History Film / TheHazing

* RoadSignReversal: One of the items the pledges have to obtain is a detour sign. They steal one from some roadworks. As they drive off, a car drives the road they have just removed the sign form, followed by an off-screen crash.

* PowerWalk: In a parody of ''Film/ReservoirDogs'', the five pledges leave the frat house on their mission dressed in Halloween costumes, doing a slo-mo strut to "Little Blue Dog" rather than "Little Green Bag".

* ExtremelyShortTimespan: 12 hours or less. The film starts in the late afternoon of Oct. 31st, and ends at dawn the following day.

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Professor Kapps falls on to a large curved horn that enters through his back and comes out his chest.

* MurderSuicide: Hack House, the supposedly HauntedHouse where the pledges have to spend Halloween night, was the scene of a grisly murder/suicide 60 years earlier. Jeremiah Hackford came home to find [[ADeadlyAffair his wife in bed with the stable boy]]. He then went on rampage: killing his wife, her lover and everyone else in the house before killing himself.

* OfCourseImNotAVirgin: The film ends with one surviving male winning the day, with a girl on each arm. The girls joke that he probably never could have even dreamed of such a thing happening, and throughout the film, he's frequently mocked under the assumption that he's a virgin, as well as geeky and weak. After their final mockery of him at the end, he gets fed up and explains to them that he lost his virginity when he was 15 to his (female) baby sitter. She's mentioned twice in the film otherwise, so it's sort of foreshadowed.

* SextraCredit: This seems to be what Jill is angling for in the opening scene with her unsubtle seduction of Professor Kapps. Unfortunately for her, Kapps does want her body, but for [[HumanSacrifice a far more unsavoury purpose]].

* TomeOfEldritchLore: ''Saviour of the Souls'', an age old book of blood rituals rescued from the ruins of an corrupt ancient monastery by Professor Kapps' ancestors that allows the possessor to travel between the dimensions of life and death to return from the grave through a rite of possession.

* AnAxeToGrind: The axe that Jacob uses to recreate the AxeBeforeEntering scene from ''Film/TheShining'' becomes an important weapon for the pledges fighting against Professor Kapps spirit. Delia winds up burying it in the skull of the possessed Doug.

* MurderousMannequin: Professor Kapps animates the mannequin that was one of the ScavengerHunt items. It pulls Justine into an embrace and forcibly kisses her, before [[BalefulPolymorph transforming her into a mannequin]].

* PureIsNotGood: Professor Kapps claims that his "purity of body and mind" is what makes the ritual possible, and [[can't release his own spirit via suicide ICannotSelfTerminate]] because that would ruin said purity. Murder is just fine though.