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The film was remastered in 2023 with scenes removed from the original release reinstated.
* AvoidTheDreadedGRating: Inverted. Several scenes, such as the AutoErotica scene and Handjob's death scene had to be trimmed in order to receive an R rating. The 2023 remaster reinstates these scenes.
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* SorryImGay: Lucifer's fist when a guy asks, "My jizz on your face?"
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* SorryImGay: Lucifer's fist when a drunk guy asks, "My "Can I jizz on your face?"
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* MysteriousWaif: Montgomery is a male example. He's a blonde, skinny, and waifish {{twink}} with heterochromia and a perpetually lost expression. He seems to suffer from amnesia and has a strange spiritual connection with Dark. In the end [[spoiler: it turns out he's a host for an alien cockroach]].
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* MysteriousWaif: Montgomery is a male example. He's a blonde, skinny, and waifish {{twink}} [[TheTwink twink]] with heterochromia and a perpetually lost expression. He seems to suffer from amnesia and has a strange spiritual connection with Dark. In the end [[spoiler: it turns out he's a host for an alien cockroach]].
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%% * ButNotTooBlack: There's the white actors, and the partially white actors.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: The movie begins with a FantasySequence that turns out to be Dark jerking off.
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* AggressiveSubmissive: Elvis is a hyper macho, murderous jerk but loves being slapped and tied up in bed.
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* BisexualLoveTriangle: The emotional heart of the film comes from Dark being torn between his desire for a more old-fashioned, romantic relationship with his girlfriend Mel (their relationship is anything but) and his yearning for mysterious twink Montgomery.
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Bart has green hair.
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* OnlySaneMan: While Dark is angsty and self-absorbed, he's the only character (except for maybe Montgomery) that seems interested in deeper meaning beyond sex, and is also the only person who's remotely aware of all the space aliens kidnapping people.
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* SuddenMorbidMonologue: Happens constantly in a minor way in the way that characters constantly bring death and disease into everyday, snarky conversation, but there are a couple of instances of more extensive monologues on dark subjects, delivered with unnerving enthusiasm:
** While a bunch of friends are casually hanging out at a coffee shop, Alyssa suddenly gets a dreamy look on her face, and starts talking rapturously about how the day is Armageddon Day, and how the world is about to end.
** Shad decides to tell a disturbing story about a woman who got her face eaten off by a dog in the middle of sex. His partner's response?
--> ''Dogs eating people's faces is cool''
** While a bunch of friends are casually hanging out at a coffee shop, Alyssa suddenly gets a dreamy look on her face, and starts talking rapturously about how the day is Armageddon Day, and how the world is about to end.
** Shad decides to tell a disturbing story about a woman who got her face eaten off by a dog in the middle of sex. His partner's response?
--> ''Dogs eating people's faces is cool''
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* MoodWhiplash: The whole damn movie. Jumps from amusingly awkaward dialog to erotic sex scenes to brooding sad moments to sudden, over-the-top violence to space aliens.
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* MomentKiller: Alyssa decides to interrupt Shad while he's having sex on the dance floor at Jujyfruit's party in order to ask him something mundane about mowing the lawn.
* MoodWhiplash: The whole damn movie. Jumps from amusinglyawkaward awkward dialog to erotic sex scenes to brooding sad moments to sudden, over-the-top violence to space aliens.
* MoodWhiplash: The whole damn movie. Jumps from amusingly
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* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: The sets are filled with hyper-saturated colors and patterns that give the film a very surreal, trippy feel. Dark's room has a 20 ft ceiling and no apparent doors, and is covered with a giant mural of him shooting himself in the head. Bart's wall is entirely covered in giant printed text, while every surface in Egg's room is covered in multicolored flowers.
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* ButNotTooGay: The film has a number of bi and gay characters, but only heterosexual sex is shown. There is a lot of male nudity, though.
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* EnterStageWindow: Nobody ever uses their bedroom door. Dark's room seems only accessible through a chest-height hole in the wall, or through the outside window.
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* AddledAddict: Bart's heroin use threatens his music career and relationship with Cowboy, who threatens to break up with him if he doesn't get clean. After using, he spends considerable time slumped on top of a billboard, barely able to talk.
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* AutoErotica: Shad and his girlfriend not only have sex in an old convertible, he starts driving it in the middle of sex.
-->'''Shad:''' "I want to die!"
* BigNo: After the
* CassetteCraze: A variant. Dark carries a camera with him everywhere and does a video diary where he talks about his feelings.
* CoincidentalBroadcast: A random news broadcast provides foreshadowing about the Atari Gang, who later show up to jack Zero's mom's car.
* CreepyCrossdresser: Zero gets his car jacked by the Atari Gang, a band of violent, gun-toting, and sexually-ambigous nihilists.
