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** Samantha’s mom does show actual concern for her daughter's well-being, but she's also been unwilling to accept her sexuality to the point that she apparently has called Sam a dyke to her face before and angrily accuses her of using drugs again, even trying to stage an intervention.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Samantha isn't a very nice person to a lot of people around her. But she has understandable reasons to be that way towards Riley (who has been stalking her even after she's rejected him and he won't take no for an answer) and her mother (who is shown to be very insensitive as well as unwilling to accept her sexuality to the point that she directly called Sam a dyke right to her face.)

** Nikki [[spoiler:dumping Sam after learning she'd been with a man (even though it was rape). It's unclear if she knows or cares about that. Notably, this is what causes Sam's FaceHeelTurn.]]

* OnlySaneMan: Alice comes across as this, as she repeatedly tries to convince Samantha to go to the police or the hospital. [[spoiler: Unfortunately for her, this is what winds up getting her killed.]]

** Nikki is the biggest one of the bunch, as even before [[spoiler:she finds out that Samantha was drugged and raped by BJ]], she comes off as a passive-aggressive ControlFreak who just seems to [[HatesEveryoneEqually have no respect for anyone around her]], including Samantha, who Nikki mistreats to the point that she comes off like an abuser, treating her like crap and badmouthing everyone close to her. She even sinks as low as to keep Sam's letter of acceptance without telling her. [[spoiler: She's such an asshole that it's very hard to feel bad for her when Sam strangles her to death.]]

** Nikki is the biggest one of the bunch, as even before [[spoiler:she finds out that Samantha was drugged and raped by BJ]], she comes off as a passive-aggressive ControlFreak who just seems to [[HatesEveryoneEqually have no respect for anyone around her]], including Samantha. She even sinks as low as to keep Sam's letter of acceptance without telling her.
** Samantha treats her mother like shit[[labelnote:note]]Although given her mother's homophobia and WellDoneSonGuy tendencies, you can hardly blame her[[/labelnote]] and lashes out at pretty much everyone who tries to help her, especially Alice.

** Even Samantha’s mom has her moments; she apparently has called Sam a dyke to her face and angrily accuses her of using drugs again, even trying to stage an intervention.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Samantha isn't a very nice person to a lot of people around her. But she has understandable reasons to be that way towards Riley (who has been stalking her even after she's rejected him and he won't take no for an answer) and her mother (who is shown to be very insensitive as well as rather unwilling to accept her sexuality to the point that she directly called Sam a dyke right to her face.

* {{Jerkass}}: Even before [[spoiler:she finds out that Samantha was drugged and raped by BJ]], Nikki comes off as a passive-aggressive ControlFreak, even sinking to keeping her letter of acceptance without telling her, though everyone in the cast comes off as a jerkass at one point or another. Samantha treats her mother like shit[[labelnote:note]]Although given her mother's homophobia and WellDoneSonGuy tendencies, you can hardly blame her[[/labelnote]] and lashes out at pretty much everyone who tries to help her, especially Alice. Zain openly admits to selling date rape drugs to a stranger and doesn’t seem all that sorry about it. Nikki just seems to [[HatesEveryoneEqually hate everyone equally]], including Samantha. Riley can’t seem to take the hint that Samantha doesn’t want him around and gets weirdly possessive and confrontational when he tells her he saw her with BJ. Even Samantha’s mom has her moments; she apparently has called Sam a dyke to her face and angrily accuses her of using drugs again, even trying to stage an intervention.

* DeathBySex: In a prolonged and horrific fashion. Samantha catches an STD due to being raped by BJ, which slowly transforms her into a zombie (he's an immune carrier of the virus). [[spoiler:At the end, she's entirely gone, attacking her mother and then being shot to death by the police.]]

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters

** Alice, too. She appears to have Sam's best interests in mind, trying to keep her away from Nikki, who she suspects is a bad influence (and considering Nikki's behavior towards Sam, she isn't wrong). Of course, Sam will have none of this, and buys into Nikki's accusation that she's trying to keep them apart because she wants Sam for herself.

* FailedASpotCheck: Alice apparently doesn’t notice that some random stranger she’s never met and whom no one seems to know is crashing her house party and giving drinks to her inebriated friend. Riley also botches his own Spot Check when he [[spoiler: agrees to have unprotected sex with a girl who is visibly very sick and was violently rejecting him not an hour ago, and who probably doesn’t smell very good at this point, given that she’s literally rotting from the inside out. Granted, she put on a ton of makeup and dimmed the lights, but ''come on'', guy.]]

