* BaseBreakingCharacter: Tosh. Some fans like her purely because of [[Creator/DanielleHarris the actress choice]], while others [[AssholeVictim find her to be exceptionally annoying and unlikable]].
* EnsembleDarkhorse:
** Reese, bar none, for being badass, funny, and surprisingly intelligent and competent. The fact she initially seems like a disposable PoliceAreUseless figure before [[BigDamnHeroes ultimately saving the day]] helps a lot.
** Of the college students, [[LovableAlphaBitch Sasha]] tends to be the most popular due to her sexy, fun, and sweet nature (a huge contrast to the overwhelming amount of {{asshole victim}}s in the film).
* HarsherInHindsight: The reveal of [[spoiler:Brenda]] as the killer became this after [[spoiler:Rebecca Gayheart was convicted of vehicular manslaughter in 2001]], especially given that said character's motivation involved [[spoiler:her boyfriend being a victim of vehicular manslaughter]].
* HilariousInHindsight: Parker jokingly suggests someone [[AssShove sticking a gerbil up a celebrity's ass]] as one of the killer's next moves. In ''Film/CecilBDemented'', Creator/AliciaWitt (Natalie) plays Cherish, a former porn star who once starred in a porno movie in which she had a gerbil crawl up her ass.
%%* MemeticMutation: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUNCo-qb84Y "DING DING DING DING DING!"]]
* NarmCharm: [[spoiler: Brenda]]'s rant and speech towards Natalie over [[spoiler: her involvement in her fiancée's death]] is so unhinged that it's comedic. Even those who do not like the film will agree that [[spoiler: Creator/RebeccaGayheart]] was having fun with the role. To say nothing about her lines in the scene.
--> "DING DING DING DIIIIIIING!"
--> "Yeah I guess you can say I'm a little nutty."
--> "LUCKY FOR YOU, MISS THAAANG!"
--> "STUPID BITCH!"
* TearJerker:
** [[spoiler: Although Tosh was an obnoxious {{Jerkass}}, her death is genuinely upsetting as at one point she tries to call out Natalie's name only to have her mouth covered again, for all her many flaws she didn't deserve to die scared and with the only person who could save her unaware of her being murdered in front of her.]]
** [[spoiler:Sasha's]] death. Partly because she was one of the few actually likeable characters, partly because she sounds so ''terrified'', even whimpering "I don't want to die" just moments before she does.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
** While Website/{{Snopes}} existed at the time of the film's release, it's so widely used now that urban legends tend to have a much shorter shelf life, as a single person in a group of friends doing a Google search can stop a legend in its tracks. The classic decades-old legends are believed by approximately nobody nowadays.
** The argument between Natalie and Tosh over the latter's internet use hogging the phone line. Anybody who grew up in the days of dial-up internet can attest to those sorts of arguments having been TruthInTelevision, but with broadband now the default, it dates the film firmly to the '90s.
* TheWoobie:
** The poor dog who gets microwaved. While we don't see him die, we see the microwave after and it's covered in his bloody remains.
** [[spoiler: Sasha]] is easily the nicest character, and gets the longest and most distressing death scene, along with dying in a state of abject terror.
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