* CreepyCrossdresser: Zero gets his car jacked by the Atari Gang, a band of violent, gun-toting, and sexually-ambigous nihilists.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Egg and Bart kill themselves rather violently after becoming hypnotized by a televangelist. In Egg's case, it's probably also a response to her [[spoiler: violent rape by the Teen Idol]].
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* ICallHimMisterHappy: "I missed you." "You mean Gilligan here missed me?"
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* ICallHimMisterHappy: ICallHimMisterHappy:
--> '''Zero''': "I missed you." "
--> '''Zoe''' (Zero's girlfriend): "You mean Gilligan here missed me?"
--> '''Zero''': "I missed you.
--> '''Zoe''' (Zero's girlfriend): "You mean Gilligan here missed me?"
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* PaintTheTownRed: After [[spoiler: Egg kills herself and after Montgomery's chest burster incident]], the walls end up splattered with lots of blood in both cases.
* PeopleInRubberSuits: The space aliens are humanoid lizard monsters that are the same size as humans and are clearly played by someone in a rubber suit.
* PeopleInRubberSuits: The space aliens are humanoid lizard monsters that are the same size as humans and are clearly played by someone in a rubber suit.
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* ReallyGetsAround: Mel, who's in an open relationship with Dark and Lucifer sleeps with almost anyone and says that people aren't meant to be monogamous.
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* ReallyGetsAround: Mel, who's in an open relationship with Dark and Lucifer Lucifer, sleeps with almost anyone and says that people aren't meant to be monogamous.monogamous.
* RuleOfPool: Dark leaves the party to brood by the pool alone. A few minutes later, Ducky comes along and tries to drown himself in it, and Alyssa has to save him.
* RuleOfPool: Dark leaves the party to brood by the pool alone. A few minutes later, Ducky comes along and tries to drown himself in it, and Alyssa has to save him.
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* TheStoner: Bart and Handjob mostly, but everyone else too
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* TheStoner: Bart and Handjob mostly, but everyone else tootoo.
* SymbolicBlood: Played with. Elvis beats [[spoiler: Handjob]] to death with a can of Campbell's tomato soup, which splatters the red soup and actual blood everywhere in equal measure.
* SymbolicBlood: Played with. Elvis beats [[spoiler: Handjob]] to death with a can of Campbell's tomato soup, which splatters the red soup and actual blood everywhere in equal measure.
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%%* TwinThreesomeFantasy: Mel with Surf and Ski.
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* TwinThreesomeFantasy: Mel seems pretty into sleeping with both Surf and
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* VagueAge: The main characters at times seem to be in high school and live with their parents, but could also plausibly be in college as they never seem to go to class and at other times act like 20-somethings. It's never specified, and due to DawsonCasting is hard to pin down.
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Obliviously Evil is about villains who think they're doing good, not self-absorbed people. Lucifer and Mel are college students, not schoolgirls. Straight Gay is complaining, plus most characters are bi so it's not surprising they don't adhere to gay stereotypes. Anything That Moves doesn't apply to Mel as she only sleeps with attractive humans, it's already covered by Really Gets Around
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%%* {{Gayngst}}: Dark's constant whining for true love and lamenting about being doomed.
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%%* ObliviouslyEvil: Ignoring a car wreck and talking about zits.
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%%* SchoolgirlLesbians: Lucifer and Mel.
* SkewedPriorities: Ignoring a car wreck and talking about zits.
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%%* StraightGay: They're all so straight-acting.
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* DepravedHomosexual[=/=]DepravedBisexual: Played with. Everyone is too vapid and concerned with having sex to notice the space aliens taking over or really care about one another. On the other hand, Dark's determination to find true love and emotion with Montgomery makes him sympathetic and something of the OnlySaneMan in the bleak world of the film.
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* DepravedHomosexual[=/=]DepravedBisexual: DepravedBisexual: Played with. Everyone is too vapid and concerned with having sex to notice the space aliens taking over or really care about one another. On the other hand, Dark's determination to find true love and emotion with Montgomery makes him sympathetic and something of the OnlySaneMan in the bleak world of the film.
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* MrFanservice: James Duval's character spends a lot of time naked.
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* MrFanservice: James Duval's character spends a lot of time naked.naked, and a number of shots linger on his nude butt.
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* PhoneBooth: No one has a cell phone!
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* ChestBurster: At the end of the film, [[spoiler: Dark and Montgomery are in bed together when a giant cockroach alien emerges from Montgomery's chest, presumably killing him.]] This explains why he'd been feeling off the whole movie.
* NightAndDayDuo: Mel's two main love interests have this in their theme-naming. She's interested in both Lucifer (light) and Dark.
* RandomEventsPlot: Most of the movie is a series of vignettes of the characters bumming around and trying to make it to a crazy party, while space aliens menace the town in the background.
