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Absentia
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Absentia is a 2011 horror film directed by Mike Flanagan.Tricia's husband Daniel has been missing for seven years. Her younger sister Callie comes to live with her as the pressure mounts to finally declare him 'dead in absentia.' As Tricia sifts through the wreckage and tries to move on with her life, Callie finds herself drawn to an ominous tunnel near the house that might also be connected to other neighborhood disappearances. Soon it becomes clear that the ancient force at work in the tunnel might have set its sights on Callie and Tricia ... and that Daniel might be suffering a fate far worse than death in its grasp. | |
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Hollywood Healing | |
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Hollywood Healing: Scrupulously averted — both injuries Callie sustains (a bruise on the cheek/chin and a lump on the head) stay with her over the course of the final two days of the movie. | |
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Kick the Dog | |
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Kick the Dog: Partially subverted. Jamie Lambert comes to the underpass with a yorkie in a garbage bag, presumably to try to trade for his father's life. Later, the police accuse him of being a serial killer, based on his cruelty towards animals. | |
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Would Hurt a Child | |
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Would Hurt a Child: The entity in the tunnel spits out Tricia's still-developing fetus when Callie tries to bargain with it, undoubtedly killing it. | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: Both Trish and Callie are trapped in the tunnel with Daniel now, while Ryan is trying to convince himself they all just ran away. | |
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Bookends | |
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Book Ends: The movie opens with Tricia putting up Missing posters for her husband, and ends with Detective Mallory putting up Missing posters for her and Callie. | |
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Magical Homeless Person | |
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Magical Homeless Person: Callie finds what appears to be a homeless man in the tunnel. In fact, he's one of the victims of the trans-dimensional tunnel-dweller. Although the man himself does not have magic powers, his true problems are supernatural in origin and invisible to normal people. From the outside, he just comes across as a crack addict. | |
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Police Are Useless | |
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Police Are Useless: Callie tries to explain the trans-dimensional horror to the police after Daniel is re-abducted. Of course, the police don't believe her, and blame her fantastical stories on heroin use. Subverted at the end of the movie, when the police have a good idea that supernatural forces are at play, but are desperately trying to convince themselves that there is a rational mundane explanation. | |
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Jackass Genie | |
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Jackass Genie: At the end of the film, Callie goes into the tunnel, shouting "Trade!" in an effort to get her sister back. The troll does trade... but uses the still-developing fetus instead of Tricia. | |
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Legally Dead | |
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Legally Dead: Tricia's husband Daniel has been declared 'dead in absentia' after missing for seven years. And then he comes back. | |
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Another Dimension | |
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Another Dimension: It's implied that this is where the missing people are taken. | |
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Covers Always Lie | |
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Covers Always Lie: The DVD cover◊ completely misrepresents the film. | |
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You Have to Believe Me! | |
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You Have to Believe Me!: After Callie witnesses Daniel being carried off by the thing in the tunnel, Tricia doesn't believe her and instead assumes that Callie was just high on drugs. The police suspect the same, going so far as to order a blood test when she comes in the next night with news of Tricia's disappearance. Detective Mallory in particular is hostile. | |
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All Myths Are True | |
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All Myths Are True: This is what has Callie convinced she's right about whatever's in the tunnel. Reinforced by Daniel, thumbing through Three Billy Goats Gruff and commenting "That's not what it looked like". | |
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Angst Coma | |
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Angst Coma: Daniel is suffering one upon his return, due to having been kept seven years by the entity under the bridge. | |
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The Fair Folk | |
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The Fair Folk: This film's trolls operate more under this more traditional modus operandi than their namesake in settings like The Lord of the Rings. Kidnapping mortals, brokering trades, and working under their own particularly insidious "rules" are all contributing factors. | |
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Eldritch Abomination | |
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Eldritch Abomination: The entity in the tunnel. Though described with "skin like silverfish," it's never shown well enough to say for certain. | |
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Bodyguard Crush | |
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Bodyguard Crush: An unusual variant with Detective Mallory and his relationship with Tricia. His partner later chastises him for it when he's found at the scene when Daniel goes missing again. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: The gift Callie gives to her incoming niece/nephew? ''Three Billy Goats Gruff'. | |
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And I Must Scream | |
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And I Must Scream: Daniel's apparent fate was to be trapped in some sort of hellish limbo where he was tortured repeatedly. Reinforced when two separate victims of the tunnel ask disbelievingly, "You can see me?" implying that they have been attempting in vain to communicate for some time. | |
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Fate Worse than Death | |
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Fate Worse than Death: The Movie. The apparent fate of those in the grasp of the thing in the tunnel. It's the movie's tagline. | |
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Yank the Dog's Chain | |
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Yank the Dog's Chain: Midway through the movie, the entity lets Daniel return home... only to literally drag him back into the tunnel two nights later. Tricia inadvertently does this to her in-laws as a result, having called them with the good news, only to greet them later with the bad. | |
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane | |
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: The movie goes out of its way to balance this, with those still around debating what might have actually happened to those that went missing, since the only witnesses proposing the Magic are a heroin addict, a man who'd vanished for 7 years and then re-vanished, and a man who displayed some of the warning signs of a serial killer. The final scene all-but settles the matter. | |
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Nothing Is Scarier | |
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Nothing Is Scarier: Quite a few of the scenes employ this, primarily to avoid reliance on special effects. | |
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Blue-and-Orange Morality | |
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Blue-and-Orange Morality: While it's a decidedly malevolent example, whatever lives in the tunnel has some of this going on — particularly its "fixation" on trading. | |
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Exact Words | |
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Exact Words: Callie attempts to make a deal with the thing in the tunnel to make a trade herself to bring back her pregnant sister. She's not specific enough, and the thing throws back her sister's fetus instead. | |
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Big Creepy-Crawlies | |
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Big Creepy-Crawlies: What little we know about the thing in the tunnel indicates that it's one of these. | |
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished | |
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Callie really shouldn't have left behind that food for the man in the tunnel. | |
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Never Found the Body | |
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Never Found the Body: The premise of the whole movie, really — although the body of Walter Lambert is eventually found. | |
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All Trolls Are Different | |
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All Trolls Are Different: Trolls are huge insect creatures which live beneath tunnels and bridges. They abduct humans who enter their territory and trap them in their dimension. It's possible to barter with them, though you'll have to figure out the rules on your own, but it's ill-advised as it also attracts their attention to those around you. | |
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