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The plot is essentially, an [[Alien Invasion]] film mixed with a [[Zombie Apocalypse]]. An alien parasite lands in rural America, [[Puppeteer Parasite|infecting and taking control]] of local man [[Repetitive Name|Grant Grant]]. The alien impregnates a local woman, who gives birth (by [[Body Horror|having them eat her from the inside out]]) to thousands of "slugs", that share the original alien's mind. The slugs then enter a person's body [[Orifice Invasion|through the mouth]], killing them. The aliens then [[Our Zombies Are Different|take control of the corpse]]. It's then up to the local police sheriff (played by [[Nathan Fillion]], of [[Firefly]] fame), Grant's wife (Elizabeth Banks), the foul-mouthed Mayor, and a local teen to stop the alien before it can infect every living thing on the planet.

* [[Anyone Can Die]]: And {{spoiler|everyone in the whole town but Kylie, Bill, and Starla}} do.

* [[Badass Teacher]]: Starla. "Bitch is hardcore!"

* [[Better to Die Than Be Killed]]: After being turned into a breeder for the parasites, {{spoiler|the Mayor}} begs Pardy to kill him.

* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Pardy shows up in a big blaze of glory, ready to save Starla, blow up the alien and kick some parasite ass. {{spoiler|Subverted, since the alien knocks aside his grenade, it gets dropped in the pool and explodes there, and Pardy promptly gets his ass kicked.}}

* [[Chekhov's Gun|Chekhov's Grenade]]: {{spoiler|Subverted. '''Hard'''. They make a big deal of showing the viewer the SINGLE grenade that the Sheriff's department owns and the camera lingers on it for a moment. Later, when the hero attempts to use it, it's casually knocked aside and rendered useless.}}

** Played straight with Kylie's nails which provide much needed grip during the initial attack.

* [[Crazy Jealous Guy]]: Grant does ''not'' like the idea of other guys getting close to Starla. It's bad enough ''before'' he gets possessed by an alien death-worm.

* [[Decoy Protagonist]]: Bill's something like this; the audience is set up to expect him to become the ass-kicking [[Action Hero]] when the moment calls, but when the action really kicks off while he's not that incompetent and certainly isn't cowardly, it is pretty clear that he's completely out of his depth, and pretty much every moment that's set up to make him look like a [[Badass]] ends with him either running away or getting his ass kicked. He also needs to be rescued more than once by Starla and Kylie.

** [[Nathan Fillion]] certainly [[Word of God|confirmed]] that one of the things he really enjoyed about playing Bill was his bewildered and terrified "what the ''fuck'' is going on?!" reaction to almost everything that happened, rather than reacting like a standard [[Action Hero]] would.

* [[Diagonal Cut]]: When a single guy tries to stop Grant, the latter casually whips a tentacle at him. He looks, confused, for a few seconds, while blood starts pouring out of a perfectly vertical cut from his head to his groin, before he splits apart.

* [[The End or Is It]] / [[Sequel Hook]] / [[The Stinger]]: Keep watching after the end credits.

* [[Final Girl]]: {{spoiler|Two of them plus a Final Guy. Only Starla completely fills this trope however.}}

* [[Half the Man He Used To Be]]: A redneck attempting to stop a fully mutated Grant gets bisected by a whip-like tentacle.

{{quote| ''I'll keep growing till I'm everywhere. 'Till I'm all that is."}}

* [[Orifice Invasion]]

* [[Puppeteer Parasite]]: Grant Grant isn't himself.

* [[Rule of Cool]]: The whole film runs on this.

* [[Shout Out]]: Did anyone else think of ''[[Serenity (Film)|Serenity]]'' upon learning that they had a grenade, and Nathon Fillion decided they leave it behind?

** Countless others to mention, but the ending is a possible shout-out to the final scenes of ''Society''.

* [[Sliding Scale of Comedy and Horror]]: It's a blend of both.

* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]