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* ~Chekhov's Gun~: Samantha sees a TV documentary on how jellyfish attract mates with a light display. Later on she realises the {{spoiler|giant alien is attracted to the light of a television set and turns it off}}.
* [[Crazy Homeless People]]: The only person left in the Texas Evacuated Zone is a mentally-ill bag lady who apparently didn't evacuate with the sane folks.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: An unwanted bunch of aliens from Mexico are constantly attempting to cross the US border and actually succeeding ''despite'' a giant fortified wall being put in place to stop them. Substitute "aliens" with "aliens" and you've got the American immigration controversy.
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* [[How We Got Here]]: The movie opens with a convoy of soldiers retrieving a young couple, then getting attacked by a giant alien which kills or wounds the woman. The rest of the movie depicts how the couple got to that point, {{spoiler|but ends before actually reaching it.}}
* [[Humans Are Bastards]]: Surprisingly averted. It seems the military may rain down the occasional heavy-handed airstrike to take down an alien but aren't seen doing their usual "[[Its the Only Way To Be Sure]]" approach, namely making a crater the size of Mexico. People just seem to be trying to survive or adapt to the situation rather than kill each other over it.
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* [[Oh Crap]]: {{spoiler|While travelling down river in a boat the engine cuts out. Then it gets dark. Then a large fin slices through the water -- subverted when it turns out to be a downed fighter aircraft. Then another Oh Crap moment when giant tentacles yank the aircraft under water again, showing just how easily it can sink the boat. Another example is when the protagonists reach the Great Wall on the US border only to realise that the aliens have already spread far beyond it.}}
* [[Our Monsters Are Different]]
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* [[Shout Out]]: Considering it's taking strange huge creatures, unnaturally introducing them to a foreign environment and then failing to contain them, it makes sense ''[[Jurassic Park]]'' was cited as the main influence.
* [[Terraform]]: Alien spores growing on trees.
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* [[The Wall Around the World]]: Those living in the Infected Zone joke that the giant wall erected around them by the US government is becoming this.
* [[X Meets Y]]: Sometimes cited as [[District 9]] ''meets'' [[Cloverfield]]. Minus the "documentary style" it does share a few traits with these films but overall it arguably does a good job of creating a different experience than either. [[Word of God]] says that ''Jurassic Park'' was actually the influence for the film.
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