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* DangerouslyShortSkirt: In the opening scene, Jill is wearing a skirt that she could not bend over in without breaking public decency laws.
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* BigBad: [[EvilTeacher Professor Kapps]] is the satanist, SerialKiller teacher who possesses and tries to kill the other students.

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In a Halloween night, five students participate in a scavenger hunt; trying to join the fraternity and sorority Sigma Si and Delta Pi. They are divided in two groups, and one of them has to steal an ancient book of magic from their weird Professor Kapps. Doug Leary and Marsha Glazer break in the professor's house while he is performing a satanic ritual with a student he has just sacrificed, and Kapps attack the students, but is accidentally impaled on a spear. Marsha and Doug leave the house and bring his staff and his book of incantations with them; planning to destroy the evidence. They drive to an abandoned house, where the two groups have to stay until the next morning. Meanwhile, two senior students from the frat house have prepared pranks in the house to scare the pledges. But the evil spirit of Professor Kapps possesses Doug, slashing the group of students that have to fight to survive.

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In a Halloween night, five students participate in a scavenger hunt; trying to join the fraternity and sorority Sigma Si and Delta Pi. They are divided in two groups, and one of them has to steal an ancient book of magic from their weird [[BigBad Professor Kapps.Kapps]]. Doug Leary and Marsha Glazer break in the professor's house while he is performing a satanic ritual with a student he has just sacrificed, and Kapps attack the students, but is accidentally impaled on a spear. Marsha and Doug leave the house and bring his staff and his book of incantations with them; planning to destroy the evidence. They drive to an abandoned house, where the two groups have to stay until the next morning. Meanwhile, two senior students from the frat house have prepared pranks in the house to scare the pledges. But the evil spirit of Professor Kapps possesses Doug, slashing the group of students that have to fight to survive.


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* BigBad: [[EvilTeacher Professor Kapps]] is the satanist, SerialKiller teacher who possesses and tries to kill the other students.
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Playing With Syringes is not about the use of syringes as a weapon, but specifically about unethical human experimentation.


* PlayingWithSyringes: When the police detective breaks into Kapps' hospital room, he discovers that Kapps has killed the nurses by stabbing multiple syringes into her her chest, and the other patient by [[EyeScream stabbing syringes into her eyes]].
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* givingThemTheStrip: The possessed Marsha kills the lights and then sneaks up behind Tim and lays her hands on his shoulders. Panicked, Tim takes off, leaving Marsha holding his vest.

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* givingThemTheStrip: GivingThemTheStrip: The possessed Marsha kills the lights and then sneaks up behind Tim and lays her hands on his shoulders. Panicked, Tim takes off, leaving Marsha holding his vest.

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* ADeadlyAffair: The legend of Hack House says that Jeremiah Hackford snapped after discovering his wife in bed with the stable boy, and he went on a rampage where he slaughtered everyone in the house before killing himself.



* MurderSuicide: Hack House, the supposedly HauntedHouse where the pledges have to spend Halloween night, was the scene of a grisly murder/suicide 60 years. 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.

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* MurderSuicide: Hack House, the supposedly HauntedHouse where the pledges have to spend Halloween night, was the scene of a grisly murder/suicide 60 years.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.
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* MurderSuicide: Hack House, the supposedly HauntedHouse where the pledges have to spend Halloween night, was the scene of a grisly murder/suicide 60 years. 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.
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* 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.
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* BarredFromtheAfterlife: Professor Kapps drags Marsha along with him when he gets sucked through the portal to Hell. However, a few minutes later, the portal spits Marsha out again. She remarks to Tim and Delia that she must not be as much of a bitch as she thought she was because Hell didn't want her.

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* BarredFromtheAfterlife: BarredFromTheAfterlife: Professor Kapps drags Marsha along with him when he gets sucked through the portal to Hell. However, a few minutes later, the portal spits Marsha out again. She remarks to Tim and Delia that she must not be as much of a bitch as she thought she was because Hell didn't want her.
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* BarredFromtheAfterlife: Professor Kapps drags Marsha along with him when he gets sucked through the portal to Hell. However, a few minutes later, the portal spits Marsha out again. She remarks to Tim and Delia that she must not be as much of a bitch as she thought she was because Hell didn't want her.
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* givingThemTheStrip: The possessed Marsha kills the lights and then sneaks up behind Tim and lays her hands on his shoulders. Panicked, Tim takes off, leaving Marsha holding his vest.
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* BadWithTheBone: Professor's magic staff is made of [[SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset a human skull mounted atop a straightened and stiffened length of vertebrae]]. Although it has magical properties, several characters realise that it also makes a dandy club, and use it as such against Kapps.
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* SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset: Professor Kapps' magic staff is a skull mounted on a length of straightened and stiffened vertebrae. Doug and Marsha initially assumed it is just a cool walking stick and don't realise its true significance until later.
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Not related to the Creator/IsaacAsimov short story of [[Literature/TheHazing the same name]].