* IdiotBall: Pretty much everyone grabs it at some point. Zain starts things off by selling roofies to someone he doesn’t know at a party full of intoxicated young women. Samantha continues to insist that she’s fine and refuses to seek help or go to the police, even as she’s hemorrhaging from her vagina, vomiting blood, losing her hair and fingernails, and slowly going blind in one eye. Her doctor also snags it when he doesn’t insist on holding Samantha for observation or just straight up putting her into quarantine, [[spoiler: although it turns out that he's the mastermind behind the whole thing, so he probably ''wanted'' her to go back out and spread the virus]]. The ball then gets passed to Sam’s mom, who assumes that she’s using drugs again, even though she’s clearly sick and not high. Even Samantha’s boss, who gets all of about three minutes of screentime, manages to grab it when he tells her that she still has to work her waitressing job after seeing how awful she looks. Riley wraps up the game of Idiot Ball Toss when he eagerly agrees to [[spoiler: have unprotected sex with a girl who violently rejected him only a few hours ago, not questioning her obvious physical ailments]].
* ILoveTheDead: The movie opens on BJ having sex with a corpse. Things go downhill from there.
* {{Jerkass}}: Even before [[spoiler:she finds out that Samantha was drugged by BJ]], Nikki comes off as a passive-aggressive ControlFreak, even sinking to keeping her letter of acceptance without telling her, though everyone in the cast comes off as a jerkass at one point or another. Samantha treats her mother like shit[[labelnote:note]]Although given her mother's homophobia and WellDoneSonGuy tendencies, you can hardly blame her[[/labelnote]] and lashes out at pretty much everyone who tries to help her, especially Alice. Zain openly admits to selling date rape drugs to a stranger and doesn’t seem all that sorry about it. Nikki just seems to [[HatesEveryoneEqually hate everyone equally]], including Samantha. Riley can’t seem to take the hint that Samantha doesn’t want him around and gets weirdly possessive and confrontational when he tells her he saw her with BJ. Even Samantha’s mom has her moments; she apparently has called Sam a dyke to her face and angrily accuses her of using drugs again, even trying to stage an intervention.

** While Riley was always rather creepy towards Samantha, [[spoiler:it just come across as unnecessary and cruel of her to have sex with him with the intention of infecting him.]]

** Alice also gets one when [[spoiler: Samantha barges into her house after murdering Nikki; Alice’s expression and the tone of her voice during the latter part of the conversation strongly suggest that she knows ''exactly'' what Samantha did.]]

* SlippingAMickey: It's revealed that BJ spiked the drink he gave to Samantha with rohypnol, which he used to inebriate and rape her, then she lost her memory mostly afterward.

* TraumaCongaLine: Poor Sam. She gets raped and infected with a zombie virus, is smothered by her homophobic religious mother, stalked by an old friend, has her plants rejected by the gallery because the owner doesn't recognize her due to the extent of her bodily decay, is given the silent treatment by her control freak girlfriend [[spoiler:who later dumps her on the basis that she'd "been with a man" (even though it was rape), and finally ends up in a car crash that kills her and it causes her to come back as a zombie.]]
* VillainProtagonist: [[spoiler:Samantha starts out as a friendly, if not timid, young woman but as the disease starts to progress in her, she becomes more aggressive, to the point where she murders Nikki and Alice, and has sex with Riley with the intention of getting him infected.]]

* FanDisservice: Sam is frequently shown in her underwear while bleeding heavily from… below. And that’s not even mentioning the [[spoiler:sex scene between her and Riley, where she’s rotting and maggots are falling off that same area.]] There's also the scene where Sam kisses Alice, then promptly vomits blood into her mouth.

* IdiotBall: Pretty much everyone grabs it at some point. Zain starts things off by selling roofies to someone he doesn’t know at a party full of intoxicated young women. Samantha continues to insist that she’s fine and refuses to seek help or go to the police, even as she’s hemorrhaging from her vagina, vomiting blood, losing her hair and fingernails, and slowly going blind in one eye. Her doctor also snags it when he doesn’t insist on holding Samantha for observation or just straight up putting her into quarantine. The ball then gets passed to Sam’s mom, who assumes that she’s using drugs again, even though she’s clearly sick and not high. Even Samantha’s boss, who gets all of about three minutes of screentime, manages to grab it when he tells her that she still has to work her waitressing job after seeing how awful she looks. Riley wraps up the game of Idiot Ball Toss when he eagerly agrees to have unprotected sex with a girl who violently rejected him only a few hours ago, not questioning her obvious physical ailments.

