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* TastesLikeDiabetes: Chase's "Laugh Children Laugh" song, especially the way he performs it.
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* NightmareRetardant: It can be difficult to find anything scary in the film when it's painfully obvious the monster is a normal sized lizard and it isn't even onscreen for more than eight minutes.
* TheScrappy: Chase Winstead. The film tries so blatantly hard to make him a NiceGuy that it's just annoying to see it get reinforced so much. Doesn't help how boring a main character he is or that most of the film follows him instead of the monster.


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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The Giant Gila Monster is only in about eight minutes of the film.
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* SpecialEffectsFailure: The props occupying the sets that the lizard crawls on are pretty obviously miniature models. It also turns out it's not even a real Gila Monster, but the similar Mexican Beaded Lizard. They couldn't even get the species right.

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* SpecialEffectsFailure: The props occupying the sets that the lizard crawls on are pretty obviously miniature models. It also turns out it's not even a real Gila Monster, monster, but the similar Mexican Beaded Lizard.beaded lizard. They couldn't even get the species right.
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If it's a Mexican Beaded Lizard it can't be a "real Gila Monster."


* SpecialEffectsFailure: The props occupying the sets that the lizard (which was a real Gila monster) crawls on are pretty obviously miniature models. It also turns out it's not even a real Gila Monster, but a Mexican Beaded Lizard. They couldn't even get the species right.

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* SpecialEffectsFailure: The props occupying the sets that the lizard (which was a real Gila monster) crawls on are pretty obviously miniature models. It also turns out it's not even a real Gila Monster, but a the similar Mexican Beaded Lizard. They couldn't even get the species right.
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* NightmareRetardant
* PuritySue: Chase Winstead. Devoted son and older brother, reliable breadwinner (Dad being dead and all), and the resident Big Man on Campus who nevertheless tries to be be a responsible influence on his younger friends. His petty theft of wrecked car parts for his own ride is pretty much the only imperfection about him, and even ''that'' gets [[KarmaHoudini glossed over]].
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* PuritySue: Chase Winstead. Devoted son and older brother, reliable breadwinner (Dad being dead and all), and the resident Big Man on Campus who nevertheless tries to be be a responsible influence on his younger friends. His petty theft of wrecked car parts for his own ride is pretty much the only imperfection about him, and even ''that'' gets [[KarmaHoudini glossed over]].
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* [[CanonSue Canon]] [[GaryStu Stu]]: Chase Winstead.
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* NightmareFuel: The closest things we get to scares are the fact we don't see what the lizard DOES to its victims (bit of a letdown, but judging by the screams in the train, it wasn't pretty) and the trailer. Said trailer makes good use of its music and signature line: "You're driving a lonely road...You're as good as dead...".
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* FridgeLogic: This movie asks you to believe that well into the rock-and-roll era, a saccharine ukelele song about Adam and Eve would be popular.
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* FridgeLogic: This movie asks you to believe that well into the rock-and-roll era, a saccharine song about Adam and Eve would be popular.

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* FridgeLogic: This movie asks you to believe that well into the rock-and-roll era, a saccharine ukelele song about Adam and Eve would be popular.
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* SpecialEffectsFailure: The props occupying the sets that the lizard (which was a real Gila monster) crawls on are pretty obviously miniature models. It also turns out it's not even a real Gila Monster, but a Mexican Beaded Lizard. They couldn't even get the species right.

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* SpecialEffectsFailure: The props occupying the sets that the lizard (which was a real Gila monster) crawls on are pretty obviously miniature models. It also turns out it's not even a real Gila Monster, but a Mexican Beaded Lizard. They couldn't even get the species right.right.
* TastesLikeDiabetes: Chase's "Laugh Children Laugh" song, especially the way he performs it.
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* [[CanonSue Canon]] [[GaryStu Stu]]: Chase Winstead.
* FridgeLogic: This movie asks you to believe that well into the rock-and-roll era, a saccharine song about Adam and Eve would be popular.
* NightmareRetardant
* SpecialEffectsFailure: The props occupying the sets that the lizard (which was a real Gila monster) crawls on are pretty obviously miniature models. It also turns out it's not even a real Gila Monster, but a Mexican Beaded Lizard. They couldn't even get the species right.
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