- abandoned house
- abduction
- abusive father
- adulterer
- arm bitten off
- arm in a cast
- arm ripped off
- bad guy
- balloon
- band of outcasts
- bare chested boy
- bar mitzvah
- based on novel
- basement
- bathroom
- battle
- bicycle
- bicycling
- bitten in the face
- blockbuster
- blood
- blood oath
- blood splatter
- bolt gun
- book
- boy in underwear
- boy wearing glasses
- broken arm
- brutality
- bully
- bullying victim
- butcher
- camaraderie
- cannibalism
- carving into human flesh
- cat
- cellar
- child abuse
- child eater
- childhood
- childhood crush
- childhood friend
- child in peril
- child killed
- child killer
- child molester
- child murderer
- child rapist
- child smoking cigarette
- child swearing
- cleaning
- closed door
- clown
- clown doll
- coffin
- coulrophobia
- courage
- covered in blood
- creature
- creep
- cruelty
- curse
- cutting one's hair
- cutting the palm of one's hand
- dark killer
- death
- death of brother
- deeply disturbed person
- demon
- disappearance of a child
- disappearance of brother
- disturbing
- dutch angle
- easter egg
- eaten alive
- evil clown
- evil creature
- evil father
- eyeglasses
- family life
- farm
- first part
- flashback
- flickering light
- floating in the air
- flooded basement
- forest
- fourth of july
- garage
- gay slur
- ghoul
- girl in bra and panties
- glowing eye
- gore
- graphic violence
- headless corpse
- hell on earth
- heroism
- hiding in a bathroom
- hit with a rock
- homicidal maniac
- homophobia
- hypochondriac
- implied incest
- inhaler
- insanity
- interracial friendship
- jew
- jumping into water
- killer clown
- killing
- killing an animal
- killing spree
- kiss
- leper
- levitating
- library
- little boy
- loss of brother
- maniac
- memory
- missing child
- missing person poster
- missing persons
- monster in the sewer
- monsters
- movie comes to life
- munchausen syndrome by proxy
- murder
- murderer
- murder of a child
- mutilation
- new kid
- newspaper
- old house
- outcast
- overalls
- overbearing mother
- paper boat
- patricide
- pedophile
- pennywise
- pervert
- pharmacy
- piano
- plaster cast
- pocket knife
- police officer
- pool of blood
- portrait
- portrait comes to life
- projector
- psycho
- psycho killer
- racism
- raincoat
- raining
- red balloon
- reference to anthrax
- reference to clark kent
- reference to ernest borgnine
- reference to jan michael vincent
- reference to lois lane
- reference to metallica
- reference to michael jackson
- reference to molly ringwald
- reference to new kids on the block
- reference to nightmare on elm street
- reference to siouxsie and the banshees
- reference to the psychedelic furs
- reference to the replacements
- reference to the young fresh fellows
- sadism
- sadistic clown
- sadistic killer
- sadistic psychopath
- school
- school bullying
- scream
- screaming in fear
- serial child killer
- serial child murder
- serial child murderer
- serial killers
- serial teen killer
- severed arm
- sewer
- sexual abuse
- sexual child abuse
- sheep
- sidewalk
- sink
- slideshow
- slut shaming
- small town
- spitting
- splatter
- stabbed in the throat
- storm drain
- street
- stuttering character
- supernatural
- supernatural powers
- switchblade
- teenage girl
- teenage girl in underwear
- throwing stones
- thrown down a well
- title spoken by character
- traumatic childhood
- traumatic childhood experience
- turtle
- underdog
- unlikely friendship
- villain
- violence
- violence against a child
- well
- wood
- year 1988
- year 1989
- zombie