sarah is one, surprisingly - [[spoiler: too bad that her shoving her stiletto heel into Stitches' throat doesn't work, what with him being undead and all]].
* ActionSurvivor: Tom.
* AlphaBitch: Sarah
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Paul and Sarah]].
* BackFromTheDead: Stitches is brought back to life via a ritual - apparently no clown can leave a party without having finished the job.
* BastardBoyfriend: A toned-down example, but Kate's boyfriend, Dan, is ''extremely'' [[SmallNameBigEgo self-centered.]]
* BigBad: Stitches is a MonsterClown on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge.
* BlackComedy: It's a SlasherMovie starring a murdered clown - it'd be a shame if this ''wasn't'' included.
* BlandNameProduct: Vinny gets word out about Tom's party via [[MySpace My]][[{{Facebook}} Face]].
* BlownAcrossTheRoom: Kate is knocked across the kitchen after Stitches sucker-punches her in the face.
* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler: Bulger]].
* CampGay: Downplayed, but [[spoiler: Bulger]] has an eye for decoration, is active in the music department at school, and has a complete lack of interest in gym - but can do a split on a dime. He might even be CampStraight; before the party begins, he describes it as a 'fanny fest' (fanny being slang for female genitals), and it's not clear if he means that in a good way or not.
* CassandraTruth: Although how many would believe being told "there's a killer clown on the loose"?
* ChekhovsGun: Tom's birthday present comes in handy when he and Kate need to make a getaway.
* ChekhovsSkill: Of the ''weirdest'' variety.
-->'''Bulger''': Righty-tighty, lefty-loosey.
** Subverted. [[spoiler:Stitches interrupts Tom from using this to defeat him.]]
** But then played straight when [[spoiler:Vinnie's ability to tie someone's shoelaces together without them noticing ends up putting Stitches down for good.]]
* DaydreamSurprise: Tom's teacher scolds him for talking, but as Tom looks up to face him, his teacher is a clown. He then proceeds to rip off Vinny's genitals and tie them to a helium balloon, before taunting Vinny who is desperately trying to retrieve it in front of the class, who are by now laughing at him. He turns to Tom and tells him his time is "up", before Tom snaps out of the daydream when his teacher says that the time to finish his work is up and to hand it to him.
* DeathBySex: [[spoiler: Narrowly {{averted}}. Vinny and Mary were about to have sex, but Tom kept interrupting them]].
* DecoyProtagonist: Stitches.
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: Stitches holds [[spoiler: Bulger]] in his arms after killing him.
** Poetically fitting when, at the exact same time, the rest of the party are dancing to the Cutting Crew song [[TropeNamer of the same name]].
* DudeNotFunny: The InUniverse reaction to [[spoiler: Paul impersonating the titular Clown moments before the ''real'' one's appearance]].
* EggMacGuffin: The only way to kill a resurrected clown is by destroying the one that has the clown's face on it.
* EyeScream: Stitches trips and falls, landing face-down onto the dishwasher, and receives a steak knife through the eye.
** Stitches throws an umbrella through [[spoiler: Sarah]]'s head, popping her eye out of the socket. The body then falls backwards, forcing the entire umbrella through the socket.
* FinalGirl: Kate.
* '''{{Gorn}}'''
* GroinAttack: A very vivid one in the DaydreamSurprise.
** A second one gets delivered when Tom tries to snub a Paul and Sarah out of a party invite.
* GilliganCut: Just as Kate reassures Tom that "not every party ends with a dead clown", [[spoiler: Paul, dressed as a clown, is being murdered by Stitches]].
* IAteWhat: Tom eats an entire "special cookie" at his party - the equivalent to 40 joints.
* KarmicDeath: Stitches' preferred method of murder? Dispatching his victims using the same tricks that they'd ruined during his show.
* LonelyFuneral: Only three people attend Stitches' funeral: the priest, and presumably two women he was sleeping with.
* MaleGaze: Vinny [[HormoneAddledTeenager has a pronounced case of this]] throughout the movie.
* MonsterClown: TheMovie! Well, [[{{Film/It}} the other movie]].
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Tommy Knight. The film takes places in Ireland. Even his mother in the film has an Irish accent.
** Ross Noble doesn't do the local accent either, but given his character, it could just be that he plays an English clown who just happens to be working in Ireland.
* NotQuiteDead: After falling and landing onto the knife in the dishwasher, Stitches stands up, pulls the knife out and tries to grab Tom. [[spoiler: However, after tossing the knife in the air, he slips on his own blood and lands on his back, just as the knife falls back down and stabs him in the head again]].
** [[spoiler: The film ends with the Motley clown cultists carefully reassembling Stitches' egg, potentially bringing him back to life once more]].
* PeepingTom: Literally, as Tom uses his telescope to spy on pretty much everything in the neighborhood - nothing perverted, though.
* PietaPlagiarism: The pose Stitches assumes [[spoiler: after digging Bulger's brains out with an ice-cream scoop]].
* PottyFailure: Paul misses the mark by virtue of his costume having no zipper.
* RightBehindMe: Tom's impersonation of a teacher is quite ill-timed.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Rather than help Tom with Kate after Stitches attacks her, Vinny makes a run for it - [[spoiler: he comes back to help at the end, though, with the same prank that caused Stitches' death killing him ''again'']].
* {{Shoutout}}: Tommy is taking [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Hypnocil]].
* ShutUpKiss: PlayedWith, as [[spoiler: Kate kisses Tom in the graveyard in order to stop his hiccups, as they were giving their position away]].
* StonersAreFunny: Tom's misadventure with the "house cookie" borders on this, partially because it's so out-of-character for him.
* TookALevelInBadass: Tom finally plucks up the courage to rescue Vinny and Kate from the party by any means necessary...even if that means standing up to Kate's boyfriend by punching him in the face.
* VolleyingInsults: Bulger and Sarah engage in some of this after Paul's "prank".
* YourHeadAsplode: [[spoiler: Richie]], courtesy of [[RuleOfFunny a handheld balloon pump]].

'''Stitches''' is a 2012 Irish SlasherMovie, starring Ross Noble as the title character. Also starring [[Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures Tommy Knight]] and Gemma Leah-Devereux.

'''Stitches''' is a 2012 Irish slasher movie, starring Ross Noble as the title character. Also starring [[Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures Tommy Knight]] and Gemma Leah-Devereux.

* BlackComedy: It's a SlasherFlick starring a murdered clown - it'd be a shame if this ''wasn't'' included.

* {{Shoutout}}: Tommy is taking [[Film/NightmareOnElmStreet Hypnocil]].

* TheDanza: Tommy Knight as Tom.

** But then played straight when [[Vinnie's ability to tie someone's shoelaces together without them noticing ends up putting Stitches down for good.]]

* CampGay: Downplayed, but [[spoiler: Bulger]] has an eye for decoration, is active in the music department at school, and has a complete lack of interest in gym - but can do a split on a dime.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Rather than help Tom with Kate after Stitches attacks her, Vinny makes a run for it.

* YourHeadAsplode: [[spoiler: Richie]].

* DeathBySex: [[spoiler: {{Averted}}. Vinny and Mary have sex and wind up living.]] And on Tom's bed, even!

* BackFromTheDead: Stitches is brought back to life via a ritual.

* DeathBySex: [[spoiler: {{Averted}}. Vinny and Mary have sex and wind up living.]]

* DeathBySex: [[spoiler: {{Averted}}. Vinny has sex and lives, as does the girl he hooked up with.]]

* PeepingTom: Literally, as Tom uses his telescope to spy on pretty much everything in the neighborhood.