- Awesome Music: "Balada Triste de Trompeta"
- "Corazon Contento"
- The Pino Donaggio/Danny Elfman-esque score by Roque Baños is also solid, particularly the Main Titles, "Fighting for her love" and "Final Tragedy"
- Crosses the Line Twice: It opens with a clown in drag slaughtering a Francoist army with a machete, and by the end of the film you'll look back at that as being normal compared to the madness that follows.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: The vet's paranoid wife, Dolores, tries to convince her husband to listen to her foreseeing warnings because "I'm a witch". Three years later her actress Terele Pávez would go on to play one of the main Big Bad witches in Witching & Bitching, also directed by Álex de la Iglesia.
- Jerkass Woobie: Both Javier and Sergio by the end of the film.
- Moral Event Horizon: Sergio becomes a full monster after his disfigurement. And he wasn't a nice guy to begin with.
- Also Javier when he does said disfiguring. At that point, it's all downhill into eventual insanity.
- Special Effects Failure: The CGI used for the reconstruction of Luis Carrero Blanco's death (who got literally blown up sky-high in his car) and the Valle de los Caídos monument during the climax is rather iffy.
- Spiritual Adaptation: A deranged Monster Clown protagonist armed to the teeth who drives around on an ice cream truck? Javier's character makes for a spiritual adaptation of Needles Kane from Twisted Metal.
- Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: A very, very dark comedy with less comedy and more morbidity that follows a pair of Monster Clowns who undergo grotesque physical mutilations and Sanity Slippage before going on a murderous rampage all for a woman they both loved.
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