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* FauxAffablyEvil: Satan. Nice, jovial and charismatic as he appears he's also very sadistic and manipulative.
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* FlashFreezingCoolant: In "The Girl in the Glacier", Dr. Seastrom [[DeathByFallingOver knocks Dr. Olsen to the floor and possibly kills him]] during an argument in the cold room. He then makes sure the doctor's dead by opening a pipe and dousing Olsen in the freezing solution they are using to keep the titular HumanPopsicle frozen.
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* KillItWithIce: In "The Girl in the Glacier", Dr. Seastrom knocks Dr. Olsen [[DeathByFallingOver to floor and possibly kills him]] during an argument in the cold room. He then makes sure of the job by open a pipe and dousing Olsen in freezing liquid.

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* KillItWithIce: In "The Girl in the Glacier", Dr. Seastrom knocks Dr. Olsen [[DeathByFallingOver to floor and possibly kills him]] during an argument in the cold room. He then makes sure of the job by open opening a pipe and dousing Olsen in freezing liquid.
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* FireAndBrimstone: Satan rules over one, although most of the scenes in Hell take place in the overcrowded waiting room.

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* FireAndBrimstone: FireAndBrimstoneHell: Satan rules over one, although most of the scenes in Hell take place in the overcrowded waiting room.
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* FireAndBrimstone: Satan rules over one, although most of the scenes in Hell take place in the overcrowded waiting room.
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* PrettyInMink: In "The Photograph", Dixie is wearing a fur coat when she arrives at Donald's apartment in an attempt to win him back. However, he drives her away because he is obsessed with the photograph that is trying to kill him (ItMakesSenseInContext).
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* NoNameGiven: The girl Donald rapes and murders in "The Photograph" is not named: she is credited as 'Girl in Photograph'. [[spoiler:As no one except Donald ever interacts with her, or can even see her image, it is possible she may only exist in Donald's tormented mind.]]

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* DeathByFallingOver: In "The Girl in the Glacier", Dr. Seastrom hits Dr. Olsen in the cold room, and Olsen hits his head on a protrusion as he falls. It is not clear if Olsen is dead at this point or just unconscious, but Seastrom then finished the job by [[KillItWithIce dousing him in freezing liquid]].

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* DeathByFallingOver: In "The Girl in the Glacier", Dr. Seastrom hits Dr. Olsen in the cold room, and Olsen hits his head on a protrusion as he falls. It is not clear if Olsen is dead at this point or just unconscious, but Seastrom then finished finishes the job by [[KillItWithIce dousing him in freezing liquid]].



* SpookyPhotographs: In "The Photograph", Donald takes a photograph of the beautiful young woman he later rapes and murders. When he develops the photograph, he sees he her standing on the path in front of the house. However, anyone else who looks at it sees only the old farmhouse. Each time Donald studies the photo, the woman has moved further along the path towards, until her face fills the entire photo. He rips up the print, and the woman's body appears in his studio; lying in the same position that she was when he killed her. He examines the body, and it reaches out and strangles him. His agent finds Donald's body lying alone in the studio. When he examines the ripped up print, it contains nothing but an old farmhouse

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* SpookyPhotographs: In "The Photograph", Donald takes a photograph of the beautiful young woman he later rapes and murders. When he develops the photograph, he sees he her standing on the path in front of the house. However, anyone else who looks at it sees only the old farmhouse. Each time Donald studies the photo, the woman has moved further along the path towards, until her face fills the entire photo. He rips up the print, and the woman's body appears in his studio; lying in the same position that she was when he killed her. He examines the body, and it reaches out and strangles him. His agent finds Donald's body lying alone in the studio. When he examines the ripped up print, it contains nothing but an old farmhousefarmhouse.
* YouCantFightFate: The central theme of "Condemned in Crystal". The fortune teller Madame Germaine tells John Radian that he is destined to die that night, and that she will be the one to kill him. Every action John takes to avoid his fate inevitably draws him closer to it; even killing Madame Germaine before she can kill him.

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* KillItWithIce: In "The Girl in the Glacier", Dr. Seastrom knocks Dr. Olsen [[DeathByFallingOver to floor and possibly kills him]] during an argument in the cold room. He then makes sure of the job by open a pipe and dousing Olsen in freezing liquid

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* KillItWithIce: In "The Girl in the Glacier", Dr. Seastrom knocks Dr. Olsen [[DeathByFallingOver to floor and possibly kills him]] during an argument in the cold room. He then makes sure of the job by open a pipe and dousing Olsen in freezing liquidliquid.
* LoveBeforeFirstSight: In "The Girl in the Glacier", Dr. Seastrom falls in love with a [[HumanPopsicle girl inside a block of ice]].
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* ReincarnationRomance: In "The Girl in the Glacier", Dr. Seastrom believes that he and 'Angelica'--the HumanPopsicle--were lovers in her time, and he died before their love had run its course. There is no evidence that this is anything other than a delusion of his unbalanced mind.

