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* {{Cuckold}}: Wolfram admits that he cannot satisfy his younger wife, and allows her to sleep with her [[spoiler:late first husband]].
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* UglyGuyHotWife: Wolfram and Elise, as he admits himself. Even moreso when he [[spoiler: becomes a zombie.]]
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* UglyGuyHotWife: Wolfram and Elise, as he admits himself. Even moreso Moreso when he [[spoiler: becomes a zombie.]]
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Directed by [[Film/HenryPortraitOfASerialKiller John McNaughton]] and based on a short story by Creator/CliveBarker. At the end of the 19th century, a man (Creator/SteveBacic) who has just lost his wife comes to the house of Miss Carnation, the Necromancer (Micki Maunsell) and begs her to bring his love BackFromTheDead. She hesitates, but when he insists she proposes to revive her if he still wants her to do so after he hears the tale of medical student Ernst Haeckel (Derek Cecil), that happened 50 years before.
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Directed by [[Film/HenryPortraitOfASerialKiller John McNaughton]] and loosely based on a short story by Creator/CliveBarker. At the end of the 19th century, a man (Creator/SteveBacic) who has just lost his wife comes to the house of Miss Carnation, the Necromancer (Micki Maunsell) and begs her to bring his love BackFromTheDead. She hesitates, but when he insists she proposes to revive her if he still wants her to do so after he hears the tale of medical student Ernst Haeckel (Derek Cecil),that which happened 50 years before.
Directed by [[Film/HenryPortraitOfASerialKiller John McNaughton]] and loosely based on a short story by Creator/CliveBarker. At the end of the 19th century, a man (Creator/SteveBacic) who has just lost his wife comes to the house of Miss Carnation, the Necromancer (Micki Maunsell) and begs her to bring his love BackFromTheDead. She hesitates, but when he insists she proposes to revive her if he still wants her to do so after he hears the tale of medical student Ernst Haeckel (Derek Cecil),
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* AscendedExtra: In the original Clive Barker story, Montesquino is only a necromancer some tavern patrons scoff, which prompts Haeckel to recount his story. [[spoiler:Here, he's a CompositeCharacter, taking on the role of the unnamed Englishman who arranges Elise's "meeting" with the dead.]]
* BrainBleach: One word: [[spoiler: Necrophilia.]]
** Also: [[spoiler:Pederast's ''juice''.]]
* BrainBleach: One word: [[spoiler: Necrophilia.]]
** Also: [[spoiler:Pederast's ''juice''.]]
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* AscendedExtra: In the original Clive Barker story, Montesquino AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: [[spoiler:Miss Carnation is only a necromancer some tavern patrons scoff, which prompts Haeckel to recount his story. [[spoiler:Here, he's a CompositeCharacter, taking on the role of the unnamed Englishman who arranges Elise's "meeting" with the dead.Elise.]]
*BrainBleach: One word: [[spoiler: Necrophilia.]]
** Also: [[spoiler:Pederast's ''juice''.]]AscendedExtra: In the original Clive Barker story, Montesquino is only a necromancer some tavern patrons scoff at, which prompts Haeckel to recount his story. Here, he's a CompositeCharacter, taking on the role of the unnamed Englishman who arranges [[spoiler:Elise's]] "meeting" with the dead.
* BackFromTheDead: Almost every character wants to do this one way or another.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: What Miss Carnation keeps trying to tell her interlocutor, as he won't admit no for an answer.
* BookEnds: Miss Carnation and her interlocutor only appear at the beginning and end of the episode, with the rest being the equivalent of a ShowWithinAShow.
* CameBackWrong: People can only revive as zombies.
* CreepyCemetery: The setting of the [[spoiler:literal]] climax.
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** Also: [[spoiler:Pederast's ''juice''.]]
* BackFromTheDead: Almost every character wants to do this one way or another.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: What Miss Carnation keeps trying to tell her interlocutor, as he won't admit no for an answer.
* BookEnds: Miss Carnation and her interlocutor only appear at the beginning and end of the episode, with the rest being the equivalent of a ShowWithinAShow.
* CameBackWrong: People can only revive as zombies.
* CreepyCemetery: The setting of the [[spoiler:literal]] climax.
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* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Thanks to his ascended role, Montesquino suffers this fate. As does Haeckel, which is foreshadowed by the adaptation giving the narrator's role to Miss Carnation.]]
* FanDisservice: There's a sex scene involving a healthy young woman and [[spoiler:the zombified corpse of her late husband]].
* FanDisservice: There's a sex scene involving a healthy young woman and [[spoiler:the zombified corpse of her late husband]].
