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* AbandonedArea: Down a seedy city street in her neighborhood, young Enola Penny is obsessed with what appears to be a long abandoned theatre. One night, she sees that the front door is slightly ajar and impulsively decides to sneak inside.



* PuppetPermutation: Enola Penny is intrigued by an abandoned theatre in her neighborhood. One night the theatre door mysteriously opens and she enters. A puppet host named Peg Poett introduces six short films. [[spoiler:As each is shown, the host becomes more human and Enola becomes more puppet-like. And the end of the show, Peg places the now fully puppet in a trunk and closes the lid.]]

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* PuppetPermutation: Enola Penny is intrigued by an abandoned theatre in her neighborhood. One night the theatre door mysteriously opens and she enters. A puppet host named Peg Poett introduces six short films. [[spoiler:As each is shown, the host becomes more human and Enola becomes more puppet-like. And the end of the show, Peg places the now fully puppet Enola in a trunk and closes the lid.]]



* ToyTransmutation: Enola Penny is intrigued by an abandoned theatre in her neighborhood. One night the theatre door mysteriously opens and she enters. A puppet host named Peg Poett introduces six short films. [[spoiler:As each is shown, the host becomes more human and Enola becomes more puppet-like. And the end of the show, Peg places the now fully puppet in a trunk and closes the lid.]]

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* ToyTransmutation: Enola Penny is intrigued by an abandoned theatre in her neighborhood. One night the theatre door mysteriously opens and she enters. A puppet host named Peg Poett introduces six short films. [[spoiler:As each is shown, the host becomes more human and Enola becomes more puppet-like. And the end of the show, Peg places the now fully puppet Enola in a trunk and closes the lid.]]

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** At the end of "Wet Dreams", [[spoiler:Dr. Maurey and Enola amputate Donnie's arms and legs (and castrate him) and keep him a prisoner in the attic. When Enola removes his gag to feed him, Donnie snarls that this is a dream and he will close his eyes and that when he opens them, he will be awake and kill her. She responds by cutting off his eyelids]].

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** At the end of "Wet Dreams", [[spoiler:Dr. Maurey and Enola Carla amputate Donnie's arms and legs (and castrate him) and keep him a prisoner in the attic. When Enola removes his gag to feed him, Donnie snarls that this is a dream and he will close his eyes and that when he opens them, he will be awake and kill her. She responds by cutting off his eyelids]].



* NoNameGiven: The VillainProtagonist of "Vision strains" is not named. she is listed in the credits as 'The Writer'.

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* NoNameGiven: The VillainProtagonist of "Vision strains" is not named. she She is listed in the credits as 'The Writer'.


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* PuppetPermutation: Enola Penny is intrigued by an abandoned theatre in her neighborhood. One night the theatre door mysteriously opens and she enters. A puppet host named Peg Poett introduces six short films. [[spoiler:As each is shown, the host becomes more human and Enola becomes more puppet-like. And the end of the show, Peg places the now fully puppet in a trunk and closes the lid.]]
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* NoNameGiven: The VillainProtagonist of "Vision strains" is not named. she is listed in the credits as 'The Writer'.
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* VillainProtagonist: The protagonist of "Vision Strains" is a writer[=/=]SerialKiller who cannot dream. She extracts fluid from her victims' eyes as they die and injects it into her own eye so she can experience the others' lives as they flash by in their dying moments.
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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: The boyfriend of the couple in “Mother of Toads” is drugged/fooled by a glamour into sleeping with the title character, something he clearly wouldn’t have consented to in the right state of mind. However, his girlfriend sees this and assumes infidelity. In the original short story, the protagonist is the underage apprentice to an apothecary and gets drugged into unconsciousness by Mere de Crapauds, who always appears grossly overweight and vaguely frog like.

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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: The boyfriend of the couple in “Mother of Toads” is drugged/fooled by a glamour into sleeping with the title character, something he clearly wouldn’t have consented to in the right state of mind. However, his girlfriend sees this (albeit out of context) and assumes infidelity. In the original short story, the protagonist is the underage apprentice to an apothecary and gets drugged into unconsciousness by Mere de Crapauds, who always appears grossly overweight and vaguely frog like.
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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: The boyfriend of the couple in “Mother of Toads” is drugged/fooled by a glamour into sleeping with the title character, something he clearly wouldn’t have consented to in the right state of mind. However, his girlfriend sees this and assumes infidelity. This comes off more horrific in the original short story, where the protagonist is underage and drugged into unconsciousness.