* {{Jerkass}}: Even before [[spoiler:she finds out that Samantha was drugged by BJ]], Nikki comes off as a passive-aggressive ControlFreak, even sinking to keeping her letter of acceptance without telling her, though everyone in the cast comes off as a jerkass at one point or another. Samantha treats her mother like shit[[labelnote:note]]Although given her mother's homophobia and WellDoneSonGuy tendencies, you can hardly blame her[[/labelnote]] and lashes out at pretty much everyone who tries to help her, especially Alice. Zain openly admits to selling date rape drugs to strangers and doesn’t seem all that sorry about it. Nikki just seems to [[HatesEveryoneEqually hate everyone equally]], including Samantha. Riley can’t seem to take the hint that Samantha doesn’t want him around and keeps chasing after her like a particularly dense puppy. Even Samantha’s mom has her moments; she apparently has called Sam a dyke to her face and angrily accuses her of using drugs again, even trying to stage an intervention.

** Alice also gets one when [[spoiler: Samantha bursts into her house after murdering Nikki; Alice’s expression and the tone of her voice during the latter part of the conversation strongly suggest that she knows ''exactly'' what Samantha did.]]
** Riley gets probably the worst, as he first discovers [[spoiler: that he’s just had sex with a girl whose body is literally crawling with maggots, and then discovers Alice’s bloody corpse in the bathtub.]]

* SlippingAMickey: It's revealed that the drink BJ gave Sam had rohypnol, which he used to inebriate and rape her, then she lost her memory mostly afterward.

* StrawmanPolitical: Zig-zagged with Sam’s mother. She’s a devout Catholic who strongly disapproves of her daughter’s homosexuality, but at the same time, displays genuine concern for her well-being and admits to being proud of Sam when she tells her that her entry was accepted.

* MisanthropeSupreme: BJ explains in a MotiveRant that he despises humanity so utterly and wants nothing more than to see them all wiped out by his hand.

* DeathBySex: In a prolonged and horrific fashion. Samantha catches an STD due to being rape by BJ, which slowly transforms her into a zombie (he's an immune carrier of the virus). [[spoiler:At the end, she's entirely gone, attacking her mother and then being shot to death by the police.]]

* TraumaCongaLine: Poor Sam. Gets raped and infected with a zombie virus, is smothered by her deeply religious mother, stalked by an old friend, has her plants rejected by the gallery because the owner doesn't recognize her due to the extent of her bodily decay, is given the silent treatment by her control freak girlfriend [[spoiler:who later dumps her on the basis of her being raped by a man, and finally ends up in a car crash that kills her and causes her to come back as a zombie.]]

* DoesNotLikeMen: Nikki in spades. In fact, she utterly despises them and makes this clear more than once. She's particularly annoyed by the fact that, being a lesbian, she gets even ''more'' attention from them.

* FanDisservice: Sam is frequently shown in her underwear while bleeding heavily from … below. And that’s not even mentioning the [[spoiler:sex scene between her and Riley, where she’s rotting and maggots are falling off that same area.]] There's also the scene where Sam kisses Alice, then promptly vomits blood into her mouth.

** Nikki [[spoiler:dumping Sam after assuming she had consensual sex with BJ, when it was actually rape. Notably, this is what causes Sam's FaceHeelTurn.]]

-->'''BJ:''' What you deserve is disease. What you deserve is plague. All the people around you, your sons and daughters, your brothers and sisters, their bodies stacked around you like firewood leaking blood and pus. All the physical that you held so dear. Everything that turned you on... now rotted and stinking from the very ... (yelling at the zombified woman he has chained up) QUIET! ({{beat}}) Abaddon is coming.
* LackOfEmpathy: This is, apparently BJ's entire reason for spreading the virus. Although he also claims to have KnightTemplar motive.
-->'''BJ:''' A new beginning, an eternal night, wrath like never before cleansing society and all I ever wanted was to feel. To feel anything, pain, love, anger.

