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* [[Bloody Hilarious]]
* [[Break the Cutie]]: Dana. [[Joss Whedon|As to]] [[Signature Style|be expected]]
* [[Brick Joke]]:
** {{spoiler|Possible when an employee places a bet early on. "I don't think we have one of those." "Zoology says we do." Later on, a unicorn appears.}}
** {{spoiler|The merman.}} "Oh, come ''on''..."
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* [[Face Revealing Turn]]: The ballerina girl/"Sugarplum Fairy". {{spoiler|Though it would be generous to call it a "face".}}
* [[Final Girl]]: {{spoiler|''Enforced.'' Dana (the virgin) is allowed to live as long as she is the last one standing. Even when she and Marty have broken into the controller base, the guards are ordered to kill the virgin last. She's not actually a virgin, but the villains "work with what they've got."}}
* [[Five-Man Band]]: Enforced {{spoiler|to the point it becomes a crucial element of the plot. The characters begin the film as fleshed-out human beings rather than stereotypes; even the stoner, who we are introduced to while he is smoking an enormous bong, turns out to be witty and has some surprising insights to human nature, such as ''why'' he can get away with smoking an enormous bong in the middle of his car in broad daylight. As the film progresses, each character conforms more closely to archetypes through the scientists' use of chemicals - except the stoner, who is immune due to the Chem department giving him the wrong drugs.}}
** [[The Hero]]: Dana {{spoiler|The Virgin, and the only one allowed to live}}
** [[The Lancer]]: Marty {{spoiler|The Fool, and the only other person to MAKE it to the end.}}
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** [[The Big Guy]]: Curt {{spoiler|The Athlete}}
** [[The Chick]]: Jules {{spoiler|The Whore}}
* [[Foreshadowing]]:
** Marty's comment about how {{spoiler|society ''should'' crumble, but we're all to afraid to let it foreshadows the end.}}
** Lampshaded with Mordecai, "the harbinger," whose job it is to let the co-eds know that they're going into danger. In the process, he calls Jules a whore, {{spoiler|referring to her part in the ritual}}.
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** When the monsters attack, one of the screens shows the intern frantically holding up signs to the camera, trying to deliver a message to the control room.
* [[Genre Blindness]]: {{spoiler|Invoked in-universe on the [[Five-Man Band]].}}
* [[Genre Savvy]]:
** The main characters have shades of this.
** {{spoiler|The scientists in control as well. They refer to the teens trapped in the woods based on roles typically found in horror movies, such as "the virgin" and "the fool,"}} the latter referring to the film's resident stoner.
** The whole movie can be seen as a subversion of the concept, as the main characters often exhibit [[Genre Savvy]] but every time they do so {{spoiler|the controllers sabotage them so that the sacrifice can proceed according to plan}}.
** Marty is particularly [[Genre Savvy]], but {{spoiler|given what his actions lead to, it's [[Wrong Genre Savvy]].}}
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* [[History Repeats]]: {{spoiler|The US branch has had only one glitch, in 1998, when the Chem[ical] Department failed to do its duty. Guess which department failed to account for Marty's hobbies?}}
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: {{spoiler|The controllers are set upon and killed by the various horrors they've sealed away to release on the subjects.}}
* [[Hotter and Sexier]]: {{spoiler|The white board for the betting pool has "witches" and "sexy witches"}} Though you never get to see them.
* [[Human Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Necessary to appease the Ancient Ones, though they don't just want deaths, but suffering as well}}.
* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: {{spoiler|Pa Buckner's weapon of choice is a bear trap attached to a length of chain.}}
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{{quote|'''''Curt:''' {{spoiler|"Let's get this party started!"}}''}}
* [[Jerk Jock]]: Subverted by Curtis, who is pushed into this role by the villains, but is actually an intelligent sociology major who never acts like an alpha male douchebag.
* [[Karmic Death]]:
** {{spoiler|Hadley finally gets to see what a merman looks like. Emphasis on finally.}}
** {{spoiler|The deaths of almost everyone in the control complex are generally more sadistic and ''far'' more on-screen graphic than what happens to the five at the cabin.}}
* [[Killer Game Master]]: Hadley and Sitterson have this trope ''as their profession''.
* [[The Last of These Is Not Like the Others]]: Werewolves, robots, ghosts, zombies, giant snakes..... and a [[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?|bloodthirsty unicorn]]
* [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall]]:
** 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|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|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 Hallow's Eve|Jack O'Lantern]], [[Our Giants Are Bigger|Giant]], [[Creepy Twins|Twins]] and Kevin (who, per [[Word of God]], is [[Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon|a sweet, harmless looking guy who will exsanguinate you in seconds]]).
** 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
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: The movie is exceedingly fond of making hilarious jokes instants before gruesome events, and vice-versa.
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: {{spoiler|Fornicus, Lord of Bondage and Pain.}}
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* [[Nothing Is Scarier]]: {{spoiler|One of the things listed on a whiteboard of monsters is simply named "Kevin". We never find out who or what Kevin is, let alone what he/it looks like}}.
* [[Noodle Incident]]:
** {{spoiler|Monitors show the results of failed operations around the world, including a house burning down in Berlin and a giant monster in downtown Buenos Aires. Not much context is provided.}}
** The US branch has a nigh-spotless record marred only by 1998, when the Chemical Department screwed up. No further elaboration is made, giving rise to fan theories that it's a possible [[Take That]] to a particular horror film released on that year.
* [[Not So Above It All]]: Lin tries to present herself as distanced from the "clowning" behavior of Sitterson and Hadley, such as their organizing the office betting pool {{spoiler|about which horror scenario the kids will incur}}. But this doesn't fool Hadley, who, after asking whether Truman is placing a bet, simply reaches out wordlessly in Lin's direction. Lin sheepishly stuffs some money and her prediction into his hand.
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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-Out]]:
** ''[[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 Stars Are Going Out]]: Marty notices that there are no stars outside, despite being out in the middle of the woods.
* [[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
* [[Stupidity-Inducing Attack]]: {{spoiler|The scientists spiked Jules's hair dye with toxins to gradually decrease her intelligence.}}
* [[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.}}
** {{spoiler|Marty and Dana do it to ''the whole of humanity''}}.
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* [[What Might Have Been]]: An entire ''betting board'' of in-universe examples.
* [[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]]:
** Some call it ''[[The Evil Dead]]'' (cabin in the woods) meets ''[[The Truman Show]]'' {{spoiler|(people watching and controlling the cabin)}}
** Or ''[[Funny Games]]'' meets ''[[Inglorious Basterds]]'', for the [[Black Comedy]], [[Medium Awareness]], and [[Deconstruction]] of [[Horror Tropes]], as well as the ''extremely'' over-the-top [[Bloody Hilarious|violence, gore, and absurdity.]]
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