Line #72 Film/Stitches2012


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3	->''"Everybody happy?"''
4	-->-- '''Stitches'''
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6	''Stitches'' is a 2012 Irish SlasherMovie, starring Creator/RossNoble as the title character. Also starring [[Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures Tommy Knight]] and Creator/GemmaLeahDevereux.
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8	After Stitches the clown is killed brutally at Tom's 10th birthday party, he is brought back to life six years later by a cult of clowns and seeks revenge on the children that brought about his untimely demise. Just in time for Tom's house party to celebrate his DangerousSixteenthBirthday.
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11	!!''Stitches'' contains examples of the following tropes:
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13	* ActionGirl: Sarah is one, surprisingly - [[spoiler: too bad that her shoving her stiletto heel into Stitches' throat doesn't work, what with him being undead and all]].
14	* ActionSurvivor: Tom.
15	* AlphaBitch: Sarah
16	* AntagonistTitle: Tom is the protagonist.
17	* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Paul and Sarah]].
18	* BackFromTheDead: Stitches is brought back to life via a ritual - apparently no clown can leave a party [[UnfinishedBusiness without having finished the job]].
19	* BigBad: Stitches is a MonsterClown on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge.
20	* BirthdayPartyGoesWrong: It happens ''TWICE'' for poor Tommy, when he turned 10 and a clown died in a freak accident, and when he turns 16 and said clown returns from the dead to commit some freaky killings.
21	* BlackComedy: It's a SlasherMovie starring a murdered clown - it'd be a shame if this ''wasn't'' included.
22	* BlandNameProduct: Vinny gets word out about Tom's party via [[Website/MySpace My]][[Website/{{Facebook}} Face]].
23	* BlownAcrossTheRoom: Kate is knocked across the kitchen after Stitches sucker-punches her in the face.
24	* CameBackStrong: When Stitches is resurrected, he goes from being an average guy to a super strong, nigh unkillable zombie. In a rather unique case, it also seems to have made him much better at clowning.
25	* CampGay: Downplayed, but [[spoiler: Bulger]] has an eye for decoration, is active in the music department at school, and has a complete lack of interest in gym - but can do a split on a dime. He might even be CampStraight; before the party begins, he describes it as a 'fanny fest' (fanny being slang for female genitals), and it's not clear if he means that in a good way or not.
26	* CassandraTruth: Although how many would believe being told "there's a killer clown on the loose"?
27	* ChekhovsGun: Tom's birthday present comes in handy when he and Kate need to make a getaway.
28	* ChekhovsSkill: Of the ''weirdest'' variety.
29	-->'''Bulger''': Righty-tighty, lefty-loosey.
30	** Subverted. [[spoiler:Stitches interrupts Tom from using this to defeat him.]]
31	** But then played straight when [[spoiler:Vinnie's ability to tie someone's shoelaces together without them noticing ends up putting Stitches down for good.]]
32	* ChildhoodFriendRomance: [[spoiler: Tom and Kate]].
33	* CreatorCameo: Director Conor [=McMahon=] cameos as a lonely partygoer Bulger sees and mocks for his appearance.
34	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Were you thinking that a MonsterClown would kill his victims ''normally''?
35	** [[spoiler: Paul]] gets his ear and [[AnArmAndALeg arm]] ripped off before getting [[OffWithHisHead decapitated]] by Stitches kicking his head off.
36	** [[spoiler: Bulger]] gets his skull cracked open with a can opener before Stitches scoops up three balls of his brain as if it were ice cream.
37	** [[spoiler: Sarah]] gets an umbrella rammed through her head from behind. When it opens, it gets ''messy''.
38	** [[spoiler: Richie]] gets partially [[GuttedLikeAFish disemboweled]] and Stitches makes a balloon animal with his intestine, before grossly inflating his head with a balloon pump until it bursts into a bloody mess.
39	* DaydreamSurprise: Tom's teacher scolds him for talking, but as Tom looks up to face him, his teacher is a clown. He then proceeds to rip off Vinny's genitals and tie them to a helium balloon, before taunting Vinny who is desperately trying to retrieve it in front of the class, who are by now laughing at him. He turns to Tom and tells him his time is "up", before Tom snaps out of the daydream when his teacher says that the time to finish his work is up and to hand it to him.
40	* DecoyProtagonist: Stitches.
41	* DiedInYourArmsTonight: Stitches holds [[spoiler: Bulger]] in his arms after killing him.
42	** Poetically fitting when, at the exact same time, the rest of the party are dancing to the Cutting Crew song [[TropeNamer of the same name]].
43	* DudeNotFunny: The InUniverse reaction to [[spoiler: Paul impersonating the titular Clown moments before the ''real'' one's appearance]].
44	* EggMacGuffin: The only way to kill a resurrected clown is by destroying the one that has the clown's face on it.
45	* TheEndOrIsIt: [[spoiler: The movie ends with the Motley Clown gluing Stitches' broken egg back together. Once it's done, its cracks slowly disappear and it cuts to black before we hear Stitches' voice saying "[[CatchPhrase Everybody happy?]]"]]
46	* EvilPlan: Stitches comes BackFromTheDead and seeks to get revenge on the kids who killed him.
47	* ExtendoBoxingGlove: As a killer revenant, Stitches is able to throw extended spring-loaded punches.
48	* EyeScream: Stitches trips and falls, landing face-down onto the dishwasher, and receives a steak knife through the eye. After pulling it out to try and kill Tom with it, he slips in his own blood, releasing the blade to fly back up and land in the same socket at a different angle, creating an X-shaped scar centered on his eye.
