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* [[Artifact of Doom|Arsenal Of Doom]]: The cabin basement. Though we eventually settle on the tried and true {{spoiler|[[Tome of Eldritch Lore]]}}.
* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: {{spoiler|Pa Buckner's beartrap-and-chain. It's plenty menacing and a decent snare, but it ''repeatedly'' fails to cause major injury to its victims, to the frustration of all killing and torture goals.}}
* [[Barrier
* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]: {{spoiler|Hadley finally gets to see his Merman. And then it eats him. He curses his luck before he dies.}}
* [[Beehive Barrier]]: {{spoiler|It surrounds the site. And it doesn't just deflect contact, it ''fries'' whatever touches it}}.
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** The intern splits the pot with Maintenance.
* [[Buffy-Speak]]: In the credits, even. "Japanese Floaty Girl."
* [[Casting Gag]]: This is the third time [[Amy Acker]] [[Angel (TV)|has played]] [[Dollhouse
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: {{spoiler|Played with the coffee mug bong. Subverted with the motorbike.}}
* [[Closed Circle]]: The titular cabin. {{spoiler|The controllers try very hard to ''keep it'' closed, especially when the tunnel back to civilization fails to [[Broken Bridge|conveniently blow up.]]}}
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** When Truman objects to {{spoiler|manipulating the teens to have sex in the woods, just so the cameras can capture Jules' nudity, the controllers respond with "Gotta keep the customers satisfied."}}
** {{spoiler|When The Director mentions "Eight minutes to sunrise" when talking about the Gods destroying the earth, there are eight minutes left until the lights come up in the movie theater.}}
* [[Let's Split Up, Gang!]] / [[Never Split the Party]]: {{spoiler|When the zombies are attacking everyone in the cabin, Curt says they shouldn't split up under any circumstances. The scientists then release a new gas, causing him to turn around and say they should all split up and go into their own rooms}}. Marty's response to all of this is a confused "''Really?''"
* [[Lovable Jock]]: Curt and Holden. {{spoiler|At first, anyway. The controllers use mind-altering chemicals to turn Curt into a [[Jerk Jock]], and Holden into a [[Hollywood Nerd]] to fulfill their roles in the ritual.}}
* [[Monster Mash]]:
** The whiteboard has a [[Long List]]: [[Wolf Man|Werewolf]], [[Starfish Aliens|Alien Beast]], [[Mutants]], Wraiths, [[Everything's Deader With Zombies|Zombies]], [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent|Reptilius]], [[Monster Clown|Clowns]], [[Wicked Witch|Witches]], [[Hot Witch|Sexy Witches]], [[Our Demons Are Different|Demons, Hell Lord]], [[When Trees Attack|Angry Molesting Tree]], [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent|Giant Snake]], [[Evil Dead (Film)|Deadites]], [[Mummy]], [[Kill Bill|The Bride]], [[Scary Scarecrows|The Scarecrow Folk]], [[Snowlems|Snow]][[Jack Frost 1997 (Film)|man]], [[Bat Out of Hell|Doombat]], [[Our Vampires Are Different|Vampires]], [[An Arm and A Leg|Dismemberment Goblins]], [[The Fair Folk|Sugarplum Fairy]], [[Our Mermaids Are Different|Merman]], [[Re-Animator (Film)|The Reanimated]], [[Unicorn]], Huron, [[Bigfoot Sasquatch and Yeti|Sasquatch, Yeti]], [[Wendigo]], [[Creepy Doll|Dolls]], [[Deadly Doctor|The Doctors]], [[Hillbilly Horrors|The Redneck Torture Family]], [[All
** Other monsters seemingly not mentioned on the whiteboard, but spotted throughout the film, include a [[Giant Spider|man-sized tarantula]], a [[Our Ghosts Are Different|ghostly woman]], a quartet of [[The Strangers|masked figures]], some manner of [[Everything's Squishier With Cephalopods|giant cephalopod]], a [[Torture Technician|medieval torturer]], a [[Mechanical Monster|scorpion-like automaton with a buzzsaw for a stinger]], something terrible that [[Ceiling Cling|crawls toward the camera on the ceiling]], a [[Stringy Haired Ghost Girl]], a dead [[King Kong]]-esque [[Kaiju]] seen on a monitor, a [[Creepy Child]] whom a guard tries to escape by [[First Encounter Assault Recon|dragging himself along the floor]], and [[Hellraiser|Fornicus]], Lord of Bondage and Pain (though he may be the "Hell Lord" on the whiteboard). And finally, there's {{spoiler|[[Eldritch Abomination|The Ancient Ones]]}}.
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: The movie is exceedingly fond of making hilarious jokes instants before gruesome events, and vice-versa.
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* [[Schmuck Bait]]: The cellar isn't just this, it's ''filled'' with these.
* [[Side Bet]]: The scientists bet on {{spoiler|what horror the protagonists will select}}.
* [[Shout
** ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]'': The symbol on the floor and the one on the controllers' talismans sure looks like the Circle of the Black Thorn . . .
** The entire controller's compound is reminiscent of The Initiative from ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''.
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** ''[[The Strangers]]'': some of the villains in the carnage are a group of silent, well-dressed men and women with white porcelain masks. They are later seen dousing some bound technicians with gasoline, implying that they're non-supernatural killers.
* [[Shoot the Dog]]: {{spoiler|Dana comes close to doing this when she strongly considers killing Marty to prevent [[The End of the World As We Know It]].}}
* [[Sir Not
* [[Slashers Prefer Blondes]]: Enforced as {{spoiler|Jules}} dyes her hair blonde just before the trip. The controllers even put toxins and pheremones in the dye to influence her behaviour.
* [[Smart People Know Latin]]: Played very deliberately. There is literally nothing to establish Holden as the Smart Guy except that he wears glasses and suddenly remembers enough high school Latin to decipher the incantation. The only reason he's The Scholar is because the controllers decided he is.
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* [[The Stoner]]: One of the protagonists. Interestingly, {{spoiler|since the Chem department gave him the wrong weed, his drug-use makes him immune to the pheromones, making him immune to the enforced genre-blindness.}}
* [[Stringy Haired Ghost Girl]]: What a classroom of Japanese students are shown contending with.
* [[Stupidity
* [[Taking You With Me]]:
** {{spoiler|Truman blows himself and a bunch of scarecrows up with a grenade. Still doesn't save Hadley, Sitterson and Lin.}}
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* [[White Mask of Doom]]: Briefly seen in the [[Creepy Basement|basement]], then again on some of the participants in "The Carnage".
* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]:
** {{spoiler|The guys behind the scenes have some sort of gas that makes the characters act like this,}} making the jock decide everyone should [[Let's Split Up, Gang!|split up]] and not stay together.
** {{spoiler|Marty finds the hidden cameras and concludes, "I'm on a ''reality TV show!''"}}
* [[X Meets Y]]:
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