History YMMV / SecretWindow

* JerkassWoobie: Mort. He's easilly irritable, grumpy [[spoiler: and later revealed a dissociative murderer]] but he's also been undeservedly cheated by his wife which is also pressuring him into sign the divorce paper like nothing bad happned. In some flashbacks we also found out that Mort was a loving and caring husband so any reason for Amy's affair is left ambiguous.

* JerkassWoobie: Mort. He's easilly irritable, grumpy [[spoiler: and later revealed a dissociative murderer]] but he's also been undeservedly cheated by his wife which is also pressuring him into sign the divorce paper like nothing bad happned. In some flashbacks we also found out that Mort was a loving and caring husband so any reason for the Amy's affair isleft ambiguous.

* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler: The ending. Mort gets away with his crimes and it's implied he'll never get arrested. Also, the final shot where the camera goes under Mort's corn garden where it's implied Amy and Ted's corpses are buried (in a deleted scene the boys are indeed shown.)]]

* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler: The ending. Mort gets away with his crimes and it's implied he'll never get arrested. Also, the final shot where the camera goes under Mort's corn garden where it's implied Amy and Ted's corpses are buried (in a deleted scene the boys are indeed shown)]]

* JerkassWoobie: Mort. He's easilly irritable, grumpy [[spoiler: and later revealed a dissociative murderer]] but he's also been undeservedly cheated by his wife which is also pressuring him into sign the divorce paper. In some flashbacks we also found out that Mort was a loving and caring husband.

* RootingForTheEmpire: ''Somewhat'' with Mort. Considering how unlikable ''everyone else is'' (especially Amy, who instigated the events of the plot), this is understandable. While the film plays off the implication of AlternativeCharacterInterpretation, Mort at best comes off as a victim while Amy and Ted constantly badger him into divorcing her when Amy was the one who cheated on him in the first place.
* WhatAnIdiot: Amy's response when she sees all the [[spoiler: [[RoomFullOfCrazy "SHOOT HER" writings everywhere and then sees Mort looking like Shooter]]]]: "Hi."

* FoeYay: There's plenty of this between Mort and Shooter (such as the constant invasion of personal space, Shooter's penchant for pinning Mort against things) bordering on StalkerWithACrush territory.

* RootingForTheEmpire: ''Somewhat'' with Mort. Considering how unlikable ''everyone else is'' (especially Amy, who instigated [[YourCheatingHeart the events of the plot]]), this is understandable. While the film plays off the implication of AlternativeCharacterInterpretation, Mort at best comes off as a victim while Amy and Ted constantly badger him into divorcing her when Amy was the one who cheated on him in the first place.

* ActorAllusion: Timothy Hutton played the main character in TheDarkHalf, [[spoiler:another Stephen King work about a writer bringing a murderous alter ego to life.]]

* RootingForTheEmpire: ''Somewhat'' with Mort. Considering how unlikable ''everyone else is'' (especially Amy, who instigated [[YourCheatingHeart the events of the plot]]), this is understandable.

* RootingForTheEmpire: ''Somewhat'' with Mort. Considering how unlikable ''everyone else is'' (especially Amy, who [[CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot instigated]] [[YourCheatingHeart the events of the plot]]), this is understandable.

* FoeYay:There's plenty of this between Mort and Shooter, bordering on StalkerWithACrush territory.

* RootingForTheEmpire: ''Somewhat'' with Mort. Considering how unlikable ''everyone else is'' (especially Amy, who [[CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot instigated]] [[YourCheatingHeart the events of the plot]]), this is understandable

* RootingForTheEmpire: ''Somewhat'' with Mort. Considering how unlikable ''everyone else is'' (especially Amy, who [[CouldHaveAvoidedThePlot instigated]] [[YourCheatingHeart the events of the plot]]), this is understandable.

* {{Narm}}: Mort, [[spoiler: scared of confronting himself to be the killer all along]], starts yapping like a dog for seconds. Being Depp, this could be NarmCharm, of course. (This is something Depp took from his infant son whenever the child was confused and unable to articulate what was wrong.)

* {{Narm}}: Mort, [[spoiler: scared of confronting himself to be the killer all along]], starts yapping like a dog for seconds. Being Depp, this could be NarmCharm, of course. (This is something Depp took from his infant son whenever the child was confused and unable articulate what was wrong.)

* AdaptationDisplacement: It is based of Creator/StephenKing 's novella Secret Window, Secret Garden, and some details (with King's blessing) were changed in the process.
** Most notably the ending.

* AdaptationDisplacement: It is based of StephenKing 's novella Secret Window, Secret Garden, and some details (with King's blessing) were changed in the process.