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  • Awesome Ego: Jessica is just magnificently self-centered and is Love to Hate for most.
  • Crosses the Line Twice:
    • Upon seeing Megan's corpse in the shower - and she's been dead eight months - Jessica's reaction?
    "Oh, she looks terrible."
    • Ellie is also not there when the corpse is discovered, and we get a Delayed Reaction complete with a comical offscreen scream when she does finally see it.
  • Diagnosed by the Audience: Jessica. Seriously she displays a good few sociopathic tendencies given that it's her idea to cover up the murder, she kills Garrett without a second thought and attacks Maggie for supposedly sleeping with her boyfriend. Add her snarking at every situation involving the killer.
  • Ensemble Dark Horse:
    • Chugs the Hard-Drinking Party Girl and The Lad-ette was quite well-received, and it's actually sad to see her as the first one to go.
    • Mrs. Crenshaw, who is played by Carrie Fisher, wielding a shotgun is considered by some the only reason to watch the movie.
    • Claire, for being played by the beautiful Jamie Chung and coming across quite sympathetic.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight:
    • The film quite blatantly rips off Black Christmas (both the 1974 and 2006 versions) with its characters - and the girls now being harassed by an anonymous killer. But The Reveal that Andy is the killer, and does so in a black fraternity robe, is hilarious in hindsight of Black Christmas (2019) - which makes the villains evil frat boys.
    • Julian Morris murders Jamie Chung. Fast forward to Once Upon a Time where this time he sacrifices himself to save her.
  • Just Here for Godzilla: Carrie Fisher with a shotgun for some.
  • Les Yay:
    • During the toast, Chugs declaring "Ellie, I love you because you're always there to help with homework. You're like a spellcheck with a nice rack". And later, her reaction to Megan being given fake CPR ("That's hot").
    • The way Ellie acts towards Cassidy can be construed as this, constantly finding excuses to be with her, and doing things like having her put their Theta Pi bracelets on each other.
  • Misaimed Fandom:
  • More Popular Replacement:
    • Jessica is considered a better Alpha Bitch than Vickie of the original.
    • Mrs. Crenshaw is likewise preferred to Mrs. Slater. Although to be fair, they're completely different characters - only sharing the similarities of being the housemother.
  • Narm Charm: The film is extremely cliched and by-the-numbers, and descends into self parody at the halfway mark. But there are plenty of people who enjoy it for those reasons.
  • Retroactive Recognition:
  • The Scrappy: Megan's little sister, Maggie. In a film that has no shortage of funny, witty dialogue, her lines tend towards the tryhard end (yet are treated as epic owns); a shaky performance from the actress doesn't help.
  • She Really Can Act: After a string of generic roles in Teen Dramas and Made For TV Movies, Leah Pipes embraces the ridiculous nature of this movie and has a ball playing the Alpha Bitch Jessica. Her hilarious performance is a highlight of the film.
  • So Bad, It's Good: The film strangely becomes Denser and Wackier halfway through, completely destroying all tension, but also becoming quite enjoyable - particularly Jessica's deadpan reaction to finding Megan's corpse and all the ridiculous twists and Red Herrings. It's far more entertaining as a (somewhat) unintentional comedy than a straight horror.
  • The Woobie: Ellie (to those who don't find her fragility annoying) and Garret (who more or less went insane due to Megan's death, and is seemingly only cared about by his unreliable older sister).


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