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- Chris escaping from the Armitage house and single-handedly killing all of them. He plugs his ears with cotton from the seat he's strapped to before knocking Jeremy out with a bocce ball, impaling Dean with the antlers of his taxidermy deer, taking out Missy's hypnotic teacup/spoon and stabbing her in the eye with a letter opener, then stomping out a Not Quite Dead Jeremy before heading out the door.
- Not to mention being impaled through his hand and barely flinching.
- Special mention goes to both Chris and — from a villainous standpoint — Jeremy during their fight. Jeremy nearly kills Chris while suffering from a severe and bloody head wound, whereas Chris outsmarts Jeremy by tricking him into kicking the door shut so that he can stab his leg and brutally kill him.
- The fact Chris decides to not escape right away, but instead stick around to ensure the Armitages get their just desserts. Whether it was to ensure the family's scheme finally comes to an end and sparing other innocent black people a horrific fate, to mete out his own grisly form of vengeance, or just to ensure they wouldn't come after him, either way the Armitages get what they deserve.
- Rod being the one to rescue Chris at the end. His utter persistence in getting his best friend back deserves a mention. Also, it's a huge relief to the audience when he pulls up in the police car, only for us to see the word "Airport" written on the driver door.
- This scene alone warrants seeing the movie in theaters, as audiences are typically known to burst into applause when they see it.
- "How'd you find me?" "I'm TS. Motherfucking A. We handle shit. That's what we do. Consider this situation fuckin' handled." Chris and Rod then drive off, leaving Rose to bleed out on the road.
- Rod realizing that Rose was lying over the phone, even before she started disturbingly trying to seduce him.
- Despite her true intentions, it's still cool seeing Rose defend Chris against the cop who harasses him for his ID.
- Even from a villainous standpoint, her acting skills are amazing. At no point before Chris finds the pictures does she give any indication that she's an antagonist, and even when you know what to look for there aren't any cracks in her performance.
- Once Chris figures out what his camera flash can do, he weaponizes it, and the Armitage family's groundskeeper finally gets his revenge, quickly tricking Rose into handing over her gun and turning it on her instead. What happens next is sad, but the man is undeniably badass.
- An understated one is Georgina's Fighting from the Inside moment. It's shown throughout the movie that, unless exposed to a camera flash, the people who underwent the procedure are completely under control, and yet Georgina nearly broke free just from a polite conversation. Not only that, but it's implied she left the door with the pictures of Rose's previous boyfriends open so that Chris could find them.
- From a villainous standpoint, Rose only starts her awkward seduction attempt after the clearly suspicious Rod puts her on hold to get a recording device ready. So the only evidence he records about his missing friend's whereabouts is his best friend's girl talking about how they've always had a connection, which wouldn't help him much.Rod: She's a fucking, she's a...AAAH! She's a genius.
- The fact that Rod doesn't buy her story for one second.
- Crowning Cinematography of Awesome: the entire movie is very beautifully shot for a horror film, but the woodland scenery as Chris and Rose head up north while the film's hypnotic main theme plays is seriously epic, evoking The Shining (another horror movie about ghosts of the American past, so to speak) and in general scaring the hell out of viewers before anything overtly bad has happened outside The Stinger.
- From the trailer, the deer skeleton (which sadly only appears in a deleted scene on home video).