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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: The boyfriend of the couple in “Mother of Toads” is drugged/fooled by a glamour into sleeping with the title character, something he clearly wouldn’t have consented to in the right state of mind. However, his girlfriend sees this and assumes infidelity. This comes off more horrific in In the original short story, where the protagonist is the underage apprentice to an apothecary and gets drugged into unconsciousness.unconsciousness by Mere de Crapauds, who always appears grossly overweight and vaguely frog like.
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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: The boyfriend of the couple in “Mother of Toads” is drugged/fooled by a glamour into sleeping with the title character, something he clearly wouldn’t have consented to in the right state of mind. However, his girlfriend sees this and assumes infidelity. This comes off more horrific in the original short story, where the protagonist is underage and drugged into unconsciousness.

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* HighClassCannibal: The "Sweets" segment features a secret club of high class gourmets who regard dining on human flesh as the ultimate culinary experience.



* LastSurvivorSuicide: In "I Love You", upon discovering that [[spoiler:he has murdered his lover Mo, CrazyJealousGuy Axel kills himself kills himself: not wanting to allow her to escape him even in death]].

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* LastSurvivorSuicide: In "I Love You", upon discovering that [[spoiler:he has murdered his lover Mo, CrazyJealousGuy Axel kills himself kills himself: not wanting to allow her to escape him even in death]].

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* MadArtist: "Vision Stains" is about a writer/SerialKiller who cannot dream. She [[EyeScream extracts fluid from her victims' eyes as they die and injects it into her own eye]] so she can [[EmotionEater experience the others' lives]] as they flash by in their dying moments. She ten writes their life stories down in a series of journals, which regards as [[DueToTheDead memorialising their deaths]] and giving their lives meaning. There appear to be ''hundreds'' of these journals in her squat.

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* MadArtist: "Vision Stains" is about a writer/SerialKiller who cannot dream. She [[EyeScream extracts fluid from her victims' eyes as they die and injects it into her own eye]] so she can [[EmotionEater experience the others' lives]] as they flash by in their dying moments. She ten then writes their life stories down in a series of journals, which regards as [[DueToTheDead memorialising their deaths]] and giving their lives meaning. There appear to be ''hundreds'' of these journals in her squat.squat.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: In "Vision Strains", The Writer suffers a VillainousBreakdown in which a voice in her head forces her to recognise that she is a SerialKiller; that she does not have the right to determine whose life has worth and whose does not; and that the stories she is writing are just her plagiarising the lives of those she has killed. When the truth about herself finally dawns, [[spoiler:she [[EyeScream gouges her own eyes out]].]]
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* MadArtist: "Vision Stains" is about a writer/SerialKiller who cannot dream. She [[EyeScream extracts fluid from her victims' eyes as they die and injects it into her own eye]] so she can [[EmotionEater experience the others' lives]] as they flash by in their dying moments. She ten writes their life stories down in a series of journals, which regards as [[DueToTheDead memorialising their deaths]] and giving their lives meaning. There appear to be ''hundreds'' of these journals in her squat.



* WickedWitch: "The Mother of Toads" concerns an American anthropologist and his girlfriend who fall victim to a witch known as The Mother of Toads.

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* WickedWitch: "The Mother of Toads" concerns an American anthropologist and his girlfriend who fall victim to a witch known as The Mother of Toads.Toads.
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* VillainousBreakdown: In "Vision Strains", The Writer suffers one when her attempt to see through the eyes of unborn child goes wrong. A voice her head points out exactly how evil her actions are and what a failure she is as an artist. Confronted by this, she ultimately [[spoiler:ends up [[EyeScream gouging out her own eyes]].]]
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* DueToTheDead: In "Vision Strains", The Writer thinks she is memorialising the women she murders by writing down their stories in her journals, because otherwise they would be completely forgotten. During her VillainousBreakdown, a voice in her head (which may just her saner self) tells her that she is doing no such thing. All she is doing is stealing other people's stories because she has no creativity of her own.
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* WickedWitch: In "The Mother of Toads", concerns an American anthropologist and his girlfriend who fall victim to a witch known as The Mother of Toads.

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* WickedWitch: In "The Mother of Toads", Toads" concerns an American anthropologist and his girlfriend who fall victim to a witch known as The Mother of Toads.
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* AmphibianAtLarge: "The Mother of Toads" ends with Mere Antoinette transforming into the eponymous Mother of toads: a human-sized bipedal toad.

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* "Mother of Toads": A couple traveling in a remote part of the French Pyrenees cross paths with a lustful witch.

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* "Mother "The Mother of Toads": A couple traveling in a remote part of the French Pyrenees cross paths with a lustful witch.


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* AmphibianAssault: In "The Mother of Toads", after Martin escapes from the witch's cabin, he finds the car. The car is full of toads and has his girlfriend's body inside, covered in frogspawn.
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* ToyTransmutation: Enola Penny is intrigued by an abandoned theatre in her neighborhood. One night the theatre door mysteriously opens and she enters. A puppet host named Peg Poett introduces six short films. [[spoiler:As each is shown, the host becomes more human and Enola becomes more puppet-like. And the end of the show, Peg places the now fully puppet in a trunk and closes the lid.]]

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