** Nikki [[spoiler:dumping Sam for being drugged and raped by BJ. Notably, this is what causes Sam's FaceHeelTurn.]]

* LackOfEmpathy: In the first film, there's Nikki. [[spoiler:Her reaction to the news that Sam was drugged and raped is unbelievably callous and insensitive.]] And in the second film, this is, apparently BJ's entire reason for spreading the virus. Although he also claims to have KnightTemplar motive.
-->'''BJ:''' A new beginning, an eternal night, wrath like never before cleansing society and all I ever wanted was to feel. To feel anything, pain, love, anger.

* TheAggressiveDrugDealer: Averted with Zain, [[AffablyEvil who seems like a reasonably nice guy for a drug peddler]] and doesn't try to push his ... wares on others. [[spoiler:[[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom Although he did sell roofies to BJ, which set the events of the first film in motion]].]]
* BodyHorror: Both films deal with a necrotizing STD that physically rots its host within days before turning them into zombies. This is a given.

* TheVirus

* DeathBySex: In a prolonged and horrific fashion.

* DoesNotLikeMen: Nikki in spades. In fact, she utterly despises them [[spoiler:to the point where [[KickTheDog she dumps Sam for being raped by one]].]]

* {{Jerkass}}: Even before [[spoiler:she finds out that Samantha was drugged by BJ]], Nikki comes off as a passive-aggressive ControlFreak, even sinking to keeping her letter of acceptance without telling her.
** Truth be told, everyone in the cast comes off as a jerkass at one point or another. Samantha treats her mother like shit and lashes out at pretty much everyone who tries to help her, especially Alice. Zain openly admits to selling date rape drugs to strangers and doesn’t seem all that sorry about it. Nikki just seems to [[HatesEveryoneEqually hate everyone equally]], including Samantha. Riley can’t seem to take the hint that Samantha doesn’t want him around and keeps chasing after her like a particularly dense puppy. Even Samantha’s mom has her moments; she apparently has called Sam a dyke to her face and angrily accuses her of using drugs again, even trying to stage an intervention.
* JerkassWoobie: On the other hand, Samantha gets a surprisingly sympathetic moment at the end of the movie. [[spoiler: Her life is in tatters, two of the people she cared about most are dead at her hands, her only other friend has just fled from her in disgust, and she’s coming apart physically and mentally. When she calls her mother, sobbing hysterically, and tells her she just wants to come home, it’s tough not to feel sorry for her.]]

* SexAsAWeapon: Samantha seems to be trying to use sex either to convince Alice and Riley to help her or to get back at them for their perceived wrongs. Maybe. It’s hard to tell what exactly she’s trying to accomplish by seducing the two of them, especially since she’s already pretty far gone mentally by the time this occurs.

* BolivianArmyEnding: [[spoiler:The film ends with a fully zombified Sam being called to by her mother and guns being aimed at her by the policemen, and her heading towards her. The screen goes dark and screams and crunching sounds are heard.]]

** Alice, too. She appears to have Sam's best interests in mind, trying to keep her away from Nikki, who she suspects to be a bad influence (and considering Nikki's behavior towards Sam, she isn't wrong). Of course, Sam will have none of this, and buys into Nikki's accusation that she's trying to keep them apart because she wants Sam for herself.

* FanDisservice: Sam is frequently shown in her underwear while bleeding heavily from … below. And that’s not even mentioning the [[spoiler:sex scene between her and Riley, where she’s rotting and maggots are falling off that same area.]]

* BodyHorror: Both films deal with a necrotizing STD that physically rots its host within days. This is a given.

* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:BJ survives Riley’s bite, and is hospitalized. Although he fails to kill Detective Young, she’s obviously infected, anyway, and is likely to turn soon. [[DownerEnding And the plague's only going to continue spreading across the city, and likely the world in time]].]]

* TraumaCongaLine: Poor Sam. Gets raped and infected with a zombie virus, is smothered by her deeply religious mother, stalked by an old friend, given the silent treatment by her control freak girlfriend [[spoiler:who later dumps her on the basis of her being raped by a man]], has her plants rejected by the gallery because the owner doesn't recognize her due to the extent of her bodily decay ...

* KnightTemplar: BJ's first MotiveRant contains hints of this, but he contradicts it in his second one, where he states that he just wanted to feel emotion.

* OmnicidalManiac: Here, BJ is not only a SerialRapist, but a MisanthropeSupreme who wants to exterminate the human race [[ItsAllAboutMe just so he can feel something]].