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* DemonicPossession: One of the commentators suggests that Rosie's bizarre behavior is because the aliens are psychically manipulating her.
* DissonantSerenity: Rosie, Kurt's very young daughter, is [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior disturbingly calm and serene throughout the entire night]], and that's before [[spoiler:she starts apparently assisting the aliens against her family]].
* DwindlingParty: [[spoiler:There are nine people at the house at the start. They disappear or die off until there are only a few left by the end… and those who're are left quickly join the others.]]
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* FromBadToWorse:[[spoiler: The behaviour of the creatures seems to suggest at first they are just analysing a threat - one of the brothers thinks that they thought Tommy's camera was maybe a weapon. He could be right - a single creature infiltrates the house, and corners Tommy in his room, putting him in some sort of trance, and it seems to pick up and look at Tommy's camera before it leaves the room. It's more than likely that the family would have been left unmolested - but then Kurt barricades said being in a bedroom, and shotguns it. '''Then things get really sinister.''']]
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* FromBadToWorse:[[spoiler: The FromBadToWorse: [[spoiler:The behaviour of the creatures seems to suggest at first they are just analysing a threat - one of the brothers thinks that they thought Tommy's camera was maybe a weapon. He could be right - a single creature infiltrates the house, and corners Tommy in his room, putting him in some sort of trance, and it seems to pick up and look at Tommy's camera before it leaves the room. It's more than likely that the family would have been left unmolested - but then Kurt barricades said being in a bedroom, and shotguns it. '''Then things get really sinister.''']]
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* TheLawOfConservationOfDetail: Lampshaded by one of the TalkingHeads, who notes the footage's tendency to ignore this trope as evidence that it's for real, arguing a scripted film wouldn't typically have such a RandomEventsPlot.
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* NarrativeFiligree: There's an entire ten to fifteen minutes of the film just being a normal video log of a family's perfectly mundane Thanksgiving dinner before even the first hint of alien activity, and even after everything starts going to hell, the movie progresses in roughly real time with no distinction between "important" and "unimportant" events. This even gets lampshaded by the commentators, who point it out as evidence of the footage's authenticity, arguing that a scripted film wouldn't typically bother including seemingly pointless sequences like Tommy spying on Renee or the aimless conversations around the dinner table.
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* PsychicPowers: The aliens possess a variety of them, which they utilize in psychologically tormenting the family throughout the siege on the house.