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* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Thanks Thanks to his ascended role, Montesquino [[spoiler:Montesquino]] suffers this fate. As does Haeckel, [[spoiler:Haeckel]], which is foreshadowed by the adaptation giving the narrator's role to Miss Carnation.]]
Carnation.
* EpicFailure: Haeckel's attempt to revive a cadaver with electricity just combust it.
* FanDisservice:There's The most iconic shot is a sex scene involving a healthy beautiful young woman and [[spoiler:the zombified corpse of her late husband]].husband]]. Pardon us for not sharing it here, even though it is part of the [[TrailersAlwaysSpoil official cover]].
* EpicFailure: Haeckel's attempt to revive a cadaver with electricity just combust it.
* FanDisservice:
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* ILoveTheDead: And the dead love you, Elise!
* ShoutOut: In the beginning, Haeckel and his teacher discuss the experiments performed by some German doctor called Literature/{{Frankenstein}}. Haeckel tries to replicate then his attempt to revive a cadaver using electricity but only manages [[TakeThat to burn it]]. Also, he shares his name with a famous German biologist noted for his racist scientific theories.
* TwistEnding: [[spoiler: [[NarratorAllAlong Miss Carnation is Elise]].]]
* UglyGuyHotWife: Wolfram and Elise, as he admits himself. [[spoiler: Even moreso when he becomes a zombie.]]
* ShoutOut: In the beginning, Haeckel and his teacher discuss the experiments performed by some German doctor called Literature/{{Frankenstein}}. Haeckel tries to replicate then his attempt to revive a cadaver using electricity but only manages [[TakeThat to burn it]]. Also, he shares his name with a famous German biologist noted for his racist scientific theories.
* TwistEnding: [[spoiler: [[NarratorAllAlong Miss Carnation is Elise]].]]
* UglyGuyHotWife: Wolfram and Elise, as he admits himself. [[spoiler: Even moreso when he becomes a zombie.]]
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* ILoveTheDead: And [[spoiler:And the dead love you, Elise!
Elise back!]]
* InNameOnly: The first half of Miss Carnation's tale and the BookEnds are more of a homage to ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'', ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'', and classic GothicHorror in general. Only the second half follows the short story, and still with notable differences. The original was set in Germany, the narrator was Haeckel himself, telling the story to fellow students, and he didn't want to resurrect the dead himself; Montesquino was not the necromancer in the later part of the story, but a name with a reputation for being a quack, and neither [[spoiler:he nor Haeckel]] died.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: [[spoiler:They still kill people but it isn't their only goal. And while dumb they aren't entirely brainless or without personality.]]
* RecycledInSpace: The original story is set in Germany, but the episode seems to be in the southern US.
* ShoutOut: In the beginning, Haeckel and his teacher discuss the experiments performed bysome a German doctor called Literature/{{Frankenstein}}. Haeckel tries to replicate then his attempt to revive a cadaver using electricity but only manages [[TakeThat to burn it]]. Also, he He also shares his name with a famous German biologist noted for his racist scientific theories.
theories.
* SnakeOilSalesman: Montesquino comes across as this at first, but he actually has powers.
* SouthernGothic: Technically, though it misses the usual subtropes and the Southern setting is only given by the accents.
* TwistEnding:[[spoiler: [[NarratorAllAlong [[spoiler:Besides Miss Carnation Carnation's identity, it is Elise]].also revealed that Haeckel, Montesquino, and her second husband became zombies and came to "reside" in her house, for lack of a better word. She also had a zombie baby, presumably from her first husband.]]
* UglyGuyHotWife: Wolfram and Elise, as he admits himself.[[spoiler: Even moreso when he [[spoiler: becomes a zombie.]]
* UndeadChild: The episode ends with [[spoiler:Miss Carnation caring for a zombie baby.]]
* InNameOnly: The first half of Miss Carnation's tale and the BookEnds are more of a homage to ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'', ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'', and classic GothicHorror in general. Only the second half follows the short story, and still with notable differences. The original was set in Germany, the narrator was Haeckel himself, telling the story to fellow students, and he didn't want to resurrect the dead himself; Montesquino was not the necromancer in the later part of the story, but a name with a reputation for being a quack, and neither [[spoiler:he nor Haeckel]] died.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: [[spoiler:They still kill people but it isn't their only goal. And while dumb they aren't entirely brainless or without personality.]]
* RecycledInSpace: The original story is set in Germany, but the episode seems to be in the southern US.
* ShoutOut: In the beginning, Haeckel and his teacher discuss the experiments performed by
* SnakeOilSalesman: Montesquino comes across as this at first, but he actually has powers.
* SouthernGothic: Technically, though it misses the usual subtropes and the Southern setting is only given by the accents.