* ReallyGetsAround: Mel, who's in an open relationship with Dark and Lucifer sleeps with almost anyone and says that people aren't meant to be monogamous.
* ReallyGetsAround: Mel, who's in an open relationship with Dark and Lucifer sleeps with almost anyone and says that people aren't meant to be monogamous.
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* ShowerScene: The first scene, which features Dark in the shower.
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* TheTwink: Bart. Also Montgomery, trying to be averted with his duel-colored eyes and stutter.
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* TheTwink: Bart. Also Montgomery, trying to be averted with his duel-colored eyes Bart and stutter.Montgomery are both young, skinny gay men.
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* ValleyGirl: Applies to all the female characters to some extent, as they're all vapid Angelinos, but in particular Rose [=McGowan=] has a cameo as a sunglasses-clad fashionista who spends the whole scene gossiping in an exaggerated Valley Girl accent, before promptly getting killed.
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* MysteriousWaif: Montgomery is a male example. He's a blonde, skinny, and waifish {{twink}} with heterochromia and a perpetually lost expression. He seems to suffer from amnesia and has a strange spiritual connection with Dark. In the end [[spoiler: it turns out he's a host for an alien cockroach]].
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Most of the cast.
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Most of the cast.characters goes by strange and seemingly symbolic nicknames.
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* TerrorAtMakeoutPoint: The overarching plot of the film is that space aliens arrive on Earth amidst a bunch of drug-addled teenagers who are too busy having sex to notice. Throughout the film, vapid teens have sex in cars and get offed by the aliens.
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* VagueAge: The main characters at times seem to be in high school and live with their parents, but could also plausibly be in college as they never seem to go to class and at other times act like 20-somethings. It's never specified, and due to DawsonCasting is hard to pin down.
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* DepravedHomosexual/DepravedBisexual: Played with. Everyone is too vapid and concerned with having sex to notice the space aliens taking over or really care about one another. On the other hand, Dark's determination to find true love and emotion with Montgomery makes him sympathetic and something of the OnlySaneMan in the bleak world of the film.
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* DepravedHomosexual/DepravedBisexual: DepravedHomosexual[=/=]DepravedBisexual: Played with. Everyone is too vapid and concerned with having sex to notice the space aliens taking over or really care about one another. On the other hand, Dark's determination to find true love and emotion with Montgomery makes him sympathetic and something of the OnlySaneMan in the bleak world of the film.
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** If you listen closely to the gossip being passed by the ValleyGirl{{s}} at the bus stop, everyone in their social circle is sleeping with everyone else, regardless of gender.
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** If you listen closely to the gossip being passed by the ValleyGirl{{s}} {{Valley Girl}}s at the bus stop, everyone in their social circle is sleeping with everyone else, regardless of gender.
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It's a bizarre, surreal and sex-saturated black comedy set in a vaguely futuristic and apocalyptic LosAngeles, filled with petty, pretty, vacuous, bisexual, drug-addled teen friends. Throughout the movie, they get abducted by aliens, killed, or commit suicide amidst lots of SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll as they try to get to an exclusive, rave-type party for more of the same. It is described as "[[Series/BeverlyHills90210 90210]] [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs on acid]]" on the VHS cover box, which is apt.
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It's a bizarre, surreal and sex-saturated black comedy set in a vaguely futuristic and apocalyptic LosAngeles, UsefulNotes/LosAngeles, filled with petty, pretty, vacuous, bisexual, drug-addled teen friends. Throughout the movie, they get abducted by aliens, killed, or commit suicide amidst lots of SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll as they try to get to an exclusive, rave-type party for more of the same. It is described as "[[Series/BeverlyHills90210 90210]] [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs on acid]]" on the VHS cover box, which is apt.
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* KickTheDog: Multiple times, but especially [[spoiler: the affable Handjob's Warhol soupcan-to-the-head murder]], and also when [[spoiler: The TeenIdol beats Egg and says IHaveYouNowMyPretty before [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raping]] her]].
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* KickTheDog: Multiple times, but especially [[spoiler: the affable Handjob's Warhol soupcan-to-the-head murder]], and also when [[spoiler: The the TeenIdol beats Egg and says IHaveYouNowMyPretty before [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raping]] her]].
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''Nowhere'' is a 1997 movie written and directed by Gregg Araki as the third part of his "Teen Apocalypse Trilogy", following ''Totally ***ed Up'' and ''Film/TheDoomGeneration''.
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''Nowhere'' is a 1997 movie written and directed by Gregg Araki as the third part of his "Teen "[[ThematicSeries Teen Apocalypse Trilogy", Trilogy]]", following ''Totally ***ed Up'' and ''Film/TheDoomGeneration''.