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* ReincarnationRomance: In "The Girl in the Glacier", Dr. Seastrom believes that he and 'Angelica'--the HumanPopsicle--were lovers in her time, and he died before their love had run its course. There is no evidence that this is anything other than a delusion of his unbalanced mind.mind.
* SpookyPhotographs: In "The Photograph", Donald takes a photograph of the beautiful young woman he later rapes and murders. When he develops the photograph, he sees he her standing on the path in front of the house. However, anyone else who looks at it sees only the old farmhouse. Each time Donald studies the photo, the woman has moved further along the path towards, until her face fills the entire photo. He rips up the print, and the woman's body appears in his studio; lying in the same position that she was when he killed her. He examines the body, and it reaches out and strangles him. His agent finds Donald's body lying alone in the studio. When he examines the ripped up print, it contains nothing but an old farmhouse
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* AerithAndBob: Former lovers Satanya and John.


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* DreamingOfThingsToCome: In "Condemned in Crystal", John Radian is plagued by a recurring dream. His psychiatrist encourages him to confront the dream by visiting the building where the dream is set. However, as he arrives on the street where the building is located, the events of the dream start to play out for real.

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* CompilationMovie: Combines 3 episodes of the 1959 B&W Swedish television series ''13 Demon Street'' with some new scenes featuring Creator/LonChaneyJr, Karen Kadler and Michael Hinn.



* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: At the end of the film, Satan points directly at the camera while saying how the mortals will destroy the world with the formula Satanya and John will deliver.



* KillItwithIce: In "The Girl in the Glacier", Dr. Seastrom knocks Dr. Olsen [[DeathByFallingOver to floor and possibly kills him]] during an argument in the cold room. He then makes sure of the job by open a pipe and dousing Olsen in freezing liquid

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* KillItwithIce: JobTitle
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In "The Girl in the Glacier", Dr. Seastrom knocks Dr. Olsen [[DeathByFallingOver to floor and possibly kills him]] during an argument in the cold room. He then makes sure of the job by open a pipe and dousing Olsen in freezing liquid
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* KillItwithIce: In "The Girl in the Glacier", Dr. Seastrom knocks Dr. Olsen [[DeathByFallingOver to floor and possibly kills him]] during an argument in the cold room. He then makes sure of the job by open a pipe and dousing Olsen in freezing liquid
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* DeathByFallingOver: In "The Girl in the Glacier", Dr. Seastrom hits Dr. Olsen in the cold room, and Olsen hits his head on a protrusion as he falls. It is not clear if Olsen is dead at this point or just unconscious, but Seastrom then finished the job by [[KillItWithIce dousing him in freezing liquid]].
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* DidNotThinkThisThrough: In "The Girl in the Glacier", Dr. Seastrom is attempting to thaw HumanPopsicle Angelica from her block of ice. Too late he realises that the inside of the block is melting faster than the outside and that she is going to drown before he can get her out.
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* JacobMarleyApparel: The line of damned souls waiting admission indicates that people arrive in Hell wearing whatever they were wearing when they died.
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* DeathByLookingUp: In "Condemned in Crystal", John Radian is kneeling over Madame Germaine's body when the bust of her on the wall--damaged in their fight--falls. He looks up and is crushed by it.
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* HaitTriggerAvalanche: In "The Photograph", the scream of the woman Donald rapes and murders is shown triggering an avalanche.[[note]]Due to the StockFootage not matching the terrain of where the rape occurs, it is not clear if this supposed to be an actual avalanche or a symbolic one.[[/note]]

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* HaitTriggerAvalanche: HairTriggerAvalanche: In "The Photograph", the scream of the woman Donald rapes and murders is shown triggering an avalanche.[[note]]Due to the StockFootage not matching the terrain of where the rape occurs, it is not clear if this supposed to be an actual avalanche or a symbolic one.[[/note]]

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''The Devil's Messenger'' is a 1961 [[AnthologyFilm anthology]] horror film [[CompilationMovie combining 3 episodes]] of the 1959 B&W Swedish television series ''13 Demon Street'' with some new scenes featuring Creator/LonChaneyJr, Karen Kadler and John Crawford.