* TwistEnding:
* UglyGuyHotWife: Wolfram and Elise, as he admits himself.
* UndeadChild: The episode ends with [[spoiler:Miss Carnation caring for a zombie baby.]]
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Directed by [[Film/HenryPortraitOfASerialKiller John McNaughton]] and based on a short story by Creator/CliveBarker. At the end of the 19th century, a man (Creator/SteveBacic) who has just lost his wife comes to the house of Miss Carnation, the Necromancer (Micki Maunsell) and begs her to bring his love BackFromTheDead. She hesitates, but when he insists she proposes to revive her if he still wants her to do so after he hears the tale of medical student Ernst Haeckel (Derek Cecil), that happened 50 years before.
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* AscendedExtra: In the original Clive Barker story, Montesquino is only a necromancer some tavern patrons scoff, which prompts Haeckel to recount his story. [[spoiler:Here, he's a CompositeCharacter, taking on the role of the unnamed Englishman who arranges Elise's "meeting" with the dead.]]
* BrainBleach: One word: [[spoiler: Necrophilia.]]
** Also: [[spoiler:Pederast's ''juice''.]]
* DarkestAfrica: Montesquino claims to have learned necromancy from "the Shaman of Zanzibar".
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Thanks to his ascended role, Montesquino suffers this fate. As does Haeckel, which is foreshadowed by the adaptation giving the narrator's role to Miss Carnation.]]
* FanDisservice: There's a sex scene involving a healthy young woman and [[spoiler:the zombified corpse of her late husband]].
* HollywoodAtheist: Haeckel, a medical student, doesn't believe in God, the soul, or the supernatural, and tries to reproduce [[{{Literature/Frankenstein}} Dr. Frankenstein's]] experiments. This is clearly linked to his materialist view of things, which is proven entirely, horribly wrong by the end. Oh, and he shares a name with the real biologist Ernst Haeckel, the 19th century German scientist who proposed racist scientific theories and was a materialist (though not an atheist, but a pantheist-he's often mistaken for the former).
* ILoveTheDead: And the dead love you, Elise!
* ShoutOut: In the beginning, Haeckel and his teacher discuss the experiments performed by some German doctor called Literature/{{Frankenstein}}. Haeckel tries to replicate then his attempt to revive a cadaver using electricity but only manages [[TakeThat to burn it]]. Also, he shares his name with a famous German biologist noted for his racist scientific theories.
* TwistEnding: [[spoiler: [[NarratorAllAlong Miss Carnation is Elise]].]]
* UglyGuyHotWife: Wolfram and Elise, as he admits himself. [[spoiler: Even moreso when he becomes a zombie.]]
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!!Tropes:
* AscendedExtra: In the original Clive Barker story, Montesquino is only a necromancer some tavern patrons scoff, which prompts Haeckel to recount his story. [[spoiler:Here, he's a CompositeCharacter, taking on the role of the unnamed Englishman who arranges Elise's "meeting" with the dead.]]
* BrainBleach: One word: [[spoiler: Necrophilia.]]
** Also: [[spoiler:Pederast's ''juice''.]]
* DarkestAfrica: Montesquino claims to have learned necromancy from "the Shaman of Zanzibar".
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Thanks to his ascended role, Montesquino suffers this fate. As does Haeckel, which is foreshadowed by the adaptation giving the narrator's role to Miss Carnation.]]
* FanDisservice: There's a sex scene involving a healthy young woman and [[spoiler:the zombified corpse of her late husband]].
* HollywoodAtheist: Haeckel, a medical student, doesn't believe in God, the soul, or the supernatural, and tries to reproduce [[{{Literature/Frankenstein}} Dr. Frankenstein's]] experiments. This is clearly linked to his materialist view of things, which is proven entirely, horribly wrong by the end. Oh, and he shares a name with the real biologist Ernst Haeckel, the 19th century German scientist who proposed racist scientific theories and was a materialist (though not an atheist, but a pantheist-he's often mistaken for the former).
* ILoveTheDead: And the dead love you, Elise!
* ShoutOut: In the beginning, Haeckel and his teacher discuss the experiments performed by some German doctor called Literature/{{Frankenstein}}. Haeckel tries to replicate then his attempt to revive a cadaver using electricity but only manages [[TakeThat to burn it]]. Also, he shares his name with a famous German biologist noted for his racist scientific theories.
* TwistEnding: [[spoiler: [[NarratorAllAlong Miss Carnation is Elise]].]]
* UglyGuyHotWife: Wolfram and Elise, as he admits himself. [[spoiler: Even moreso when he becomes a zombie.]]
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