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* SuicideByCop: In order to complete the magic ritual to unleash his spirit, Professor Kapps needs to die. However, the rules of the ritual mean that [[ICannotSelfTerminate it will not work if he kills himself]]. So, after reviving at the hospital, he murders several staff and patients, forcing the cop guarding him to gun him down. His last words to the cop are "Thank you".
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* ICannotSelfTerminate: Professor Kapps needs to die in order to complete the magical ritual. However, killing himself would corrupt his 'purity' and cause the ritual not to work for him. As a result, he commits several murders in order to [[SuicideByCop force detective guarding him to shoot him]].
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* EyeScream: Kapps murders the patient in his hospital room by [[PlayingWithSyringes stabbing multiple syringes]] into her eyes.
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* PlayingWithSyringes: When the police detective breaks into Kapps' hospital room, he discovers that Kapps has killed the nurses by stabbing multiple syringes into her her chest, and the other patient by [[EyeScream stabbing syringes into her eyes]].
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* GroinAttack: When Kapps is resuscitated at the hospital, he responds by grabbing the defibrillator paddle, shoving it into the doctor's groin, and discharging it.
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* DangerouslyShortSkirt: In the opening scene, Jill is wearing a skirt that she could not bend over in without breaking public decency laws.

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* RumpRoast: Doug shoves the TomeOfEldritchLore he stole from Professor Kapps down the back of his pants. When the dying Kapps activates the power of the book, it heats up, causing Doug to burn his ass.

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* RumpRoast: Doug shoves the TomeOfEldritchLore he stole from Professor Kapps down the back of his pants. When the dying Kapps activates the power of the book, it heats up, causing Doug to burn his ass.ass and shriek.


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* 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]].
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* BodySurf: Professor Kapps pulls a GrandTheftMe on Doug and takes over his body. After Doug is killed, the heroes think they have won until one of them asks what is there to stop Kapps from jumping into another nearby host. It is almost immediately revealed that he has done just that and taken over Marsha's body.
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* GrandTheftMe: After Doug stupidly performs the ritual to open the door to the afterlife for Professor Kapps, Kapps' spirit takes over is body and starts using as a host to kill everyone else in the house. After Doug's body is killed, Kapps does a BodySurf into Marsha.
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* HereWeGoAgain: At the end of the film, the surviving heroes are trying to leave Hack House when they discover that the doors have been locked again. [[spoiler:The ghost of Jeremiah Hackford and the other {{Vengeful Ghost}}s of Hack House appear. Jeremiah announces that now Kapps' spirit has departed, they are free to return vengeance on the interlopers. Tim, Delia and Marsha just turn around with a 'Bring It' expression on their faces. Roll credits.]]

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* HereWeGoAgain: At the end of the film, the surviving heroes are trying to leave Hack House when they discover that the doors have been locked again. [[spoiler:The ghost of Jeremiah Hackford and the other {{Vengeful Ghost}}s of Hack House appear. Jeremiah announces that now Kapps' spirit has departed, they are free to return to wreak vengeance on the interlopers. Tim, Delia and Marsha just turn around with a 'Bring It' expression on their faces. Roll credits.]]
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* HereWeGoAgain: At the end of the film, the surviving heroes are trying to leave Hack House when they discover that the doors have been locked again. [[spoiler:The ghost of Jeremiah Hackford and the other {{Vengeful Ghost}}s of Hack House appear. Jeremiah announces that now Kapps' spirit has departed, they are free to return vengeance on the interlopers. Tim, Delia and Marsha just turn around with a 'Bring It' expression on their faces. Roll credits.]]

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



* TerrifyingPetStoreRat: The pledges have to collect a live rat as one of the items in the ScavengerHunt. They catch a rat in an alley that is suspiciously clean, well-groomed and tame and for something that is supposed to be feral. This does not Delia from being [[EekAMouse terrified of it]].

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* TerrifyingPetStoreRat: The pledges have to collect a live rat as one of the items in the ScavengerHunt. They catch a rat in an alley that is suspiciously clean, well-groomed and tame and for something that is supposed to be feral. This does not prevent Delia from being [[EekAMouse terrified of it]].
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* EekAMouse: Delia acts like this when she tries to collect the TerrifyingPetStoreRat for the ScavengerHunt; especially after it somehow gets tangled in her hair. While this might have been part of her ObfuscatingStupidity, she squeals again when the rat comes through the portal after she has dropped her DumbBlonde act, so it's possible that she actually is scared of rodents.


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* ObfuscatingStupidity: Delia pretends to be a DumbBlonde because that is what people expect her to be, and she finds it is much easier to attract guys that way. However, as soon as she realises that the danger is real, she drops the act and reveals herself to possibly be the most intelligent character in the group. Tim comments that he finds her real personality far more attractive.
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* 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".
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* TakenForGranite: The MurderousMannequin transforms Justine into a mannequin herself. Delia, not realising what has happened and thinking this is another of Justine and Jacob's scare attempts, shoves the Justine mannequin down the stairs, where [[LiterallyShatteredLives it smashes]].

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