Fridge Brilliance
- You know how Chad is always going on about how he and Allison are superior to everyone else, and certainly the hillbillies? Leaving aside The Reveal about Chad, we also learn that Allison actually grew up on a farm where, among other things, digging holes for an outhouse was not an unheard-of occurrence. Ironically, for all Chad's intense loathing of hillbillies, out of everyone in his social circle, the girl he's attracted to is probably the closest thing to being one. It also demonstrates that Chad and Allison were mismatched from the very beginning.
- It may seem odd that Allison would be willing to stick around with Dale at the start of the movie, but she later reveals that she grew up on a farm, so a rural setting and rustic people would be pretty familiar to her.
- How Chad and Dale interact with Allison reflects which one of them is the hero and which one of them is the villain.
- Chad plays the insecure love interest while showing how utterly toxic that mindset is. His feelings of insecurity manifest into outright poisonous and controlling behavior. Chad is too hypermasculine and lacking in self-awareness to see how his behavior impacts Allison.
- Meanwhile Dale demonstrates genuine self awareness: he realizes he left a bad first impression on Allison and realizes he needs to shape up. When they meet up again, Dale behaves in a caring and compassionate manner which is what wins Allison over.
- Dale and Tucker being handymen who are good with tools is a good twist on a horror cliche: namely, the bad guy who uses power tools to gut and slice up his victims. It ties into the message: just as rednecks are not inherently evil, power tools are not inherently evil or bad, since the pair are using them to fix an old cabin. The college kids, being more or less ignorant of blue-collar work with the exception of Allison, are the ones who hurt themselves because of their inexperience and misjudgment of the situation.
Fridge Horror
- After this exchange between Chloe and Naomi, it makes you think that Chad brought them out there for a reason.Naomi: We never should've come here, I mean whose stupid idea was it to come out here anyway?
Chloe: (Beat) Chad! - Remember the prologue with the Two-Faced guy? It's Chad. He's still alive, and he's now an insane killer. And we don't know what happens from there, but we hope he can be stopped before he kills someone or somehow tracks Allison and Dale down.
- Considering Chad was already a nasty creep, how far could he have taken his obsession with Allison?
- As comical as their deaths were, how would the parents of Allison's friends feel when they learned their kids died stupid (and quite horrific) deaths?
