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** It's implied throughout the movie that Jennifer had learned to see herself as less of a person and more as a sex object prior to her murder. If the real Jennifer showed through one last time upon being stabbed, the above line basically cements that.
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** Her tearful, desperate begging is made that much worse by the band's snide mockery and her own chipper demeanor while recounting the story.
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!!As a Moments page, all spoilers are unmarked! You have been warned.
Even a movie as campy and hamtastic as this one can tug at the heartstrings when it wants to.
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*[[spoiler:Chip's Chip's death, and Needy's grief-stricken reaction to it.]]
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* Watching Needy going from a cheerful, typical teenager into a violent and angry person, thanks to all the traumatic experiences she goes through. It gets worse with a dash of FridgeHorror: at theend, [[spoiler: Needy end,Needy escapes from the psych ward of the prison and brutally murders Low Shoulder in retaliation for what they did to Jennifer and for causing the events of the movie]], movie, but where can she go after that? She's now [[spoiler: an escaped convict with multiple murders on her hands]], hands, so she's likely going to be spending the rest of her life on the run or in hiding.
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** When we first meet him, he's sobbing in the middle of class when the teacher is talking about how many people died in the fire, accompanied by a nerdier boy who puts an arm around him insupport. support.
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** It gets worse when you find out that one of the casualties was
** Jennifer twists the knife even further by claiming she wants to talk to him alone because she actually saw his friend at the club before the fire started and was probably the last person to speak to him. Jonas immediately asks what he said, and is visibly touched and heartbroken when Jennifer claims his friend said he considered him a brother. The poor kid has just suffered the greatest loss of his life, and was only hoping to have someone to talk to about it. Except the one lending him a sympathetic ear is actually luring him into a trap, and in fact made up the whole encounter with his friend.
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* The death of the foreign exchange student, Ahmet. He came to America and survived a traumatic event, only to be killed by Jennifer under the pretence of helping him.
* The death of the foreign exchange student, Ahmet. He came to America and survived a traumatic event, only to be killed by Jennifer under the pretence of helping him.
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-->''I feel empty.''
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-->''I feel empty.''
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* Jennifer's horrific, brutal murder. Her terrified screams don't help. It really hammers in the fact that, pre-possession, Jennifer was still a teenager -- a ''kid''. Yes, she was an AlphaBitch, but she wasn't outright ''evil''; certainly not enough to deserve what happened to her. No wonder Needy's in tears by the end of the story.
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* Needy's SurvivorGuilt after the fire, especially as she walks through the hallway and sees a girl, sitting on the floor, sobbing, presumably because she lost a close friend that night.
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