49	** Stitches throws an umbrella through the back of [[spoiler: Sarah]]'s head, popping the eye out of the socket. The body then falls backwards, forcing the entire umbrella through the socket.
50	* FinalGirl: Kate.
51	* '''{{Gorn}}''': Just look at EyeScream for one of the more horrific examples.
52	* GroinAttack: A very vivid one in the DaydreamSurprise.
53	** A second one gets delivered when Tom tries to snub a Paul and Sarah out of a party invite.
54	* GilliganCut: Just as Kate reassures Tom that "not every party ends with a dead clown", [[spoiler: Paul, dressed as a clown, is being murdered by Stitches]].
55	* HorrorComedy: Definitely on the comedic end of the spectrum, but there are some rather gruesome deaths depicted on-screen.
56	* JerkAss: Kate's boyfriend, Dan, is ''extremely'' [[SmallNameBigEgo self-centered.]]
57	* KarmicDeath: Stitches' preferred method of murder? Dispatching his victims using the same tricks that they'd ruined during his show:
58	** [[spoiler: Paul]] cruelly botched Stitches' PullARabbitOutOfMyHat trick when asked to partecipate [[spoiler: and Stitches pulls a rabbit out of his throat before promptly kicking his head off]].
59	** [[spoiler: Bulger]] threw a scoop of ice cream at Stitches [[spoiler: and the clown cracks his head open and treats his brain like ice cream]].
60	** [[spoiler: Sarah]] threw Stitches' umbrella at him and [[FlippingTheBird flipped him off]] [[spoiler: and Stitches would throw the umbrella at her. In a ''much more'' DarkerAndEdgier way.]]
61	** [[spoiler: Richie]] popped Stitches' crappy balloon animal [[spoiler: and the clown makes a balloon animal out of his intestine before [[PopGoesTheHuman popping]] him]].
62	* KickTheDog: Stitches beating Tommy's [[ThatPoorCat cat]] to death for happing at his nose.
63	* KidsAreCruel: While Stitches was a ''really'' bad birthday clown, Tommy's friends push their [[BrattyHalfPint brattiness]] too far ending up accidentally killing the performer.
64	* LonelyFuneral: Only four people attend Stitches' funeral: the priest, and presumably three prostitutes he slept with.
65	* MaleGaze: Vinny [[HormoneAddledTeenager has a pronounced case of this]] throughout the movie.
66	* MonsterClown: TheMovie! Well, the [[{{Film/It1990}} other]] [[Film/It2017 movie]].
67	* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Tommy Knight. The film takes places in Ireland. Even his mother in the film has an Irish accent.
68	** Ross Noble doesn't do the local accent either, but given his character, it could just be that he plays an English clown who just happens to be working in Ireland.
69	* NotQuiteDead: After falling and landing onto the knife in the dishwasher, Stitches stands up, pulls the knife out and tries to grab Tom. [[spoiler: However, after tossing the knife in the air, he slips on his own blood and lands on his back, just as the knife falls back down and stabs him in the head again]].
70	** [[spoiler: The film ends with the Motley clown cultists carefully reassembling Stitches' egg, potentially bringing him back to life once more]].
71	* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Stitches is brought back from the dead because of a BlackMagic-practicing clown cult, for the sole purpose of avenging himself. As long as his clown egg isn't destroyed, he's an [[NighInvulnerability unkillable]] undead MagicalClown with SuperStrength and minor RealityWarper powers.
72	* ThePeepingTom: Literally, as Tom uses his telescope to spy on pretty much everything in the neighborhood - nothing perverted, though.
73	* PerkyGoth: Despite Kate's fashion sense as a teenager, she's one of the nicest characters of the film and cares for Tom's feelings.
74	* PietaPlagiarism: The pose Stitches assumes [[spoiler: after digging Bulger's brains out with an ice-cream scoop]].
75	* PottyFailure: Paul misses the mark by virtue of his costume having no zipper.
76	* RightBehindMe: Tom's impersonation of a teacher is quite ill-timed.
77	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Rather than help Tom with Kate after Stitches attacks her, Vinny makes a run for it - [[spoiler: he comes back to help at the end, though, with the same prank that caused Stitches' death killing him ''again'']].
78	* {{Shoutout}}: Tommy is taking [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Hypnocil]].
79	* ShutUpKiss: PlayedWith, as [[spoiler: Kate kisses Tom in the graveyard in order to stop his hiccups, as they were giving their position away]].
80	* StonersAreFunny: Tom's misadventure with the "house cookie" borders on this, partially because it's so out-of-character for him.
81	* TightropeWalking: Stitches evokes this with an overhead power line he walks on to reach the cemetery faster than Tom and Kate.
82	* TimeSkip: The opening scene is set during Tom's 10th birthday party, then it cuts to six years later where the rest of the film takes place.
83	* TookALevelInBadass: Tom finally plucks up the courage to rescue Vinny and Kate from the party by any means necessary... even if that means standing up to Kate's boyfriend by punching him in the face.
84	* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Ever since the accident that happened on his 10th birthday, Tom has reservations about having a birthday parties, but Vinny convinces him to do it since Tom's mom will be missing on his sixteenth birthday meaning that he'll have his large house for himself, which is perfect grounds for a big party... and thus Stitches awakens.
85	* VolleyingInsults: Bulger and Sarah engage in some of this after Paul's "prank".
86	* YourHeadASplode: [[spoiler: Richie]], courtesy of [[RuleOfFunny a handheld balloon pump]].

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