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''The Devil's Messenger'' is a 1961 [[AnthologyFilm anthology]] horror film [[CompilationMovie combining 3 episodes]] of the 1959 B&W Swedish television series ''13 Demon Street'' with some new scenes featuring Creator/LonChaneyJr, Karen Kadler and John Crawford.Michael Hinn.



* HumanPopsicle: In "The Girl in the Glacier", scientists discover a 50,000 year old woman frozen inside a glacier.

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* HaitTriggerAvalanche: In "The Photograph", the scream of the woman Donald rapes and murders is shown triggering an avalanche.[[note]]Due to the StockFootage not matching the terrain of where the rape occurs, it is not clear if this supposed to be an actual avalanche or a symbolic one.[[/note]]
* HumanPopsicle: In "The Girl in the Glacier", scientists discover a 50,000 year old woman frozen inside a glacier.glacier.
* RailingKill: In "Condemned in Crystal", John Radian stabs Madame Germaine and she staggers through the railing on the landing and plummets into the lobby.
* ReincarnationRomance: In "The Girl in the Glacier", Dr. Seastrom believes that he and 'Angelica'--the HumanPopsicle--were lovers in her time, and he died before their love had run its course. There is no evidence that this is anything other than a delusion of his unbalanced mind.
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* HumanPopsicle: In "The Girl in the Glacier", discover a 50,000 year old woman frozen inside a glacier.

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* HumanPopsicle: In "The Girl in the Glacier", scientists discover a 50,000 year old woman frozen inside a glacier.
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* FramingDevive: The stories are linked by Satan employing Satanya as his messenger and dispatching her to Earth.

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* FramingDevive: FramingDevice: The stories are linked by Satan employing Satanya as his messenger and dispatching her to Earth.
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* FramingDevive: The stories are linked by Satan employing Satanya as his messenger and dispatching her to Earth.
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* DevilsJobOffer: Satanya arrives in Hell having committed suicide, and Satan offers her a job as his messenger: delivering objects to mortals on Earth that will trigger their dooms.

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* DevilsJobOffer: Satanya arrives in Hell having committed suicide, and Satan offers her a job as his messenger: delivering objects to mortals on Earth that will trigger their dooms.dooms.
* HumanPopsicle: In "The Girl in the Glacier", discover a 50,000 year old woman frozen inside a glacier.
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''The Devil's Messenger'' is a 1961 [[AnthologyFilm anthology]] horror film [[CompilationNovie combining 3 episodes of the 1959 B&W Swedish television series ''13 Demon Street'' with some new scenes featuring Creator/LonChaneyJr, Karen Kadler and John Crawford.

Satan enlists the help of a suicide victim in Hell to lure unsuspecting earthly victims to their eternal doom. Contains three somewhat unrelated ''Franchise/TwilightZone''-esque stories (a photographer goes insane after raping a mysterious girl in the snow, a 50,000 year-old woman found frozen in an ice field is fought over by scientists, and a man's death is foretold in dreams).

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''The Devil's Messenger'' is a 1961 [[AnthologyFilm anthology]] horror film [[CompilationNovie [[CompilationMovie combining 3 episodes episodes]] of the 1959 B&W Swedish television series ''13 Demon Street'' with some new scenes featuring Creator/LonChaneyJr, Karen Kadler and John Crawford.

Satan enlists the help of a suicide victim in Hell to lure unsuspecting earthly victims to their eternal doom. Contains three somewhat unrelated ''Franchise/TwilightZone''-esque ''[[Franchise/TheTwilightZone Twilight Zone]]''-esque stories (a photographer goes insane after raping a mysterious girl in the snow, a 50,000 year-old woman found frozen in an ice field is fought over by scientists, and a man's death is foretold in dreams).
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''The Devil's Messenger'' is a 1961 [[AnthologyFilm anthology]] horror film [[CompilationNovie combining 3 episodes of the 1959 B&W Swedish television series ''13 Demon Street'' with some new scenes featuring Creator/LonChaneyJr, Karen Kadler and John Crawford.

Satan enlists the help of a suicide victim in Hell to lure unsuspecting earthly victims to their eternal doom. Contains three somewhat unrelated ''Franchise/TwilightZone''-esque stories (a photographer goes insane after raping a mysterious girl in the snow, a 50,000 year-old woman found frozen in an ice field is fought over by scientists, and a man's death is foretold in dreams).

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* DevilsJobOffer: Satanya arrives in Hell having committed suicide, and Satan offers her a job as his messenger: delivering objects to mortals on Earth that will trigger their dooms.

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